Industrial Relations, Health & Safety

The crucible of North American neo-liberal transformation is heating up, but its outcome is far from clear. Continental Crucible examines the clash...

This collection of essays explores the dynamic new face of Southern labour since 1950. Life and Labor in the New New South weaves together the best...

Indonesians and Their Arab World explores the ways contemporary Indonesians understand their relationship to the Arab world. Despite being home to ...

Mixing personal history, interviewee voices, and academic theory from the fields of care work, the sociology of work, medical sociology, and nursin...

Mixing personal history, interviewee voices, and academic theory from the fields of care work, the sociology of work, medical sociology, and nursin...

When people cannot find good work, can they still find good lives? By investigating this question in the context of South Africa, where only 43 per...

What is work? Is it simply a burden to be tolerated or something more meaningful to one''s sense of identity and self-worth? And why does it matter...

Despotism on Demand draws attention to the impact of flexible scheduling on managerial power and workplace control. When we understand paid work as...

Despotism on Demand draws attention to the impact of flexible scheduling on managerial power and workplace control. When we understand paid work as...

Nearly three decades after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), people with disabilities continue to be significantly underrep...

Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse explores the connection between the so-called robber barons who led American big businesses during the Gilded Age...

A Precarious Game is an ethnographic examination of video game production. The developers that Ergin Bulut researched for almost three years in a m...

When unions undertake labor organizing campaigns, they often do so from strong moral positions, contrasting workers rights to decent pay or better ...