Tag: Labour

Free Download Chun-Yi Lee, "Chinese Labour in the Global Economy: Capitalist Exploitation and Strategies of Resistance"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367220474, 1138726605 | EPUB | pages: 162 | 0.8 mb
Chinese development is widely considered to be an example of successful developmental catch-up with double-digit growth rates year on year. Some even talk of an emerging power, which may in time replace the US as the global economy’s hegemon. And yet there is a dark underside to this ‘miracle’ in the form of workers’ long hours, low pay and lack of welfare benefits. Increasing levels of inequality have gone hand in hand with super exploitative working conditions. Nevertheless, Chinese workers have not simply accepted these conditions of super-exploitation; they have started to fight back.

Free Download Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, "Combating Child Labour: A Review of Policies"
English | 2003 | pages: 130 | ISBN: 9264102930 | PDF | 0,6 mb
Public opinion has expressed considerable concern about the persistence of child labour. Despite the increasing ratification of international conventions on this issue, 23% of the world’s children aged 10-14 are at work. But why do children still have to work? Under what conditions do children work? What are the implications of child labour for the future development of the countries concerned? What are the most effective policies to combat child labour, and how can they improve economic development?This book seeks to answer these questions. After highlighting the reality of the many child labourers in the world, it reviews the economic causes of the phenomenon and the effectiveness of the various policies which have been implemented to reduce child labour.

Free Download Marcus Taylor, "Renewing International Labour Studies"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0415593859, 0415850320 | EPUB | pages: 216 | 0.8 mb
This volume seeks to re-energise the paradigm of the New International Labour Studies by detailing how struggles over the construction, reproduction, utilisation and restructuring of labour forces are the contested social foundations upon which the global economy stands.

Free Download Bert De Munck, "Guilds, Labour and the Urban Body Politic: Fabricating Community in the Southern Netherlands, 1300-1800 "
English | ISBN: 0815372027 | 2017 | 312 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book presents a new view on the relation between labour and community through a focus on craft guilds. In the Southern Netherlands, occupational guilds were both powerful and governed by manufacturing masters, enabling the latter to imprint their mark upon urban society in an economic, socio-cultural and political way. While the urban community was deeply indebted to a corporative spirit and guild ethic originating in medieval Germanic and Christian traditions, guild-based artisans succeeded in being accepted as genuine political (and, hence, rational) actors – their political identity and agency being based upon their skills and trustworthiness.

Free Download Taken As Red: How Labour Won Big and the Tories Crashed the Party by Anushka Asthana
English | September 26th, 2024 | ISBN: 0008697906 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 1.00 MB
How Labour took power – and how they will govern

Free Download The Labour Party, Housing and Urban Transformation
by Phil Child;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1350423432 | 233 pages | True PDF EPUB | 9.89 MB

Free Download Janet M. Rennie, Phillipa A. Groves, "Clinical Protocols in Labour"
English | 2002 | pages: 212 | ISBN: 184214085X | PDF | 28,4 mb
Based on the protocols in use at the highly acclaimed King’s College Hospital in London, Clinical Protocols in Labour presents a consensus of the best and most appropriate techniques for standard delivery and uncommon clinical scenarios. Each chapter is written as a stand-alone unit making the information easy to find. Coverage ranges from a general approach to care, normal labour, and care of the baby to specific issues such as eclampsia and pre-eclampsia, uterine rupture, and postpartum bleeding. In addition, the book includes protocols for emergency closure of the labour ward, communication among members of the labour team, and more. A compact, authoritative volume, Clinical Protocols in Labour provides practical templates for the perinatal management of women and their babies during labour and delivery.

Free Download Laurence Marley, "The British Labour Party and twentieth-century Ireland: The cause of Ireland, the cause of Labour"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0719096014 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 0.7 mb
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the British Labour Party was broadly supportive of Irish home rule. However, from the end of the First World War, Labour anticipated a place in government, and as a modern, maturing party in British politics, it developed a more calculated set of responses towards Ireland. With contributions from a range of distinguished Irish and British scholars, this collection of essays provides the first full treatment of the historical relationship between the Labour Party and Ireland in the last century, from Keir Hardie to Tony Blair. By widening the lens on Labour’s responses to the ‘Irish question’ over an entire century, it offers an original perspective on longer-term dispositions in Labour mentalities towards Ireland and on the relationship between ‘these islands’. It will prove essential reading for those with an interest in modern Irish and British history, Anglo-Irish relations, and the current Northern Ireland peace process.

Free Download Labour Markets and Demographic Change By Golo Henseke, Pascal Hetze, Thusnelda Tivig (auth.), Michael Kuhn, Carsten Ochsen (eds.)
2009 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 353116628X | PDF | 4 MB
This collection of research papers explores some of the salient issues relating to the impact of demographic change on the workings and outcomes of labour markets. A first chapter studies the direct impact of ageing on employment and unemployment. However, the age structure of the workforce also shapes productivity and the scope for innovation, issues which are taken up in turn. Furthermore, it is often argued that a decline in the size of the workforce may be offset by an increase in the workers’ skills and knowledge. The impact of demographic developments such as ageing and migration on the accumulation and transfer of human capital is, therefore, studied by a further set of contributions. The volume is rounded off with analyses relating to the supply of labour by women and by older workers. The authors ask, for instance, whether (female) labour migration as well as changes in retirement patterns and policies may counterbalance the expected workforce shrinking.

Free Download Immigrants in Regional Labour Markets of Host Nations: Some Evidence from Atlantic Canada By Syed Ather Hussain Akbari (auth.)
2013 | 95 Pages | ISBN: 9400762437 | PDF | 3 MB
This book is the first to present a detailed analysis of economic integration of immigrants in smaller areas of their host nations. It uses Atlantic Canada as a case in point and uses unpublished data based on several databases of Statistics Canada and Citizenship and Immigration, Canada. It identifies best policy practices that can also be used in other countries to address demographic challenges similar to those facing Canada, for example population ageing and youth out-migration from smaller regions to larger regions, through immigration. Economic integration of immigrants in Atlantic Canada is faster and better than it is nationally. An overarching result is that an analysis of regional data can lead to very different policy conclusions than the analysis of national data, which means that it can be risky to devise immigration policy based only on national data. A clear message is that economic benefits from immigration can be enhanced by facilitating a broader geographic distribution of immigrants, rather than maintaining their concentration in a few larger urban regions. A must read for immigration and population policy makers, immigrant settlement agencies and academic researchers.