Labour Economics

Industry 4.0 and the Future of Work

Al Rainnie, Andrew Herod, Susan McGrath-Champ

This unique book offers an in-depth examination of the changing nature of work and the production of waste in a crisis-ridden era dominated by climate change and worker precarity.

Hardback (November 2024)

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Field Guide to Researching Employment and Industrial Relations

Edited by Jane Parker, Noelle Donnelly, Sue Ressia, Mihajla Gavin

The field of employment and industrial relations explores a myriad of complex topics, themes and phenomena, and this book provides a guide for researching this fascinating area. Investigating micro-, meso-, macro- and cross-national form...

Hardback (November 2024)

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Mass Higher Education and the Changing Labour Market for Graduates

Edited by Fátima Suleman, Pedro Videira, Pedro N. Teixeira

As higher education continues to expand and an increasing number of graduates enter the workforce, this insightful book considers the crucial social and economic questions raised by this societal shift. Fátima Suleman, Pedro Videira and ...

Hardback (August 2024)

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The Labour Market Myth

Paul de Beer

In this incisive book, Paul de Beer interrogates the concept of the labour market and its theoretical shortcomings in treating labour as a commodity. He argues that to offer people a real chance of a satisfactory work life, the idea of t...

Hardback (August 2024)

List price ~~$80.00~~

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Making and Breaking Gender Inequalities in Work

Edited by Mia Rönnmar, Susan Hayter

This timely book expertly analyses the persistence of gender inequalities in work. Despite the progress made through frameworks regulating work and employment relations, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated gender divides in lab...

Hardback (June 2024)

List price ~~$135.00~~

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Handbook of Artificial Intelligence at Work

Edited by Martha Garcia-Murillo, Ian MacInnes, Andrea Renda

This highly topical Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on work, assessing its effect on an array of economic sectors, the resulting nature of work, and the subsequent policy implicati...

Hardback (2024)

List price ~~$280.00~~

Member price $252.00

eBook:

$65.00

Explaining the Gender Wage Gap

Alicja Sielska

This timely book offers an engaging contemporary analysis of research into the gender pay gap while also providing important nuanced observations. It illustrates the variant methodologies that have been employed by researchers who have a...

List price ~~$99.00~~

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eBook:

$40.00

Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work

Edited by Maurizio Atzeni, Dario Azzellini, Alessandra Mezzadri, Phoebe Moore, Ursula Apitzsch

This ground-breaking Handbook broadens empirical and theoretical understandings of work, work relations, and workers. It advances a global, intersectional labour studies agenda, laying the foundations for the politically emancipatory pro...

List price ~~$375.00~~

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eBook:

$65.00

Handbook of Labour Market Policy in Advanced Democracies

Edited by Daniel Clegg, Niccolo Durazzi

Bringing together contributions from leading labour market policy scholars from across the globe, this state-of-the-art Handbook offers extensive and compelling analyses of labour market policy in advanced democracies. This title contai...

List price ~~$330.00~~

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eBook:

$65.00

Elgar Encyclopedia of Labour Studies

Edited by Tor Eriksson

This authoritative Elgar Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of central concepts in labour studies, and how they can be used to analyse labour markets. Examining regional and sectoral labour markets alongside the internal labo...

List price ~~$240.00~~

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eBook:

$65.00

Work and Employment Relations in Southern Europe

Edited by Carlos J. Fernández Rodríguez, Miguel Martínez Lucio

Positioning industrial relations in a discussion that is sensitive to broader political, historical, and ideological tensions, this insightful book offers reflections on the politics of de-regulation that have developed in southern Europ...

List price ~~$120.00~~

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eBook:

$40.00