Sociology: Work & Labour

The book explores the intersection of emotions and migration in a number of case studies from across the USA, Europe and Southeast Asia, including ...

Craft is resurgent. More people are buying craft; more money is being spent on craft products than ever before. This book centres craft as a creati...

Global Vision: How Companies Can Overcome the Pitfalls of Globalization addresses the business challenges that globalization poses. It will help ma...

The idea of occupational devotion, or devotee work, was conceptualized and incorporated in the serious leisure perspective as one of the two seriou...

This book explores how the conceptual lens of Holistic Flexibility presents new advancements in systems thinking in management science. Systems thi...

What Work Means goes beyond the stereotypes and captures the diverse ways Americans view work as a part of a good life. Dispelling the notion of Am...

What Work Means goes beyond the stereotypes and captures the diverse ways Americans view work as a part of a good life. Dispelling the notion of Am...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. This absorbing study examines the remarkable campaign for do...

Mit diesem sechsbändigen Werk erscheint erstmals eine vollständige Edition der Aufsätze und Vorträge Niklas Luhmanns zum Thema Organisation. Die Bä...

In this edition of the Demographic Observatory, the impact of population dynamics is illustrated through an analysis of selected indicators of labo...

This collection posits three questions. 1) What structures of violence and oppression are experienced and shared by human and nonhuman laborers wor...

Clare Holdsworth develops an account of everyday busyness by identifying busyness with a relational interpretation of time. She analyses a variety ...

Over the past several decades, shrimp has transformed from a luxury food to a kitchen staple. While shrimp-loving consumers have benefited from the...

The Self at Work brings researchers in industrial and organizational psychology and organizational behavior together with researchers in social and...

EURAM's Book of the Year in 2020, Hierarchy takes readers on a journey which traverses how this idea has evolved, is understood in various discipli...

Social theorists speculate about large-scale social questions, asking of any phenomenon, how is it possible? This book addresses how various social...

What makes domestic work a bad job, even after efforts to formalize and improve working conditions? Erynn Masi de Casanova's case study, based part...

With case studies from the USA, Canada, Chile, and other countries in Latin America, American Chinese Restaurants examines the lived experiences of...

The Routledge Companion to Critical Marketing brings together the latest research in Critical Marketing Studies in one authoritative and convenient...

The Dialectical Meaning of Offshored Work analyzes how offshoring investments function as a platform for intercultural encounters among corporate a...

Stories of Care: A Labour of Law is an interdisciplinary study of the interactions of law and labour that shape paid care work. Based on the experi...

Wo etablierte Akteure aus Markt, Staat und auch Zivilgesellschaft an ihre Grenzen zu stoßen scheinen, gewinnen Sozialunternehmen dadurch, dass sie ...

This book explores the transformation of employment relations, the rise of worker protest and the reform of trade union practice to ask how success...

Using the concept of fulfilment and the framework of the serious leisure perspective, this book examines the signposts marking the fulfilment caree...

This book advances research into the government-forced labor used widely in colonial Kenya from 1930 to 1963 after the passage of the International...

This timely and innovative book delivers a comprehensive analysis of the non-recognition of the right to a family life of migrant live-in domestic ...

Seeing Indian dancers as gendered labour highlights the politics of Asian American racialization, migration, and citizenship

'Compelling.' Reni Eddo-LodgeA 'must-read book for 2022', as picked by StylistMore than one fifth of children want to become influencers and it's e...