Routledge Library Editions: Work & Society
British Labour Management & Industrial Welfare: 1846–1939
1st Edition
By Robert Fitzgerald
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1988, this book examines company provision of welfare in the century preceding the Second World War, a period of enormous change in the structure and organisation of British industry and management. The creation of large-scale, corporate companies increased the need for ...
Education Versus Qualifications?: A Study of Relationships Between Education, Selection for Employment and the Productivity of Labour
1st Edition
Edited
By John Oxenham
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1984, this book investigates the validity of educational qualifications: how they are determined, what justifications exist for them and how they change. It examines the assumption linking education and productivity and explores the belief that the ways in which scholastic ...
Employment and Income Distribution in the African Economy
1st Edition
By James Fry
January 19, 2026
Zambia is one African country which has evolved from being a classic example of a colonial economy to become an independent state with a large export enclave. The economy has had to face structural problems that have at one time or another, characterised other African economies. This study ...
Employment and the Depressed Areas
1st Edition
By H. Powys Greenwood
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1936 during the Great Depression this book analyses the efforts of the British Government to relieve the rampant unemployment in the most distressed areas and discusses why these efforts were ineffective. The book put forward a number of proposals to help ease unemployment ...
Higher Education and Employment: An International Comparative Analysis
1st Edition
By Bikas C. Sanyal
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1987, this book focusses on the relationship between higher education and employment and is based on 21 national case studies. The countries discussed are Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Egypt, Germany, Malaysia, Pakistan, People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, Philippines, ...
In Place of Work: Policy and Provision for the Young Unemployed
1st Edition
Edited
By Rob Fiddy
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1983, this book promotes understanding of the provision for the young unemployed in Britain in the 1980s, both in policy and practice, through a series of research-based papers. Various strategies are analyzed which were available to policy makers. The place of black youth ...
Labour Markets Under Different Employment Conditions
1st Edition
By D. I. Mackay, D. Boddy, J. Brack, J. A. Diack, N. Jones
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1971, this wide-ranging study illuminates many crucial wage and employment issues by examining the operation of local labour markets and by testing labour market theory against the observed behaviour of employers and employees in different labour market environments. It is ...
Local Partnership & the Unemployment Crisis in Britain
1st Edition
By Chris Moore, J.J. Richardson, Jeremy Moon
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1989, this study provides an informed and critical analysis of local partnerships between the private and public sectors in response to the unemployment problems. Until this book was published, there had been little objective analysis of the workings of the local partnership...
Repercussions of Redundancy: A Local Survey
1st Edition
By Hilda R. Kahn
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1964, at a time of much public unease regarding redundancy, this book contains the results of a comprehensive survey, inspired by a suggestion of the then Minister of Labour that the mass redundancies in the Midlands motor industry of 1956 merited a full-scale investigation....
Rural Employment: Trends, Options, Choices
1st Edition
By Ian Hodge, Martin Whitby
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1981, the main thesis of this book is that rural labour markets are at the core of the problem of rural depopulation in development countries. Therefore, the success or failure of policies seeking to moderate the process of population decline is linked to the policy maker’s ...
Salaries in the Public Services in England and Wales
1st Edition
By Hilda R. Kahn
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1964, at a time of much public unease regarding redundancy, this book contains the results of a comprehensive survey, inspired by a suggestion of the then Minister of Labour that the mass redundancies in the Midlands motor industry of 1956 merited a full-scale investigation....
The Concept and Measurement of Involuntary Unemployment
1st Edition
Edited
By G.D.N. Worswick
January 19, 2026
Originally published in 1976, the 14 papers in this collection discuss the history and significance of the concept of 'involuntary unemployment’, particularly as seen from a Keynesian perspective. The micro-economic foundations of employment and job-search theory and the measurement and the ...