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MP-WBK World Bank Group Publ Achieving the Demographic Dividend in the Arab Republic of Egypt
£40.45
John Wiley & Sons Working Today for a Better Tomorrow in Ethiopia Jobs for Poor and Vulnerable Households
Book SynopsisExplores Ethiopia's complex job market and its challenges. The book advocates for targeted measures to boost worker productivity, promote self-employment, and create inclusive job opportunities; it highlights the role of social safety nets; and it offers insights for policymakers and researchers.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being
Book SynopsisEmployment relations in advanced, post-industrial democracies have become increasingly insecure and uncertain as the risks associated with work are being shifted from employers and governments to workers. Arne L. Kalleberg examines the impact of the liberalization of labor markets and welfare systems on the growth of precarious work and job insecurity for indicators of well-being such as economic insecurity, the transition to adulthood, family formation, and happiness, in six advanced capitalist democracies: the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Spain, and Denmark. This insightful cross-national analysis demonstrates how active labor market policies and generous social welfare systems can help to protect workers and give employers latitude as they seek to adapt to the rise of national and global competition and the rapidity of sweeping technological changes. Such policies thereby form elements of a new social contract that offers the potential for addressing many of the major challenges resulting from the rise of precarious work.Trade Review"This book addresses one of the most pressing issues of the day: how precarious work is leading to precarious lives. By drawing on experiences in six diverse countries, it provides a potentially optimistic agenda for policy to halt or reverse the damage. In calling not only for wider social protection for all engaged in all forms of work but also for action, supported by worker organization, to change employer practices and stem the growth of precarious work, Kalleberg offers a useful alternative policy framework to the ultimately defeatist basic income approach where regulation of employers and of work itself is downgraded."—Jill Rubery, The University of Manchester "This latest book by Arne Kalleberg offers a powerful conception of precarity, how it takes distinct forms under different employment regimes, and – most important perhaps — how the rise of precarious work has reached deep into the private realm, threatening the well-being and family lives of workers. Sure to become a classic in the field."—Steven Peter Vallas, Northeastern University "Precarious work is by construction a relative concept (precarious compared to some standard), and Precarious Lives is a model and a guide of how to think about this concept across countries, which in turn helps us to use it more analytically in any one country. Kalleberg's analysis shines [and] I am convinced that Precarious Lives should become, and will become, the leading monographic analysis of precarious work."—Chris Tilly, ILR Review "In many ways, this book is vintage Kalleberg [...]. Using national-level statistics, Kalleberg carefully unpacks the complexity of precarious work and lives."—Ching Kwan Lee, American Journal of Sociology "From the doyen of precarious work research comes this comprehensive volume comparing the prevalence and consequences of job insecurity in six affluent democracies. [...]. The book is thorough, systematic and clear. Wherever prior research is dense or contradictory, Kalleberg is there to provide us a path through the thicket."—Allison Pugh, Social Forces "[I]nformative and thought-provoking [...]. This book makes a valuable contribution to the literature on employment relationships."—Relations industriellesTable of ContentsList of figures Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. Theoretical Foundations 1. The New Age of Precarious Work 2. Social Welfare Protection and Labor Market Institutions Part II. Manifestations of Precarious Work 3. Nonstandard Employment Relations 4. Job Insecurity Part III. Dimensions of Well-Being 5. Economic Insecurity 6. Transition to Adulthood and Family Formation 7. Subjective Well-Being Part IV. Responses to Precarious Work and Lives 8. Politics and Policies of Precarious Work Conclusion Notes References
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. How the World Works: The Story of Human Labor from Prehistory to the Modern Day
Book SynopsisA sweeping history of the full range of human labor Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even fewer possess the intellectual scope needed to address science and economics at a macro as well as a micro level. But Paul Cockshott, using the dual lenses of Marxist economics and technological advance, has managed to pull off a stunningly acute critical perspective of human history, from pre-agricultural societies to the present. In How the World Works, Cockshott connects scientific, economic, and societal strands to produce a sweeping and detailed work of historical analysis. This book will astound readers of all backgrounds and ages; it will also will engage scholars of history, science, and economics for years to come.
