Wage inequality does not fully capture differences in job quality. Jobs also differ along other key dimensions, including the prevalence of labor rights violations. We construct novel measures of labor violation rates using data from federal agencies. Within local industries over time, a 10%...

The paper analyses growing inequality in the rising powers, concentrating on the situation in China and India. It describes the various processes that are currently underway to reduce inequality in these economies. These processes include a combination of tightening the labour market, as best...

People passionately disagree about the nature of the globalization process. The failure of both the 1999 and 2003 World Trade Organization's (WTO) ministerial conferences in Seattle and Cancun, respectively, have highlighted the tensions among official, international organizations like the WTO,...

The Pinochet era / Peter Winn -- Politics without policy : the failure of social concertation in democratic Chile, 1990-2000 / Volker Frank -- "No miracle for us" : the textile industry in the Pinochet era, 1973-1998 / Peter Winn -- Disciplined workers and avid consumers : neoliberal policy and...