Sociology: Work & Labour

This book puts to the test the prominent claim that social class has declined in importance in an era of affluence, choice and the waning of tradit...

In the midst of the freezing winter of 197879, more than 2,000 strikes, infamously coined the Winter of Discontent, erupted across Britain as worke...

Much has been written about equal opportunity issues but little has been published about how organisations might provide more structure and support...

Investigates eight dimensions of competition which are active yet covert in the lives of managers. Explains in great detail the everyday experience...

How Asian Women Lead provides a vastly different picture than Western-focused leadership literature, highlighting obstacles Asian women face reachi...

Electronics is an ever-changing field with an entrepreneurial spirit and a rich history, populated by some of the world's most famous companies and...

The return of interest in socialism and the critique of capitalism make Beyond Post-Socialism a timely work. The book explores the critical-theoret...

Lessons in creative labor, solidarity, and inclusion under precarious economic conditionsAs writers, musicians, online content creators, and other ...

Contributing to feminist approaches to masculinities, this book examines men's contextual experiences of masculine identity. Drawing on new data wh...

The notion of immaterial labor is, at the beginning of the 21st century, a central issue for understanding the transformations of late capitalism. ...

When you work on the streets of Dhaka, crime is part of everyday life. Rackets are ubiquitous, political muscle widespread, and territory often fou...

This accessible edited collection provides global context for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying the sociology of work and organisati...

This accessible edited collection provides global context for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying the sociology of work and organisati...

A worker-centered, woman-centered history of China's economic transformationSocialist Chinas state forestry and timber industries employed men as s...

A worker-centered, woman-centered history of China's economic transformationSocialist Chinas state forestry and timber industries employed men as s...

Das Praxishandbuch arbeitet die Kompetenzen für zukünftiges Arbeiten im Kontext der Digitalen Transformation heraus und soll Staat, Unternehmen und...

More than 130 years after Karl Marx's death and 150 years after the publication of his opus magnum Capital: Critique of Political Economy, capitali...

Praise for Working the Phones: A sharp reminder of the difficulties faced by call-center workers. The Financial Times Jamie Woodcock shows us wha...

Farewell to Work? presents the large process of capital's productive restructuring, triggered in the 1970sa process with tendencies to both intelle...

The men and women in Invisible Hands reveal the human rights abuses occurring behind the scenes of the global economy. These narrators including p...

This book analyses the processes, mutations and trends currently characterising the world of work that are bound up within the deep contradictions ...

In Animals as Legal Beings, Maneesha Deckha critically examines how Canadian law and, by extension, other legal orders around the world, participat...

Turkish Guest Workers in Germany tells the post-war story of Turkish guest workers, whom West German employers recruited to fill their depleted ran...