A compilation of books on labour standards and how these are enforced… Related topics also covered…
Books
#1
Arne L. Kalleberg. 2011. Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: The Rise of Polarized and Precarious Employment Systems in the United States, 1970s-2000s. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
#2
Ines Wagner. 2018. Workers without borders. Posted work and precarity in the EU. Ithaca and London: ILR Press.
Books
#3
David Weil. 2014. The Fissured Workplace: How work became so bad for so many and what can be done to improve it. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
#4
Jill Andresky Fraser. 2001. White-collar sweatshop. The deterioration of work and its rewards in corporate America. Norton.
Books
#5
Simon Head. 2005. The new ruthless economy. Work and power in the digital age. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
#6
Mick Marchington, Damian Grimshaw, Jill Rubery & Hugh Willmott (eds). 2005. Fragmenting Work. Blurring organizational boundaries and disordering hierarchies. New York: Oxford University Press.
Books
#7
Kate Bronfenbrenner (ed.). 2007. Global unions. Challenging transnational capital through cross-border campaigns. Ithaca & London: ILR Press.
#8
Melisa Serrano, Edlira Xhafa, Michael Fichter (eds). 2011. Trade unions and the gobal crisis. Labour’s visions, strategies and responses. Geneva: International Labour Organizations.
Books
#9
Richard M. Locke. 2013. The promise and limits of private power. Promoting labor standards in a global economy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
#10
Richard P. Appelbaum & Nelson Lichtenstein (eds). 2016. Achieving workers‘ rights in the global economy. Ithaca & London: ILR press.
Books
#11
John Elkington. 1999. Cannibals with forks. The triple bottom line of 21st century business. Oxford: Capstone.
#12
David Vogel. 2006. The market for virtue: The potential and limits of corporate social responsibility. Washington: Brookings Institution Press.
Books
#13
Michael Yaziji & Jonathan Doh. 2009. NGOS and corporations. Conflict and collaboration. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
#14
Gerald F. Davis, Doug McAdam, W. Richard Scott, & Mayer N. Zald (eds). 2005. Social movements and organization theory. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Books
#15
Jeffrey Pfeffer. 2018. Dying for a paycheck. How modern management harms employee health and company performance – and what we can do about it. New York: Harper Business.
#16
Juliet Schor. 2011. True wealth. How and why millions of Americans are creating a time-rich, ecologically light, small-scale, high-satisfaction economy. New York: Penguin Books.
Books
#17
Lauren B. Edelman. 2016. Working law. Courts, corporations, and symbolic civil rights. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press.
#18
Christopher Wright & Daniel Nyberg. 2015. Climate change, capitalism, and corporations. Processes of creative destruction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Books
#19
Jamie Woodcock & Mark Graham. 2020. The gig economy. A critical introduction. Cambridge: Polity Press.
#20
Colin Crouch. 2020. Will the gig economy prevail. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Books
#21
Neil M. Coe & Henry Wai-Chung Yeung. 2015. Global production networks. Theorizing economic development in an interconnected world. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
#22
Stefano Ponte. 2019. Business power & sustainability in a world of global value chains. London: zed books.
Books
#23
Jenny Chan, Mark Selden & Pun Ngai. 2020. Dying for an iPhone. Apple, Foxconn, and the lives of China’s workers. London: Pluto Press.
#24
Saskia Sassen. 2014. Expulsions. Brutality and complexity in the global economy. Cambridge MA: Belknap Press.
Books
#25
Christoph Scherrer (ed.). 2017. Enforcement instruments for social human rights along supply chains. Augsburg & München: Hampp Verlag.
#26
Edouard Morena, Dunja Krause & Dimitris Stevis (eds.). 2020. Just transitions. Social Justice in the shift towards a low-carbon world. London: Pluto Press.
Books
#27
Michele Ford. 2019. From migrant to worker: Global Unions and temporary labor migration in Asia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
#28
Jake Alimahomed-Wilson & Ellen Reese (eds.). 2020. The cost of free shipping. Amazon in the global economy. London: Pluto Press.
Books
#29
Kate Crawford. 2021. Atlas of AI. Power, politic, and the planetary cost of artificial intelligence. Yale University Press: New Haven and London.
#30
Romain Felli. 2021. The great adaptation. Climate, capitalism and catastrophe. Verso: London.
Books
#31
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey & Dustin Avent-Holt. 2019. Relational inequalities. An organizational approach. Oxford University Press: New York.
#32
Lucas Chancel. 2020. Unsustainable inequalities. Social justice and the environment. Belknap: Cambridge, Ma.
Books
#33
Sarosh Kuruvilla. 2021. Private regulation of labor standards in global supply chains. Problems, progress and prospects. Ithaca: ILR Press.
#34
Gary Gereffi. 2018. Global value chains and development. Redefining the contours of 21st century capitalism. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Books
#35
Karl Polanyi. 2001. The great transformation. The political and economic origins of our time Boston: Beacon Press [1944].
#36
Friedrich Engels. 2009. The Condition of the Working Class in England. London: Penguin [1845].
Books
#37
Erin Hatton. 2020. Coerced. Work under threat of punishment. Oakland: University of California Press.
#38
Erin L. Kelly & Phyllis Moon. 2020. Overload. How good jobs went bad and what we can do about it. Princeton: Princeton University Press
Books
#39
Louise Munkholm. 2020. Re-Inventing Labour Law Enforcement: A Socio-Legal Analysis. Oxford: Hart Publishing.
#40
Peter Sheldon, Sarah Gregson, Russell D. Lansbury & Karin Sanders (eds). 2021. The Regulation and Management of Workplace Health and Safety: Historical and Emerging Trends. New York: Routledge.
Books
#41
Peter Birke. 2022. Grenzen aus Glas. Arbeit, Rassismus und Kämpfe der Migration In Deutschland. Mandelbaum Verlag: Berlin.
#42
Alessandro Delfanti. 2021. The Warehouse. Workers and robots at Amazon. London: Pluto Press.
Books
#43
Elinor Ostrom. 2017. Governing the commons. The evolution of institutions for collective action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [1990].
#44
Julie Froud & Karel Williams. 2022. Foundational economy. The infrastructure of everyday life. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Books
#45
Henry Wai-Chung Yeung. 2022. Interconnected worlds. Global electronics and production networks in East Asia. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
#46
Antonio Aloisi & Valerio De Stefano. 2022. Your boss is an algorithm. Artificial intelligence, platform work and labour. Oxford: Hart Publishing.
Books
#47
Jason Hickel. 2018. The divide. A brief guide to global inequality and its solutions. London. Windmill Books.
#48
Klaus J. Zink. 2022. Arbeit in globalen Lieferketten. Eine Herausforderung für die Arbeitswissenschaft. Zürich. vdf Hochschulverlag.
Books
#49
Ruth Dukes & Wolfgang Streeck. 2023. Democracy at work. Contract, status, and post-industrial justice. Cambridge. Polity Press.
#50
Rick Fantasia. 1988. Cultures of solidarity. Consciousness, action, and contemporary American workers. Berkeley. University of California Press.
Books
#51
Fritz Naphtali. 1966. Wirtschaftsdemokratie. Ihr Wesen, Weg und Ziel. Frankfurt. Europäische Verlagsanstalt [1928].
#52
Robert A. Dahl. 1985. A preface to economic democracy. Berkeley. University of California Press.
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