Labour Economics Books

New and Published Books

1. Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History

   Edited by Gareth Austin, Kaoru Sugihara

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

   The prevailing view of industrialization has focussed on technology, capital, entrepreneurship and the institutions that enabled them to be deployed. Labour was often equated with other factors of production, and assigned a relatively passive role. Yet it was labour absorption and the improvement...

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Financial Crisis, Labour Markets and Institutions

   Edited by Sebastiano Fadda, Pasquale Tridico

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   This book seeks to explain the global financial crisis and its wider economic, political, and social repercussions, arguing that the 2007-9 meltdown was in fact a systemic crisis of the capitalist system. The volume makes these points through the exploration of several key questions: What kind...

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism (Routledge Revivals)

   A Study of Machine Production

   By J. A. Hobson

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Hobson’s The Evolution of Modern Capitalism was first published in 1894, although this reissue is of the fourth edition, published in 1926. The work traces the developments in trade and industry which characterised the first decades of the twentieth century. In the first part, Hobson deals with the...

   Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
4. The Industrial System (Routledge Revivals)

   An Inquiry into Earned and Unearned Income

   By J. Hobson

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1909 and reissued in 1910, J. A. Hobson’s The Industrial System provides a complex analysis of distribution and consumption. Offering a critique of contemporary capitalism whilst accepting the superiority of the free market, the book includes an exploration of areas such as cost...

   Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
5. Writings on Distribution and Welfare (Routledge Revivals)

   By J. Hobson

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   The articles in this volume, originally published in a variety of journals between 1890 and 1937, deal with the themes of the distribution of income and welfare. Highlighting the contribution which Hobson made to welfare economics and the way in which he distanced himself from his more orthodox...

   Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
6. The Physiology of Industry (Routledge Revivals)

   By J. Hobson, A. Mummery

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   The Physiology of Industry is a remarkable work which set out to challenge contemporary theory surrounding the economics of labour, supply and demand. First published in 1889, Hobson’s first book outlines some of the key areas of his theory of underconsumption. The precise contribution of Mummery,...

   Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
7. Capital Inflation and the Multinationals (Routledge Revivals)

   By Charles Levinson

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Inflation is the economic plague of the modern world, completely undermining conventional theory and policies for its containment, and setting governments, management and labour on a dangerous collision course. Its alarming spread is only paralleled by the expansion of multinational corporations,...

   Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
8. Adapting to Russia's New Labour Market

   Gender and Employment Behaviour

   Edited by Sarah Ashwin

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

   Economic reform in post-Soviet Russia created not only a devastating decline in living standards, but also widespread insecurity and uncertainty. This book is the first to analyse the situation from a gendered perspective, shedding new light on the way in which Russians are coping with the...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. Unions and Class Transformation

   The Case of the Broadway Musicians

   By Catherine P. Mulder

   Series: New Political Economy

   How can unions move from a defensive strategy to one of class transformation? Mulder demonstrates how the current union strategies of class blindness lead to weak and often unintended results. Unions, she argues, do not use their collective power for class transformation and union commentators/...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty in Urban China

    Edited by Hiroshi Sato, Shi Li

    Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

    Although the Chinese economy is growing at a very high rate, there are massive social dislocations arising as a result of economic restructuring. Though the scale of the problem is huge, very few studies have examined the changes in income inequality in the late 1990s due to a lack of data on...

    Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge