Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: China from within -- Liang Gaofeng: The Reform and Development of China's Trade Union System - Introspection of China's Current Unified Trade Union System -- Xu Ji-ping: Reconstitution of Chinese Labor Common Joint Action System Based on the Practice -- Ding Dajian, Huang Xiaoyu: Professionalization of Employment: Perspectives on Improving the Quality of Employment -- Ying Chen, Xianming Yang and Yanping Zhou: The effect of social capital and its localization on the nonfarm employment of rural labor: an empirical study in the western border areas of China -- Weimin Zhang, Dinghong Yi: The Analysis of Channels and Possibility On Wage Data Collection in China -- Chapter 2: Sustainable Innovation -- Prof. Dr. Peter Hennicke, Dipl.-Vw. Tobias Schleicher: Sustainable Development, Ecological Modernisation and Jobs: How quality of life is interlinked with nature conservation -- Bela Galgoczi: Transition to low-carbon economy and its impact on industrial jobs in Europe -- Friedrich Fuerstenberg: Regional Policy and Human Resource Development within the EU -- Dr. Yunus Adeleke Dauda: Technology Innovation and Human Condition: Research and Development for Sustainable Economy in ECOWAS Region -- Chapter 3: Trade Unions and Sustainable Innovation -- Jocelyne Robert: Trade union implication in the sustainable development: global position and contingent situations -- Carsten Strøby Jensen: Climate, labour market and industrial relations in the European Union - Responses to the climate challenge among trade unions and employers associations -- Denis Harrisson, Maxime Bélanger: An Emerging Social Innovation: Mutual aid Networks at Unionised Workplaces -- Maria da Conceição, João Dias: Trade unions strategies, job precariousness and sustainable development: an analysis of the Portuguese case -- Chapter 4: Migration.

Erduo Liu: From the Urban-Rural-Binary Labor Market to Urban-Internally-Binary Labor Market -- Sven Schaller: Sustainable Development in Rural China. The Interrelation of Agriculture, Renewable Energy and Labour Migration -- W.N. Salve: Labour Rights, Seasonal Migrant Women Workers in Sugar Industry and Sustainable Development in India -- Chapter 5: Informal Employment, Social Security and Social Sustainability -- Anup Dash: Voluntary Poverty and the Moral Economics of Development: The Gandhian Paradigm -- Marian Whitaker, Idaya Husna Mohd: A Minimum Wage for Malaysia: An Analysis of the Arguments and Recent Policy -- Tanya Chavdarova: In-between: Illegality and Legitimacy of the Off-the-Books Self-employment of Urban Youth in Sofia -- Y. Annamma Varghese, Joseph P.Varghese: Management and Strategies for Sustainable Developmentof the Labour Force in the Rubber Plantation Sector in India -- João Dias, Ilona Kovács and Maria da Conceição Cerdeira: Quality of employment for older workers and social cohesion in the European Union -- Chapter 6: Public Employment & Employee's Participation -- Siyan Wu, Yiming Zhang, , Jianying Tang and Jiaojiao Qu: The Development of Employee Involvement in China's State Owned Enterprises -- Sabine Gensior, Lothar Lappe: Sustainable Measures to stabilise Labour Markets during the Crisis: the Role of Short-Time Work in Germany -- Fengqi Yang: Psychological ownership of employees: A perspective from the nature of human capital properties -- Birgit Vogelsang: Local Agenda 21 in the City of Osnabrück: Opportunities for a sustainable development on a local level - an example -- Chapter 7: The Role of Education and Research -- Varghese M. Mathunny: Mobilizing Labour for Sustainable Development and Women Empowerment. A Case for Social Initiative in the Context of a Successful Experiment in the Indian State of Kerala.

Ilona Kovács, Margarida Chagas Lopes: Employment and sustainable development: education, training and R&D in the regulation of the labour market -- Maria João Santos, Carla Montefusco de Oliveira: The reality of corporate social responsibility in Brazil and Portugal -- György Széll: Labour & Sustainable Development.