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The Political Economy of Work in the 21st Century

Author : Martin Sicker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313011788
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Work in the 21st Century written by Martin Sicker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-03-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Congress enacted Social Secuirty in 1935, with the age of retirement set at age 65, average life expectancy was 62 years. By the time Medicare was enacted 30 years later, life expectancy had risen to age 70. Since the enactment of Medicare, life expectancy has risen to age 76 today and may be expected to increase further in the decades to come. Clearly, the increase in post-retirement life expectancy has significant implications for the level of national expenditures attributable to an aging population. One of the approaches suggested as a solution to the so-called income transfer problem is to redefine old age, that is, to push retirement and its associated benefits off to a later age. This would effectively increase the size of the workforce, with older workers continuing to contribute their payroll taxes for an extended period of time. The critical question Sicker poses is, will there be enough appropriate employment opportunities for a growing number of older workers in the workforce of the future? The evidence for a positive response is far from clear or compelling. Sicker examines the prospective place of the aging worker in the employment environment of the 21st century in light of the restructuring of American business and the world of work in the final decades of the last century. In doing so, he raises serious concerns about the validity and utility of some of the neoclassical economic ideas and assumptions that have become part of the conventional wisdom of our time. Sicker contends that these dubious propositions have unwittingly contributed signficantly to the problem through their manifestation in public policy. However, the principal focus of his analysis is not on economic theory as such, but on the realities and uncertainties that an aging American workforce will face in the decades to come. This book is significant reading for scholars, researchers, and the general public interested in labor force and aging policy issues.

Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World

Author : Blayne Haggart
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030145409
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World written by Blayne Haggart and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the interconnected ways in which the control of knowledge has become central to the exercise of political, economic, and social power. Building on the work of International Political Economy scholar Susan Strange, this multidisciplinary volume features experts from political science, anthropology, law, criminology, women’s and gender studies, and Science and Technology Studies, who consider how the control of knowledge is shaping our everyday lives. From “weaponised copyright” as a censorship tool, to the battle over control of the internet’s “guts,” to the effects of state surveillance at the Mexico–U.S. border, this book offers a coherent way to understand the nature of power in the twenty-first century.

Power and Responsibility

Author : Martin A. Leroch
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031230159
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Power and Responsibility written by Martin A. Leroch and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by leading scholars from various disciplines, this book presents current research on topics such as public choice, game theory, and political economy. It features contributions on fundamental, methodological, and empirical issues around the concepts of power and responsibility that strive to bridge the gap between different disciplinary approaches. The contributions fall into roughly four sub-disciplines: voting and voting power, public economics and politics, economics and philosophy, as well as labor economics. On the occasion of his 75th birthday, this book is written in honor of Manfred J. Holler, an economist by training and profession whose work as a guiding light has helped advance our understanding of the interdisciplinary connections of concepts of power and responsibility. He has written many articles and books on game theory, and worked extensively on questions of labor economics, politics, and philosophy.

Just Work for All

Author : Joshua Preiss
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100033385X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Just Work for All written by Joshua Preiss and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the American Dream: how to understand this central principle of American public philosophy, the ways in which it is threatened by a number of winner-take-all economic trends, and how to make it a reality for workers and their families in the 21st century. Integrating political philosophy and the history of political thought with recent work in economics, political science, and sociology, this book calls for renewed political and policy commitment to “just work.” Such a commitment is essential to combat the negative moral externalities of an economy where the fruits of growth are increasingly claimed by a relatively small portion of the population: slower growth, rising inequality, declining absolute mobility, dying communities, the erosion of social solidarity, lack of faith in political leaders and institutions, exploding debt, ethnic and nationalist backlash, widespread hopelessness, and the rapid rise in what economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case call deaths of despair. Covid-19 threatens to pour gasoline on these winner-take-all fires, further concentrating economic and political power in the hands of those best suited to withstand (and even profit from) the pandemic-driven economic crisis. In this book, the author provides a model for understanding the American Dream and making it a reality in a post-Covid-19 economy. A tour de force, this book is essential reading for scholars and researchers of political philosophy, political economy, political theory, and economics, as well as for the layperson trying to make sense of the post-pandemic world.

Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century

Author : Verity Burgmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317227832
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century written by Verity Burgmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.Globalization has adversely affected working-class organization and mobilization, increasing inequality by redistribution upwards from labour to capital. However, workers around the world are challenging their increased exploitation by globalizing corporations. In developed countries, many unions are transforming themselves to confront employer power in ways more appropriate to contemporary circumstances; in developing countries, militant new labour movements are emerging. Drawing upon insights in anti-determinist Marxian perspectives, Verity Burgmann shows how working-class resistance is not futile, as protagonists of globalization often claim. She identifies eight characteristics of globalization harmful to workers and describes and analyses how they have responded collectively to these problems since 1990 and especially this century. With case studies from around the world, including Greece since 2008, she pays particular attention to new types of labour movement organization and mobilization that are not simply defensive reactions but are offensive and innovative responses that compel corporations or political institutions to change. Aging and less agile manifestations of the labour movement decline while new expressions of working-class organization and mobilization arise to better battle with corporate globalization. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of labour studies, globalization, political economy, Marxism and sociology of work.

The Political Economy of Employment Relations

Author : Aslihan Aykac
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317236785
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Employment Relations written by Aslihan Aykac and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employment has changed dramatically in the last few decades with the onset of neoliberal globalization. This change has become the objective of inquiry from different perspectives, such as development studies, labour economics or industrial relations, focusing on different units of analysis. The Political Economy of Employment Relations provides an exceptional contribution to existing literature by presenting alternative theory and practice on employment relations. It is within this critical theoretical intervention that solidarity economies emerge as a unique theoretical construct as well as a unit of analysis to expose the alternative paths that employment relations may resort to against the contemporary challenges of neoliberal globalization. This book analyses globalization, global economic crisis, and issues of work and labour from the point of view of the developing world, presenting local case studies from countries including the USA, India, Spain and Greece, and outlining alternative approaches to global challenges. This volume has relevance to those with an interest in industrial relations, sociology of work and occupations, labour economics and development economics.

History, Methodology and Identity for a 21st Century Social Economics

Author : Wilfred Dolfsma
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429577478
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Book Synopsis History, Methodology and Identity for a 21st Century Social Economics by : Wilfred Dolfsma

Download or read book History, Methodology and Identity for a 21st Century Social Economics written by Wilfred Dolfsma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to advance social economic analysis, economic methodology, and the history of economic thought in the context of twenty-first-century scholarship and socio-economic concerns. Bringing together carefully selected chapters by leading scholars it examines the central contributions that John Davis has made to various areas of scholarship. In recent decades, criticisms of mainstream economics have rekindled interest in a number of areas of scholarly inquiry that were frequently ignored by mainstream economic theory and practice during the second half of the twentieth century, including social economics, economic methodology and history of economic thought. This book contributes to a growing literature on the revival of these areas of scholarship and highlights the pivotal role that John Davis’s work has played in the ongoing revival. Together, the international panel of contributors show how Davis’s insights in complexity theory, identity, and stratification are key to understanding a reconfigured economic methodology. They also reveal that Davis’s willingness to draw from multiple academic disciplines gives us a platform for interrogating mainstream economics and provides the basis for a humane yet scientific alternative. This unique volume will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers across social economics, history of economic thought, economic methodology, political economy and philosophy of social science.

The Economic Reformation

Author : Andrew Bodiford
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537175171
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Economic Reformation written by Andrew Bodiford and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since 2007, the economy has not been the same. Recessions, slow growth, and massive inequality have plagued societies around the world. Meanwhile, we confront the challenge of climate change in the face of which capitalist business leaders have (perhaps unsurprisingly) done nothing. In this new world, old rules no longer apply. While powerful people claim they know best about the economy because they know about business, they continue to ignore the most frightening risks to society today - climate change, inequality, and economic crisis, we know what they are. What should we do? To avoid catastrophe we need change. What we need is an economic reformation. The 21st Century has brought great transformations. New social conditions, awesome technologies, and global economic and ecological crisis force us to look at the world with fresh ideas. Emergent trends within three areas of the economy today, the economic ecosystem, technology, and the law, promise to revolutionize how we look at the economy forever. Andrew Bodiford tackles the irrational assumptions and outdated ideas that lie in the way of progress today. The Economic Reformation sheds the light of reason on the rot in the world's economy that prevents us from confronting our economic and ecological crisis head on and allowing the modern world work for everyone.

