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...

We use leximetric data coding techniques and panel data econometrics to test for the economic effects of laws governing worker representation and industrial action in the large middle-income countries of Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa. We find that more worker-protective laws on...

The weak enforcement of the ILO makes its body of international labor law merely an inspiration. Thus labor protection largely remains border- and culture-bound, unless stipulated by treaty. For example, an alleged sexual harasser under American law is subject to Title VII civil liability,...

Financialization, new investment funds, and labour / Howard Gospel and Andrew Pendleton -- Financial intermediaries in the United States : development and impact on firms and employment relations / Eileen Appelbaum, Rosemary Batt, and Jae Eun Lee -- Financialization, new investment funds, and...