The activation of social welfare recipients has been, and still is, a central issue in the development of social and employment policies in Europe. This ambitious book explores the employment effectiveness of Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) schemes, and provides the first compre…
Une première partie présente l'état du marché du travail au Canada et au Québec, l'évolution des formes d'emploi, les questions du travail autonome et de la sous-traitance et celle de l'emploi et du travail des jeunes. La seconde partie aborde les théories de l'économie du trava…
La décennie 1930 est marquée, au Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean, comme ailleurs, par la crise économique mondiale et ses conséquences sur le tissu social. La présente étude vise à mettre en évidence les spécificités de cette crise dans le milieu régional tout en la situant dans un cadr…
"This book presents an analysis of both paid and unpaid work time, integrating a discussion of overwork, underwork, shortening the working week, and flexible work practices. From the broad perspective of social economics, time at work is determined within a complex web of evolvi…
With reference to Assam, India.
Explores the Netherland's recovery from the severe unemployment crisis in the early 1980s to record job growth in the 1990s. Distinguishes three policy changes to explain the "miracle": the wage restraints since the early 1980s; the reform of the social security system ten years…
"This important book by a major historian is the first to study how the problem of people out of work has been understood and dealt with in the Western world. Garraty discusses the ambivalent attitudes that people have always had toward work and how attitudes and perceptions hav…
