Sociology: Work & Labour

The oft-used phrase Money makes the world go round not only highlights the purely economic nature of money but also underscores its significant imp...

In the 1890s, Spanish entrepreneurs spearheaded the emergence of Córdoba, Veracruz, as Mexicos largest commercial center for coffee preparation and...

Ever since Max Weber and Frederick Taylor, public organizations have been told that effective practice lies in maximizing rationality through scien...

Drawing on the complexity sciences and personal narrative accounts of experience from practitioners based in the UK, Germany, Denmark and North Ame...

Drawing on the complexity sciences and personal narrative accounts of experience from practitioners based in the UK, Germany, Denmark and North Ame...

This edited book focuses on the organization and meaning of craft work in contemporary society. It considers the relationship between craft and pla...

The Covid-19 pandemic both popularized and politicized the designation of essential work. Interrogating the dialectics of essential work, this volu...

Place branding is often a response to inter-place competition and discussed as if it operated in a vacuum, ignoring the needs of local communities....

Drawing on ethnographic data gathered from fieldwork spanning a 15-year period, this book offers new insights into understanding the lives and expe...

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...