Our Palgrave editors share their priorities for content this coming year
SDG 8 focuses on encouraging sustained, sustainable economic growth; increasing productivity through technological innovation; encouraging entrepreneurship and job creation; and putting in place effective measures to eradicate forced labour, slavery and human trafficking.
Though there have been some steps forward, with labour productivity increasing by 2.1% in 2018, there is still a long way to go: the median gender pay gap still stands at 12%, and young women are more than twice as likely as young men to be unemployed, or outside the labour force and not in education or training.
Achieving Goal 8 demands innovation and collaboration between academia, governing bodies, policy makers, business owners and individuals. Palgrave Macmillan is committed to publishing research that explores how this goal can be achieved: how workplaces can be amended to better accommodate people with disabilities; how organizations can manage diversity; how entrepreneurs from a more-disadvantaged background can flourish in a world often stacked against them; and how the Southern Cone can achieve greater financial inclusion.
We also publish books in this sphere that will help future generations of researchers develop new tools to understand inequality, from this textbook on the recent economic crisis and how desirable economic policies can be adopted to this monograph that looks at why and how different disciplines can use the same data and yet come to different conclusions about equality of opportunity, economic and social mobility, poverty and polarization, and conflict and segregation.
As editors, we are passionate about hearing from academics interested in writing books that address inequality and the changing world of work, looking at topics like the role of new technology in transforming work; sustainable growth and job creation; critical perspectives on employment, such as the challenges posed by the gig economy; and other issues that are exist at the forefront of scholarly thought.
If you would like to discuss publishing a book with Palgrave Macmillan, please feel free to reach out to either of us and we would be glad to get a conversation started.
Elizabeth Graber
Editor, Scholarly Economics
Elizabeth.Graber@palgrave-usa.com
Jessica Harrison
Editor, Scholarly Business
Jessica.Harrison@palgrave.com
