Sociology: Work & Labour

Uses case studies to explore why large scale electronics failed to win a leadership position in the early computer industry and why IBM, a firm wit...

This book provides an account of the evolution of social security and employment policy and governance in Britain between 1973 and 2023. It explain...

Brands and businesses from across the globe have tried to leverage the India opportunity, based upon simplistic and widely-held assumptions. This b...

Explores the ongoing transformation of service relationships, focusing on the incorporation of the customer's active contribution to virtually all ...

Evolution of the Property Relation defines an approach to economics which is centered around the concept of property and explores the historical ev...

The assumptions made in the media regarding graduate skills and occupations are no longer valid within the changing educational context. This book ...

Now, more than ever, customer experience plays a pivotal role in the success and longevity of a company. Based on rigorous scientific tools and glo...

The book addresses how power and power resources remain important analytically as well as empirically dimensions for analysing contemporary capital...

This book analyzes the history of management, placing it in perspective with both American history and the genealogy of digital technology. Focusin...

This book is an invaluable repository of knowledge that brings clarity to key issues and trends for practitioners, academics and students of luxury...

As millennials and Gen Z grow their influence in the workplace, side hustling and overemployment are emerging from the dark corners of the corporat...

As millennials and Gen Z grow their influence in the workplace, side hustling and overemployment are emerging from the dark corners of the corporat...

This book explores the changing socio-economic and technological landscape of the 21 century and what it means. It adopts an industrial economic ap...

Based on qualitative work in car plants in Argentina, this book offers new insights for an understanding of workers' collective struggles in a radi...

In The Halal Frontier Johan Fischer shows that halal (literally lawful or permitted) is no longer an expression of esoteric forms of production, tr...

A history of the twentieth-century feminists who fought for the rights of women, workers, and the poor, both in the United States and abroadFor the...

Based on studies conducted in the UK and USA, this book investigates the experiences of suppliers and consumers of masculinized domestic services, ...

This is the story of the radical intervention carried out by the Thatcher administration in response to 1986-89 Monopolies and Mergers Commission i...

Migrant Citizenship from Below explores the dynamic local and transnational lives of Filipina and Filipino migrant domestic workers living in Schön...

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The proportion of employees with caring responsibilities is growing and, as a result, p...

This book explores the experiences of ethnic performers in a small Chinese city, aiming to better understand their work and migration journeys. The...

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

Making Work and Family Work investigates the difficult choices that contemporary employees must face when juggling work and family with a view to i...

This book analyzes the recent development of accounting in Japan from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing specifically on how institutional ...