New books in economics
J - Labor and Demographic Economics

• The demographic challenge : a handbook about Japan / ed. by by Florian Coulmas ... -
  Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2008. - XIX, 1199 S. : Kt., graph. Darst.
  ISBN 90-04-15477-9 (hbk.)
  Schlagworte: Bevölkerungsentwicklung / Bevölkerungsstruktur / Alternde Bevölkerung / Altersstruktur der Bevölkerung / Bevölkerungsprognose / Bevölkerungspolitik / Bevölkerungsökonomie / Japan
  Standort: C 255860
• The great strikes of 1877 / ed. by David O. Stowell. -
  Urbana, Ill. [u.a.] : Univ. of Illinois Press, c 2008. - 197 S. : Ill.
  (The working class in American history)
  Enth. 6 Beitr. - The great uprising and pictorial order in Gilded Age America / Joshua Brown -- "Our rights as workingmen" : class traditions and collective action in a nineteenth-century railroad town, Hornellsville, N.Y., 1869-82 / Shelton Stromquist -- Chicago's great upheaval of 1877 : class polarization and Democratic politics / Richard Schneirov -- Looking north : a mid-south perspective on the Great Strike / Steven J. Hoffman -- The July days in San Francisco, 1877 : prelude to Kearneyism / Michael Kazin -- California's changing society and Mexican American conceptions of the Great Strike / David Miller
  ISBN 0-252-03241-1=978-0-252-03241-7
  Schlagworte: Streik / Eisenbahnberufe / Arbeiterklasse / Soziale Lage / Wirtschaftsgeschichte / USA
  Standort: B 358120
• Haydu, Jeffrey: Citizen employers : business communities and labor in Cincinnati and San Francisco, 1870 - 1916 / Jeffrey Haydu. -
  Ithaca, NY [u.a.] : ILR Press, 2008. - X, 268 S. : Ill.
  Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-259) and index. - Introduction: Business ideology and class formation -- Business unity in Cincinnati -- Race and class alignments in San Francisco -- Business citizenship in Cincinnati -- Practical corporatism in San Francisco -- From politics to work : good citizens and model employers in Cincinnati -- From work to politics : representing class in San Francisco
  ISBN 0-8014-4641-4=978-0-8014-4641-2
  Schlagworte: Arbeitsbeziehungen / Arbeiterbewegung / Arbeitgeberverband / Wirtschaftsverband / Unternehmer / Mittelstand / Vergleich / Cincinnati (Ohio) / San Francisco (Calif.)
  Standort: B 358283
• Köhler, Gernot: Job creation : the long-term growth of employment, normal and abnormal / Gernot Koehler. -
  New York, NY : Nova Science Publ., c 2008. - 106 S. : graph. Darst.
  Review of selected theories -- Population growth and employment growth GDP growth and employment growth -- Structural change and employment growth -- Unemployment and employment growth -- Underemployment and employment growth -- Summary -- Comments on policy
  ISBN 1-604-56251-X=978-1-604-56251-4
  Schlagworte: Beschäftigungspolitik / Beschäftigung / Arbeitslosigkeit / Wirtschaftswachstum
  Standort: B 358228
• A measure of fairness : the economics of living wages and minimum wages in the United States / Robert Pollin, Mark Brenner, Jeannette Wicks-Lim, and Stephanie Luce. -
  Ithaca, NY [u.a.] : ILR Press, 2008. - XIV, 292 S. : graph. Darst.
  Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-278) and index. - The economic logic and moral imperative of living wages -- Debating living wage laws : Paul Krugman versus Robert Pollin -- A $6.15 minimum wage for New Orleans : what it would have meant for businesses -- The Santa Fe citywide living wage measure : the impact on business of the $8.50 standard -- Spending injections from the Arizona minimum wage increase : how businesses benefit -- What is a living wage? : considerations for Santa Monica, California -- How Santa Monica workers would have benefited from a $10.75 living wage -- How workers and their families will benefit from the Arizona minimum wage increase -- Living wage laws in practice : retrospective studies on Boston, Hartford, and New Haven -- Mandated wage floors and the wage structure : new estimates of the ripple effects of minimum wage laws -- Employment effects of higher minimum wages : a state-by-state comparative analysis -- Comments on Aaron Yelowitz, "Santa Fe's living wage ordinance and the labor market" -- Detecting the effects of living wage laws : a comment on Neumark and Adams
  ISBN 0-8014-4558-2=978-0-8014-4558-3
  Schlagworte: Mindestlohn / USA
  Standort: B 358102
• Smith, Vicki: The good temp / Vicki Smith; Esther B. Neuwirth. -
  Ithaca, NY [u.a.] : IRL Press, 2008. - VIII, 235 S.
  Includes bibliographical references and index. - The temporary revolution -- The social construction of new markets and products -- "We're not body pushers" : how an agency constructs a pool of good temps -- Softening "rough and tough managers" : creating good enough jobs for temps -- Shaping and stabilizing the personnel policy environment -- Good enough temporary jobs, good enough temporary employment?
  ISBN =978-0-8014-4580-4
  Schlagworte: Leiharbeit / USA
  Standort: B 358295
• State, labour, and development : an Indian perspective / editors, K.K. Bagchi, N. Gope. -
  Delhi : Abhijeet Publications, 2008. - viii, 456 p. : ill.
  Includes bibliographical references and index. - Enth. 22 Beitr.
  ISBN =978-81-8988636-3
  Schlagworte: Arbeitsmarkt / Arbeitsrecht / Arbeitsmarktpolitik / Indien
  Standort: B 358115
• Webster, Edward: Grounding globalization : labour in the age of insecurity / Edward Webster, Rob Lambert and Andries Bezuidenhout. -
  Malden, Mass. [u.a.] : Blackwell, 2008. - XVI, 261 S.
  (Antipode book series)
  Includes bibliographical references and index
  ISBN =978-1-405-12914-5
  Schlagworte: Globalisierung / Kritik / Arbeiterbewegung / Welt / Australien / Südkorea / Südafrika
  Standort: B 358250