Sociology: Work & Labour

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships, and was established in 19...

Graduates (1972) examines the careers of UK graduates for six years following their successful completion of their degrees. It takes a detailed loo...

Climbing the Ladder (1986) looks at the fundamentals for women breaking the glass ceiling, examining the barriers to progress and the ways to succe...

Financial Aid through Social Work (1979) examines the way in which financial aid through social work has been used and the consequences of such use...

Eliminating Sexual Harassment at Work (1994) gives a clear picture of what sexual harassment is, the effects it has on people and organisations, an...

The Manufacturing USA initiative seeks to reinforce U.S.-based advanced manufacturing through partnerships among industry, academia, and government...

A convergent manufacturing platform is defined as a system that synergistically combines heterogeneous materials and processes (e.g., additive, sub...

In recent decades, production processes of intermediate and final products have been increasingly fragmented across countries in what are called gl...

Headlines frequently appear that purport to highlight the differences among workers of different generations and explain how employers can manage t...

Business structures, employment relationships, job characteristics, and worker outcomes have changed in the United States over the last few decades...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has overseen significant upgrades to the technology used to manage aviation operations to increase the sa...

Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and region...

To effectively mature and transition DoD manufacturing science and technology advances into production, DoD must have access to a robust and respon...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Manufacturing USA Institutes aim to protect national security and increase U.S. competitiveness in manufacturi...

This book works to unpack and explicate womens personas. Drawing on global gender studies and feminist research, the author examines how woman has ...

The contributors to this volume interrogate the labour/capital relation exploring the ways in which industrial outsourcing and subcontracting trans...

This book is about the urgent need to have time for health. It's about why people dont exercise, rest or eat healthy food even when they know they ...

From hairdressers and caregivers to reproductive workers and power-suited executives, images of women's labor have powered a fascinating new moveme...

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