Sociology: Work & Labour

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...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The era of team science has long since dawned. However, in orde...

Anna Kristina Sailer nimmt auf Basis einer narrativen Analyse die Identitätskonstruktionen junger Erwachsener in der Aktivgesellschaft in den Blick...

Eros and Alienation delves into the underexplored relationship between alienated labour and sexuality. Our deeply human drive to shape the world ar...

This open access handbook provides the most current overview of the discussion on diversity competence, with a focus on Europe. Diversity competenc...

Work-life balance has drawn much attention from academic researchers, professionals, and politicians over the past two decades. However, despite th...

This book offers a unique perspective on Swedens COVID-19 response in its publicly funded welfare sector, which was initially highly criticised but...

This book analyses key theoretical influences on Indian culture in a business context. It shows the interactions between indigenous culture and wor...

This volume lays out a variety of ways of engaging in research projects focused on exploring the everyday relational practices of organizing and le...

This book captures a range of important developments that have occurred in Information Systems over the last forty years, with a particular focus o...

'Fantastic' - Cal Newport'A bold vision ... lights the way to fewer hours, less stress, and more meaning' - Adam Grant Workers across all demograp...

Living on the margins offers a unique insight into the working lives of undocumented (or irregular) migrants living in London, and their employers....

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003108436, has been made available under a Creative Com...

This book focuses on the socio-political problems that emanate from Western states' harsh deterrence policies in their responses to refugee crises....

This book offers a unique grounded analysis of recent crises and transformations in academic work. It charts international and Australia-based e...

Labour market flexibility is one of the most closely debated public policy issues in India. This book provides a theoretical framework to understan...

Leadership, Psychoanalysis, and Society describes leadership as a relationship between leaders and followers in a particular context and challenges...

The editors of this book examine social movement scholars use of contemporary concepts and paradigms in the study of protest as they analyse the ex...

Examining the organization of everyday life inside the regiments of the French Foreign Legion, this book takes its theoretical point of departure i...

In this beautifully-argued book, Karen Cristensen and Ingrid Guldvik provide a comparatively-based insight to the historical context for public car...

While we have become increasingly vulnerable to the ebb and flow of global finance, most of us know very little about it. This book focuses on the ...

This title was first published in 2000: An analysis of commuting behaviour from an integrated labour and housing market perspective. A theoretical ...