£71.25
Oceanside Press Name Your Price: Set Your Terms, Raise Your Rates, and Charge What You're Worth as a Consultant, Coach, or Freelancer
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The New Maids: Transnational Women and the Care Economy
Book SynopsisThe New Maids is a pioneering book, grounded on rich, empirical evidence, which examines the relationship between globalization, transnationalism, gender and the care economy. Expertly addressing the thorny questions that surround the increasing number of migrant domestic workers and cleaners, child-carers and caregivers who maintain modern Western households, the author argues that domestic work plays the defining role in global ethnic and gender hierarchies. Using a central ethnographic study of immigrant domestic workers and their German employees as its starting point, The New Maids uses the voices of such women themselves to provide unique conceptual and evidential support for this vital new approach argument. This exciting book will not only enhance the reader's understanding of the new care-economy, it also sets standards for feminist global methodology.Trade ReviewIn this nuanced, important, big-picture book, Lutz tells us that "old maids" --serving tea, say, in a bourgeois Berlin in 1900 home -- might be an 18 year old from a nearby rural town. In the frightening l930's, she might have been one of 100,000 women the Nazis forcibly moved from the nations it conquered placed in German homes as maids. By contrast, the "new maid" is a willing volunteer of global capitalism. Compared to maids of the past, she is often older, a mother, and a migrant from the educated middle classes of the flagging economies of the Ukraine, Poland, Belorussia. As their harrowing stories reveal, however, the new maid often balances long-distance mothering with fears of being deported as an "illegal," uncertain living circumstances, and the unpredictable hearts of marginal men. A must read. * Arlie Hochschild, author of 'The Second Shift', 'The Time Bind', and co-editor of 'Global Woman' *Through compelling ethnographic portraits and astute theory, 'The New Maids' takes us beyond narratives of exploitation or empowerment to capture mutual dependences, transnational motherhood, and intimate labor under shifting gender, migration, and welfare regimes. It moves the scholarship on paid domestic work under globalization to new heights! * Eileen Boris, Hull Professor and Chair, Department of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, co-editor of Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care *This is an absorbing analysis of migrant domestic and care work in Germany. Based on intensive interviews with both household employers and employees, Lutz sensitively unfolds the complex, interlocking but deeply asymmetrical employment relationship. This is a major case study of intersectionality in action. The poignant and moving biographies of transnational mother-workers are interspersed with constant analytical insights which make this book essential reading for anyone researching or working in the field of migration and care. * Fiona Williams, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, University of Leeds *With insight and conviction, Helma Lutz takes us inside the world of the foreign domestic work. She shares poignant narratives that reveal the paradoxical lives of today's maids as one of simultaneous professionalism and personalism at work, distance and proximity in the family, and the unrecognized dependency on their labor by the state. This is an important book that should be read by policy makers and scholars alike. * Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California, author of 'Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo' *The insights from Helma Lutz's rich ethnographic research bring a new dimension to the growing literature on women, migration and care work. In this brilliant synthesis, Lutz shows how the household becomes a 'global market for women's labour,' one in which active players 'do ethnicity' as they negotiate care and domestic work. While the focus is on Europe, The New Maids adds to our understanding of transnational women across the globe. As she did with Migration and Domestic Work, Lutz once again raises scholarship on women, migration and work to a new level. * Sonya Michel, Director of United States Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC USA *Table of Contents1: The New Division of Domestic Labour 2: The Household as a Global Market for Women's Labour 3: Domestic Work and Lifestyles: Methods and First Results 4: Domestic Work - A Perfectly Normal Job? 5: Exploitation or Alliance of Trust? Relationship Work in the Household 6: Transnational Motherhood 7: Being Illegal 8: Migrant Women in the Globalization Trap?
