Sociology: Work & Labour

Travelling intensively to and for work helps but also challenges people to find ways of balancing work and personal life. Drawing on a large Europe...

This book explores the extent to which a transformation of public employment regimes has taken place in four Western countries, and the factors inf...

Most labor and migration studies classify migrants with limited formal education or credentials as unskilled. Despite the value of migrants' work e...

Global Health involves, among many things the intensified travelling of people, resources, technologies, knowledge, standards, and ideas. This book...

Based on ethnographic data, this revealing study presents a humane and realistic account of Romanian economic migrants and their life in the UK, pr...

Insecure temporary employment is growing in Europe, but we know little about how being in such jobs affects political preferences and behaviour. Co...

They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields takes the reader on an ethnographic tour of the melon and corn harvesting fields of California's Central Val...

American ideals and models feature prominently in the master narrative of post-war European consumer societies. This book demonstrates that Europea...

We Are Left without a Father Here is a transnational history of working people's struggles and a gendered analysis of populism and colonialism in m...

This is the first book about the meals of Early Judaism. As such it breaks important new ground in establishing the basis for understanding the cen...

Euro-commuters' have emerged as a new group of migrants since the onset of the economic crisis in the EU. These people work in one country but live...

Far from being the preserve of middle-class women from Northern Europe, au pairing is now booming worldwide. This collection, the first dedicated e...

Child labor greatly contributed to the cultural and economic success of the British Victorian theatrical industry. This book highlights the complex...

What role should racial difference play in the American workplace? As a nation, we rely on civil rights law to address this question, and the monum...

This book offers a fresh look at Taiwan's state workers in from the postwar period to the present day and examines the rise and fall of labor insur...

This volume presents an extended reflection on human dependency and the need to 'care' and be 'cared for'. Philosophers, theologians, social theori...

After World War II, the AFL-CIO pursued an ambitious agenda of containing global communism and helping to throw off the shackles of colonialism. Th...

The past century of labor was definitively captured by theories like Fordism and Taylorism, or scientific managment, but how do we make sense of gl...

Departing from an International Relations perspective, this book inquires how industry self-regulation affects the role of international law in gov...

Global Business Transcendence focuses on both empirical studies with practical application and examinations of theoretical and methodological devel...

After excluding women and African Americans from its ranks for most of its history, the New York City Police Department undertook an aggressive cam...

In History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out James R. Barrett rethinks the boundaries of American social and labor history by investigating the...

Why are domestic workers converting to Islam in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region? In Everyday Conversions Attiya Ahmad presents us wit...

Full of unique and compelling insights into the working lives of migrant women in the UK, this book draws on more than two decades of in-depth rese...

In History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out James R. Barrett rethinks the boundaries of American social and labor history by investigating the...

A magisterial overview of the history of the fight for leisure in the United States

Middle class executives are the people who've done everything right - gotten college degrees, developed marketable skills and build up impressive r...

Co-operative enterprises, which are democratically owned and governed by their workers, customers, or suppliers, have long captured the imagination...

When thinking about the work of caring for others we often neglect the human cost born by those performing this care. Feminists have long talked ab...

When thinking about the work of caring for others we often neglect the human cost born by those performing this care. Feminists have long talked ab...

Web3 is the latest transformation of the World Wide Web, centred on public blockchains, Crypto tokens, and an ideology of decentralisation. Definin...

This master reference is essential if you contract with the government! Correctly pricing your goods or servicesand making certain that those price...

From Chris Guillebeau, the New York Times bestselling author of The $100 Startup, comes a captivating guide that explains how to create new income ...

Max Weber (18641920) has long been considered a founding figure of sociology. This book offers a fresh reading of Webers work and highlights his th...

Abolition Labor chronicles the national movement to end forced labor, much of it unpaid, in American prisons. It draws on interviews with formerly ...

In an era of pandemic infection, the importance of hygiene at home and in public spaces has never been greater. This book recaptures the buried his...