Labour Policy
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Research Handbook on Development and the Informal Economy
Edited by Jacques Charmes
This Research Handbook on Development and the Informal Economy captures the magnitude of the informal economy for the global labour force. It unravels numerous concepts, definitions and methods of data collection to offer valuable insigh...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Corporatism since the Great Recession
Mikkel Mailand
In the comparative study of Denmark, the Netherlands and Austria, Mikkel Mailand explores the roles of social partners in regulating work and welfare through corporatist arrangements. This insightful book illustrates how the frequency of...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Elgar Introduction to Theories of Human Resources and Employment Relations
Edited by Keith Townsend, Kenneth Cafferkey, Aoife M. McDermott, Tony Dundon
This Elgar Introduction provides an overview of some of the key theories that inform human resource management and employment relations as a field of study.eBook:Find out more$50.36
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Austerity, Retrenchment and the Welfare State
Bent Greve
Are we living in an age of permanent austerity? In this insightful book, Bent Greve provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of welfare states since 2000, exploring the ways by which austerity can be measured and quantified. Through d...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Telework in the 21st Century
Edited by Jon C. Messenger
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY 3.0 IGO License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Technological developments have enabled a dramatic expansion and also an evolution of telework... -
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Handbook of the Politics of Labour, Work and Employment
Edited by Gregor Gall
Providing a thorough overview of the political nature and dynamics of the world of work, labour and employment, this timely Handbook draws together an interdisciplinary range of top contributors to explore the interdependent relationship...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Dependent Self-Employment
Colin C. Williams, Ioana A. Horodnic
Dependent self-employment is widely perceived as a rapidly growing form of precarious work conducted by marginalised lower-skilled workers subcontracted by large corporations. Unpacking a comprehensive survey of 35 European countries, Co...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Precarious Work
Edited by Jeff Kenner, Izabela Florczak, Marta Otto
This discerning book provides a wide-ranging comparative analysis of the legal and social policy challenges posed by the spread of different forms of precarious work in Europe, with various social models in force and a growing ‘gig econo...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Self-Employment as Precarious Work
Edited by Wieteke Conen, Joop Schippers
Since the 1970s the long term decline in self-employment has slowed – and even reversed in some countries – and the prospect of ‘being your own boss’ is increasingly topical in the discourse of both the general public and within academia...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook on In-Work Poverty
Edited by Henning Lohmann, Ive Marx
There has been a rapid global expansion of academic and policy attention focusing on in-work poverty, acknowledging that across the world a large number of the poor are ‘working poor’. Taking a global and multi-disciplinary perspective, ...eBook:Find out more$59.96
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The Challenges of Self-Employment in Europe
Edited by Renata Semenza, François Pichault
This book aims at explaining the variance in legal status, working conditions, social protection and collective representation of self-employed professionals across Europe. Despite considerable diversity, the authors observe three strate...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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New Parents in Europe
Edited by Daniela Grunow, Marie Evertsson
This innovative book explores the different ways in which dual-earner couples in contemporary welfare states plan for, realize and justify their divisions of work and care during the transition to parenthood. Providing a unique comparati...eBook:Find out more$40.00