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  • Unions Resurgent? The Past, Present and Uncertain Future of Trade Unions in Britain

    The Past, Present and Uncertain Future of Trade Unions in Britain

    by J. R. Shackleton ...
    Why did the first trade unions form? How have unions changed since they first emerged? What impact do they have on wages, employment and productivity? In this book, J.R. Shackleton answers these questions and guides the reader through the fascinating history of trade unions in Britain. From their origins as secretive and semi-legal societies of workers on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution, to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Having Your Say

    Threats to Free Speech in the 21st Century

    by J. R. Shackleton, David S. Oderberg, Philip Booth, Nick Cowen, Stephen Davies, Claire Fox, Dennis Hayes, Victoria Hewson, Leo Kearse, Jacob Mchangama0 ...
    Today should be a Golden Age for free speech – with technology providing more ways of communicating ideas and opinions than ever before. Yet we’re actually witnessing a growing wave of restrictions on freedom of thought and expression. In Having Your Say a variety of authors – academics, philosophers, comedians and more – stress the fundamental importance of free speech, one of the cornerstones of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Top Dogs and Fat Cats

    The Debate on High Pay

    Edited by J. R. Shackleton ...
    Top pay has risen much faster than average pay in the past 20 years. Today there's widespread public concern about the apparent excesses of some pay deals in the corporate sector - although people are more forgiving of the rewards to entrepreneurs, entertainers and sports stars. This collection of essays puts various aspects of this debate under the spotlight. It looks at the role of shareholders ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Working to Rule

    The Damaging Economics of UK Employment Regulation

    by J. R. Shackleton ...
    Employment regulation has been growing rapidly. This has not exclusively, or even mainly, come from the European Union. Recent UK governments have added such significant new measures as the National Living Wage, workplace pensions and the Apprenticeship Levy. The costs of such regulation are frequently assumed – by both advocates and opponents – to fall on business profits. This isn’t so, except ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Breaking Up is Hard to Do

    Britain and Europe’s Dysfunctional Relationship

    by Martin Howe, Philippe Legrain, David G. Mayes, Kristian Niemietz, Gwythian Prins, Séan Rickard, Martin Ricketts, Matthew Sinclair, Christopher Snowdon, Rachel Tingle, Roland Vaubel, Richard Wellings, Geoffrey Wood ...
    In the noise of the debate about the EU, it is rare for fundamental questions to be asked. For example, for what purposes should we have international institutions at all? Does the EU meet those purposes and, if not, is reform possible? This book considers these questions. An international team of renowned authors looks at each area of economic policy in which the EU has an interest, as well as at ... Read more

    $6.52 USD

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  • The Corruption of Capitalism

    Why rentiers thrive and work does not pay

    by Guy Standing ...
    Politicians, financiers and bureaucrats claim to believe in free competitive markets, yet they have built the most unfree market system ever created. In this Gilded Age, income is funnelled to the owners of property – financial, physical and intellectual – at the expense of society. Wages stagnate as labour markets are transformed by outsourcing, automation and the on-demand economy, generating ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Return of the State

    Restructuring Britain for the Common Good

    Edited by Patrick Allen, Dr. Suzanne J. Konzelmann, Prof. Jan Toporowski ...
    Pushed by the Covid-19 crisis, the UK government has borrowed massively to save jobs, businesses and the economy from collapse, making a mockery of the austerity policies that it had championed for a decade. As a result, the role of the state is now in sharp focus. The contributors to this volume assess what that role should be and how it should be harnessed for the good of the British people in ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rise and Fall of Ireland's Celtic Tiger

    Liberalism, Boom and Bust

    by Seán Ó Riain ...
    In 2008 Ireland experienced one of the most dramatic economic crises of any economy in the world. It remains at the heart of the international crisis, sitting uneasily between the US and European economies. Not long ago, however, Ireland was celebrated as an example of successful market-led globalisation and economic growth. How can we explain the Irish crisis? What does it tell us about the ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The UK Regional-National Economic Problem

    Geography, globalisation and governance

    by Philip McCann ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    In recent years, the United Kingdom has become a more and more divided society with inequality between the regions as marked as it has ever been. In a landmark analysis of the current state of Britain’s regional development, Philip McCann utilises current statistics, examines historical trends and makes pertinent international comparisons to assess the state of the nation.The UK Regional–National ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • The State We Need

    Keys to the Renaissance of Britain

    by Michael Meacher ...
    At a time when great issues are crying out for resolution - financial and economic stagnation, an increasingly polarised society, global paralysis over climate change, and spiritual emptiness and loss of vision throughout the West - politics is dominated by spin and manipulation. Too many people feel confused, cynical and angry ... and poorly represented by a remote political elite in Westminster. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Sharing Economy

    How Social Wealth Funds Can Reduce Inequality and Help Balance the Books

    by Stewart Lansley ...
    Britain is a society increasingly divided between the super-affluent and the impoverished. A Sharing Economy proposes radical new ways to close the growing income gap and spread social opportunities.Drawing on overseas examples, Stewart Lansley argues that mobilising the huge financial potential of Britain’s public assets could pay for a pioneering new social wealth fund. Such a fund would boost ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Alternative Dispute Resolution

    A Developing World Perspective

    by Albert Fiadjoe ...
    Series series Commonwealth Caribbean Law
    This book highlights the tremendous shift in the traditional arrangements for the delivery of civil justice in the Commonwealth Caribbean, from litigation to alternative dispute resolution (ADR) processes. Over the last quarter of a century, much learning has taken place on the topic of ADR and the literature on the subject is now voluminous.This book puts forward the thesis that the peculiar ... Read more

    $87.99 USD