Sociology: Work & Labour

What role can and should police unions and rank-and-file officers play in driving and shaping police reform? Police unions and their members are of...

Inspired by the work of the philosopher Judith Butler, influenced by Marxs theory of alienation and intrigued by theories of death, this book devel...

Analytic philosophy has come to dominate organizational theory and management education, despite criticism from several notable scholars. The Europ...

The image of the architect is undeniably gendered. While the male architect might be celebrated as the ideal man in Hollywood romantic comedies, bl...

Since the early 2000s, storytelling as a means of managerial communication has been increasingly advocated, with a focus on the management practice...

Strategic change and transformation are words used very commonly in business parlance but rarely defined. Besides, change and transformations are o...

The Transformation of Discontent demonstrates that far from disappearing from the workplaces of the Global North, labor protest has merely changed ...

In a 24/7 world and a global economy, there is no doubt that relationships impact virtually every economic transaction. In Relationship Economics, ...

When a venture seems to be faltering, do you persist and hope that things will get better or do you cut your losses? This may be one of the most im...

Expanding disciplinary Space: On the Potential of Critical Marketing provides an introduction to the major perspectives in critical marketing studi...

The book elaborates the basic principles of Auction Theory in a non-technical language so as to make them easily accessible to even those not train...

This book guides the reader in discovering contemporary professions and the critical changes they have lived through after the post-industrial tran...

Diese Open Access Publikation bündelt Ergebnisse aus der ersten Förderphase des interdisziplinären DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms 2267 Digitalisierung de...

Engineers know what they mean by the word technology. They mean the things engineers conceive, design, build, and deploy. But what does the word gl...

Working for Ford (1984) describes just what it is like to work in a car factory, very often in the words of the workers themselves. It also reveals...

Coffee from East Africa, wine from California, chocolate from the Ivory Coast - all those every day products are based on labour, often produced un...

This open access book focuses on the distinctive experiences of freelance and self-employed live performers in the UKs live entertainment industrie...

Focuses on the lives and labour of the men and women who work in Nairobi's publicly operated, privately owned minibus taxis, matatu. How can mass...

This book provides a critical psychosocial analysis of legal practice, documenting a mental health crisis among lawyers and judges and linking this...

This book provides a critical psychosocial analysis of legal practice, documenting a mental health crisis among lawyers and judges and linking this...

The Industrial Revolution (1958) examines the various interpretations of early industrialization in Britain. It assesses and synthesises the many w...

The Stationers Company (1960) examines the corporate existence, under one name or another, of the Stationers Company over five hundred and fifty ye...

Economic Nationalism of the Danubian States (1928) examines the economic situations in the newly-configured countries of the basin of the Danube. T...

Economic Organization of the British Coal Industry (1934) is a study that shows on the one hand the organization of the coal industry in Britain in...