labour mobility Concepts

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, From the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

by Frank Trentmann · 1 Dec 2015 · 1,213pp · 376,284 words

towns barred pedlars, and husbands beat their wives for leaving the house in search of work, with the full support of the authorities. Guilds restricted labour mobility. Together, husbands, fathers, churches and guilds exercised a social discipline unknown in England.140 Compare this to London in 1455, where the women who threw

Creating Unequal Futures?: Rethinking Poverty, Inequality and Disadvantage

by Ruth Fincher and Peter Saunders · 1 Jul 2001 · 267pp · 79,905 words

intensity of capitalist competition and the presence of a large reserve army of labour: chronic underemployment is the normal condition within the aggregate labor market . . . labour mobility is no longer a sufficient condition for the equalization of wage rates . . . low-wage firms . . . continue to find ample sources of cheap labour within the

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factors likely to influence training, especially business size. For many of the other issues around low-paid jobs, Australian data are difficult to come by. Labour mobility figures in Australia show very little upward occupational mobility for low-skilled workers (ABS 1998, pp. 16–17) and research by Burgess and Campbell (1998

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Immigration worldwide: policies, practices, and trends

by Uma Anand Segal, Doreen Elliott and Nazneen S. Mayadas · 19 Jan 2010 · 492pp · 70,082 words

conjoined with human rights. American Journal of International Law 70 (3) July. Meyers, E. 2002, November. Multinational cooperation, integration, and regimes: The case of international labour mobility. The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (CCIS) Working Paper No. 61, pp. 1–64. Mitchell, J.C. 1959. The causes of labour migration. Bulletin of

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Conclusions and Recommendations. www.independentasylumcommission.org.uk/files/ Saving%20Sanctuary.pdf (accessed 20.11.08). IOM (International Organisation for Migration) (2008) World Migration 2008: Managing Labour Mobility in the Evolving Global Economy. Geneva: IOM. Jones Finer, C. (ed.) (2006) Migration, Immigration, and Social Policy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. Kymlicka, W. (2003) ‘‘Immigration, citizenship

The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931

by Adam Tooze · 13 Nov 2014 · 1,057pp · 239,915 words

unions were strong enough to pay for half of Labour’s candidates.37 And this was backed outside Parliament by a truly unprecedented wave of labour mobilization. The upsurge in working-class militancy between 1910 and 1920 was a phenomenon that swept the entire world.38 Rather than seeing it as a

Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future

by Ian Goldin, Geoffrey Cameron and Meera Balarajan · 20 Dec 2010 · 482pp · 117,962 words

based on the stock estimates of temporary foreign workers in 2008. Philip Martin. 2008. “Low and Semi-Skilled Workers Abroad,” in World Migration 2008: Managing Labour Mobility in the Evolving Global Economy. Geneva: International Organization for Migration. Annual flow based on calculations in Goldin and Reinert, 2007: 258, table 6.3. c

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family migrants, more than the next nine highest recipient countries combined. See Eleonore Kofman and Veena Meetoo. 2008. “Family Migration,” in World Migration 2008: Managing Labour Mobility in the Evolving Global Economy. Geneva: IOM, p. 165. Recipient countries and annual flows are derived from 2006 flows in part VI (country notes) of

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in Northern Europe: Overview and Comparison,” presented at Clandestino Project Conference, London, 27 March 2009. 7. International Organization for Migration. 2008. World Migration 2008: Managing Labour Mobility in the Evolving Global Economy. Geneva: IOM, p. 515. 8. Stephen Castles and Godula Kosack. 1974. “How the Trade Unions Try to Control and Integrate

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Skilled Foreign Workers,” Report to the UK Home Office, March 2002, p. 4. 13. Lindsay Lowell. 2008. “Highly Skilled Migration,” in World Migration 2008: Managing Labour Mobility in the Evolving Global Economy. Geneva: International Organization for Migration, p. 52. 14. Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander, and Kevin Stolarick. 2008. “Inside the Black Box

