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Cooperatives and the World of Work by Bruno Roelants
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83As the world of work and jobs is more uncertain than ever because of various trends impacting it, including the rise of robotics and the gig economy, Cooperatives and the World of Work furthers the... -
Defining Global Justice: The History of U.S. International Labor Standards Policy by Edward C. Lorenz 9780268025502
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £71.36Defining Global Justice offers the first comprehensive overview of the history of the United States role in the International Labor Organization (ILO). In this thought-provoking book, Edward Lorenz... -
Migration as Economic Imperialism: How International Labour Mobility Undermines Economic Development in Poor Countries by Immanuel Ness 9781509553990
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.89For several decades, wealthy states, international development agencies and multinational corporations have encouraged labour migration from the Global South to the Global North. As well as providing... -
Beyond Macroeconomic Stability: Structural Transformation and Inclusive Development by Iyanatul Islam 9781137379245
Booksplease Price: £90.56This volume goes beyond a narrow conceptualization of macroeconomic stability and explores the link between socio-economic policies, structural transformation and inclusive development. It rests on... -
Migration as Economic Imperialism: How International Labour Mobility Undermines Economic Development in Poor Countries by Immanuel Ness 9781509553983
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £53.74For several decades, wealthy states, international development agencies and multinational corporations have encouraged labour migration from the Global South to the Global North. As well as providing... -
Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019 by Eileen Boris 9780190874629
RRP: £36.49Booksplease Price: £34.08Founded in 1919 along with the League of Nations, the International Labour Organization (ILO) establishes labor standards and produces knowledge about the world of work, serving as a forum for... -
The Corporate Social Responsibility Reader by Jon Burchell
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £60.94In the age of global capitalism, shareholders, and profits are not the only concerns of modern business corporations. Debates surrounding economic and environmental sustainability, and increasing... -
Scales of Governance and Indigenous Peoples' Rights by Irene Bellier
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the complicated power relations surrounding the recognition and implementation of Indigenous Peoples' rights at multiple scales.The adoption of the... -
International Aviation Labour Law by Andrea Trimarchi 9781032263939
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24International Aviation Labour Law explores the status quo of the international regulation of labour and employment within the air transport industry and provides a detailed analysis of the regulatory... -
Transformative Law and Public Policy Sony Pellissery 9780367348298
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book explores the convergence of law and public policy. Drawing on case studies from Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Australia, it examines how judicial and political institutions are closely... -
Implementing Codes of Conduct: How Businesses Manage Social Performance in Global Supply Chains by Ivanka Mamic
Booksplease Price: £60.08At the start of the 21st century manufacturing is in the midst of a major transformation, with goods moving from factories in Sao Paulo, Ho Chi Minh and Guanzhou to the shelves of stores in New York,... -
Party Images in the American Electorate by Mark D. Brewer
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Party affiliation has long been the driving force behind electoral politics in the United States. Despite this fact, scant attention has been devoted to the American electorate's party images-the... -
Labour Rights in Crisis: Measuring the Achievement of Human Rights in the World of Work by W. R. Bohning 9781403990754
Booksplease Price: £46.28Innovatively linking actual implementation to ratification of International Labour Office (ILO) Core Conventions, the author develops a new method and uses unexploited data from the ILO's supervisory... -
The Labour Markets of Emerging Economies: Has growth translated into more and better jobs? by Sandrine Cazes 9781137325341
Booksplease Price: £90.56The past few decades have witnessed the economic and geopolitical rise of a number of large middle-income countries around the world. This volume focuses on the labour market situations, trends and... -
Labour Rights in Crisis: Measuring the Achievement of Human Rights in the World of Work by W. R. Bohning 9781349542536
Booksplease Price: £46.74Innovatively linking actual implementation to ratification of International Labour Office (ILO) Core Conventions, the author develops a new method and uses unexploited data from the ILO's supervisory... -
Peasants In Distress: Poverty And Unemployment In The Dominican Republic by Rosemary Vargas-lundius 9780367298012
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69A study of economic development in the Dominican Republic, this book argues that rigid economic structures and poor use of labour resources have created conditions that undermine the demand for... -
Futureproofing Procurement: The Importance of an Ethical and Sustainable Approach by Katie Jarvis-Grove 9781637420546
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.92This is an educational book outlining how procurement has evolved and how it has to continue to evolve to incorporate ethics and sustainability. With lots of factual content, worked examples from the... -
Womens' Roles and Population Trends in the Third World by Richard Anker 9780415852173
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63First published in 1982, this collection was the result of an ambitious and wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary research programme conducted by the International Labour Office (ILO) on the relationship... -
The Internationalisation of the 'Native' Labour Question in Portuguese Late Colonialism, 1945-1965 by Jose Pedro Monteiro
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.56This volume addresses the ways the 'native labour' question in the Portuguese late colonial empire in Africa became a recurrent topic of international and transnational debate and regulation after... -
The Future of the International Labour Organization in the Global Economy by Francis Maupain
Booksplease Price: £95.79The International Labour Organization was created in 1919, as part of the Treaty of Versailles that ended the First World War, to reflect the belief that universal and lasting peace can be... -
