Exploring contemporary challenges and opportunities for the realisation of Decent Work, this edited collection reviews the origins of the concept and helps to demonstrate its working in practice. Using a Decent Work lens to explore the realities of eroding work conditions in typical and atypical...

The final chapter acts as an epilogue and captures key themes from the book, concluding with a call to action for a future of work that is decent. Reflecting upon the disruption caused by Covid-19, the chapter highlights the importance of Decent Work for economic recovery and illustrates the...

This chapter looks at the history of work from a social, economic and political perspective. It analyzes the beginning of work and of industrial relations, on a global scale. It goes on to speculate on in what way work will evolve in the immediate future, given technological change and...

‘Decent work’. The very phrase conjures up a range of images and interpretations. But what does it mean for practitioners? What does it mean for academics? Much has been spoken, and even more has been written, but there is still little consensus as to how these questions can be answered....

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Writing in Applied Economics Letters, Sumner (2004) advocates use of long lag lengths when conducting cointegration tests. Replication of Sumner’s consumption model suggests long lag lengths are a mis-specification: The true underlying model is periodic. We test for periodically distributed...

1. Introduction -- 2. Current challenges for criminal justice policy -- 3. What is justice reinvestment? -- 4. Theorising justice reinvestment -- 5. Data analysis and justice mapping -- 6. Economic methods -- 7. Using evidence and negotiating politics -- 8. Towards a new theory of justice...