Labor and Urban Studies

Labor Studies

Unemployment Insurance and Active Labor Market Policy: An International Comparison of Financing Systems

Günther Schmid, Bernd Reissert, and Gert Bruche

The impact of organizational structures on unemployment insurance in the US and Europe.

The Aging of the American Work Force: Problems, Programs, Policies

Edited by Irving Bluestone, Rhonda J. V. Montgomery, and John D. Owen

Essays exploring the phenomenon and policy implications of the aging American work force.

Public Finance and Performance of Enterprises: Proceedings of the 43rd Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, Paris, 1987

Edited by Manfred Neumann and Karl W. Roskamp

Papers discussing how fiscal policy decisions effect the behavior of enterprises and how this in turn influences the overall performance of an economy.

Universities and the Myth of Cultural Decline

Jerry S. Herron

A constructive discussion of the academic humanities’ relevance in a world of work and power.

Labour under the Marshall Plan: The Politics of Productivity and the Marketing of Management Science

Anthony Carew

Carew investigates the labor side of the Marshall Plan, detailing the interaction between American and European union movements and labor personnel and the struggle to influence the direction of post-war industrial society in Europe.

Theories of the Labor Movement

Edited by Simeon Larson and Bruce Nissen

A collection of readings representing the history of labor theories and the variety of theoretical points of view concerning the labor movement.