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et al., 2004. 25. Castles, 2006. 26. OECD, 2008: 133. 27. Philip Martin. 2008. “Low and Semi-Skilled Workers Abroad,” in World Migration 2008: Managing Labour Mobility in the Evolving Global Economy. Geneva: International Organization for Migration. 28. OECD, 2008: 126. 29. Martin, 2008: 91. 30. In 2001, Japan admitted approximately 100

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for Public Policy Research, p. 14. 50. Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin. 2008. “Student Mobility, Internationalization of Higher Education and Skilled Migration,” in World Migration 2008: Managing Labour Mobility in the Evolving Global Economy. Geneva: IOM, p. 105. 51. OECD, 2008: 117. 52. IOM, 2005: 483. 53. Vincent-Lancrin, 2008. 54. IOM, 2005: 120

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: 110. 149. United Nations, 2006: 56. 150. Ghosh, 2006: 54. 151. World Bank estimates cited in International Organization for Migration. 2008. World Migration 2008: Managing Labour Mobility in the Evolving Global Economy. Geneva: IOM, p. 533. 152. Ghosh, 2006: 57. 153. This paragraph draws on IOM, 2008: 152–153. 154. Michael A

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. 45. Philip G. Altbach. 2004. “Higher Education Crosses Borders,” Change (March-April 2004). 46. Ibid. 47. International Organization for Migration. 2008. World Migration 2008: Managing Labour Mobility in the Evolving Global Economy. Geneva: IOM,p. 122. 48. Examples are drawn from Philip G. Altbach and Jane Knight. 2006. “The Internationalization of Higher

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the New Globalization Era,” SSRC Migration & Development Conference Paper No. 12. Brooklyn, NY: SSRC. Lowell, Lindsay. 2008. “Highly Skilled Migration,” in World Migration 2008: Managing Labour Mobility in the Evolving Global Economy. Geneva: International Organization for Migration. Lucas, Robert E. B. 2005. International Migration and Economic Development: Lessons from Low-Income Countries

The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A History of the Cold War

by Norman Stone · 15 Feb 2010 · 851pp · 247,711 words

should have given prosperity to the north as well, but there were formidable difficulties, especially to do with a system of ‘social’ housing that stopped labour mobility. Later on, Mrs Thatcher did admit that she wished she had handled some of the real, longer-term problems earlier. This was right: Britain became

The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class

by Guy Standing · 27 Feb 2011 · 209pp · 89,619 words

more questions, obtaining certificates to prove something or other, all these are painfully time consuming yet are usually ignored. A flexible labour market that makes labour mobility the mainstream way of life, and that creates LABOUR, WORK AND THE TIME SQUEEZE 121 a web of moral and immoral hazards in the flurry

Age of the City: Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together

by Ian Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin · 21 Jun 2023 · 248pp · 73,689 words

of education here decline in trust here deindustrialization here Gilded Age here Great Migration here house prices here, here immigration here industrialization here inequality here labour mobility here ‘magnet schools’ here parking spaces here patent filings here per capita emissions here, here per capita incomes here remote working here, here, here return

How Will Capitalism End?

by Wolfgang Streeck · 8 Nov 2016 · 424pp · 115,035 words

organized labour into a productive force and assigned democracy a positive economic function. The problem was that the viability of that model was contingent on labour mobilizing a sufficient amount of political and economic power, which it could do in the more or less closed national economies of the post-war era

European Spring: Why Our Economies and Politics Are in a Mess - and How to Put Them Right

by Philippe Legrain · 22 Apr 2014 · 497pp · 150,205 words

as Greece, do not. Their trade and investment ties would be much greater if the single market in services was completed. Contrary to popular perception, labour mobility within the eurozone remains low. Economies are also much less flexible than they ought to be, with the notable exception of Ireland. Self-evidently, the

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policy. Eurozone economies are very different, often ossified and not as integrated as they ought to be: the EU single market remains woefully incomplete and labour mobility low. Moreover, even very open and flexible economies such as Ireland’s can get blown off course by a surge of foreign money that inflates