A Principles of Economics textbook. It helps the beginning student master the principles essential for understanding the economizing problem, specific economic issues, and the policy alternatives.

Focuses on labor economics as an applied field of micro and macro theory. This title explains that labor economics is no longer an area tangential to the core of analytical economics but rather a critical component of that core. It delivers discussions of public policy issues and offers coverage of the economic crisis.

This book presents new essays that illuminate how gender identities and inequality have been constructed historically and sustained in what could be hailed as the first truly global enterprise and arguably the most 'masculine' of industries - mining.

This book is a collection of working papers, policy briefs and training modules, published by the International Poverty Centre in Brazil, which provides a comprehensives set of recommendations for alternative economic policies that can generate growth, employment and poverty reduction in developing countries.

Offers an inside account of how McDonald's turns diversity into success. This work contains accounts - of franchisees, suppliers, and employees - that reveal how McDonald's embraces all races, creeds, and cultures to create unity and business achievement.

This book considers the transformative impact of global trade and production networks on local economies, work and labour organization, and various forms and meanings of 'community'. It examines the socio-economic transformation in Asia and the restructuring of manufacturing industries, ports and the information technology sector.

This book aims to systematically assess laws and practices, close gaps that currently prevent a full profiling of financial participation, provide a description of individual countries against the background of comparable scores for the EU 27 and to promote a common platform for financial participation within the European Union.

The forces that are shaping the future of employment are examined in this new book. The author presents a cohesive argument for a fundamental change in attitudes to work, both from policymakers and employers if we are to create a healthier society capable of meeting the expectations and concerns of a developing economy.

Presents a historical account of plantations in India in the context of the modern world economy. This book shows how history can assist in explaining contemporary conditions and trends. It focuses on labour and economic development problems and interprets the dynamics of plantation capitalism.

Shows how companies that adapt to women will become employers of choice and will have a head-start in marketing to the 21st century consumer. This book includes a seven-step plan to successfully implementing change and harnessing the power of women for business success.

Knowledge is playing an important role in the development of contemporary capitalism. This book addresses the questions such as: how labour movements learn, and what strategies they deploy to defend their interests.

Researches and highlights struggles for economic justice and models of community organization that achieves it.

Employment and unemployment disparities effect the livelihood of various developing countries. This book discusses the job availability, type, sector of employment and job earnings of these societies. It studies the improvement of poverty, inequality and achievement of employment for socio-economical groups across the globe.

In the UK in 2002 the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver set out to transform a group of unemployed young Londoners into enterprising, passionate workers. Their struggles, and those that train and manage them, to develop a passionate orientation to work highlights many of the challenges we all face in the globalized labour markets of the 21st century.

This book provides the first English-language history of the postwar labor migration to West Germany.

Argues for a rethinking of what constitutes creativity, foregrounding non-economic values and practices, and the often marginal and everyday spaces in which creativity takes shape.

Are immigrants from the new EU member states a threat to the Western welfare state? Do they take jobs away from the natives? And will the source countries suffer from severe brain drain or demographic instability? This book integrates what is known about post-enlargement migration and its effects on EU labor markets.

Two leading economists discuss a range of issues relating to the offshoring of American jobs, from free trade to unemployment levels.

Across the traditional welfare states of Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada there has been an emphasis on 'activation' by the unemployed as a tool for fighting unemployment. This book is based on a detailed ethnographic study of the highly praised Swedish rehabilitation organization Samhall.

Addresses the challenges confronting an aging labor force as it deals with profound shifts in employment and organizations and what these changes mean for society. This book explains employment and demographic trends from an academic perspective and includes information about altered work patterns among older employees.