This pathbreaking book suggests that economists know less about what the invisible hand is up to than they let on.

A comprehensive review of evidence on the effect of minimum wages on employment, skills, wage and income distributions, and longer-term labor market outcomes concludes that the minimum wage is not a good policy tool.

From Amazon’s use of digital rights management and bundling to radically change the economics of book publishing, to Google and Facebook’s siphoning away of ad revenues from news media, and the Big Three record labels’ use of ...

This unique exploration of Lincoln's economic beliefs shows how they helped shape his view of slavery, his conduct of the war, and most fundamentally his understanding of what the United States was and could become.

Curious to see how anyone can live on minumum wage, the author travels the country working at low-paying jobs.

This book explores the work and family lives of rural and urban New Englanders across the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century.

Previously scattered throughout his writings, Marx's wage theory is presented here in its entirety for the first time.

Rights at Work explores the political strategies in more than a dozen pay equity struggles since the late 1970s, including battles of state employees in Washington and Connecticut, as well as city employees in San Jose and Los Angeles.

Not Working chronicles the devastating effects of the 1996 welfare reform legislation that ended welfare as we know it.

Blum's analysis is an integral component of the scholarly work on comparable worth and will be widely read not only by people interested in comparable worth, but also by policy analysts, historians of the women's movement, and sociologists ...