Employment & unemployment books

Against Labor highlights the tenacious efforts by employers to organize themselves as a class to contest labor....  Read More >>

Against Labor highlights the tenacious efforts by employers to organize themselves as a class to contest labor....  Read More >>

India has the largest number of child labourers in the world, and has been the subject of intense media and political...  Read More >>

This book explores the highly significant and contested area of graduate employability and employment which is...  Read More >>

Mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative approaches), including social network analysis, uncover formal and informal...  Read More >>

This report documents the incidence and trends of non-standard forms of employment across different countries of...  Read More >>

This report provides an in-depth review of the evolving characteristics of the country's labour force, develops...  Read More >>

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An in-depth look at urban youth in the Republic of Georgia offering new perspectives on how time and marginality...  Read More >>

This book reframes tourism, as well as leisure, within mobilities studies to challenge the limitations that dichotomous...  Read More >>

Is the EU enlargement the success EU institutions proclaim? Based on fifteen years of fieldwork research across...  Read More >>

This assessment of the prospects for work and retirement at age 65-plus in the UK and US is essential reading for...  Read More >>

In The Poverty of Work, Van Arsdale offers ethnographic and historical accounts of employment agency labor. Employing...  Read More >>

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David Card and Alan B. Krueger received the IZA Prize in Labor Economics in 2006 for their outstanding contributions...  Read More >>

A selection of key papers from the winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize 2010. It features their most important work...  Read More >>

The Impact of Losing Your Job builds on findings from life course sociology to show clearly just what effects job...  Read More >>

Unemployment was perhaps the major problem confronting European society at the time in which this book was first...  Read More >>

At the time in which this book was first published in 1987, mass unemployment had emerged as the dominant, most...  Read More >>

This book discusses unemployment and its relations to economic, political and social aspects. The first chapter...  Read More >>

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Why the majority of Mennonites rejected labour unions in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.  Read More >>

Established in 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was one of the...  Read More >>