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Cover A Modern Guide To Labour and the Platform Economy
A Modern Guide To Labour and the Platform Economy
Editors:
Jan Drahokoupil
and
Kurt Vandaele
Providing an insightful analysis of the key issues and significant trends relating to labour within the platform economy, this Modern Guide considers the existing comparative evidence covering all world regions. It also provides an in-depth look at digital labour platforms in their historical, economic and geographical contexts.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
12 Oct 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788975100
Collections:
Political Science and Public Policy 2021
Cover Platform Economy Puzzles
Platform Economy Puzzles
A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Gig Work
Editors:
Jeroen Meijerink
,
Giedo Jansen
, and
Victoria Daskalova
Searching for paid tasks via digital labour platforms, such as Uber, Deliveroo and Fiverr, has become a global phenomenon and the regular source of income for millions of people. In the advent of digital labour platforms, this insightful book sheds new light on familiar questions about tensions between competition and cooperation, short-term gains and long-term success, and private benefits and public costs. Drawing on a wealth of knowledge from a range of disciplines, including law, management, psychology, economics, sociology and geography, it pieces together a nuanced picture of the societal challenges posed by the platform economy.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
17 Aug 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100284
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Political Science and Public Policy 2021
Cover Household Labor Economics
Household Labor Economics
Pierre-André Chiappori
and
Costas Meghir

This Research Review surveys the main contribution to labor supply decisions within the family. It covers both theory, from the initial ‘unitary’ model that postulates that the family behaves as a single decision maker, to modern ‘collective’ approaches that concentrates on differences in preferences and power relationships and empirical applications. A special emphasis is placed on dynamic approaches, in particular issues related to intra-household commitment, and on policy implications.
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Research Reviews
Publication Date:
28 Jan 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789903546
Collections:
Economics 2021
Cover Managing the Cooperative Enterprise
Managing the Cooperative Enterprise
The Rise of Worker-Controlled Firms
Bruno Jossa
This book revolves around the idea that capitalism is not a democratic system and that a system of producer cooperatives, or democratically managed enterprises, gives rise to a new mode of production which is authentically socialist in essence and fully consistent with the ultimate rationale underlying Marx’s theoretical approach. The author argues that the cooperative firm system outlined in this book offers a rich array of non-economic benefits that justify its classification as a ‘genuinely socialist’ entity, with real potential for achieving true economic democracy.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
09 Oct 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800372016
Collections:
Economics 2020
Cover Research Handbook on Development and the Informal Economy
Research Handbook on Development and the Informal Economy
Editor:
Jacques Charmes
This Research Handbook on Development and the Informal Economy captures the magnitude of the informal economy for the global labour force. It unravels numerous concepts, definitions and methods of data collection to offer valuable insight into the differences between the informal, non-observed and shadow economies.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
18 Sep 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788972802
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Corporatism since the Great Recession
Corporatism since the Great Recession
Challenges to Tripartite Relations in Denmark, the Netherlands and Austria
Mikkel Mailand
In the comparative study of Denmark, the Netherlands and Austria, Mikkel Mailand explores the roles of social partners in regulating work and welfare through corporatist arrangements. This insightful book illustrates how the frequency of tripartite agreements has either been stable or has increased since the Great Recession of 2008, in spite of challenges from trade unions’ loss of power and political developments. It will be an invaluable read for academics and students in industrial relations, political economy and other social science disciplines addressing the formulation of work and welfare related policies.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
11 Sep 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788114561
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover The Handbook of Diverse Economies
The Handbook of Diverse Economies
Editors:
J. K. Gibson-Graham
and
Kelly Dombroski
Economic diversity abounds in a more-than-capitalist world, from worker-recuperated cooperatives and anti-mafia social enterprises to caring labour and the work of Earth Others, from fair trade and social procurement to community land trusts, free universities and Islamic finance. The Handbook of Diverse Economies presents research that inventories economic difference as a prelude to building ethical ways of living on our dangerously degraded planet. With contributing authors from twenty countries, it presents new thinking around subjectivity and methodology as strategies for making other worlds possible.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
06 Feb 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788119962
Collections:
Economics 2020
Cover Telework in the 21st Century
Telework in the 21st Century
An Evolutionary Perspective
Editor:
Jon C. Messenger
Technological developments have enabled a dramatic expansion and also an evolution of telework, broadly defined as using ICTs to perform work from outside of an employer’s premises. This volume offers a new conceptual framework explaining the evolution of telework over four decades. It reviews national experiences from Argentina, Brazil, India, Japan, the United States, and ten EU countries regarding the development of telework, its various forms and effects. It also analyses large-scale surveys and company case studies regarding the incidence of telework and its effects on working time, work-life balance, occupational health and well-being, and individual and organizational performance.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
29 Nov 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789903751
Collections:
Economics 2019
Cover Elgar Introduction to Theories of Human Resources and Employment Relations
Elgar Introduction to Theories of Human Resources and Employment Relations
Editors:
Keith Townsend
,
Kenneth Cafferkey
,
Aoife M. McDermott
, and
Tony Dundon
This Elgar Introduction provides an overview of some of the key theories that inform human resource management and employment relations as a field of study.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
27 Sep 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786439017
Collections:
Business 2019
Cover Dependent Self-Employment
Dependent Self-Employment
Theory, Practice and Policy
Colin C. Williams
and
Ioana A. Horodnic
Dependent self-employment is widely perceived as a rapidly growing form of precarious work conducted by marginalised lower-skilled workers subcontracted by large corporations. Unpacking a comprehensive survey of 35 European countries, Colin C. Williams and Ioana Alexandra Horodnic map the lived realities of the distribution and characteristics of dependent self-employment to challenge this broad and erroneous perception.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
30 Aug 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788118835
Collections:
Business 2019