This is a collection of soundings into various aspects of the history of maritime labor from the close of the Middle Ages to the present. The spatial emphasis of the essays is north European and Atlantic since they deal with the countries around the North Sea and Baltic with some coverage of...

Die „Digitalisierung 4.0", in Deutschland auch unter dem Begriff der Industrie 4.0 bekannt, hat nicht nur erheblichen Einfluss auf die technischen Veränderungen in der Wirtschaft, sondern auch auf den Arbeitsmarkt und die Arbeit der Zukunft, insbesondere der Frauen. Dagmar Preißing und ihre...

1. Introduction / Helge Ramsdal and Egil J. Skorstad -- 2. The ambiguity of flexibility / Egil J. Skorstad -- 3. The impact of flexibility on employee morale and involvement : large-sample findings for UK workplaces / Michael Rose -- 4. Whose flexibility? British employees' responses to flexible...

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 White-collar unionism as social movements -- chapter 3 Theoretical frameworks for political protest and labor solidarity -- chapter 4 Personal welfare and economic justice Wage differential reduction demand and -- chapter 5 Political protest and social reform...

Context and history -- A global perspective -- Overview of workers' essential need and forms of legal protection -- Substantive rights to minimum pay and safety standards -- Procedural rights : freedom of association and job security standards -- Exclusion from jurisdiction as a regulatory...

Globally, coercive labor (i.e., forced, bonded, and/or trafficked labor) and child labor are disproportionately prevalent in environments with weak regulatory enforcement and state capacity. Effective strategies for addressing them may therefore need to align with the private incentives of...

Just as textile mills and automotive assembly plants have symbolized previous economic eras, the call centre stands as a potent reminder of the importance of information in contemporary economies. Bob Russell's Smiling Down the Line theorizes call centre work as info-service employment and looks...