International Journal Of Labour Research

The International Journal of Labour Research provides an overview of recent research on labor and social policies from trade union researchers and academics around the world. The journal is multidisciplinary and of interest to trade union researchers, labor ministries, and academics in all the relevant disciplines worldwide —industrial relations,sociology, law, economics, and political science. In the wake of the worldwide fiscal crisis, workers and trade unions turned to cooperatives as a way to preserve jobs and create a different path to economic and social development. This issue of the IJLR reviews some of those initiatives and examines the state of the relationship between trade unions and worker cooperatives.

The International Journal of Labour Research provides an overview of recent research on labor and social policies from trade union researchers and academics around the world. The journal is multidisciplinary and of interest to trade union researchers, labor ministries, and academics in all the relevant disciplines worldwide —industrial relations,sociology, law, economics, and political science. In the wake of the worldwide fiscal crisis, workers and trade unions turned to cooperatives as a way to preserve jobs and create a different path to economic and social development. This issue of the IJLR reviews some of those initiatives and examines the state of the relationship between trade unions and worker cooperatives.

Labour research: International journal

The International Journal of Labour Research provides an overview of recent research on labor and social policies from trade union researchers and academics around the world. The journal is multidisciplinary and of interest to trade union researchers, labor ministries, and academics in all the relevant disciplines worldwide--industrial relations, sociology, law, economics, and political science. A consequence of the recent financial crisis and its aftermath has been increased attention to the issue of inequality both as one of the underlying causes of the crisis itself, and as a problem that now threatens social cohesion the world over. This issue of the Journal examines both dimensions of the problem and seeks to provide strategic perspectives to trade unions as they go about combatting inequalities.

The aim of the International Journal of Labour Research is to provide an overview of recent research on labor and social policies from trade union researchers and academics around the world. The journal is multidisciplinary and of interest to trade union researchers, labor ministries, and academics in all the relevant disciplines worldwide--industrial relations, sociology, law, economics, and political science. This double issue of the journal explores the causes for the unequal distribution of wealth along global value chains and analyzes mechanisms that can better ensure that the vast wealth the chains generate is more equitably distributed.

Recent decades have been marked by the worldwide spread of precarious forms of employment. Temporary contracts, agency work, and casual labor have accounted for a major share of job growth. Thus, growth in recent times, far from favoring the development of decent work, has often fostered new forms of instability. This issue of the IJLR examines the trends and the reasons that lie behind this expansion, as well as their effects on workers and various segments of the labor force such as youth and women and inequality. It also considers the consequences of this development on workers' capacity to organize and on what strategies trade unions can develop to reverse this trend.