Sociology: Work & Labour

The papers included in the volume explore how mobilizing Boltanski and Thévenots EW framework helps address questions regarding the premises and dy...

Bridging the social and life sciences to unlock the mystery of how cities shape mental health and illnessMost of the worlds people now live in citi...

The world is getting faster. This sentiment is proclaimed so often that it is taken for granted, rarely questioned or examined by those who celebra...

Postwar employment standards are being undermined and 'non-standard' employment is becoming more common. While scholars have pointed to negative co...

Waste is increasingly a site of social conflict. The questions related to waste management are not merely technical; what, how, where, and by whom ...

Social class remains a fundamental presence in British life in the twenty-first century. It is woven into the very fabric of social and political d...

As sales of fair-trade goods explode across the globe, Fair Trade and the Citizen-Consumer provides a timely analysis of the organizations, institu...

This book explores the human geographies of skilled migration, specifically the practices, dispositions, relationships, and resources of profession...

The Lost Leaders presents the personal stories of women who achieved success in corporate leadership, but have chosen to abandon their careers, pro...

Dance has proliferated in movies, television, Internet, and retail spaces while the spiritual power of dance has also been linked with mass consump...

Beyond Inclusion adopts a holistic and systems view of the organization, presents a behavioral model of organizational inclusion based upon researc...

Based on an extensive national survey of workers and four separate industry-specific surveys, Generations and Work will examine and provide answers...

Exploring recent contemporary debates on gender and migration, this book scrutinizes the relationship between women's work in ethnic economies and ...

Given the growing importance of Eastern European countries in the development of the EU, there is an urgent need to reconstruct the recent dynamic ...

Spracklen explores the impact of the internet on leisure and leisure studies, examining the ways in which digital leisure spaces and activities hav...

Contemporary bureaucracy is a set of norms, rules, procedures, and formalities which includes administration, business, and NGOs. Where Max Weber m...

This project provides an in-depth study of the role of worker-activist leaders in industrial strikes in China, a country where labor rights face si...

Introducing the first macro-sociological perspective on the concept of creativity this book includes a review of ten domains which have studied cre...

This collection analyzes shifting relationships between gender and labour in post-Fordist times. Contingency creates a sexual contract in which att...

Insurance is an important if still poorly understood mechanism for dealing with a broad variety of risks associated with modern life. This book c...

Susan Eisenberg began her apprenticeship with Local 103 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in 1978, the year president Jimmy Ca...

Metaphor and dialectic are modes of thinking that influence the ways in which we identify what we have in common with others, how we differ and how...

Drawing on interviews with nurses, social workers, exotic dancers and hairdressers, this book explores the processes involved in producing and repr...

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

In Songs of the Factory, Marek Korczynski examines the role that popular music plays in workers culture on the factory floor. Reporting on his ethn...

In many countries, the number of people working beyond pension age is increasing. This volume investigates this trend in seven different countries,...

This book presents a new and nuanced exploration of the position of women in Muslim countries, based on research involving more than 300,000 women ...

Active labour market policies aim to assist people not in work to move into employment through a range of interventions including job search, prepa...

In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas. In just a decade, this vast r...

We have spent the last three decades engaged in a pointless and irrelevant debate about the relative merits of privatization or nationalization. We...

Das Buch gibt einen Überblick über die bisherigen Entwicklungen und den gegenwärtigen Stand zentraler Themenbereiche der Arbeitssoziologie. Es verm...

Anlass für dieses Buchs sind die zunehmende Kälte im Umgang der Bürger miteinander und ihre mangelnde Empathie: normenverletzendes Handeln zulasten...

Women migrants are doubly-disadvantaged by their sex and outsider status when moving to a new country. Highly skilled women are no exception to thi...

This book analyzes the everyday lives of labour migrants in a rapidly developing city-state. Using the emirate of Dubai as a case study, Migrant Du...

This book analyzes the everyday lives of labour migrants in a rapidly developing city-state. Using the emirate of Dubai as a case study, Migrant Du...