The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the "American Way" itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depression, illuminating its successes and failures. Rauchway first...

In a period of rapid social and economic change, labour markets are undergoing major transformations. This book explores the changing fortunes of young people in Europe's flexible and precarious labour markets and the range of policies that are being developed to help them deal with the problems...

Employment is clearly one of those fields of political activity that reveal the manifold problems and difficulties accompanying the process of European integration and supranational institutionalization. In particular the conflict between supranationalists and intergovernmentalists and the...

The conditions for non-EU migrant workers to gain legal entry to Britain, France, and Germany are at the same time similar and quite different. To explain this variation this book compares the fine-grained legal categories for migrant workers in each country, and examines the interaction of...

The World Employment and Social Outlook is the ILO's new flagship report on world of work issues. Covering advanced as well as emerging and developing economies, the report documents the significant rise in new forms of work (including temporary, casual and part-time employment) and the decline...

Front cover -- Half title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- List of tables, figures and boxes -- Tables -- 2.1 Main trade union confederations in Nepal -- 3.1 Enterprise survey, 2006: Characteristics of enterprises -- 8.1 Recent and expected growth rates for South Asia and...

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Prewar Labor Market -- 1. State Initiatives and National Ambitions: Origins of the U.S. Employment Service -- 1917: Labor Market Politics in Wartime -- 2. Federalist Aspirations in the States -- 3. Nationalist Initiatives...

Volume 3 -- Contents -- Reflecting on the historical sensation of youth work and youth policy in Europe -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- 9 -- 10 -- 11 -- 12 -- 13 -- 14 -- 15 -- 16 -- 17 -- 18 -- 19 -- 20 -- 21 -- 22 -- 23 -- 24 -- 25 -- Appendix History of youth mobility in Europe --...

Intro -- Convergence and EuropeanisationThe Political Economy of Social and Labour Market Policies -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Patterns of Welfare State Indicators in the EU Is There Convergence? -- 3 European...