By Robert Fitzgerald
September 18, 2024
Originally published in 1988, this book examines company provision of welfare in the century preceding the Second World War, a period of enormous change in the structure and organisation of British industry and management. The creation of large-scale, corporate companies increased the need for ...
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By John Oxenham
September 18, 2024
Originally published in 1984, this book investigates the validity of educational qualifications: how they are determined, what justifications exist for them and how they change. It examines the assumption linking education and productivity and explores the belief that the ways in which scholastic ...
By Bikas C. Sanyal
September 18, 2024
Originally published in 1987, this book focusses on the relationship between higher education and employment and is based on 21 national case studies. The countries discussed are Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Egypt, Germany, Malaysia, Pakistan, People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, Philippines, ...
By D I Mackay, David Boddy, J. Brack, J. A. Diack, N. Jones
September 18, 2024
Originally published in 1971, this wide-ranging study illuminates many crucial wage and employment issues by examining the operation of local labour markets and by testing labour market theory against the observed behaviour of employers and employees in different labour market environments. It is ...
By Chris Moore, J.J. Richardson, Jeremy Moon
September 18, 2024
Originally published in 1989, this study provides an informed and critical analysis of local partnerships between the private and public sectors in response to the unemployment problems. Until this book was published, there had been little objective analysis of the workings of the local partnership...
By Hilda R. Kahn
September 18, 2024
Originally published in 1964, at a time of much public unease regarding redundancy, this book contains the results of a comprehensive survey, inspired by a suggestion of the then Minister of Labour that the mass redundancies in the Midlands motor industry of 1956 merited a full-scale investigation....
By Various Authors
September 18, 2024
Originally published between 1923 and 1989, the 21 volumes in this set examine the politics, economics, sociology and psychology of (un)employment during the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries, including during the periods of recession in the 1930s and 1980s. The volumes: · Provide information ...
By Hilda R. Kahn
September 18, 2024
Originally published in 1964, at a time of much public unease regarding redundancy, this book contains the results of a comprehensive survey, inspired by a suggestion of the then Minister of Labour that the mass redundancies in the Midlands motor industry of 1956 merited a full-scale investigation....
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By G.D.N. Worswick
September 18, 2024
Originally published in 1976, the 14 papers in this collection discuss the history and significance of the concept of 'involuntary unemployment’, particularly as seen from a Keynesian perspective. The micro-economic foundations of employment and job-search theory and the measurement and the ...
By John Rule
September 18, 2024
Originally published in 1981, this book, unlike conventional textbooks concerning the Industrial Revolution, stresses the continuity of the labour experience in the 18th Century. Examining the organisation and structure of mining and manufacture in England, the author identifies the main kinds of ...
By E. Colston Shepherd
September 18, 2024
Originally published in 1923, this thorough and critical volume collected and analysed material bearing on the UK Government practice during the early part of the 20th Century in settling wages in 4 key government departments. A substantial introduction indicates the constitutional aspect of the ...
By Alan R. Townsend
September 18, 2024
Rich industrialised countries entered the 1980s with unemployment higher than before the Second World War. Britain experienced the impact of recession more immediately and sharply; over one million factory jobs were lost. Originally published in 1983 and now reissued with a new Preface by the ...