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The economics and ideology of free trade : a historical review
Gomes, Leonard - 2003
The Economics and Ideology of Free Trade makes an important contribution to the debate on globalization by providing much needed intellectual and historical perspective on the issue of Free Trade versus Protection
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851318
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The early history of financial economics, 1478-1776 : from commercial arithmetic to life annuities and joint stocks
Poitras, Geoffrey - 2000
invaluable to scholars of financial economics and the history of economic thought …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473873
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Elgar encyclopedia of labour studies
Eriksson, Tor (ed.) - 2023
studies. Entries explore the definition, background, and history of key concepts in labour studies, including regional and …"This authoritative Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of central concepts in labour studies, and how they … can be used to analyse labour markets. Examining regional and sectoral labour markets alongside the internal labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372509
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Work after globalization : building occupational citizenship
Standing, Guy - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851023
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A research agenda for work and employment
Procter, Stephen J. (ed.) - 2024
"Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. A Research Agenda for Work and Employment critically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635740
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Full employment abandoned : shifting sands and policy failures
Mitchell, William - 2008
This book dismantles the arguments used by policy makers to justify the abandonment of full employment as a valid goal of national governments. Bill Mitchell and Joan Muysken trace the theoretical analysis of the nature and causes of unemployment over the last 150 years and argue that the shift...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851543
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Economic disasters of the twentieth century
Oliver, Michael J. (contributor);  … - 2007
1. 'Destruction ... and misery' : the First World War -- 2. The Great Depression, 1929-33 -- 3. The Second World War as …The First and Second World Wars, the great depression, oil shocks, inflation, financial crises, stock market crashes …, the collapse of the Soviet command economy and third world disasters are discussed in this comprehensive book. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420034
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A research agenda for workplace stress and wellbeing
Kelloway, E. Kevin (ed.); Cooper, Cary (ed.) - 2021
Contents: Part I: Setting the scene -- 1. Introduction to a research agenda for workplace stress and wellbeing / E. Kevin Kelloway and Cary L. Cooper -- 2. Workplace stress and wellbeing: Pathways for future research advances / James Campbell Quick -- 3. The cost of stress to uk employers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012665638
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Handbook of employment and society : working space
Herod, Andrew (contributor); Rainnie, Al (contributor);  … - 2010
This Handbook deepens and extends the engagement between research concerned with work and employment and labour … with the world of work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851009
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˜Theœ handbook of globalisation
Michie, Jonathan (ed.) - 2019 - Third edition
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024388