This study is based on a wide range of business sources as well as newspapers, journals, novels and oral history, allowing Heller to put forward a new interpretation of working conditions for London clerks, highlighting the ways in which clerical work changed and modernized over this period

This volume comprises thirteen fine-grained case studies of recent campaigns by worker centers and unions to organize the new "precariat" class of workers and to address the crisis facing the labor movement, each of which is based on original research and participant observation.

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How do changes at home, in the labor market and on the job affect worker well-being? This volume of Research in Labor Economicscontains eight original and insightful articles answering this question. Seven deal with demographic and labor market change, and one deals with wage differences...

The book considers a range of conceptual debates around labour regimes and global production relating to issues of scale, informality, race, social reproduction, the labour process and migration as well as in relation to methods, theory and research practice.

In this book, first-rate international scholars in the field explore the role that unions are likely to play in the changed economic environment of the new century. Questions discussed include: What will unions look like in the years to come? Which kind of interest groups will they represent?...

Set within the context of post-apartheid South Africa, the author examines the lives of women in domestic service to discover whether the dismantling of apartheid has ameliorated the poor pay and conditions of this marginalized workforce.

This work shows how the widespread restructuring of American firms - usually resulting in a reduction of the workforce to cut costs - has had a profound impact on the lives of workers. The book explains how the new relationship requires high skill levels, but does not provide training for them