Labour Policy
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Justice in the Workplace
Matthieu de Nanteuil
This timely book explores new social justice challenges in the workplace. Adopting a long-term perspective, it focuses on value conflicts, or ethical dilemmas, in contemporary organisations and ways to overcome them. Matthieu de Nanteuil...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Retiring Women
Philip Taylor, Catherine Earl, Elizabeth Brooke, Christopher McLoughlin
With current policy concerns about shortfalls of labour supply and effects on the social welfare system due to population ageing, there is a need to understand the factors that shape women’s choices about if, when and how to retire. Rece...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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$48.76
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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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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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Social Security Outside the Realm of the Employment Contract
Edited by Mies Westerveld, Marius Olivier
All over the world countries face the challenge of inadequate social security coverage for workers without an employment contact. In countries of the global south, this phenomenon is a natural consequence of large informal economies. Cou...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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