Sociology: Work & Labour

This book explores the transformation of employment relations, the rise of worker protest and the reform of trade union practice to ask how success...

Using the concept of fulfilment and the framework of the serious leisure perspective, this book examines the signposts marking the fulfilment caree...

This book advances research into the government-forced labor used widely in colonial Kenya from 1930 to 1963 after the passage of the International...

This timely and innovative book delivers a comprehensive analysis of the non-recognition of the right to a family life of migrant live-in domestic ...

Seeing Indian dancers as gendered labour highlights the politics of Asian American racialization, migration, and citizenship

'Compelling.' Reni Eddo-LodgeA 'must-read book for 2022', as picked by StylistMore than one fifth of children want to become influencers and it's e...

For the first time, European professional deregulation is the focus of reflection by social scientists. This book explores how professional associa...

What are the costs and consequences of living in a society that has undergone an organizational revolution? To what extent is social life in the 21...

Men in reserve focuses on working class civilian men who, as a result of working in reserved occupations, were exempt from enlistment in the armed ...

This is the first full-length study of Irish Ribbonism, tracing the development of the movement from its origins in the Defender movement of the 17...

When discussing exploitation in workplaces, governments typically deploy a rhetoric of personal responsibility: they place attention on employers w...

Using a philosophical and interdisciplinary approach, this book looks at how accountability can provide solutions to our current environmental and ...

Voice memos, care packages, hours-long phone conversations, treasured traditions that go back decades, glasses held aloft during wedding toasts, ha...

Following the global financial crisis of 2008, there has been significant interest among scholars and activists in alternative forms of organizatio...

 During the 1910s and 1920s, the Philadelphia waterfront was home to the most durable interracial, multiethnic union seen in the United States prio...

An eye-opening look at how all American workers, even the highly educated and experienced, are vulnerable to the stigma of unemployment. After r...

Our jobs are often a big part of our identities, and when we are fired, we can feel confused, hurt, and powerlessat sea in terms of who we are. Dra...

Manfred Kets de Vries is one of the most authoritative voices on organizational dynamics, leadership, executive coaching, and psychotherapy today. ...