Real World Labor

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Economic development
ISBN : OCLC:1302080704

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Real World Labor by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 187858555X

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Real World Labor by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marcel van der Linden
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047442844

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Workers of the World by Marcel van der Linden Pdf

The studies offered in this volume integrate the history of wage labor, of slavery, and of indentured labor. They contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism.

Author : Greg Ip
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118391570

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The Little Book of Economics by Greg Ip Pdf

An accessible, thoroughly engaging look at how the economy really works and its role in your everyday life Not surprisingly, regular people suddenly are paying a lot closer attention to the economy than ever before. But economics, with its weird technical jargon and knotty concepts and formulas can be a very difficult subject to get to grips with on your own. Enter Greg Ip and his Little Book of Economics. Like a patient, good-natured tutor, Greg, one of today's most respected economics journalists, walks you through everything you need to know about how the economy works. Short on technical jargon and long on clear, concise, plain-English explanations of important terms, concepts, events, historical figures and major players, this revised and updated edition of Greg's bestselling guide clues you in on what's really going on, what it means to you and what we should be demanding our policymakers do about the economy going forward. From inflation to the Federal Reserve, taxes to the budget deficit, you get indispensible insights into everything that really matters about economics and its impact on everyday life Special sections featuring additional resources of every subject discussed and where to find additional information to help you learn more about an issue and keep track of ongoing developments Offers priceless insights into the roots of America's economic crisis and its aftermath, especially the role played by excessive greed and risk-taking, and what can be done to avoid another economic cataclysm Digs into globalization, the roots of the Euro crisis, the sources of China's spectacular growth, and why the gap between the economy's winners and losers keeps widening

Author : Harold Wolchok,Barbara A. Conover
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Industrial relations
ISBN : 0936142006

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The Real World of Work by Harold Wolchok,Barbara A. Conover Pdf

Author : Ursula Huws
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781583674635

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Labor in the Global Digital Economy by Ursula Huws Pdf

For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It’s a situation that we increasingly take for granted in our digital era, and while it is indicative of the novelty of twenty-first-century capitalism, it is also the key to understanding its driving force: the relentless impulse to commodify our lives in every aspect. Ursula Huws ties together disparate economic, cultural, and political phenomena of the last few decades to form a provocative narrative about the shape of the global capitalist economy at present. She examines the way that advanced information and communications technology has opened up new fields of capital accumulation: in culture and the arts, in the privatization of public services, and in the commodification of human sociality by way of mobile devices and social networking. These trends are in turn accompanied by the dramatic restructuring of work arrangements, opening the way for new contradictions and new forms of labor solidarity and struggle around the planet. Labor in the Global Digital Economy is a forceful critique of our dizzying contemporary moment, one that goes beyond notions of mere connectedness or free-flowing information to illuminate the entrenched mechanisms of exploitation and control at the core of capitalism.

Author : Richard Barry Freeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Economic development
ISBN : IND:30000163944444

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Labor Market Institutions Around the World by Richard Barry Freeman Pdf

The paper documents the large cross-country differences in labor institutions that make them a candidate explanatory factor for the divergent economic performance of countries and reviews what economists have learned about the effects of these institutions on economic outcomes. It identifies three ways in which institutions affect economic performance: by altering incentives, by facilitating efficient bargaining, and by increasing information, communication, and trust. The evidence shows that labor institutions reduce the dispersion of earnings and income inequality, which alters incentives, but finds equivocal effects on other aggregate outcomes, such as employment and unemployment. Given weaknesses in the cross-country data on which most studies focus, the paper argues for increased use of micro-data, simulations, and experiments to illuminate how labor institutions operate and affect outcomes.

Author : David Graeber
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781501143335

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Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber Pdf

From bestselling writer David Graeber—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences. Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After one million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer. There are hordes of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs. Graeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln. “Clever and charismatic” (The New Yorker), Bullshit Jobs gives individuals, corporations, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture. This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation and “a thought-provoking examination of our working lives” (Financial Times).

Author : International Labour Office,Organisation internationale du travail
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Employment (Economic theory)
ISBN : 9220314088

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World Employment and Social Outlook by International Labour Office,Organisation internationale du travail Pdf

This report provides an overview of global and regional trends in employment, unemployment, labour force participation and productivity, as well as dimensions of job quality such as employment status, informal employment and working poverty. It also examines income and social developments, and provides an indicator of social unrest. Key findings are that are unemployment is projected to rise after a long period of stability, and that many people are working fewer paid hours than they would like or lack adequate access to paid work. The report also takes a close look at decent work deficits and persistent labour market inequalities, noting that income inequality is higher than previously thought.

