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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... -
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... -
Scales of Governance and Indigenous Peoples' Rights by Irene Bellier
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This 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: £40.54International 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... -
Cooperatives and the World of Work by Bruno Roelants
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52As 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... -
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 Corporate Social Responsibility Reader by Jon Burchell
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £58.94In 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... -
Transformative Law and Public Policy Sony Pellissery 9780367348298
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This 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... -
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... -
Implementing Codes of Conduct: How Businesses Manage Social Performance in Global Supply Chains by Ivanka Mamic
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £51.59At 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: £40.94Party 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 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... -
Womens' Roles and Population Trends in the Third World by Richard Anker 9780415852173
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37First 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 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... -
Raising the Bar: Creating Value with the UN Global Compact by Claude Fussler 9781874719823
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.69This book, produced by a unique team of business experts and UN agencies, is designed to fill a critical void-between the support of more than 1,000 organisations for the globally recognised... -
Peasants In Distress: Poverty And Unemployment In The Dominican Republic by Rosemary Vargas-lundius 9780367298012
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37A 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... -
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... -
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... -
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: £53.80The 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: £47.64Regional 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: £43.94The 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... -
Futureproofing Procurement: The Importance of an Ethical and Sustainable Approach by Katie Jarvis-Grove 9781637420546
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.91This 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... -
Social Protection in Developing Countries: Reforming Systems by Katja Bender
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Providing 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 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... -
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... -
The European Union and International Organizations by Knud Erik Jorgensen
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37This 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: £46.08This 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... -
Total Responsibility Management: The Manual Sandra Waddock 9781874719984
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Almost 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... -
Key labor market indicators: analysis with household survey data by Ina Pietschmann 9781464807848
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.62Key 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... -
Making Human Rights Work Globally by Anthony Woodiwiss
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.29This 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... -
The Changing Law of the Employment Relationship: Comparative Analyses in the European Context by Nicola Countouris
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.04During 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... -
Trade Unions and Global Governance: The Debate on a Social Clause by Gerda van Roozendaal
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £58.94As 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... -
The Legalization of Human Rights: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Human Rights and Human Rights Law by Saladin Meckled-Garcia
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37The 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: £43.81This 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... -
Shaping Global Industrial Relations: The Impact of International Framework Agreements by Konstantinos Papadakis 9781349339600
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book assesses the phenomenon of international framework agreements (IFAs), examining their implementation and impact around the world as well as their promotion of ILO standards. This volume... -
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... -
Human Rights, Development and Decolonization: The International Labour Organization, 1940-70 by Daniel R. Maul 9780230343627
Booksplease Price: £102.50An 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... -
Globalizing Social Rights: The International Labour Organization and Beyond by Sandrine Kott 9781349344758
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.56Based on the case of the ILO, both as an actor and driver of international social policy, this collection explores the internationalization process of social rights, in a number of national and...