"Employment Relations is widely taught in business schools around the world. However, an increasing emphasis is being placed on the comparative and international dimensions of the relationships between employers and workers. It is becoming crucial to consider today's work and employment issues...

Phänomen Crowdworking Crowdworking-Plattformen wie "Mechanical Turk" oder "Clickworker" sind die Vorboten einer neuen Arbeitsorganisation. Bei den Internetmarktplätzen für Arbeit gibt es in der Regel große Machtasymmetrien zwischen Auftraggebern und Crowdworkern. Bei Mechanical Turk zum...

The emergence of voluntary corporate codes of conduct since the early 1990s is both a manifestation of and a response to the process of globalization. They have been part of a more general shift away from state regulation of transnational corporations towards corporate self-regulation in the...

This volume suggests a new way of doing global history. Instead of offering a sweeping and generalizing overview of the past, we propose a "micro-spatial" approach, combining micro-history with the concept of space. A focus on primary sources and awareness of the historical discontinuities and...