Sociology: Work & Labour

The concept of guanxi is used extensively in Chinese society. Loosely understood as 'connections' or 'networks', it refers to long-term mutually re...

Contract workers from the Philippines make up one of the world's largest movements of temporary labor migrants. Deirdre McKay follows Filipino migr...

Theatre Work: Reimagining the Labor of Theatrical Production investigates both the history and current realities of life and work in professional t...

Growing levels of income and wage inequality and the precaritization of many sections of the labour force have made labour unions as salient as eve...

We usually speak of crisis in numbers: decline in purchasing power, rise in unemployment rates or decreasing levels of life satisfaction. But what ...

Rumours of the death of the global labour movement have been greatly exaggerated. Rising from the ashes of the old trade union movement, workers' s...

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 is the first full-length study of Irish Ribbonism. It traces the development of Ribbonism from its origins in the Defender movement of the 179...

This book is about the employment of people with disabilities in the United States and the important role of employer practices. Nearly one in five...

Hired Daughters examines a fading tradition of domestic service in which rural girls familiar to ordinary Moroccan families were placed in their ho...

Since the early twentieth century, thousands of Mexican Americans have lived, worked, and formed communities in Chicagos steel mill neighborhoods. ...

The concept of human rights at work has advanced significantly in the last decade. The authors of the essays in Human Rights in Labor and Employmen...

Stroll through any public park in Brooklyn on a weekday afternoon and you will see black women with white children at every turn. Many of these wom...

Historical Studies in Industrial Relations was established in 1996 by the Centre for Industrial Relations, Keele University, to provide an outlet f...

A job is no longer something we do, but instead something we are. As the boundaries between work and non-work have dissolved, we restructure ourse...

Psychological harassment at work, or mobbing, has become a significant public policy issue in Italy and elsewhere in Europe. Mobbing has given rise...

In The Allure of Labor, Paulo Drinot rethinks the social politics of early-twentieth-century Peru. Arguing that industrialization was as much a cul...

How do we organize ourselves to accomplish shared goals? Our well-worn modes of collective action--from markets to hierarchies, from institutions t...