Labour Economics

Paperback (February 2025)

Concise Introduction to Employment Relations

Richard Hyman

This Concise Introduction illuminates the conflict, cooperation and complex issues surrounding employment relations. Richard Hyman, a leading expert in the field, clearly explains how the reality of employment interactions and the acade...

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Hardback (February 2025)

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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)

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Handbook on Labour Markets in Transition

Edited by Stéphane Carcillo, Stefano Scarpetta

This Handbook provides an insightful analysis of how long-term transformations are impacting labour markets globally. It argues for a proactive approach to market regulation that promotes mobility by anticipating labour market needs and ...

Hardback (December 2024)

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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)

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Industry 4.0 and the Future of Work

Al Rainnie, Andrew Herod, Susan McGrath-Champ

This unique book offers an in-depth examination of the changing nature of work and the production of waste in a crisis-ridden era dominated by climate change and worker precarity.

Hardback (November 2024)

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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...

Hardback (November 2024)

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A Modern Guide to the Informal Economy

Colin C. Williams

This Modern Guide presents a comprehensive synthesis of contemporary thought on the informal economy, which, as the author demonstrates – far from being a peripheral feature of the global economy – is a system in which the majority of th...

Hardback (2023)

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Paperback (2024)

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Mass Higher Education and the Changing Labour Market for Graduates

Edited by Fátima Suleman, Pedro Videira, Pedro N. Teixeira

As higher education continues to expand and an increasing number of graduates enter the workforce, this insightful book considers the crucial social and economic questions raised by this societal shift. Fátima Suleman, Pedro Videira and ...

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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...

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Making and Breaking Gender Inequalities in Work

Edited by Mia Rönnmar, Susan Hayter

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. This timely book expertly analyses the persistence of gender inequalities in work. Despite t...

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Handbook of Artificial Intelligence at Work

Edited by Martha Garcia-Murillo, Ian MacInnes, Andrea Renda

This highly topical Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on work, assessing its effect on an array of economic sectors, the resulting nature of work, and the subsequent policy implicati...

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