Author : Emmanuel D. Farjoun,Moshé Machover,David Zachariah
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030933237

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How Labor Powers the Global Economy by Emmanuel D. Farjoun,Moshé Machover,David Zachariah Pdf

This book presents a probabilistic approach to studying the fundamental role of labor in capitalist economies and develops a non-deterministic theoretical framework for the foundations of political economy. By applying the framework to real-world data, the authors offer new insights into the dynamics of growth, wages, and accumulation in capitalist development around the globe. The book demonstrates that a probabilistic political economy based on labor inputs enables us to describe central organizing principles in modern capitalism. Starting from a few basic assumptions, it shows that the working time of employees is the main regulating variable for determining strict numerical limits on the rate of economic growth, the range of wages, and the pace of accumulation under the present global economic system. This book will appeal to anyone interested in how the capitalist mode of production works and its inherent limitations; in particular, it will be useful to scholars and students of Marxian economics. “Emmanuel Farjoun and Moshé Machover, follow up their pathbreaking work on the application of statistical physics methods to political economy in this book with David Zachariah, in which they develop methods for making educated and structured estimates of stylized facts applicable to capitalist economies. There’s a lot for economists and anyone interested in the political economy of capitalism to learn from their reasoning on these issues, including their novel and challenging suggestion of bounds on the rates of increase of use-value productivity of labor, and on the range of variation of the wage share.” Duncan K. Foley, Leo Model Professor of Economics, New School for Social Research

Author : Howard Botwinick
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004269590

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Persistent Inequalities by Howard Botwinick Pdf

In contrast to orthodox theory, Howard Botwinick uses a classical Marxist analysis of real capitalist competition to show that substantial patterns of wage disparity among similar workers can persist despite high levels of competition in both capital and labor markets.

Author : Charles J. Whalen
Publisher : W.E. Upjohn Institute
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Human Resource Economics and Public Policy by Charles J. Whalen Pdf

This book honors Vernon Briggs's professional contributions. This book contains important discussions on issues of human resource economics, which is now often described as workforce development. This book offers much research information and policy analysis that can be used to develop what is needed for an active set of national human resource policies.

Author : John Maynard Keynes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319703442

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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes Pdf

This book was originally published by Macmillan in 1936. It was voted the top Academic Book that Shaped Modern Britain by Academic Book Week (UK) in 2017, and in 2011 was placed on Time Magazine's top 100 non-fiction books written in English since 1923. Reissued with a fresh Introduction by the Nobel-prize winner Paul Krugman and a new Afterword by Keynes’ biographer Robert Skidelsky, this important work is made available to a new generation. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money transformed economics and changed the face of modern macroeconomics. Keynes’ argument is based on the idea that the level of employment is not determined by the price of labour, but by the spending of money. It gave way to an entirely new approach where employment, inflation and the market economy are concerned. Highly provocative at its time of publication, this book and Keynes’ theories continue to remain the subject of much support and praise, criticism and debate. Economists at any stage in their career will enjoy revisiting this treatise and observing the relevance of Keynes’ work in today’s contemporary climate.

Author : International Labor International Labor Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9221296326

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World Employment and Social Outlook by International Labor International Labor Office Pdf

The World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2016 provides the latest global and regional estimates of employment and unemployment, employment by sector, vulnerable employment, labour productivity, informal employment and working poverty. Based on the most recent data available, the report examines underlying trends and cyclical developments related to economic, political and social changes, and presents and a short- and medium-term outlook for key labour market variables. A particular focus is the shifts in financial market developnments and their implications for employment volatility, job creation and income growth. The report also discusses recent developments linked to the global financial crisis and analyses their implications for a faster job and income recovery.

Author : Alan Manning
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400850679

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Monopsony in Motion by Alan Manning Pdf

What happens if an employer cuts wages by one cent? Much of labor economics is built on the assumption that all the workers will quit immediately. Here, Alan Manning mounts a systematic challenge to the standard model of perfect competition. Monopsony in Motion stands apart by analyzing labor markets from the real-world perspective that employers have significant market (or monopsony) power over their workers. Arguing that this power derives from frictions in the labor market that make it time-consuming and costly for workers to change jobs, Manning re-examines much of labor economics based on this alternative and equally plausible assumption. The book addresses the theoretical implications of monopsony and presents a wealth of empirical evidence. Our understanding of the distribution of wages, unemployment, and human capital can all be improved by recognizing that employers have some monopsony power over their workers. Also considered are policy issues including the minimum wage, equal pay legislation, and caps on working hours. In a monopsonistic labor market, concludes Manning, the "free" market can no longer be sustained as an ideal and labor economists need to be more open-minded in their evaluation of labor market policies. Monopsony in Motion will represent for some a new fundamental text in the advanced study of labor economics, and for others, an invaluable alternative perspective that henceforth must be taken into account in any serious consideration of the subject.