Throughout the world, migration is an increasingly important and diverse component of population change, both at national and sub-national levels. Migration impacts on the distribution of knowledge and generates externalities and spillover effects. This book focuses on recent models and methods...

1. Work and labour in great transformations -- 2. Fictitious decommodification : the failure of industrial citizenship -- 3. Labour recommodification in the global transformation -- 4. Inequality, class and the 'precariat' -- 5. Crumbling barriers to decommodification -- 6. Occupational...

Charles Whalen's book identifies avenues leading to the revitalization of industrial relations as an academic discipline. The contributors, a stellar assemblage of the field's leading scholars, demonstrate there is much work to be done: the scope and intellectual content of industrial relations...

Historically, alternative models of the employment relationship have developed across culturally diverse nation states. However, the trend towards globalization incorporates a powerful force towards an international uniformity of employment relations. Underlying the issues addressed in this book...

1. International business in a changing world environment -- 2. Whither global capitalism? -- 3. Some paradoxes of the emerging global economy : the multinational solution -- 4. Globalization, economic restructuring and development -- 5. Regions, globalization and the knowledge-based economy :...

1. The determinants of international production -- 2. Trade, location of economic activity and the multinational enterprise : a search for an eclectic approach -- 3. Trade, location of economic activity and the multinational enterprise : some empirical tests -- 4. Explaining the international...

There is currently a popular view that the world is undergoing profound changes in the fundamental relationships upon which it is organised. In particular, there is widespread talk of a 'globalised' economy, facilitated by and associated with 'new' technologies and practices. There is a further...