1st Edition

Routledge Library Editions: Work & Society

    5224 Pages
    by Routledge

    Originally published between 1923 and 1989, the 21 volumes in this set examine the politics, economics, sociology and psychology of (un)employment during the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries, including during the periods of recession in the 1930s and 1980s.

    The volumes:

    ·         Provide information on the day-to-day experiences of dealing with offenders at a time of high unemployment and the related policy implications.

    ·         Discuss the place of black youth amongst the unemployed in the UK.

    ·         Examine company provision of welfare in the century preceding the Second World War.

    ·         Cover important, but frequently neglected, areas of 18th Century industry as health, apprenticeship and industrial crime

    ·         Illuminate many crucial wage and employment issues

    ·         Examine the connections between unemployment and street violence.

    1 Michael H. Banks and Philip Ullah Youth unemployment in the 1980s  2 Edited by Bernard R. Crick Unemployment  3 Iain Crow, Paul Richardson, Carol Riddington, Frances Simon Unemployment, crime and offenders 4 Roger Davidson  Whitehall and the labour problem in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain  5 Robert Fitzgerald British labour management & industrial welfare 1846-1939  6 James Fry Employment and income distribution in the African economy 7 Harry Powys Greenwood Employment and the Depressed Areas. 8 Ian Hodge and Martin Whitby Rural employment 9 James Avery Joyce World labour rights and their protection  10 Hilda Renate Kahn Repercussions of Redundancy 11 Hilda Renate Kahn Salaries in the Public Services in England and Wales  12 Donald Iain Mackay, D. Boddy, J. Brack, J.A. Diack, N. Jones Labour markets under different employment conditions 13 Chris Moore and Jeremy Richardson Local partnership and the unemployment crisis in Britain  14 Edited by John Oxenham Education versus qualifications?  15 John Rule  The experience of labour in eighteenth-century industry  16 Bikas C. Sanyal  Higher education and employment  17 E. Colston Shepherd The Fixing of Wages in Government Employment. 18 Alan R. Townsend The impact of recession  19 Edited by G. D. N. Worswick The concept and measurement of involuntary unemployment 20 Edited by Rob Fiddy In place of work  21 Edited by Rob Fiddy Youth, unemployment and training. 

    Biography

    Multi-volume collection by various authors.