Political scientist Immanuel Ness thoroughly investigates the use of guest workers in the United States, the largest recipient of migrant labor in the world. Ness argues that the use of migrant labor is increasing in importance and represents despotic practices calculated by key U.S. business...

"The book also makes extensive use of labor market statistics and reports evidence obtained from hundreds of research studies. These data summarize the stylized facts that a good theory of the labor market should be able to explain, as well as help shape our thinking about the way the labor...

"This book recasts the story of the health care system by emphasizing the economic and social importance of hospitals in American communities. While hospitals have become vital economic anchors in cities across the country, the spending that supports them has constrained possibilities for...

Unternehmen stehen immer häufiger öffentlich in der Kritik, weil sie sich über ihre Werbung ein grünes Image aufgebaut haben, ohne tatsächlich nachhaltiger zu sein als die Konkurrenz. Schnell wird der Vorwurf des Greenwashings erhoben, und zwar gegenüber Unternehmen jeder Größenordnung...

"Management and labor have been adversaries in American and Canadian workplaces since the time of colonial settlement. Labor lacked full legal legitimacy in Canada and the United States until the mid-1930s until the passage of laws that granted collective bargaining rights and protection from...

When the Cold War ended, many believed that expanding trade would usher in an era of peace. Yet today the United States finds itself confronting not just Russia in Europe but China in the Indo-Pacific, Africa, and Latin America. Shedding new light on how trade both reduces and increases the...

Introduction -- Why money matters -- Financial reporting and analysis -- The big picture -- How unions raise money : Union dues and other member-based income -- The Unions' balance sheets -- The income statement : revenues -- Disbursements -- Financial performance -- Union membership and...

"How inflation fears shaped American society, then and now. For most of its history, the United States has benefited from price stability-a steady relationship between supply and demand, characterized by prices that don't inflate or deflate in unpredictable fashion. Across these long stretches,...

This paper exploits the Financial Accounts of the United States to derive long time series of bank and nonbank credit to different sectors, and to examine the cyclical behavior of these series in relation to (i) the long-term business cycle, (ii) recessions and recoveries, and (iii) systemic...