Sociology: Work & Labour

Engaging with some of the most debated topics in contemporary organizations, Health at Work: Critical Perspectives presents a critical, contingent ...

This book explores the connection between British and German officer cadets perceptions of the past and their motivations for enlisting in the mili...

Equal opportunity in the workplace is thought to be the direct legacy of the civil rights and feminist movements and the landmark Civil Rights Act ...

This innovative interdisciplinary collection confronts the worldwide challenge of women's under-representation in science through an interrogation ...

To thrive in academia, wellbeing must be understood and nurtured. Recent events such as the COVID-19 pandemic has left the landscape of higher educ...

Blue-Collar Empire tells the shocking story of the AFL-CIO's global anticommunist crusade-and its devastating consequences for workers around the w...

This volume explores Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples interactions with public sector bureaucracies. The authors featured here conside...

Receiving education and training that lead to a meaningful job, having a career, and being a valued contributor to a professional environment is ta...

In todays world of unequal globalization, Bangladesh has drawn international attention for the spate of factory disasters that have taken the lives...

There is little doubt that in recent years, enterprise has been considered an essential approach in the alleviation of deprivation existing in the ...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Though organizational scholarship traces its intellectual linea...

Originally published in 1983, this book promotes understanding of the provision for the young unemployed in Britain in the 1980s, both in policy an...

The complexion of labour migration in the European Union (EU) has altered in recent years. Not only has there been a shift in the length of time la...

This book provides a critical, ethnographically grounded examination of the hype surrounding the idea of impact by investigating the work of those ...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) or billionaire philanthropy is like a Rorschach test the same act can look very different depending on how w...

How is gender signified, produced and reproduced through paid and unpaid labour? In what ways does gender intersect with other kinds of disadvantag...

This book provides an ethnographic investigation of the white, upper-middle classes in Britain. It follows the Jack Wills brand to demonstrate how ...

It is impossible to view the news at present without hearing talk of crisis. This timely book looks at how three major crises the economy, pandemi...

This book gives an insight to the introduction, initiatives and community engagement in community based tourism, along with its management and mark...

A vivid look at how India has developed the idea of entrepreneurial citizens as leaders mobilizing society and how people try to live that promiseC...

Family caregiving is not simply an outside obligation that has no bearing on the workings of academic science, technology, engineering, mathematics...

The volume offers a comparative and transnational exploration of women's work in the twentieth century, concentrating especially on the turbulent p...

While the working lives of tech entrepreneurs and delivery platform workers seem far removed, both are engaged in digital labor. What unites their ...

Delve into the complex landscape of the informal economy with the Routledge Handbook of the Informal Economy, a groundbreaking volume that transcen...

From the rise of fully automated factories to the creation of new migrant workforces, the world of work, employment and production is rapidly chang...

Against the backdrop of rapid socio-economic change in post-1990 India, scholars and policy makers have expressed surprise at the low rate of women...

Offering a unique, comprehensive, and critical introduction to increasingly visible social inequalities, this textbook examines the political and e...

Offering a unique, comprehensive, and critical introduction to increasingly visible social inequalities, this textbook examines the political and e...

Beyond nostalgic tea industry ads romanticizing colonial Ceylon and the impoverished conditions that beleaguer Tamil tea workers are the stories of...

Call center employees once blended skill and emotional intelligence to solve customer problems while the workplace itself encouraged camaraderie a...

Beyond nostalgic tea industry ads romanticizing colonial Ceylon and the impoverished conditions that beleaguer Tamil tea workers are the stories of...

Canada's student body is diverse and the transition from student to worker is often challenging. Working in Canada's intersectional and practical a...

Part manifesto, part manual, this book offers historians of all levels both subject and approach. The subject is work. In every place-time people m...