Sociology: Work & Labour

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 ...

Originally published in 1990, Soviet Urbanization provides an assessment of Soviet urban systems. Drawing on her personal experiences at the Soviet...

Striptease and other types of erotic dance increasingly make up a large, lucrative and visible part of the sex industries in the United Kingdom and...

Many governments seek to attract skilled migrants into the top occupational groups and now have significant groups of overseas-born professionals i...

Humans are accustomed to being tool bearers, but what happens when machines become tool bearers, calculating human labour via the use of big data a...

This book offers a general theoretical framework for approaching innovation and entrepreneurship, using practical and up-to-date examples to demons...

Contrary to the stereotype which depicts them as economic successes, Asian workers have a high incidence of underemployment when compared to white ...

How Speech Acting and the Struggle of Narratives Generate Organization seeks to shed understanding on how speaking or speech-acting affects how we ...

This title was first published in 2000. The essays in this volume explore the changing nature of family and gender relations in contemporary Tanzan...

This title was first published in 2001. This book is the result of an international study by leading economists and sociologists from across Europe...

In the past fifteen years, microsimulation models have become firmly established as vital tools for analysis of the distributional impact of change...

This title was first published in 2001: Examining the future of the welfare state in four globalizing economies - Sweden, UK, Japan and US - this b...

This challenging new study examines gender and sexuality in relation to the roving colonialism of sport mega-events. Built around four case studies...

This title was first published in 2000: Both the world of work and the sphere of family life are greedy, demanding time and energy of participants....

Trade Unions and European Integration brings together pessimists and optimists on trade unionism under the contemporary pressures of European integ...

Drawing on data from a Europe wide project, together with existing data on equality and diversity initiatives, this book explores the work of trade...

This was first published in 2000: This work is founded on the premise that many analyses of economic restructuring and of gender relations fail to ...

Strategic change and transformation are words used very commonly in business parlance but rarely defined. Besides, change and transformations are o...

First published in 1985, this book provides a descriptive study of social activities in a neurosciences laboratory. Based on fieldwork conducted by...

This title was first published in 2000. The essays in this volume explore the changing nature of family and gender relations in contemporary Tanzan...

Despite the Great Recession, slightly different forms of global capitalism are still portrayed as the only game in town by the vast majority of peo...

Respecifying Lab Ethnography delivers the first ethnomethodological study of current experimental physics in action, describing the disciplinary or...

The modern world is characterised by pervasive economic inequalities. Strong economic growth in some developing countries has contributed to a degr...

Greeces economy and society have undergone important structural changes in recent years as a result of the financial crisis and consequent austerit...

This international collection examines violence and abuse in and around organisations. The collection documents the causes, specifically from the p...