Economic Democracy: The Political Struggle of the 21st Century

Author : J. W. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315501392
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Economic Democracy: The Political Struggle of the 21st Century written by J. W. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 1999: The author contends that economic democracy is the economic system the U.S. purports to have, but has thus far failed to achieve because it, like all the economic powers that have gone before, seeks to control the economies of weaker nations. It is the shocking lack of economic democracy, and the efforts of so many to achieve it, that fuels today's conflicts and will fuel those of the 21st century.To show how and why, this comprehensive work provides a detailed analysis of the history of numerous aspects of the development of the Neo-Mercantilist world economy; the geopolitical systems put in place by the developed world to manage and perpetuate that economy; and the numerous proposals and modeling plans that have been offered over the years for the achievement of economic democracy.

The Political Economy of Work Security and Flexibility

Author : Berton, Fabio
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1847429084
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Work Security and Flexibility written by Berton, Fabio and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The economic crisis has revealed the dark side of deregulation in the labour market: rising unemployment, limited access to social security and, due to low wages, no savings to count upon in bad times. This book casts light on the empirical relationship between labour market deregulation through non-standard contracts and the three main dimensions of worker security: employment, income and social security. Focusing on individual work histories, it looks at how labour market dynamics interact with the social protection system in bringing about inequality and insecurity. In this context Italy is put forward as the epitome of flexibility through non-standard work and compared with three similar countries: Germany, Spain and Japan. Results show that when flexibility is carried out as a mere cost-reduction device and social security only relies on insurance principles, deregulation leads to insecurity. 'The political economy of work security and flexibility' is essential reading for academics, students, practitioners and policy makers interested in the outcomes of labour market developments in advanced economies over the past twenty years.

Political Economy of 21st Century Europe

Author : Dermot McCann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137447966
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Political Economy of 21st Century Europe written by Dermot McCann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad-ranging assessment of the complex changes in Europe's diverse and complex mix of national and European capitalisms as they respond to the challenges of globalization and from rising powers, of competitiveness, ageing populations and welfare sustainability compounded by the impact of financial, monetary and sovereign debt crises.

The Political Economy of Work

Author : David Spencer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134048483
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Work written by David Spencer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new and unique assessment of the theoretical analysis of work, challenging some common preconceptions and promoting an original approach to the field, contemplating its nature, development and its impact on human well-being.

International Political Economy in the 21st Century

Author : Roy Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317612744
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book International Political Economy in the 21st Century written by Roy Smith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding of the theories that underpin international political economy (IPE), and their practical applications, is crucial to the study of international relations, politics, development and economics. This is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field, with an engaging and coherent foundation to the subject. It considers traditional and alternative approaches to IPE, and in doing so elucidates key concepts, assumptions and the intellectual and historical context in which they arose and developed. At all times, it makes clear their relevance to issues from trade, finance and government, to environment, technology, health, labour, security, migration, development and culture. The book encourages independent reflection and critical thinking through a range of in-text guiding features. In addition, each chapter presents theoretical analysis alongside contemporary issues, helping the reader to relate to the real world of IPE and to better understand how theory helps inform interpretation of it. New to this edition: comprehensively updated to include key coverage of the post-2015 framework of the Sustainable Development Goals, the financial crisis and international government responses - successful or otherwise - to recent challenges; fully updated data, reflective questions, recommended readings, concept and example boxes, and illustrations; new chapters on health, migration and labour; additional coverage of trade theories and key contemporary issues, such as national versus human security, economic versus human development and illegal networks in global trade.

