Sociology: Work & Labour

In an era of pandemic infection, the importance of hygiene at home and in public spaces has never been greater. This book recaptures the buried his...

The world is always in flux. Stability is only a product of the moment and needs to be actively accomplished. Recognising that Routine Dynamics res...

Through a case study of Guyana, a society in which structural pluralism and ethnic/racial divisions coincide to a large extent, this book explores ...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Despite ongoing efforts...

A Lifehouse is an institution at the heart of each neighborhood that responds to the terrifying reality of climate collapse in our own communities....

This edition of the Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean addresses the challenges of labour inclusion as a key axis for inclusive soc...

Globalization, the economic crisis and related policies of austerity have led to a growth in extreme exploitation at work, with migrants particular...

Craft and the Creative Economy examines the place of craft and making in the contemporary cultural economy, with a distinctive focus on the ways in...

We are living in the age of imagination and communication. This book, about the new ways time is experienced and organised in post-industrial workp...

From time to time we all tend to wonder what sort of story our life might comprise: what it means, where it is going, and whether it hangs together...

The labourers at the heart of this study built the canals and railways undertaken as public works by the colonial governments of British North Amer...

Few terms elicit such strong and varied feelings and yet have so little clarity as democracy. Leaders of large states use democracy to designate th...

The institutional ethnographies collected in Under New Public Management explore how new managerial governance practices coordinate the work of peo...

In the mid-1980s, the Abella Commission on Equality in Employment and the federal Employment Equity Act made Canada a policy leader in addressing s...

Supporting Children and Their Families Facing Health Inequities in Canada fills an urgent national need to analyze disparities among vulnerable pop...

Playing Out of Bounds investigates the North American Chinese Invitational Volleyball Tournament (NACIVT), an annual event that began in the 1930s ...

Metro Vancouver is a diverse city where half the residents identify as people of colour, but only one percent of the population is racialized as Bl...

Metro Vancouver is a diverse city where half the residents identify as people of colour, but only one percent of the population is racialized as Bl...

With its implications for health care, the economy, and an assortment of other policy areas, population aging is one of the most pressing issues fa...

In the coming decade, we may see the advent of multinational federalism on an international scale. As great powers and international organizations ...

Drawing on case studies from Germany, Britain and Spain, this book offers a novel assessment of labour struggles and class formation. Gallas explor...

Sub-Saharan Africa faces three big inter-related challenges over the next generation. It will double its population to two billion by 2045. By then...

This book, designed to give a survey history of American labor from colonial times to the present, is uniquely well suited to speak to the concerns...