Merchants of Labour
Merchants of Labour

Author: International Labour Office

Publisher: International Labour Organization

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 9789290147800

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More workers are crossing national borders to look for jobs than ever before. Many migrants seek overseas employment with the help of agents or intermediaries. These "merchants of labour" include relatives who finance a migrant's trip, provide housing and arrange for a job abroad; public employment services; and private recruitment agencies. They also comprise an insalubrious underworld of smugglers and traffickers. The agents who recruit and deploy migrant workers are at the heart of the evolving migration infrastructure, i.e. the network of business and personal ties that is creating a global labour market. This book highlights best practices in the activities and regulation of these merchants of labour as well as innovative strategies to protect migrant workers, underlining the contribution of ILO standards. It covers a broad range of national and regional experiences and puts "merchants of labour" in the wider context of changing employment relationships in globalizing labour markets. The papers it contains are an important contribution to understanding a major mechanism facilitating the growth of the migrant labour force.

Merchants of Labor
Merchants of Labor

Author: Philip L. Martin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 019880802X

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Some 10 million migrant workers cross national borders each year. This book examines the businesses that move low-skilled workers, explaining recruitment, remuneration and retention, and showing how national borders increase recruitment costs. Tackling the often murky world of labor migration, it fills an important void in this fast-growing field.

Trade Unions and Labour Movements in the Asia-Pacific Region
Trade Unions and Labour Movements in the Asia-Pacific Region

Author: Byoung-Hoon Lee

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-09-16

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 0429576080

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Recent developments in the world economy, including deindustrialisation and the digital revolution, have led to an increasingly individualistic relationship between workers and employers, which in turn has weakened labour movements and worker representation. However, this process is not universal, including in some countries of Asia, where trade unions are closely aligned with the interests of the dominant political party and the state. This book considers the many challenges facing trade unions and worker representation in a wide range of Asian countries. For each country, full background is given on how trade unions and other forms of worker representation have arisen. Key questions then considered include the challenges facing trade unions and worker representation in each country, the extent to which these are a result of global or local developments and the actions being taken by trade unions and worker representative bodies to cope with the challenges. This book is dedicated to the memory of Professor Keith Thurley, London School of Economics.

Beyond Free Trade
Beyond Free Trade

Author: K. Ervine

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-04-08

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1137412739

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The world of trade is changing rapidly, from the 'rise of the South' to the growth of unconventional projects like fair trade and carbon trading. Beyond Free Trade advances alternative ways for understanding these new dynamics, based on historical, political, or sociological methods that go beyond the limitations of conventional trade economics.

Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs
Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs

Author: C. Markovits

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-10-23

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0230594867

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This book deals with three main aspects of the history of Indian business: The relationship between business and politics, the position of merchants and businessmen in the economy and society of late colonial India, and how particular merchant networks extended the range of their operations to the entire subcontinent and the wider world.

Merchants and Markets in Revolutionary Russia, 1917–30
Merchants and Markets in Revolutionary Russia, 1917–30

Author: Arup Banerji

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1997-02-12

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1349252018

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This book explores the history of private internal trade in the USSR during the NEP of the 1920s. Private traders operated in a politically hostile but economically promising environment. Their contribution to post-war reconstruction was a crucial one. An exhaustive portrayal of the markets and dimensions of private trade is contrasted with the felt anxieties of Bolsheviks concerning traders' destabilising intentions and abilities. Retrospectively, many of these apprehensions were misplaced.