Sociology: Work & Labour

The exploitation of Latino workers in many industries, fromagriculture and meat packing to textile manufacturing and janitorialservices, is well kn...

Since the 1960s, a major mental health crisis has emerged among Western working populations. By analysing the development of various occupational c...

Since the 1960s, a major mental health crisis has emerged among Western working populations. By analysing the development of various occupational c...

This engaging new text uses a feminist lens to crack open the often hidden worlds of gender and work, addressing enduring questions about how str...

Knowledge evolution punctuates the previous equilibrium of society and requires us to develop adaptive solutions. One new rule is that as the disco...

Knowledge evolution punctuates the previous equilibrium of society and requires us to develop adaptive solutions. One new rule is that as the disco...

The Inner World of Research is a book about the joys and miseries of life as a researcher. Dealing with essential but rarely mentioned topics in th...

Politicians, educators and business leaders often tell young people they will need to develop their creative skills to be ready for the new economy...

The Inner World of Research is a book about the joys and miseries of life as a researcher. Dealing with essential but rarely mentioned topics in th...

We live in a tumbleweed society, where job insecurity is rampant and widely seen as inevitable. Companies are transforming the way they organize wo...

Prostitution bears the unique title of being both the world's oldest profession and one of the least understood occupations. Unlike most of the cri...

The turnover of labour and its significance for workers and employers has usually been considered at the organizational level as individual exit be...

The concept of guanxi is used extensively in Chinese society. Loosely understood as 'connections' or 'networks', it refers to long-term mutually re...

Contract workers from the Philippines make up one of the world's largest movements of temporary labor migrants. Deirdre McKay follows Filipino migr...

Theatre Work: Reimagining the Labor of Theatrical Production investigates both the history and current realities of life and work in professional t...

Growing levels of income and wage inequality and the precaritization of many sections of the labour force have made labour unions as salient as eve...

We usually speak of crisis in numbers: decline in purchasing power, rise in unemployment rates or decreasing levels of life satisfaction. But what ...