Living Wage Movements

Global Perspectives

Edited by Deborah M. Figart

Living wage activism has spanned time and space, reaching across decades and national boundaries. Conditions generating living wage movements early in the twentieth century have...

Published February 19th 2004 by Routledge.

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Sex Differences in Labor Markets

By David Neumark

Sex differences abound in labor markets. In the United States three differences in particular have attracted the most attention: the earnings gap, occupational segregation, and...

Published January 29th 2004 by Routledge.

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Production Networks in Asia and Europe

Skill Formation and Technology Transfer in the Automobile Industry

Edited by Rogier Busser, Yuri Sadoi

This book explores Japanese investment in Europe and Southeast Asia, in relation to the automobile industry. In Part I the authors examine industrial organization and...

Published October 23rd 2003 by Routledge.

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Hollywood Economics

How Extreme Uncertainty Shames the Film Industry

By Arthur De Vany

Just how risky is the Movie industry? Is screenwriter William Goldman's claim that "nobody knows anything" really true? Can a star and a big opening...

Published September 25th 2003 by Routledge.

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The End of a Natural Monopoly

Deregulation and Competition in the Electric Power Industry

Edited by Daniel H. Cole, Peter Z. Grossman

This book addresses the fundamental issues underlying the debate over electric power regulation and deregulation. After decades of the presumption that the electric power industry...

Published July 17th 2003 by Routledge.

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Work, Locality and the Rhythms of Capital

By Jamie Gough

This theoretical and empirical study examines the relationship between the organisation of work, industrial relations, production spaces and the dynamics of capitalist investment. Jamie...

Published July 17th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Arms Trade, Security and Conflict

Edited by Paul Levine, Ron Smith

The Arms Industry is an area that is of huge concern to many people around the world. The economics of this hugely important industry are...

Published May 15th 2003 by Routledge.

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Industrial and Labour Market Policy and Performance

Issues and Perspectives

Edited by Daniel Coffey, Carole Thornley

Industrial issues are often inextricably linked with labour market concerns and policy approaches that attempt to consider production and employment separately are inherently flawed."
This controversial...

Published April 24th 2003 by Routledge.

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Biotechnology in Comparative Perspective

By Gerhard Fuchs

The biotechnology industry is an extremely important sector in the developed world's economies. This book, with contributions from an international array of experts, explains why...

Published April 3rd 2003 by Routledge.

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An Unholy Trinity

Labor, Capital and Land

By Duncan K. Foley

Many of the central results of Classical and Marxian political economy are examples of the self-organization of the capitalist economy as a complex, adaptive system...

Published March 27th 2003 by Routledge.

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