Sociology: Work & Labour

Although Tijuana has historically been one of the primary crossing points between Mexico and the United States for undocumented migrants, represent...

This revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism. In Undoing Work, Rethinking Community, James A....

In High Tech and High Touch, James E. Coverdill and William Finlay invite readers into the dynamic world of headhunters, personnel professionals wh...

In The Tumbleweed Society, Allison Pugh offers a moving exploration of sacrifice, betrayal, defiance, and resignation, as people cope in a society ...

How educated and culturally savvy young people are transforming traditionally low-status manual labor jobs into elite taste-making occupations In ...

Beaten, pushed, exploited, overworked, unpaid; a far cry from the cared-for and nurtured lives our children should expect in the twenty-first centu...

''It might just save your life - and your children''s lives. The Globotics Upheaval is a manifesto for future-proofing our jobs and prosperity'' Su...

In Confronting Dystopia, a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological revolution for jobs, working condi...

This revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism. In Undoing Work, Rethinking Community, James A....

''It is my thesis that this general production of life, or subsistence production - mainly performed through the non-wage labour of women and other...

Decades of neoliberal authoritarianism have propelled Turkey into crisis. Regime change, economic disaster and Erdogans ambition to impose one-man ...

With the world changing at breakneck speed and workers at the whim of apps, bad bosses and zero-hours contracts, why should we care about unions? A...

'Jane Holgate is a brilliant thinker' - Jane McAlevey In Arise, Jane Holgate argues that unions must revisit their understanding of power in order...

This volume contains two Open Access Chapters.   Volume 64 of Research in the Sociology of Organizations takes stock of research on processes of i...

Detroit's Cold War locates the roots of American conservatism in a city that was a nexus of labor and industry in postwar America. Drawing on metic...

Some 10 million migrant workers cross national borders each year and, if they pay an average $1,000 to recruiters, moving workers over borders is a...

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...

An edited book in the Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment series associated with the annual International Labour Process Conference. The b...

Along with fast-food workers, retail workers are capturing the attention of the public and the media with the Fight for $15. Like fast-food workers...

In the decades following World War II, factories in many countries not only provided secure employment and a range of economic entitlements, but al...

Booklist Editors Choice Best Books of 2019 An intimate portrait of the joys and hardships of rural life, as one man searches for community, equal...

Much has been written about Titanic, the British passenger liner that sank on her maiden voyage after a collision with an iceberg in 1912; however,...

City of Broken Dreams brings the global debate about the urban university to bear on the realities of South African rust-belt cities through a deta...

In High Tech and High Touch, James E. Coverdill and William Finlay invite readers into the dynamic world of headhunters, personnel professionals wh...

Organizations are ubiquitous, from clubs and associations to firms and public agencies. They confer meaning to all of us, and our attachment to and...

In Confronting Dystopia, a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological revolution for jobs, working condi...

They Taught Us Skills for Life: We are the Engineers! Scotland's labour history has been the subject of many important studies, surveys, articles a...

An ethnographic study of Ontario Works-a jobs program for welfare recipients-this reference points to unsolved problems going back to 1996, when th...

In the years leading up to and directly following rapprochement with China in 1992, the South Korean government looked to ethnic Korean (Chosnjok) ...

Head and shoulders above almost all other new books about China, this unflinching and yearningly compassionate portrait of the lives and loves of o...

Women and minorities have entered higher-paying occupations, but their overall earnings still lag behind those of white men. Why? Looking nationwid...