Product Description: Esta obra relata una conspiración en la que participó el marqués de Santillana contra don Álvaro de Luna, el hijo ilegítimo del copero mayor de Enrique III. Álvaro de Luna entró en la corte castellana como doncel de Juan II de Trastámara con el apoyo del Papa Benedicto XIII...read more

Product Description: 144p hardback with grey laminated jacket, from a Cambridge college library, some use, pages clean with index, very good

Answers all questions regarding the incomes of Americans by listing the annual earnings of occupations from street cleaners to farmers, lawyers, doctors, Pete Rose, and the president

Examines the history of censorship in the media, discusses seven prominent cases of media censorship, and presents a chronological history of twenty-eight media-censorship court cases since 1812 (view table of contents)

Product Description: For almost a century the wages fund doctrine played an important role in Classical economic thought, forming the theoretical basis of the Classical analysis of the labour market, and was employed by political economists and popularises of political economy when discussing the role of trade unions, the impact of machinery, the effect of the Poor Law, and other policy issues...read more

This book traces the historical evolution of minimum-wage policy and explains how models are used (and misused) by different interests to achieve their particular aims. Minimum-wage policy was initially legitimated as a broader labor-market policy aimed at achieving greater productivity and labor-market stability. As organized labor has declined as a political force in the last twenty years, the nature of the debate has metamorphized into a narrowly focused and often highly technical discussion concerned with specific effects of given specific increases in the minimum wage, such as either relieving poverty or the so-called adverse effects on youth unemployment. This change has coincided with the greatest stagnation of the minimum wage. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The author demonstrates that the resources (income and wealth) available to most categories of employees has declined over the past 20 years relative to the total income and wealth in our society. Arguing that the decline of the heavy industry sector of the economy has eroded the power of organized labor, which was most concentrated in precisely these industries, Tigges suggests that the declining power of the unions has resulted in a lessened ability for employees to bargain for higher wages with their employers, thereby reducing employees' relative share of the national income...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: David Gleicher and Lonnie Stevans present a theory of occupational wage rates that is a classical alternative to human capital theory. They introduce the net employment reserve, a novel explanatory variable that measures the bargaining power of employees in an occupation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The well-documented gap between men's and women's earnings has aroused intense debate over the concept of comparable worth, that is, equal pay for work judged to be of equal value. Government, business, labor unions, and the courts have been forced to consider whether workers in dissimilar jobs of comparable worth—measured by such criteria as working conditions, degree of difficulty, and knowledge and responsibility required—should receive equal wages, and how wage adjustments can be implemented...read more

Product Description: Organizational behavior theorists as well as compensation theorists agree that an understanding of the subjective pay fairness perceptions of employees is essential, but the fragmentation of recent research on the subject has made the topic difficult to approach...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Corporatism or Competition? is concerned with the importance of institutions in determining labor market outcomes. There has been a great deal of research in the past ten years comparing wage differences, wage movements and employment behavior in different countries, none of which has been brought together in an organized and coherent fashion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)