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Older Workers in an Ageing Society
Edited by Philip Taylor
Prolonging working lives is high on the agenda of policy makers in most of the world’s major industrialized nations. This book explains how they are keen to tackle issues associated with the ageing of populations, namely the funding of p...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Work Sharing during the Great Recession
Edited by Jon C. Messenger, Naj Ghosheh
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 on Elgaronline.com. ‘Work sharing’ is a labour market instrument devised to distribute a reduced volume of work ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The International Handbook of Labour Unions
Edited by Gregor Gall, Adrian Wilkinson, Richard Hurd
Since the 1970s, the spread of neo-liberalism across the world has radically reconfigured the relationship between unions, employers and the state. The contributors highlight that this is the major cause and effect of union decline and i...eBook:Find out more$67.96
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Public Sector Shock
Edited by Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead
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 on Elgaronline.com. The goal of this volume is to study this ‘public sector shock’. While budgetary reforms seek...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Transforming European Employment Policy
Edited by Ralf Rogowski, Robert Salais, Noel Whiteside
Since the mid 1990s, the focus of European employment and social policy has shifted from protection to promotion. This book provides a timely analysis of this new form of governance, and the new forms of policy delivery and audit which a...eBook:Find out more$44.76
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Gendered Lives
Edited by Jacqueline Scott, Shirley Dex, Anke C. Plagnol
The focus of the book is on inequalities in production and reproductive activities, as played out over time and in specific contexts. It examines the different forms that gendered lives take in the household and the workplace, and explor...eBook:Find out more$44.76
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Research Handbook of Comparative Employment Relations
Edited by Michael Barry, Adrian Wilkinson
The Research Handbook of Comparative Employment Relations is an essential resource for those seeking to understand contemporary developments in the world of work, and the way in which employment relations systems are evolving around the ...eBook:Find out more$79.16
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Economy and Society in Europe
Edited by Luigi Burroni, Maarten Keune, Guglielmo Meardi
While an economy is always ‘embedded’ in society, the relationship between the two is undergoing profound changes in Europe, resulting in widespread instability which is emphasised by the current crisis. This book analyses these changes,...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Fighting Working Poverty in Post-industrial Economies
Eric Crettaz
This thought-provoking book provides an in-depth analysis of the working poor phenomenon and its causes across welfare regimes, and identifies the most efficient policy mixes and best practices that could be utilized to resolve this prob...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Aging Populations, Globalization and the Labor Market
Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Sandra Buchholz, Karin Kurz
This topical and timely analysis of late career and retirement within nine European societies and the USA examines how social inequality structures have developed in an era of globalization and aging populations. -
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Measuring More than Money
Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo, Enrique Fernández-Macías, José-Ignacio Antón, Fernando Esteve
Job quality is a crucial link between the economy and well-being. This original book proves that it can and should be measured, proposing a theoretically based multidimensional ‘Index of Job Quality’ that is tested in the EU member State...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook of Employment and Society
Edited by Susan McGrath-Champ, Andrew Herod, Al Rainnie
This Handbook deepens and extends the engagement between research concerned with work and employment and labour geography. It links fundamental concepts concerning the politics of place that human geographers have developed in recent yea...eBook:Find out more$71.16