Handbook of employment and society: working space
Drawing on the work of major researchers from around the world, this important book represents a timely and required engagement on the part of scholars of work and employment with developments in spatial theorising.
Drawing on the work of major researchers from around the world, this important book represents a timely and required engagement on the part of scholars of work and employment with developments in spatial theorising.
"Is the EU enlargement the success EU institutions proclaim? Based on fifteen years of fieldwork research across Central and Eastern Europe and on migrants in the UK and Germany, this book provides a less glittering answer. The EU has betrayed hopes of social cohesion: social re…
A groundbreaking account of how the welfare state began with early nineteenth-century child labor laws, and how middle-class and elite reformers made it happen. The beginnings of the modern welfare state are often traced to the late nineteenth-century labor movement and to polic…
Private regulation of labor standards in global supply chains since the 1990s -- Behavioral invisibility: the reliability of supplier data and the unique role of audit consultants -- Practice multiplicity and labor practices in global supply chains -- Causal complexity: the vari…
Prior to the millennium, economists and policy makers argued that free trade between the United States and Mexico would benefit both Americans and Mexicans. They believed that NAFTA would be a "win-win" proposition that would offer U.S. companies new markets for their products a…