Sociology: Work & Labour

Assembling Archaeology provides a radical rethinking of the relationships between teaching, researching, digging, and practicing as an archaeologis...

The stunning photographs in this book are not only an anthropological study on the types of work done all over the world and the different societie...

Winner of the First Prize in the Joyce Rothschild Book AwardsPlatform cooperatives reimagine a world where domestic workers can double their income...

From internationally renowned sociologist Michèle Lamont, a game-changing argument about what we value and why How do we measure our self-worth? F...

'This is a book for the future: it gives us exactly the tools we need to dismantle racial injustice in our society' Baroness Doreen Lawrence 'A ...

From Chris Guillebeau, the New York Times bestselling author of The $100 Startup, comes a captivating guide that explains how to thrive in today's ...

Offering the six historical essays from the out-of-print Bicentennial volume originally published by the U.S. Department of Labor, this book tells ...

Revolutionary feminism is resurging across the world. But what were its origins? In the early 1970s, the International Feminist Collective began to...

Privatization of Americas Public Institutions describes the transformation of the military, K12 public schools, public universities and colleges, a...

This multidisciplinary volume offers unique perspectives, across the globe and throughout the centuries, on the complexity of the nexus between wor...

On the production of migrant labor and suffering through asylum enforcementOver the past several decades, the vibrant, multiethnic borough of Queen...

Why has labor played a more limited role in national politics in the United States than it has in other advanced industrial societies? Victoria Hat...

This handbook focuses on two sides of the lean production debate that rarely interact. On the one hand, management and industrial engineering schol...

Jan Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to...

Labor and labor norms orient much of contemporary life, organizing our days and years and driving planetary environmental change. Yet, labor, as a ...

Although the economic recession that began in December 2007 has officially ended, unemployment rates still remain close to 10%. Especially hard hit...

DIY check-outs, drones, self-driving cars, and e-government all are signs of the coming auto-industrial age. Will this end in mass unemployment or ...

Experts from across all industrial-organizational (IO) psychology describe how increasingly rapid technological change has affected the field. In e...

Does it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding a space of rest and relaxation, you're confronted by ...

The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment is a landmark collection of original contributions by leading specialists from around the...

Zygmunt Bauman is known internationally as the sociologist of postmodernity and liquid society. But he was also a serious photographer. This book p...