Sociology: Work & Labour

For the first time, European professional deregulation is the focus of reflection by social scientists. This book explores how professional associa...

What are the costs and consequences of living in a society that has undergone an organizational revolution? To what extent is social life in the 21...

Men in reserve focuses on working class civilian men who, as a result of working in reserved occupations, were exempt from enlistment in the armed ...

This is the first full-length study of Irish Ribbonism, tracing the development of the movement from its origins in the Defender movement of the 17...

When discussing exploitation in workplaces, governments typically deploy a rhetoric of personal responsibility: they place attention on employers w...

Using a philosophical and interdisciplinary approach, this book looks at how accountability can provide solutions to our current environmental and ...

Voice memos, care packages, hours-long phone conversations, treasured traditions that go back decades, glasses held aloft during wedding toasts, ha...

Following the global financial crisis of 2008, there has been significant interest among scholars and activists in alternative forms of organizatio...

 During the 1910s and 1920s, the Philadelphia waterfront was home to the most durable interracial, multiethnic union seen in the United States prio...

An eye-opening look at how all American workers, even the highly educated and experienced, are vulnerable to the stigma of unemployment. After r...

Our jobs are often a big part of our identities, and when we are fired, we can feel confused, hurt, and powerlessat sea in terms of who we are. Dra...

Manfred Kets de Vries is one of the most authoritative voices on organizational dynamics, leadership, executive coaching, and psychotherapy today. ...

Defining Global Justice offers the first comprehensive overview of the history of the United States role in the International Labor Organization (I...

There have been few efforts to conceive of race as a characteristic that organizations possess or at the very least a characteristic that exists at...

Active labour market policies aim to assist people not in work to move into employment through a range of interventions including job search, prepa...

This is a collection of essays by an array of contributors from the Global Labour Column, which highlights and examines class struggle as the core ...

Revolutionary Learning explores the Marxist and feminist theorisation of dialectics, praxis and consciousness in education and learning. Moving bey...

Fair Work explores topics relating to work and labor at the intersection of ethics, social justice, and public policy. The volume brings together e...

Creative Justice examines issues of inequality and injustice in the cultural industries and cultural workplace. It first aims to do justice to the...

Based on over two years of participant-observation in labor brokerage firms, factories, schools, churches, and peoples homes in Japan and Brazil, S...

This book is based on an international, mixed methods research project that conducted interviews with 25 deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH) faculty memb...

The relationship between unstable work careers and family transitions into adult life can vary according to the personal circumstances of individua...

Andrea Komlosy argues in this important intervention that, when we examine it closely, work changes its meanings according to different historical ...

In The Politics of Social Inclusion and Labor Representation, Heather Connolly, Stefania Marino, and Miguel Martínez Lucio compare trade union resp...

This book examines the model developed in the Nordic countries for handling labor market relations between employers and employees - a model that h...

Who were the women who fought back at Grunwick and Gate Gourmet? Striking Women gives a voice to the women involved as they discuss their lives, th...

Who were the women who fought back at Grunwick and Gate Gourmet? Striking Women gives a voice to the women involved as they discuss their lives, th...

Who were the women who fought back at Grunwick and Gate Gourmet? Striking Women gives a voice to the women involved as they discuss their lives, th...