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Wages, Manufacturers and Workers in the Nineteenth-Century Factory: The Voortman Cotton Mill in Ghent
Book SynopsisWages have always been a major expense for businesses. This fascinating book studies the impact of spiralling wage demands in a cotton factory in Ghent during the 19th century and the efforts of management to reduce this cost through investment in new technology and stricter employment policies. The workers' responses to wage cutting are also considered. The importance of this study lies in its unique collection of wage data -- more than 200 pay books and 100 ledgers from the Voortman cotton factory -- which show, in great detail, the hourly, daily and yearly wages for all categories of workers between 1835-1913. Various aspects of wages are addressed including: changing living and working conditions; wages of women and children in relation to the 'family wage economy'; wage comparison between workers at Voortman and workers in other industries and regions; productivity, purchasing power and industrial relations.Trade Review'Scholliers's grim story of Voortman's century-long reliance on low-wage competition vividly conveys the harsh logic of nineteenth-century capitalism.'Economic History Review'The abiding value of this work lies in its firm basis in original sources. The rich mass of business archives ... is here presented in accessible form to the dedicated scholar. A superb series of statistics ... (provides) historians with a positive treasury of valuable information. ... The work deserves to reach a readership extending beyond the circles of those interested in the history of business, labour and of textiles.'Besprechungen'The book provides a well-focused analysis of the problems of the 1970s and it is readily accessible to undergraduates of economics and history. It provides an important supplement to those texts dealing with the half-century since the war.'Business History'the author has made this study of real importance to both economic and social historians who are interested inTable of ContentsContents: Ghent and the Cotton Industry - The Voortman Mill: A Typical Cotton Factory? - Women, Men and Young People at Voortman - Wages as a Cost of Production - Wages as an Income - Conclusion: Income Strategy Versus Wage Policy
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Miners on Strike: Class Solidarity and Division in Britain
Book SynopsisWhen contrasted with their dramatic strike victories of 1972 and 1974, the shattering industrial defeat suffered by British miners in 1985 has been seen as evidence of the further weakening of working-class solidarity. Waged with complete unity, the strikes of 1972 and 1974 brought the miners substantial material gains, contributed to the downfall of a government, and reinforced the National Union of Mineworkers' position at the core of the British labour movement. In contrast, 1984-85 saw the miners racked by internal division, and their attempt to resist the pit closure programme of the Thatcher government end in bitter defeat.Trade Review'Andrew Richards tells (the miners') story, often in their own words, with insight and empathy.'TLS'In eight succinct chapters Andrew Richard charts the complexity and resilience of class solidarity in that momentous year. [...] ... the richness of the book is that it really does look at the rank and file miners and how they and their families interpreted the strike and its significance for their lives and those of their friends.'The Lecturer - NAHFE'This is an important book because it analyses conciousness and action during the most significant industrial struggle ever witnessed in the UK, using the participants' words and perspectives.'Labour History Review
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Scribe Publications The Paula Principle: why women lose out at work —
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the CMI Management Books of the Year Awards. An expert on innovation argues that many capable women are losing out at work, and that this harms businesses, individuals, and society. Women now outperform men at every level of education, yet in the workplace they are under-promoted and under-paid. Here, Tom Schuller examines why this happens, and asks what we can do about it. Schuller identifies the five factors which prevent women from achieving their full potential. He argues convincingly that addressing these will not only make society fairer but also make workplaces function more effectively — yet this will only happen if men change their patterns of work and attitudes to careers. This book is required reading for anyone who would like to see the world of work become more dynamic and fulfilling.Trade Review‘Tom Schuller writes candidly on an issue too many men would rather not confront - why working women operate below their level of competence. The glass ceiling in learning is all but shattered. This book brilliantly establishes why now it’s time for the work place.’ -- Jon Snow‘A really interesting book — and an encouraging one, despite its central premise. It provides an absorbing and accessible look at what exactly holds today’s women back — and what we can do about it. The Paula Principle deserves to become an instant classic.’ -- Melissa Benn * author of What Should We Tell Our Daughters? *‘Essential reading for anyone who thinks about the future of work; compelling evidence showing how unions help women and men build alternative working lives; and a powerful argument for radical changes to achieve genuine equality.’ -- Frances O'Grady, General Secretary of the TUC‘In a world where women’s work, despite changes in the last decades, is still given less recognition than men's at every level, and where the gap is closing slowly if at all, it lifts the spirits to find Tom Schuller’s thoughtful book analysing with subtlety and elegance why this might be so. He reminds us, as if we needed reminding, that the problem of equality is by no means solved and needs continually to be rethought.’ -- Ursula Owen * founder-director of Virago Press *‘It’s almost 50 years since the Equal Pay Act, women are doing brilliantly in education — and yet gender, and gender inequalities, are still huge issues. The Paula Principle tells us both why and why we should care. It’s a splendid analysis, a fascinating read — and a great way to understand just how differently women, as well as men, experience today’s reality. Just try Schuller’s test on page 230 with yourself and your family.’ -- Alison Wolf (Professor the Baroness Wolf of Dulwich)‘The path to equality thus far has involved women converging on traditionally male employment patterns, Schuller argues: now is the time for men to move towards traditionally female ones — to improve equality and work-life balance, and to make better use of our resources.’ -- Jessica Abrahams * Prospect *‘[Schuller’s] passion for social justice is stamped on every page of a study whose clarity and well researched insights are captivating.’ * Times Higher Education *‘The Paula Principle is an important book. Tom Schuller presents fresh reasons which explain women’s continued disadvantage in the workplace and what can be done about this. The book’s case studies and examples also make the book eminently readable.’ -- Sue Williamson, senior lecturer at School of Business, Australian Defence Force Academy‘Why do women tend to outperform men in education, yet earn less in the labour market? In this important new book, Tom Schuller shows that gender inequity should concern all of us. A society where women work below their level of competence is missing out on the chance to reach its potential. With pithy statistics, fascinating interviews and entertaining literary references, this book explains why the Paula Principle has emerged, and how we might work together to fix it.’ -- Andrew Leigh MP, author of The Economics of Just About Everything
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Obex Publishing The Recruitment Startup Success Plan: A step-by-step guide that explains how to set up and run a successful recruitment agency
£16.59
Bettina Kaemmerer The Sales Compensation Playbook
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Bettina Kaemmerer The Sales Compensation Playbook
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Frederick Ellis Wage-Labour and Capital & Value, Price and Profit
£34.89
Books Academy LLC America
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BoD - Books on Demand A. B. C. du travailleur
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La Sirène aux Yeux Verts Des actions pour les braves
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Economic Losses and Mitigation after an
Book SynopsisThis Palgrave Pivot provides a conceptual and practical discussion of the factors that comprise a standard economic damage model in an employment termination case. This book discusses the economic factors and assumptions that comprise an economic damages model in an employment termination case. It also provides a discussion of the valuation of employee fringe benefits and employee stock option valuations. Background on the concept of discounting and discussions of the required information in employment cases are also provided. Readers are able to see the analysis in action, with case studies revolving around highly skilled individuals, less skilled individuals, public sector employees, highly educated individuals, managers and executives, and defamation and damage to reputation.Table of Contents1. Employment Economic Damage Models Overview.- 2. Plaintiff's Job Search Activities Post-Employment Termination.- 3. Labor Market Analysis and Mitigation following Termination.- 4. Valuation Concepts for Back and Front Pay Losses.- 5. Labor Market and Job Search Research Review.- 6. Valuation of Stock Based Employee Compensation.- 7. Document Requests for Back and Front Pay Analyses.- 8. Case Study Set 1: Highly Skilled Individuals.- 9. Case Study Set 2: Less Skilled Individuals.- 10. Case Study Set 3: Public Sector Employees.- 11. Case Study Set 4: Highly Educated Individuals.- 12. Case Study Set 5: Managers and Executives.- 13. Case Study Set 6: Defamation and Damage to Reputation.- 14. Labor Market Data Sources.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Dumbing Down: The Crisis of Quality and Equity in a Once-Great School System—and How to Reverse the Trend
Book SynopsisThis open access book examines the challenges and issues caused by a move to a marketized education system in Sweden. Observing the introduction of the school voucher system and a postmodern social constructivist view of knowledge, the move away from objective knowledge is identified as the core reason for Sweden’s current education crisis. The impact of declining education standards on the labor market is also discussed.This book highlights the issues seen in Sweden and suggests policies that can improve education in the rest of the Western world as well. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in education and labor economics. Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Rise and Puzzling Fall of the Swedish Educational System.- 2. The Silver Age of Swedish Education.- 3. Educational Performance in Swedish Schools—What Are the Facts?.- 4. The Malaise in the School System.- 5. Two Views of Knowledge and Teaching.- 6. The Rise of “Post-Truth” Schooling.- 7. The Deinstitutionalization and Fragmentation of the Swedish School System.- 8. A Perfect Storm.- 9. The Way Forward for Sweden and Other Western Countries.
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Palgrave Macmillan CrossBorder Labor Mobility
Book Synopsis1. Empirical Trends of Human MobilityAncient to Modern Periods.- 2. Cross-Border Labor Mobility Cross-Disciplinary Theoretical Expositions.- 3. Slavery in the New Worldthe Saga of the Amerindians.- 4. Slavery in the New Worldthe Saga of Black Africans.- 5. Indentured ServitudeThe Saga of the Indians and the Chinese.- 6. Temporary Movements of Forced Labor in the Twentieth Century.- 7. Cross-Border Labor Mobilitythe United States.- 8. Cross-Border Labor MobilityPost-World War II Europe.- 9. Neo-Slavery in the Twenty-First Century.
