Sociology: Work & Labour

This book is about the rise of digital labor. Companies like Uber and Amazon Mechanical Turk promise autonomy, choice, and flexibility. One of netw...

Millions of young people-and increasingly some not-so-young people-now work as interns. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand magazine offices...

The sex industry is an endless source of prurient drama for the mainstream media. Recent years have seen a panic over online red-light districts,...

Passing the buck is Volume 5 No 1 of the international interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal, Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation. Casual...

Volume 6 Number 1 of the international interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal 'Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation focuses on the gender i...

The topics covered in this book can be divided into four broad groups: studies of labour conditions up to the middle of the nineteenth century; stu...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Societal grand challenges have moved from a marginal concern t...

Mercenaries and Missionaries examines the relationship between rapidly diffusing forms of capitalism and Christianity in the Global South. Using mo...

City-state Greece and nation-state Europe were civilisations of a special kind. Historical and geographical conditions favoured, in both cases, the...

Why too much work and too little time is hurting workers and companiesand how a proven workplace redesign can benefit employees and the bottom line...

This book draws upon original research into womens workplace protest to deliver a new account of working-class womens political identity and partic...

This is a book about who we are today, and how we have become who we are. It is about the engineers of the modern soul, the entrepreneurial self. I...

Despite Canadas economic success over the past thirty years, the countrys ranking in productivity has continued to decline when compared to other i...

Work is, and always will be, a central institution of society. What makes a capitalist society unique is that it treats the human capacity to engag...

As a stand-alone text, a self-study manual, or a supplement to a lab manual or comprehensive text, The Joy of Stats is a unique and versatile resou...

The call center industry is booming in the Philippines. Around the year 2005, the country overtook India as the world's voice capital, and industry...

A sweeping history of the full range of human labor Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even f...

A sweeping history of the full range of human labor Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even f...

Artistic labour was exemplary for Utopian Socialist theories of 'attractive labour', and Marxist theories of 'nonalienated labour', but the rise of...

Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that we are living on the cusp of an era of rapid te...

A young Chinese girl forced to work in a New York sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful memoir about labour and self-worth,...

Sonic branding, guerrilla marketing, celebrity endorsements, customer service excellence and multi-channel advertising are just some of the popular...

'Shanzhai' from Cantonese slang, refers to the production of fake goods in China, which enjoy an anti-authoritarian-like dissemination across the g...

This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society...

As the twentieth century dawned and France entered an era of extraordinary labor activism and industrial competition, an insistently romantic visio...

''''A manifesto for future-proofing our jobs and prosperity'''' THE SUNDAY TIMESWe stand on the edge of a new era that will bring change to our wor...

How has the way we spend our time changed over the last fifty years?Are we really working more, sleeping less and addicted to our phones?What does ...

*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2017* *Winner of the 2016 Labor History Best Book prize* Over a million p...