Sociology: Work & Labour

This edited book emerges from the observation that the current literatures on migration in China are constrained by a series of shortfalls, includi...

This book provides a critical perspective on the digitalisation of universities and precarisation of academic labour.While research and teaching be...

Employing the intellectual migration analytical framework, this book examines the dynamics of student and professional migration. Intellectual migr...

How Chinas economic development combines a veneer of unprecedented progress with the increasingly despotic rule of surveillance over all aspects of...

This book lays the groundwork for a relational theory of the firm as a network of stakeholder resources and interests. Drawing on the authors earli...

This book examines the large-scale return migration of South and Southeast Asian workers triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring its causes, ...

This open access handbook combines multiple theoretical and practical approaches for enabling a nuanced understanding of the phenomenon of marriage...

Guardian's Best Non-Fiction, 2019The Tablet's Highlights of 2019Personality tests. Team-building exercises. Forced Fun. Desktop surveillance. Open-...

A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens nextFaith in technological ...

What will it take to build high-performing, purpose-oriented public sector organizations in India? In answering this question, the voices of India'...

First published in 1941, the original blurb read: Women have been among the worst sufferers not only in war-time but in every ill-organized time of...

Originally published in 1990, Gendered Jobs and Social Change is a systematic exploration of the changing structure of womens paid work in Britain ...

This edited collection presents the complex theory of kitsch from aesthetic and artistic points of view, transposed into managerial and organisatio...

Sweetwater County lies in southwestern Wyoming, and has stood as a significant symbolic geography for the new Western Womans history. As the county...

Economist Best Books of the YearFinancial Times Business Book of the Month'A handbook for disruptors' - Eric Schmidt, former CEO of GoogleWere livi...

This is a book about knowledge and how it is organized.The business school has captured ideas about organization, and reduced them to questions of ...

This is a book about knowledge and how it is organized.The business school has captured ideas about organization, and reduced them to questions of ...

Domestic Work in Postcolonial Tanzania examines the dynamics of learning domestic and care work within affluent expatriate households, characterize...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of post-war labour market reconstructions, in the context of a regional bloc whose member states have e...

When eighty-seven passengers and crew died in the shipwreck of the Royal Mail ship Egypt in 1922, the accident gave rise to a racist international ...

Widely known as a leading intellectual, Zygmunt Baumans thinking is often categorized as sociology or philosophy. But his work has been hugely infl...

Broadly, a Public-Private Partnership (or PPP) is any collaboration between the public and private sector, but research in the UK has tended to foc...

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