Sociology: Work & Labour

This book explores the changing socio-economic and technological landscape of the 21 century and what it means. It adopts an industrial economic ap...

Based on qualitative work in car plants in Argentina, this book offers new insights for an understanding of workers' collective struggles in a radi...

In The Halal Frontier Johan Fischer shows that halal (literally lawful or permitted) is no longer an expression of esoteric forms of production, tr...

A history of the twentieth-century feminists who fought for the rights of women, workers, and the poor, both in the United States and abroadFor the...

Based on studies conducted in the UK and USA, this book investigates the experiences of suppliers and consumers of masculinized domestic services, ...

This is the story of the radical intervention carried out by the Thatcher administration in response to 1986-89 Monopolies and Mergers Commission i...

Migrant Citizenship from Below explores the dynamic local and transnational lives of Filipina and Filipino migrant domestic workers living in Schön...

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The proportion of employees with caring responsibilities is growing and, as a result, p...

This book explores the experiences of ethnic performers in a small Chinese city, aiming to better understand their work and migration journeys. The...

This book examines the impact of neo-liberal reform on the traditional caring ethos of public services such as education, exploring how these refor...

Making Work and Family Work investigates the difficult choices that contemporary employees must face when juggling work and family with a view to i...

This book analyzes the recent development of accounting in Japan from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing specifically on how institutional ...

Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that we are living on the cusp of an era of rapid te...

This book analyzes in what way activation policies impact on given patterns of social citizenship that predominate in national contexts. It argues ...

Thirteen months after Trump allegedly captured the allegiance of the white working class, a strike wave-the first in over four decades-rocked the U...

To understand the scale of what faces us and how it ramifies through every corner of our lives is to marvel at our inaction. Why aren't we holding ...

Capitalism is destroying our planet, but like most social progress in the last two centuries, ecological justice can only be achieved through worki...

A behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of lifeLong-haul truckers are the backbone of the American econo...

This book provides a reasoned, unflinching description of how race and paid work are linked in U.S. society. It offers readers the rich conceptual ...

Exploring Humor in Child Welfare Casework: Laugh to Get Through It or Cry Forever explores how gallows humor is used among child welfare caseworker...

The Reproductive Bargain reveals the institutional sources of labour insecurities behind Japan's post-war employment system, and helps to explain t...

Women banana workers in Latin America have organised themselves and gained increasing control over their unions, their workplaces and their lives. ...

The Gulag remains one of the key symbols of twentieth-century mass political violence. Thanks to recent archive-based investigations, we now unders...

Population ageing is among the most important developments of our time. This book explores the profound challenges faced by an aging world. Leading...

This book combines the two most important typologies of capitalist diversity; Esping-Andersen's welfare regime typology and Hall and Soskice's 'Var...

The first cross-cultural analysis of the differences in career trajectories and experiences between a senior group of women academics and a younger...

Covering the period c.1200-c.2000, this book provides an innovative investigation of entrepreneurship in a long-run historical perspective, present...

This unique volume develops a new philosophy of law and a new theory of law enforcement. The concepts developed provide the basis for a general uni...

The Crisis-Prone Society offers preventative measures that can be taken by business professionals and scholars alike to alleviate the growing poten...

In Challenging Neoliberalism at Turkey's Gezi Park, Gürcan and Peker explore the events of May 31, 2013, when what began as a localized demonstrati...

A timely and urgent argument for preserving the work that connects us in the age of automationWith the rapid development of artificial intelligence...

As India strives to improve overall social and economic conditions and gender relations through policies such as the abolishment of dowry, increasi...

In The Halal Frontier Johan Fischer shows that halal (literally lawful or permitted) is no longer an expression of esoteric forms of production, tr...

Weaving together a social history of the American beef industry with her own account of growing up in the shadow of her grandfather's cattle busine...

A comprehensive socio-legal evaluation of the 2000 statutory recognition procedure over ten years of its operation. Whilst exploring its implicatio...

Aims to increase awareness about the specific circumstances of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) diversity. Based on a wide array of l...