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This book explores the political economy of labor repression and expands the meaning of repression by looking at the relation of politics to economics throughout the course of US history. It explains how and why this relation leads to the repression of labor and considers how it develops over time from the social relation of capital and labor.

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This book explores the political economy of labor repression and expands the meaning of repression by looking at the relation of politics to economics throughout the course of US history. It explains how and why this relation leads to the repression of labor and considers how it develops over time from the social relation of capital and labor.

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This collection of original essays by experts in the field explores the relationship between precarious work and gender.

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How Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women.

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Previous wage studies of the period before World War I found that real wages remained stable from 1890 to 1914 despite the continued growth of the economy. This study indicates that this conclusion was based on faulty statistics. Using new estimates of money wages and a new cost-of-living index, Mr. Rees shows that real wages rose considerably in t

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In this book Richard Lester develops an analytical basis for judging sex, race, and age discrimination in professional and executive employment. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton Un

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The answer lies in the relationship between inflation and unemployment: we simply cannot push unemployment below the rate that is compatable with stable inflation.

Must we, then, just live with unemployment But to understand how we can reduce unemployment, we must understand the nonaccelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU).

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The American labour market: How it has changed and what to do about it.

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Why is Europe's employment rate almost 10 percent lower than that of the United States Drawing on the findings of a project that examined data from France, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom, and the United States, this work argues that Europe's 25 million "missing" jobs can be attributed almost entirely to its relative lack of service jobs.

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This study focuses on the job evaluation procedures used in the federal government to evaluate all white-collar non-supervisory occupations. Female-dominated jobs, it is discovered, were rated lower on all factors used in the federal government's job evaluation system.

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This book examines labor protest in authoritarian states through a study of the evolution of migrant labor protests in China over the past three decades. It explores the economic, political, and demographic changes that have influenced migrant labor protest activity, how migrant workers engage in protest today, and protest strategies they employ.

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In 1950's high income region, the West, the transport cost element in the price of manufactured goods shrank because of (1) transportation improvements and (2) rapid manufacturing growth, which reduced the need for long distance imports from the Manufacturing Belt.

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Assesses the current state of knowledge and note the advances since the initial colloquium; examine recent contributions in light of the heightened awareness of the complexity of the R&D process; and review the broader implications of the contributions of research in areas such as education, health, the environment, and quality of life.

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Ed Gordon marshals a vast amount of data to illustrate how various trends are converging to create a labor vacuumwith potentially disastrous consequences for economic competitiveness and individual opportunity.

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A history of the Army's activities in the field of industrial labor problems.

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India has the largest number of non-schoolgoing working children in the world. Why has the government not removed them from the labor force and required that they attend school To answer this question, this comparative study looks at why and when other states have intervened to protect children against parents and employers.

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The well-documented gap between men's and women's earnings has aroused intense debate over the concept of comparable worth. Henry J. Aaron and Cameran M. Lougy review the conditions that have sparked the debate and unravel the implications of comparable worth for employers in public and private sectors, for labour union agendas and employer-employee negotiations.

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This comprehensive and detailed analysis of the factors that determine who is in the labor force in the United States is equally interesting for the light it sheds on what people are not working or seeking work-and why they are not. The effects on labor force participation rates of both individual characteristics (e.g. age, marital status, color, e