Interrogating the New Economy

Author : Norene Pupo
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442600578
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Interrogating the New Economy written by Norene Pupo and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interrogating the New Economy is a collection of original essays investigating the New Economy and how changes ascribed to it have impacted labour relations, access to work, and, more generally, the social and cultural experiences of work in Canada. Based on years of participatory research, sector-specific studies, and quantitative and qualitative data collection, the work accounts for the ways in which the contemporary workplace has changed but also the extent to which older forms of work organization still remain. The collection begins with an overview of the key social and economic transformations that define the New Economy. It then illustrates these transformations through examples, including essays on wine tourism, the regeneration of mining communities, the place of student workers, and changes in the public service workplace. It also addresses unions and their responses to the restructuring of work, as well as other forms of resistance.

Capitalism and the Political Economy of Work Time

Author : Christoph Hermann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131759634X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Capitalism and the Political Economy of Work Time written by Christoph Hermann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Maynard Keynes expected that around the year 2030 people would only work 15 hours a week. In the mid-1960s, Jean Fourastié still anticipated the introduction of the 30-hour week in the year 2000, when productivity would continue to grow at an established pace. Productivity growth slowed down somewhat in the 1970s and 1980s, but rebounded in the 1990s with the spread of new information and communication technologies. The knowledge economy, however, did not bring about a jobless future or a world without work, as some scholars had predicted. With few exceptions, work hours of full-time employees have hardly fallen in the advanced capitalist countries in the last three decades, while in a number of countries they have actually increased since the 1980s. This book takes the persistence of long work hours as starting point to investigate the relationship between capitalism and work time. It does so by discussing major theoretical schools and their explanations for the length and distribution of work hours, as well as tracing major changes in production and reproduction systems, and analyzing their consequences for work hours. Furthermore, this volume explores the struggle for shorter work hours, starting from the introduction of the ten-hour work day in the nineteenth century to the introduction of the 35-hour week in France and Germany at the end of the twentieth century. However, the book also shows how neoliberalism has eroded collective work time regulations and resulted in an increase and polarization of work hours since the 1980s. Finally, the book argues that shorter work hours not only means more free time for workers, but also reduces inequality and improves human and ecological sustainability.

Turkey’s Political Economy in the 21st Century

Author : Emel Parlar Dal
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030276325
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Turkey’s Political Economy in the 21st Century by : Emel Parlar Dal

Download or read book Turkey’s Political Economy in the 21st Century written by Emel Parlar Dal and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-07 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows the remarkable diversification in Turkey’s international political economy landscape in the 2000s: its domestic political-economy framework, instrumental alternatives and geographic outreach. It assesses both how an emerging economy like Turkey copes with domestic and external challenges and the question of how substantial Turkey’s recent rise in global politics really is. The volume also explains Turkey’s economic growth and political transformation in line with the changes occurring in world economics, from the Washington Consensus era to the current “mix” or “hybrid” era encompassing both the characteristics of the Post-Washington and Beijing Consensus eras. The contributors portray the complexity of Turkish politics and its fragilities at the political economy level.

Work Time Regulation as Sustainable Full Employment Strategy

Author : Robert LaJeunesse
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134044763
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Work Time Regulation as Sustainable Full Employment Strategy written by Robert LaJeunesse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert LaJeunesse looks beyond the 20th century arguments for shortening the work week. He writes a careful, convincing critique of traditional full employment policies in advocacy of an alternative macroeconomic paradigm. With an emphasis on greater socioeconomic participation, the author proposes a policy of work time regulation that is not only appropriate for a 21st century post-industrial economy, but speaks to concerns about balancing work and family, environmental sustainability, stabilizing incomes and prices, and social and economic well being. Through its unique conceptualization of employment relations as a social effort bargain, this book proposes that governments can achieve egalitarian and sustainable macroeconomic objectives by regulating work hours. Equally important to achieving sustainable full employment and price stability, work time regulation offers the capability for citizens living in an age of abundance to define themselves as something other than paid employees. Work time reform represents a first step in a process of enlightenment in which workers will create an identity through the whole of their relationships at work, home, community, and at play. There is certainly a role for government in fostering the pursuit of "loftier ideals" subsequent to a redistribution of work time, but the first precondition for enhanced human development is greater socioeconomic participation, which means more paid work for some and less for others. In addition to students and researchers in economics, sociology, and political science, this book will be of interest to policy makers, policy analysts, labour unionists, environmentalists, and other social reformers.