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Free Download Amy Ludlow, "New Frontiers in Empirical Labour Law Research"
English | ISBN: 1849466785 | 2015 | 224 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This edited collection draws together papers delivered at a symposium on New Frontiers in Empirical Labour Law Research held at the University of Cambridge in April 2014. It contains contributions from established and emerging experts across a range of disciplines (including employment relations, industrial psychology, sociology, economics and political science) to consider four broad themes: the case for empiricism in labour law; the potential for mixed methods; methodological possibilities and insights from other disciplines; and practical challenges and words of caution for those conducting empirical research.

Free Download Bridget Anderson, "Who Needs Migrant Workers?: Labour Shortages, Immigration, and Public Policy"
English | 2010 | pages: 352 | ISBN: 0199580596, 0199653615 | PDF | 2,3 mb
Are migrant workers needed to "do the jobs that locals will not do" or are they simply a more exploitable labor force? Do they have a better "work ethic" or are they less able to complain? Is migrant labor the solution to "skills shortages" or actually part of the problem? This book provides a comprehensive framework for analyzing the demand for migrant workers in high-income countries. It demonstrates how a wide range of government policies, often unrelated to migration, contribute to creating a growing demand for migrant labor. This demand can persist even during economic downturns. The book includes quantitative and qualitative analyses of the changing role of migrants in the UK economy. The empirical chapters include in-depth examinations of the nature of staff shortages and the use of migrant workers in six sectors: health; social care; hospitality; food production; construction; and financial services.

Free Download Job Security and Flexibility: Exploring Labour Market Dynamics
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031285085 | 336 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 25 MB
This book examines the relationship between job security and job flexibility. Through an innovative conceptual approach, the concept of job flexicurity is presented to highlight the labour market dynamics between job flexibility and employee security. The dynamics of labour market mechanisms are placed within ideas of rigidity, security, flexibility, and plasticity to explore the interplay between different employee considerations. Particular attention is given to the Romanian labour market with an empirical case study that expands upon the ideas discussed.

Published 5/2023
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Free Download Øystein Gulvåg Holter, "Labour of Love: Beyond the Self-Evidence of Everyday Life"
English | ISBN: 1859720439 | | 160 pages | EPUB | 373 KB
Amazed at the stubborn nature of the sexual division of labour in modern society, five Norwegian researchers set out to explore the sources of this pervasive resistance to change. Moving from the neutral concepts of work and money, the lofty notions of love and family and the triviality of domestic organization, social science is made to yield some surprising insights into hidden, secret and perhaps even sacred structures of everyday life. A provocative claim in these pages is that the practical arrangement in the family is informed by the erotic properties of work and semi-religious notions of poverty and dirt – and is sustained by both sexes. This anthology reveals some perplexing aspects of contemporary self-understanding and rediscovers sexual meaning as a pillar of modern culture. The book is an invitation to reconsider the conditions for gender equality and to explore further the cultural tangle behind this persistent tolerance for injustice within European thinking.

Free Download Teri Silvio, "Labour, Policy, and Ideology in East Asian Creative Industries"
English | ISBN: 0367333023 | 2019 | 122 pages | EPUB | 669 KB
This book addresses some of the questions that have been brought to light by the varied experiences of culture industry workers and consumer publics across East Asia over the past decade.

Free Download David Renton, "Labour’s Antisemitism Crisis"
English | ISBN: 0367720566 | 2021 | 220 pages | EPUB | 444 KB
Between 2015 and 2020 the Labour Party was riven by allegations that the party had tolerated antisemitism.

Free Download Stitching Governance for Labour Rights: Towards Transnational Industrial Democracy?
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1108486878 | 291 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
Transnational labour governance is in urgent need of a new paradigm of democratic participation, with those who are most affected – typically workers – placed at the centre. To achieve this, principles of industrial democracy and transnational governance must come together to inform institutions within global supply chains. This book traces the development of ‘transnational industrial democracy’, using responses to the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster as the empirical context. A particular focus is placed on the Bangladesh Accord and the JETI Workplace Social Dialogue programme. Drawing on longitudinal field research from 2013-2020, the authors argue that the reality of modern-day supply chain capitalism has neither optimal institutional frameworks nor effective structures of industrial relations. Informed by principles of industrial democracy, the book aims at enhancing emerging forms of private transnational governance as second-best institutions.