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The Class Struggle: Revolutionising Institutions to Democratise Labour
The second part (“Theoretical models and political issues”) begins with an analysis of two dynamic meanings of the political centrality of work: the...
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Labour market deregulation, austerity measures, and social unrest: Greece in comparative perspective
Greece experienced near political implosion between 2010 and 2012 with large-scale demonstrations, strikes, riots, damage to public and private...
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Labour as a Vital Need and Alienated Labour: Contributions to the Debate on the Relationship Between Labour and an Education Beyond Capital
This chapter aims to reflect on labour as a vital need for human beings and on alienated labour in the capitalist mode of production. This is an...
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New Labour and the Italian PD
This chapter discusses “New Labour”, considering the similarities with the PD and therefore the extent to which an understanding of the former helps...
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Nationalization of Gulf Labour Markets Higher Education and Skills Development in Industry 4.0
This book addresses critical aspects of the nationalization of labour markets in the Gulf countries. It examines the role of higher education...
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The politics of pro-outsider labour market reforms: a configurational study
Over the past decades, the level of regulation of fixed-term contracts has been in flux. Many reforms deregulating these contracts were followed by a...
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Regimes and Institutions
The third of the distinctions around which this book is organized is the distinction between institutions and what the international organization...
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Ideas, Interests, and Institutions in Public Policymaking
Multiple theoretical and conceptual frameworks explain how public policies are developed, further contested, and reshaped. Underlying these...
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Non-majoritarian institutions: two strands of liberalism in European economic governance
One striking characteristic of the European Union as a political system is the prevalence of non-majoritarian institutions and forms of indirect or...
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Constitutional Provisions and Development: Are Indigenous Institutions Relevant?
Constitutions are usually referred to as supreme laws which set out the fundamental framework and bases for the Rule of Law, human rights, governance...
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European solidarity and “free movement of labour” during the pandemic: exposing the contradictions amid east–west migration
COVID-19 regulations introduced in EU member states in 2020 meant serious restrictions for the free movement of persons, particularly workers. An...
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Microfinance Institutions: Governance Structure, Outreach, and Sustainability
This chapter explores MFIs structures and points up areas for further study. The duties and obligations of Bangladeshi microfinance institutions are...
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Racialized Skilled Immigrants in the Canadian Labour Market
The chapter begins with a personal narrative, specifically my situatedness as a researcher and a practitioner in migration studies; it also...
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The role of International Financial Institutions in conflict, recovery, and transitions in Africa: a focus on Ethiopia and Sudan
Successive socio-economic shocks in the past three years have undermined Africa’s development gains, impeding the economic convergence of Africa and...
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The Nexus Between Higher Education, Labour Market, and Industry 4.0 in the Context of the Arab Gulf States
Higher education plays an important role in human capital development. It advances knowledge, development of creative ideas, innovative methods, and...
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The cycle of commodification: migrant labour, welfare, and the market in global China and Vietnam
China and Vietnam have experienced waves of labour and welfare reform since both countries shifted to market socialism, pursuing a development model...
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Eradicating Child Labour Amidst Global Crises
The year 2021 was coined as the United Nations International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, while the Sustainable Development Goal Target...
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Industrial Democracy: Democratising Work to Transform Institutions
This chapter then reconstructs the industrial democracy paradigm which contends that work first needs democratising before the rest of the...
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Infrastructural Development, Financial Institutions and Markets as New Realms of Connectivity
This chapter examines how India would deal with the collaboration among existing and emerging financial and infrastructural institutions which have...
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Understanding the evolution of China’s approach to digital trade: interests, ideas, and institutions
Amid economic globalisation and the rapid development of advanced technologies in recent years, the world economy has shown an increasing trend of...