Sociology: Work & Labour

A lyrical tour of life as a young working-class man born into the first days of the 20th century, Caliban Shrieks is a lost masterpiece of 1930s Br...

What would women do with their lives if they had more time? The riveting, untold story of a revolutionary campaign to change the way work is valued...

This book discusses the growing interest in realism in social sciences of the twenty-first century. The first part of this book provides recent dis...

In einer sich wandelnden Medienwelt sind Fragen nach der Zufriedenheit mit der Arbeit und nach Veränderungen der Zufriedenheit im Laufe des Berufsl...

Trippy, incisive, riotously funny ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN [An] insightfully nightmarish parable ' HALLE BUTLER 'A stunner NANA KWAME ...

Der Band leistet einen Beitrag zu der zunehmend fragmentierten Debatte zum Verhältnis von Wirtschaft und sozialer Ungleichheit. Die Untersuchung de...

From broadsheet newspapers to television shows and Hollywood films, capitalism is increasingly recognised as a system detrimental to human existenc...

This book focuses on gig work and organising among gig workers in the Indonesian online transport service, situated within the context of widesprea...

It is now 50 years since E.P. Thompson published his classic, The Making of the English Working Class. The Making of an African Working Class follo...

Die aktuelle globale und nationale gesellschaftliche Situation verdient Diagnosen wie tiefgreifende Umbrüche, die ein weiter so nicht mehr zulassen...

What does the future hold for work in our new age of crisis? How do we make sure that the uncertain future into which we are heading is heavenly an...

What does the future hold for work in our new age of crisis? How do we make sure that the uncertain future into which we are heading is heavenly an...

When suffragette Emily Wilding Davison hid overnight in the Houses of Parliament in 1911 to have her name recorded in the census there, she may not...

Seit dem Zeitalter des Postindustrialismus wird im Rahmen der Erwerbsarbeit verstärkt auf Subjektivität eingegangen. Doch wie beeinflusst Arbeit un...

This book advances the debate on the hybrid areas of labour by taking the case of work arrangements that destabilise the dichotomies between standa...

British Army Veterans Experiences of the Transition into Civilian Life offers an ultra-realist explanation of Army veterans experiences of the tran...

Die Factory Berlin ist ein aus dem Coworking entstandenes Unternehmen, das den Anspruch erhebt, vor allem eine Community zu beherbergen und sich he...

In today's workplaces we work harder and longer, labouring under the illusion that this will bring us more wealth. As this myth becomes increasingl...

When originally published in 1988, this book presented new evidence of inequalities in health found among communities in different areas of the Nor...

Originally published in 1980, this book presents a detailed empirical analysis of the key dimensions of inequality and poverty in Wales, discussing...

Transnational labor migration often begins with the dream of securing a more stable and prosperous future, a chance to survive. This book reveals s...