8 Decent Work and Economic Growth

The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work

Edited by Kurt Vandaele, Silvia Rainone

Multidisciplinary in scope, The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work comprehensively analyses the dynamics and trends of the app-based food delivery sector in the platform economy. Adopting a comparative approach, it examines the ...

Hardback (March 2025)

List price ~~£185.00~~

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Research Handbook of Innovation in the Circular Bioeconomy

Edited by Lars H. Molden, Dolores Modic, Einar Rasmussen, Siri Jakobsen, Wim Vanhaverbeke

This important and timely Research Handbook explores recent scholarship on industry innovation and demonstrates that the key to a sustainable future is a successful transition to a circular bioeconomy.

Hardback (March 2025)

List price ~~£145.00~~

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The Elgar Companion to Decent Work and the Sustainable Development Goals

Edited by Madelaine Moore, Christoph Scherrer, Marcel van der Linden

The Elgar Companion to Decent Work and the Sustainable Development Goals is an essential reference for understanding the role of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and its promotion of fair conditions, rights at work and employm...

Hardback (January 2025)

List price ~~£265.00~~

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Rethinking Economic Transformation for Sustainable and Inclusive Development

Edited by Elina Scheja, Kee B. Kim

This is an open access work distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Users can redistribute the work for non-commercial...

Hardback (December 2024)

List price ~~£95.00~~

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The Labour Crisis in Long Term Care

Edited by Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, Jacqueline A. Choiniere

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share at Elgaronline. Incorporating in-depth historical and empirical research, this book examines the widely acknowle...

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Unemployment and Activation Policies in Europe and the US

Edited by Henning Jørgensen, Michaela Schulze

This insightful book presents a detailed analysis of the activation policies utilized by governments across Europe and the US. Editors Henning Jørgensen and Michaela Schulze bring together a wealth of experts to collate key developments ...

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Entrepreneurship and Digital Humanities

Edited by Francesca Spigarelli, Louise Kempton, Lorenzo Compagnucci

Addressing the growing need for integration between STEM and the social sciences and humanities, this book reinterprets the role of entrepreneurship education. It explores how universities can adapt to the rapid change, and challenges, o...

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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...

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Work-life Balance, Employee Health and Wellbeing

Edited by Connie Zheng

Work-life Balance, Employee Health and Wellbeing delves into the connections between occupational responsibilities and personal happiness. Comparing policy, organisational practice and individual experiences of employees’ working lives, ...

Hardback (October 2024)

List price ~~£120.00~~

Member price £108.00

eBook:

£25.00

Research Handbook on Academic Labour Markets

Edited by Glenda Strachan

This Handbook addresses the changing nature of academic labour markets, as they respond to moving university goals and developments in the measurement of research and teaching. Experts examine case studies from across the Global North an...

Hardback (2024)

List price ~~£195.00~~

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£48.00

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 (2024)

List price ~~£75.00~~

Member price £67.50

eBook:

£25.00