Sociology: Work & Labour

Defining Global Justice offers the first comprehensive overview of the history of the United States role in the International Labor Organization (I...

There have been few efforts to conceive of race as a characteristic that organizations possess or at the very least a characteristic that exists at...

Active labour market policies aim to assist people not in work to move into employment through a range of interventions including job search, prepa...

This is a collection of essays by an array of contributors from the Global Labour Column, which highlights and examines class struggle as the core ...

Revolutionary Learning explores the Marxist and feminist theorisation of dialectics, praxis and consciousness in education and learning. Moving bey...

Fair Work explores topics relating to work and labor at the intersection of ethics, social justice, and public policy. The volume brings together e...

Creative Justice examines issues of inequality and injustice in the cultural industries and cultural workplace. It first aims to do justice to the...

Based on over two years of participant-observation in labor brokerage firms, factories, schools, churches, and peoples homes in Japan and Brazil, S...

This book is based on an international, mixed methods research project that conducted interviews with 25 deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH) faculty memb...

The relationship between unstable work careers and family transitions into adult life can vary according to the personal circumstances of individua...

Andrea Komlosy argues in this important intervention that, when we examine it closely, work changes its meanings according to different historical ...

In The Politics of Social Inclusion and Labor Representation, Heather Connolly, Stefania Marino, and Miguel Martínez Lucio compare trade union resp...

This book examines the model developed in the Nordic countries for handling labor market relations between employers and employees - a model that h...

Who were the women who fought back at Grunwick and Gate Gourmet? Striking Women gives a voice to the women involved as they discuss their lives, th...

Who were the women who fought back at Grunwick and Gate Gourmet? Striking Women gives a voice to the women involved as they discuss their lives, th...

Who were the women who fought back at Grunwick and Gate Gourmet? Striking Women gives a voice to the women involved as they discuss their lives, th...

Many businesses and organizations are increasingly aware of the case for promoting gender equality, both within and outside their organizational bo...

An in-depth look at Qatar's migrant workers and the place of skill in the language of control and powerSkillspecifically the distinction between th...

This second of two companion volumes places the labor markets, workplaces, jobs and workers of Europe in comparative perspective. It focuses on the...

An in-depth look at Qatar's migrant workers and the place of skill in the language of control and powerSkillspecifically the distinction between th...

Randy Hodson was one of contemporary sociology's central figures in the study of work, occupations, and inequality. This volume pays tribute to his...

Immigrants and their descendants are growing populations that are rapidly changing the racial/ethnic diversity of the United States and many societ...