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Springer Public Policy Evaluation and Analysis
Book SynopsisSystems Approach for SustainabilitySystems Approach for Sustainability.- Corporate Governance and Sustainability: The Role of the Board of Directors.- Breaking the Chains: Addressing Modern Slavery as a Matter of Good Sustainability Practice.- Addressing Climate Change Together: A Systems Thinking and Stakeholder Focused Intervention Perspective to Engaging SMEs on Carbon Emissions Reduction and Net Zero Schemes.- Leadership Gender Diversity as a Factor Driving ESG Disclosure: Overview of the Global and Emerging Markets.- Sustainable Social Impact Measurement in Small Organisations.- The Revolutionary Impact of Verified Plastic Credit Schemes: A Catalyst for Sustainable Business Practices and Community Empowerment in Developing Countries.- Bridging the Green Gap: Barriers to Sustainable Residential Construction in Nigeria.- Value Added Products from Fruit Waste: A Systematic Review.- Sustainability in Aviation, and Safety Culture.- Navigating Rural Smart Transitions: Strategies, Challenges, and Case Studies.- Challenges of Implementing the ECOWAS Protocol on Trans-humance Across Member States, Agrarian Livelihood Protection, and Ecological Sustainability.
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Palgrave Macmillan Global Trends in Job Polarisation and Upgrading
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Strategies of Multinational Corporations and
Book SynopsisThis contributed volume seeks to provide a unique window on the globalization process by analyzing the dynamics of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Europe and Asia, as well as its influence on the renewal of public policies and regulations, both transnational and local. It discusses the link between the trans-nationalization of productive and business systems and the renewal of local regulations in the light of concerns over competitiveness and attractiveness, as well as new social tensions. Multinational corporations (MNCs) as key actors of globalization are central for understanding the new interactions between the global, regional and local dimensions as well as for highlighting the challenges of regulation both at transnational level and within national boundaries. Research approaches along two broad lines are presented: First, a theoretical and empirical approach that examines links between the strategies of multinationals and local public policy in order to contribute to a better understanding of the institutional dynamics of social regulation. Second, a comparative approach that compares regional spaces, with particular attention to Europe on the one hand, and to the two great emerging powers, China and India, on the other. Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Part I: FDI Flows and Institutional Dynamics in Europe and Asia.- Part II: Redesigning of Public Policies to Meet Competitiveness and Attractiveness Challenges, while Dealing with Business Lobbying.- Part III: Multinational Companies across Home and Host Countries: Transfer, Hybridization, Adaptation of Business Model and Labour Relations?.- Part IV: Reshaping Industrial Relations and Labour Activism in Multinational Companies.
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Springer Gabler Arbeitsmarktökonomik klipp klar
Book SynopsisStatisches und dynamisches Arbeitsangebot.- Kurz- und langfristige Arbeitsnachfrage.- Arbeitsangebot und Arbeitsnachfrage aus makroökonomischer Perspektive.- Internationale Arbeitsmarktprobleme in mikroökonomischer und makroökonomischer Perspektive.
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Springer Gabler Geschlechtsspezifische Auswirkungen des Mindestlohns
Book SynopsisEinleitung.- Methodologische Vorüberlegungen.- Forschungslücke und Methodik.- Analyse der Diskriminierungstheorien.- Prognosen und tatsächliche Entwicklung.- Zusammenfassung und Fazit.- Ausblick.- Literaturverzeichnis.
