This book has both empirical and theoretical goals. The primary empirical goal is to examine
the evolution of industrial relations in Western Europe from the end of the 1970s up to the …

Digital platform businesses primarily utilise on-call contingent workers, using their own tools
and equipment, to perform the productive work associated with the supplied service. The …

Debates about climate policy have neglected the question of macrofinancial pathways to
decarbonisation, not all of which are economically and politically viable. We propose a …

In the last century and a half, US industry has seen the emergence of several different
management models. We propose a theory of this evolution based on three nested and …

The term financialization is a term that has become popular to describe developments within
the global economy, and particularly within developed industrialized economies, over the …

In this book, sociologist William I. Robinson offers a theory of globalization that follows the
rise of a new capitalist class and a transnational state. Growing beyond national boundaries …

This article reviews the state of Irish industrial relations in light of the current economic crisis.
It argues that social partnership, paradoxically, was rooted in the continuation of a tradition …

The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression has generated a fundamental re-
evaluation of the free-market policies that have dominated American politics for three …

This book examines the political economy of workfare, the umbrella term for welfare-to-work
initiatives that have been steadily gaining ground since candidate Bill Clinton's 1992 …

By drawing on her extensive fieldwork in India and on the adjacent theoretical literature,
Barbara Harriss-White describes the working of the Indian economy through its most …