Sociology: Work & Labour

Written by a leading expert on diversity, social mobility and elite professions, this book examines the issues of equality and diversity in the Cit...

A new model of health emerged in Britain between 1870 and 1939. Centered on the working body, organized around the concept of efficiency, and groun...

Over the last ten years - especially with the 'no' votes in the French and Dutch referendums in 2010, and the victory for Brexit in 2016 - the issu...

In Leaning Out, respected journalist Kristine Ziwica maps a decade of stasis on the gender equality front in Australia, and why the pandemic has le...

Written by a leading expert on diversity, social mobility and elite professions, this book examines the issues of equality and diversity in the Cit...

We are led to believe that an endemic of overwork, debt, the underfunding of public services, gross inequality and poor mental health are sadly una...

The NHS is stretched to its limits. Yet doctors are writing 10 million sick-notes a year for people they cannot 'fix', while patients with treatabl...

Workers and their organizations are facing enormous obstacles today. Corporations wield immense power, not only in the marketplace but also in poli...

Discussions around the increase in number and improved quality of artisans have been widely supported. There is, however, a need for the notion of ...

An accessible overview of the power of women in the economy and the obstacles they face Women are joining the workforce in increasing numbers, mak...

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This book is about the rise of digital labor. Companies like Uber and Amazon Mechanical Turk promise autonomy, choice, and flexibility. One of netw...

Millions of young people-and increasingly some not-so-young people-now work as interns. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand magazine offices...

The sex industry is an endless source of prurient drama for the mainstream media. Recent years have seen a panic over online red-light districts,...

Passing the buck is Volume 5 No 1 of the international interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal, Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation. Casual...

Volume 6 Number 1 of the international interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal 'Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation focuses on the gender i...

The topics covered in this book can be divided into four broad groups: studies of labour conditions up to the middle of the nineteenth century; stu...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Societal grand challenges have moved from a marginal concern t...

Mercenaries and Missionaries examines the relationship between rapidly diffusing forms of capitalism and Christianity in the Global South. Using mo...

City-state Greece and nation-state Europe were civilisations of a special kind. Historical and geographical conditions favoured, in both cases, the...

Why too much work and too little time is hurting workers and companiesand how a proven workplace redesign can benefit employees and the bottom line...

This book draws upon original research into womens workplace protest to deliver a new account of working-class womens political identity and partic...