Sociology: Work & Labour

Call center employees once blended skill and emotional intelligence to solve customer problems while the workplace itself encouraged camaraderie a...

Rural-urban migration has been going on in China since the early 1980s, resulting in complicated sociolinguistic environments. Migrant workers are ...

Together with changes in the nature of modernity, globalisation is restructuring society. The sovereignty of the nation-state is undermined, the st...

The contributors investigate the inter-relationships between migrant remittances and the family in Asia. They argue that, in the context of Asian t...

An in-depth look at how employers today perceive and evaluate job applicants with nonstandard or precarious employment historiesMillions of workers...

The lives of the men depicted in Perilous Wagers take place in the squalor of Tokyo's old day-laborer district, San'ya, where they can be found eki...

The lives of the men depicted in Perilous Wagers take place in the squalor of Tokyo's old day-laborer district, San'ya, where they can be found eki...

Based on the case of the ILO, both as an actor and driver of international social policy, this collection explores the internationalization process...

Work Identity at the End of the Line? tells the story of workplace culture and identity in the railway industry before during and after privatizati...

Against the backdrop of the environmental impact of household electricity consumption and the history of cooling practices, Marlyne Sahakian consid...

This book introduces the sociology of philosophy as a research field, asking what can be gained by looking at the discipline of philosophy from a s...

When the Coalition Government came to power in 2010 in claimed it would deliver not just austerity, as necessary as that apparently was, but also f...

The third book in the Great Minds in Finance series examines the pricing of securities and the risk/reward trade off through the legends, contribut...

This book explores the history and global expansion of AB Volvo, one of the hundred largest corporations in the world, through the experiences of i...

While recent Labour and coalition governments have insisted that many unemployed people prefer state benefits to a job, and have tightened the rule...

This book is a timely revival of the social and political importance of meaningful work, which explores a philosophy of work based upon the value o...

Bringing together important contributions from leading Israeli Jewish and Palestinian scholars, this comprehensive and multi-disciplinary volume ad...

Many families leave their children for years to be looked after by young people about whom they know next to nothing, from places they have barely ...

During the last decade, many European countries introduced extensive reforms to the way that income protection and activation programmes for the un...

This bookexamines inclusive growth in a range of social and economic areas in India, including physical infrastructure, vulnerable sections of the ...

Set against the backdrop of contemporary US economic history, Puerto Rico Is in the Heart examines the emigration, labor, and political experiences...

How does an industrial community cope when they are told that closure is inevitable? What if this is only the last in a 200 year long line of threa...

This book analyzes how the current generation of young adults enters the labour market and tries to create their own autonomous household, with or ...

Offering a comparative perspective, this book examines working poverty - those in work who are still classified as 'poor'. It argues that the growt...