This book examines the evolution of the contract of employment in Britain through an investigation of changes in its juridical form during and since the industrial revolution. The initial conditions of industrialization and the subsequent growth of a particular type of welfare state have decisively shaped the evolutionary path of British labor and social security law. The implications of this historical perspective for modern conceptualizations of the labor market, and in particular for current proposals to move beyond the employment model, are addressed.

The Law of the Labour Market: Industrialization, Employment, and Legal Evolution (Oxford Labour Law)

History

Wilkinson, Frank

Deakin, Simon

Europe

Oxford University Press

Traces the saga of the members of a prominent, wealthy American family and Gwyneth, a beautiful shopgirl who shapes their destiny, from the 1880s to the trials of World War II

Bygones

Literature & Fiction

Putnam Pub. Group

Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 128 pages; Physical desc.: viii, 128 p. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Inflation (Finance) -- Wages -- Income tax. Series: University of Cambridge Department of Applied Economics: Occasional paper 36.

Do Trade Unions Cause Inflation?: Two Studies: with a Theoretical Introduction and Policy Conclusion (Department of Applied Economics Occasional Papers, Series Number 36)

Business & Money

Jackson, Dudley

Turner, H. A.

Economics

Cambridge University Press

Australia at the Front: A Colonial View of the Boer War

Africa

Legare Street Press

Following the 2008 "global" financial crisis, the viability of globalised financial capitalism was called into question. The resulting fear and uncertainty produced a momentary return to "Keynesian" policies. But as soon as emergency stimuli – and bank bail-outs – appeared to stabilise the situation, there was a sharp reversal; and successive British governments and the financial sector have since attempted to return to business as usual. Historically, much smaller shocks have been able to produce dramatic change, with the 1978 "Winter of Discontent" providing a catalyst for the election of Margaret Thatcher, the ultimate abandonment of the post-war Keynesian consensus, and the ushering-in of neoliberalism. Nor is apparent success a guarantee against change, with Winston Churchill being swept from office by the first majority Labour government in 1945 – at a point which should have marked his greatest triumph. In this book, these apparently inexplicable shifts in the conventional wisdom and the accompanying policy paradigm are explored through the lens of the interest groups that have jostled for position since the second industrial revolution. In this context, inequality, poverty, free market capitalism and the social welfare state have interacted in an uneasy, dynamic dance – the "insecurity cycle". The authors explore these interactions, their impact on the relationship between society and the economy, and the possible implications of Brexit and a re-energised political left. Written in an engaging and accessible style, Labour, Finance and Inequality will be a key resource for academics and students of social and political economics as well as public policy. It will also offer considerable insight to policy makers and a more general non-specialist audience.

Labour, Finance and Inequality: The Insecurity Cycle in British Public Policy (Routledge Critical Studies in Finance and Stability)

Konzelmann, Suzanne J.

Fovargue-Davies, Marc

Routledge

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