Labour Contracts and Labour Relations in Early Modern Central Japan

By Mary Louise Nagata

Based on a collection of labour contracts and other documents, this book examines the legal, economic and social relations of labour as they developed in...

Published February 8th 2005 by Routledge.

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Working Time and Workers' Preferences in Industrialized Countries

Finding the Balance

By Jon C. Messenger

The gradual reduction in weekly working hours in the first half of the last century, which culminated in the widespread adoption of the 'standard' working...

Published September 9th 2004 by Routledge.

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International Perspectives on Temporary Work

Edited by John Burgess, Julia Connell

The numbers of workers employed on a temporary basis has grown massively over the last few decades. The benefits to firms of hiring workers on...

Published July 1st 2004 by Routledge.

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The Struggle Over Work

The 'End of Work' and Employment Alternatives in Post-Industrial Societies

By Shaun Wilson

The future of work in advanced industrial democracies is the subject of intense debate and public concern. Despite predictions that working hours would fall and...

Published June 10th 2004 by Routledge.

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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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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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Labour Economics

By Stephen W. Smith

In the six years since the appearance of the first edition of Stephen Smith's book, labour economics has become a more firmly entrenched subject on...

Published March 6th 2003 by Routledge.

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Post-industrial Labour Markets

Profiles of North America and Scandinavia

Edited by Thomas Boje, Bengt Furåker

In nearly all OECD countries, the labour market has been in flux in recent decades. This book examines the labour markets and the institutional frameworks...

Published December 26th 2002 by Routledge.

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Systems of Production

Markets, Organisations and Performance

By Brendan Burchell, Simon Deakin, Jonathan Michie, Jill Rubery

In recent years we have seen the predictions of our forebears that leisure time would increase as the years pass utterly confounded. It is a...

Published November 21st 2002 by Routledge.

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