Sociology: Work & Labour

Originally published in 1980 at a time when the discipline of sociology was still relatively young in Australia, The Inheritance of Inequality is a...

A fresh look at the boom in entrepreneurship and start-ups and how its changing the world of work. Does it feel like everyone you know is thinkin...

The second edition of Problems of Working Women in Karachi, Pakistan is the result of extensive original research on working women in Karachi. The ...

What does it mean to be a feminist? What can feminism say about ourselves, the work we do, and our ways of living together? This book draws on the ...

At present, 80% of the employees are no longer engaged in their work and capable of performing, while 44% are experiencing work related stress and ...

This book explores how economic and social values are created through dynamic, non-linear interactions within cooperative networks. Emphasizing the...

This book explores the wider implications of how workers move within and across cities and regions to reach economic opportunities. It does so with...

Using a nationally representative data set, this book examines the characteristics of Chinese college students mobility since the expansion of high...

This book explores how Lean a global management doctrine operates and is adopted in the real, corporeal, collective, and affective environments o...

Economists measure the effects of immigration through the yardstick of income. This book offers a broad survey of the conventional approach but in ...

This book explores the early globalization of prostitution from the perspective of the Italian case. It is a story of prostitution, migration, and ...

This book explores the wider implications of how workers move within and across cities and regions to reach economic opportunities. It does so with...

This book critically investigates the declining status of creative workers in contemporary societies following changes associated with the neoliber...

This handbook presents a systematic and comprehensive overview of economic sociology, an exemplary interdisciplinary field which draws on theoretic...

In his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class that is reshaping the...

The essays in Indigenous Women and Work create a transnational and comparative dialogue on the history of the productive and reproductive lives and...

The 2004 reunification of Eastern and Western Europe and the subsequent economic crisis caused a surge in intra-European labour mobility and a prof...

 To date, most research on immigrant women and labor forces has focused on the participation of immigrant women on formal labor markets. In this st...

This volume of Research in the Sociology of Work starts with a deceptively simple question of, Do events and experiences during adolescence influen...

An unsparing analysis of class power and computerisation, Cyber-Proletariat shows us the dark-side of the information revolution. From Coltan mines...

This volume presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political and economic ...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Women more often than men take care of their ageing relatives t...

This volume presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political and economic ...

Economic institutions are undergoing radical transformations, and with these has come a reconfiguration of labor market institutions, managerial co...