Class, State and Agricultural Productivity in Egypt: Study of the Inverse Relationship between Farm Size and Land Productivity by Graham Dyer 9780714642451
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84The inverse relationship between farm size and productivity is accepted as a "stylized fact" of agriculture in developing countries. This study uses Egyptian fieldwork data to examine factors... -
Social Regionalism in the Global Economy by Adelle Blackett 9781138996267
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.19Regional trade agreements have expanded exponentially over the past decade, and have become a significant, if controversial, factor in the expanse of economic globalization. Social Regionalism in the... -
Corporate Social Responsibility and International Development: Is Business the Solution? Michael Hopkins 9781844076109
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63The business of business is business. So why should corporations be involved in development? This groundbreaking new book makes the case that governments and their international agencies, grouped... -
Encounters with Fate and Destiny: A Life in International Politics by Shukri Z. Al-Dajani 9781788312479
Booksplease Price: £56.43Shukri Z. Al-Dajani has led a most extraordinary life. His book depicts the realities of the endless torment of a refugee in search of security and a sense of belonging. It is a story of flight - at... -
Offshoring and Working Conditions in Remote Work by Jon C. Messenger 9780230248861
Booksplease Price: £90.56An historical context of the development of global outsourcing with case study analysis in four countries where the industry is large or growing. It provides policy advice from employers to policy... -
Core Labour Standards and International Trade: Lessons from the Regional Context by Kofi Addo 9783662446188
Booksplease Price: £90.86This book examines the labour standards provisions in a number of Regional and Bilateral Trade Agreements, and assesses the potential of using the relevant clauses in these trade agreements as a... -
Social Protection in Developing Countries: Reforming Systems by Katja Bender
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Providing universal access to social protection and health systems for all members of society, including the poor and vulnerable, is increasingly considered crucial to international development... -
The European Union and International Organizations by Knud Erik Jorgensen
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This volume seeks to explore the complex relationship between the European Union and International Organizations, and to fill a remarkably wide gap in existing literature on the topic.Analysing the... -
Promoting Women's Rights: Politics of Gender in the European Union by Chrysttala Ellina
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18This dissertation examines the impact of international institutions on women's rights policies by focusing on the European Union (EU) as a case study in order to illustrate the influence and the ways... -
The International Labour Organization: 100 Years of Global Social Policy by Daniel Maul 9783110615883
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £56.99This book is the first comprehensive account of the International Labour Organization's 100-year history. At its heart is the concept of global social policy, which encompasses not only social policy... -
Total Responsibility Management: The Manual Sandra Waddock 9781874719984
Booksplease Price: £46.49Almost every manager today knows that satisfying customers by meeting their quality demands is a critical component of business success. Quality management is a given in modern companies - a... -
The Changing Law of the Employment Relationship: Comparative Analyses in the European Context by Nicola Countouris
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59During the past few decades, industrialized countries have witnessed a progressive crisis of the regulatory framework sustaining the binary model of the employment relationship based on the... -
Transnational Activism, Global Labor Governance, and China by Sabrina Zajak 9781349950218
Booksplease Price: £90.86This book explores rising labor unrest in China as it integrates into the global political economy. The book highlights the tensions present between China's efforts to internationalize and accept... -
Making Human Rights Work Globally by Anthony Woodiwiss
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84This book is one of the first studies in the new field of the sociology of human rights,and it centres its analysis on labour rights. Such rights are of critical importance in this field, work being... -
Global Health Impacts of Nanotechnology Law: A Tool for Stakeholder Engagement by Ilise L Feitshans 9789814774840
RRP: £76.99Booksplease Price: £68.04Small things add up: trillions of dollars of products applying nanotechnology have been marketed to consumers promising new medicines, strong packaging to protect goods from contamination, stronger... -
Trade Unions and Global Governance: The Debate on a Social Clause by Gerda van Roozendaal
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £60.94As the world economy is liberalized, and national economies become more intertwined, the national decision making of states is also increasingly interdependent, and it has become vital for... -
Key labor market indicators: analysis with household survey data by Ina Pietschmann 9781464807848
Booksplease Price: £33.00Key Labor Market Indicators: Analysis with Household Survey Data is an introduction to labor market indicator analysis and a guide for analyzing household survey data using the ADePT ILO... -
The Legalization of Human Rights: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Human Rights and Human Rights Law by Saladin Meckled-Garcia
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63The concept of 'human rights' as a universal goal is at the centre of the international stage. It is now a key part in discourse, treaties and in domestic jurisdictions. However, as this study shows,... -
New Perspectives on European Women's Legal History by Sara L. Kimble
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £45.09This book integrates women's history and legal studies within the broader context of modern European history in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sixteen contributions from fourteen... -
Human Rights, Development and Decolonization: The International Labour Organization, 1940-70 by Daniel R. Maul 9781349344710
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £80.72An innovative diplomatic and intellectual history of decolonization, post-colonial nation building and international human rights and development discourses, this study of the role of the ILO during...