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Brill Working on Labor: Essays in Honor of Jan Lucassen
Book SynopsisThis collection of seventeen essays takes its inspiration from the scholarly achievements of the Dutch historian Jan Lucassen. They reflect a central theme in his research: the history of labor. The essays deal with five major themes: the production of specific commodities or services (diamonds, indigo, cigarettes, mail delivery by road runners); occupational groups (informal street vendors, prostitutes, soldiers, white-collar workers in the Dutch East India Company, VOC); geographical and social mobility (career opportunities on non-Dutch officers in the VOC, immigration into early-modern Holland; the influence of migrants on labor productivity; income differentials as migration incentives); contexts of labor relations (late medieval labor laws, subsistence labor and female paid labor, Russian peasant-migrant laborers, diverging political trajectories of cane-sugar industries); and the origins of labor-history libraries and archives.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Marcel van der Linden and Leo Lucassen WORK PROCESSES Working for Diamonds from the 16th to the 20th Century, Karin Hofmeester Green Plants into Blue Cakes: Working for Wages in Colonial Bengal’s Indigo Industry, Willem van Schendel Dak Roads, Dak Runners and the Re-ordering of Communication Networks, Chitra Joshi Changing Production Systems and Forms of Labor Control in the Javanese Cigarette Industry: 1920s-1930s, Ratna Saptari OCCUPATIONS Selling in the Shadows: Peddlers and Hawkers in Early Modern Europe, Danielle van den Heuvel The Worst Class of Workers. Migration, Labor Relations and Living Strategies of Prostitutes around 1900, Lex Heerma van Voss Fighting for a Living in Europe and Asia, Erik-Jan Zürcher White Collar Workers of the VOC in Amsterdam, 1602-1795, Karel Davids MOBILITIES The Career Ladder to the Top of the Dutch East India Company: Could Foreigners also Become Commanders and Junior Merchants?, Jaap R. Bruijn & Femme S. Gaastra Demographic Change and Migration Flows in Holland between 1500 and 1800, Jan Luiten van Zanden & Maarten Prak The Economic Contribution of Labor Migrants in the European Maritime Labor Market of the Long Eighteenth Century, Jelle van Lottum Income Differentials, Institutions, and Religion: Working in the Rhineland or Pennsylvania in the Eighteenth Century, Richard W. Unger CONTEXTUALIZATIONS Labor Laws in Western Europe, 13th-16th Centuries: Patterns of Political and Socio-economic Rationality, Catharina Lis & Hugo Soly The First “Male Breadwinner Economy”? Dutch Married Women’s and Children’s Paid and Unpaid Work in Western Europe Perspective, c. 1600-1900, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Wage Labor and the Household Economy: a Russian Perspective, 1600-2000, Gijs Kessler Cane Sugar and Unlimited Supplies of Labor in the 1930s: New Thinking and the Origin of Development Economics, Ulbe Bosma SOURCES Unwritten Autobiography: Labor History Libraries before World War I, Jaap Kloosterman Notes on Contributors Tabula Gratulatoria Index
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Brill Labor Markets, Gender and Social Stratification in East Asia: A Global Perspective
Book SynopsisFollowing the Asian economic crisis of the 1990s, this is the first book to examine the structure and transformation of the labor markets and social stratification of contemporary East Asia, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China, focusing in particular on gender inequality. It deals with social mobility and gender differences in unemployment, temporary employment and self-employment. Additionally, gender segregation, social identity and suicide rates are also addressed. Taken together, the issues raised in this volume reinforce the advantage of a comparative approach to East Asian Studies. The findings, supported by strong statistical analysis, clearly call into question a longstanding view that East Asian gender regimes and class structure are homogeneous. Indeed, this is demonstrably not the case, as Labor Markets, Gender and Social Stratification in East Asia shows, revealing as it does considerable diversities in labor markets, gender regimes, and social mobility within East Asian societies due to historical and institutional differences. Contributors include: Chang Chin-Fen, Kim Young-Mi, Oda Akiko, Phang Hanam, Sakaguchi Yusuke, Shibata Haruka, Takamatsu Rie, Takenoshita Hirohisa, Tarohmaru Hiroshi, Xie Guihua, and Yamato Reiko.Table of ContentsList of Contributors List of Figures List of Tables 1. Labor Markets, Gender, and Social Stratification in East Asia: Research Background and Framework TAROHMARU Hiroshi 2. Gender Difference in Unemployment Risk in the Face of Globalization: Effects of Institutional Factors in the Case of Japan and Taiwan SAKAGUCHI Yusuke 3. Economic Crisis, Labor Market Restructuring and Job Mobility in Korea: 1998-2008 PHANG Hanam 4. Impact of a changing employment system on women’s employment at the times of marriage and childbirth in Japan YAMATO Reiko 5. Can Active Labor Market Policies Enhance the Suicide-Preventive Effect of Intimacy? A Dynamic Panel Analysis of 27 OECD Countries Including Japan and Korea, 1980 to 2007 Haruka SHIBATA 6. An Interregional Comparison of Occupational Gender Segregation in Japan ODA Akiko, TAROHMARU Hiroshi, and YAMATO Reiko 7. Who is Successful in Stabilizing Self-Employment?: Family, Gender and Labor Market Structures TAKENOSHITA Hirohisa 8. Where the Materialism still Matters: Status Identity in East Asia CHANG Chin-fen, XIE Guihua, TAKAMATSU Rie, and KIM Young-Mi Index
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Brill Global Convict Labour
Book SynopsisGlobal Convict Labour offers a global history of convict labour across many of the regimes of punishment that have appeared from Antiquity to the present, including transportation, prisons, workhouses and labour camps. The editors' essay surveys the available literature, and sets the theoretical basis to approach the issue. The fifteen chapters explore the genealogies of convict labour and its relationships with coloniality and governmentality. The volume re-establishes convict labour firmly within labour history, as one of the entangled, multiple labour relations that have punctuated human history. Similarly, it places convictism back within migration history at large, bridging the gap between the growing literature on convict transportation and research on slavery and other forms of free and bonded migration. Contributors are: Carlos Aguirre, David Arnold, Marc Buggeln, Timothy Coates, Christian G. De Vito, Mary Gibson, Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga, Stacey Hynd, Padraic Kenney, Alex Lichtenstein, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Alice Rio, Ricardo D. Salvatore, Jean-Lucien Sanchez, Pieter Spierenburg, Stephan Steiner, Laurens E. Tacoma, Heather Ann Thompson, Lynne Viola.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables List of Contributors Editors’ preface Christian G. De Vito and Alex Lichtenstein Writing a global history of convict labour Christian G. De Vito and Alex Lichtenstein PART ONE GENEALOGIES OF CONVICT LABOUR Contextualising condemnation to hard labour in the Roman empire Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga and Laurens E. Tacoma Penal enslavement in the early middle ages Alice Rio Prison and convict labour in early modern Europe Pieter Spierenburg “An Austrian Cayenne.” Convict labour and deportation in the Habsburg empire of the early modern period Stephan Steiner The long view of convict labour in the Portuguese empire, 1415-1932 Timothy J. Coates Convict labour extraction and transportation from Britain and Ireland, 1615-1870 Hamish Maxwell-Stewart PART TWO COLONIALITY, ETHNICITY, RACIALISM AND CONVICT LABOUR Labouring for the Raj: convict work regimes in colonial India, 1836-1939 David Arnold The relegation of recidivists in French Guiana in the 19th and 20th Centuries Jean-Lucien Sanchez “…a weapon of immense value”? Convict labour in British colonial Africa, c. 1850-1950s Stacey Hynd Colonies of settlement or places of banishment and torment? Penal colonies and convict labour in Latin America, c. 1800-1940 Ricardo D. Salvatore and Carlos Aguirre PART THREE CONVICT LABOUR AND GOVERNMENTALITY Gender and convict labour: the Italian case in global context Mary Gibson Forced labour in Nazi concentration camps Marc Buggeln Historicising the Gulag Lynne Viola “A defilade of trick ponies”: work and physical experience in the political prison Padraic Kenney Rethinking working class struggle through the lens of the Carceral state: toward a labour history of inmates and guards Heather Ann Thompson Bibliography Index of places
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Brill On Coerced Labor: Work and Compulsion after Chattel Slavery
Book SynopsisOn Coerced Labor focuses on those forms of labor relations that have been overshadowed by the “extreme” categories (wage labor and chattel slavery) in the historiography. It covers types of work lying between what the law defines as “free labor” and “slavery.” The frame of reference is the observation that although chattel slavery has largely been abolished in the course of the past two centuries, other forms of coerced labor have persisted in most parts of the world. While most nations have increasingly condemned the continued existence of slavery and the slave trade, they have tolerated labor relationships that involve violent control, economic exploitation through the appropriation of labor power, restriction of workers’ freedom of movement, and fraudulent debt obligations. Contributors are: Lisa Carstensen, Christian G. De Vito, Justin F. Jackson, Christine Molfenter, David Palmer, Nicola Pizzolato, Luis F.B. Plascencia, Magaly Rodríguez García, Kelvin Santiago-Valles, Nicole J. Siller, Marcel van der Linden, Sven Van Melkebeke.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ... vii List of Maps, Tables and Figures ... viii Notes on Contributors ... ix 1 Introduction ... 1 Marcel van der Linden and Magaly Rodríguez García Part 1 Coerced Labor in International and National Law 2 On the Legal Boundaries of Coerced Labor ... 11 Magaly Rodríguez García 3 Modern Slavery: The Legal Tug-of-war between Globalization and Fragmentation ... 30 Nicole Siller 4 Forced Labor and Institutional Change in Contemporary India ... 50 Christine Molfenter Part 2 Convict and Military Labor 5 Forced Labor in Colonial Penal Institutions across the Spanish, u.s., British, French Atlantic, 1860s–1920s ... 73 Kelvin Santiago-Valles 6 Convict Labor in the Southern Borderlands of Latin America (ca. 1750s–1910s): Comparative Perspectives ... 98 Christian G. De Vito 7 ‘A military necessity which must be pressed’: The u.s. Army and Forced Road Labor in the Early American Colonial Philippines ... 127 Justin F. Jackson 8 Foreign Forced Labor at Mitsubishi’s Nagasaki and Hiroshima Shipyards: Big Business, Militarized Government, and the Absence of Shipbuilding Workers’ Rights in World War II Japan ... 159 David Palmer Part 3 Agricultural and Industrial Labor 9 Coerced Coffee Cultivation and Rural Agency: The Plantation-Economy of the Kivu (1918–1940) ... 187 Sven Van Melkebeke 10 “As much in bondage as they was before”: Unfree Labor during the New Deal (1935–1952) ... 208 Nicola Pizzolato 11 State-Sanctioned Coercion and Agricultural Contract Labor: Jamaican and Mexican Workers in Canada and the United States, 1909–2014 ... 225 Luis F.B. Plascencia 12 “Modern Slave Labor” in Brazil at the Intersection of Production, Migration and Resistance Networks ... 267 Lisa Carstensen Part 4 In Lieu of a Conclusion 13 Dissecting Coerced Labor ... 293 Marcel van der Linden Bibliography ... 323 Index ... 369
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Brill Global Labour in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: How COVID-19 Accelerated Humanity's Degradation
Book SynopsisIn this latest work by the prolific Mexican theorist Adrián Sotelo Valencia, the COVID-19 pandemic is shown to have merely exacerbated the profound world capitalist crisis rooted in the 1970s structural exhaustion of the third industrial revolution. Sotelo explains how the current 4.0 revolution whose articulating axis is the development and expansion of artificial intelligence, Big Data, algorithms, 3D printing, the Internet of Things, and digital platforms constitutes a global strategy of capital and the state aimed at detaining the global capitalist crisis. The Digital Revolution heralds a new international division of labour with severe repercussions for labour, especially in dependent countries like Mexico. The foreword by Andrés Piqueras of the Universidad Jaume I de Castellón underlines the urgency to heed this insightful analysis.Table of ContentsList of Tables, Figures, Graphs and Diagrams Foreword Introduction Part 1 Capitalism and the Human Hecatomb 1 The Coronavirus Pandemic Demolishes the “End of Work” Fallacy 1 Introduction 1.1 Debates and the Re-articulation of the World of Work 2 Conclusion 2 Precarious Labor and the Extension of the Super-Exploitation of Labor 1 Introduction 1.1 Globalization of the Law of Value and the Super-Exploitation of Labor 1.2 The Extension of the Super-Exploitation of Labor Does Not Cancel the Dependency: It Only Redefines It 2 Conclusion Part 2 Expansion, Crisis, and the Deterioration of Capitalism 3 The Crisis of World Capitalism 1 Introduction 1.1 Coronavirus-Accelerated System Decline 1.2 The End of the “Long Expansion” in the United States: The Locomotive Slows Down 1.2.1 The Hegemonic Crisis of U.S. Imperialism 2 Conclusion Part 3 The Sociology of Digitalization: The World of Dehumanized Labor in the Vicissitudes of the Global Hecatomb of Post-Pandemic Capitalism 4 The Pandemic Accelerates and Deepens the Crisis of Capitalism and Enriches the Multibillionaires 1 Introduction 1.1 The World of Work in the Post-pandemic Period 1.2 covid-Cide, Precariousness, and Death in Transnational Maquilas in Mexico 2 Conclusion 5 Remote Work, the Home Office, Digital Platforms, and the Super-Exploitation of Labor 1 Introduction 1.1 Platform Capitalism 1.1.1 Remote Work 1.1.2 The Home Office in the Fashion of the House 1.1.3 Regulating Remote Work and the Home Office 1.2 The Factory of the Future as a Builder of Skills and Talents 2 Conclusion 6 The Vicissitudes of the Fourth Industrial Revolution 1 Introduction 1.1 Marx’s Theory of Value and the Fourth Industrial Revolution 1.2 Three Industrial Revolutions 1.3 The Fourth Industrial Revolution in the Making 1.3.1 Revolution 4.0: Variable or Constant Capital? 1.3.2 Productive and Unproductive Work in the Fourth Industrial Revolution 1.3.3 The Digital Factory and the Law of Value 2 Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Index
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