Sociology: Work & Labour

Are you struggling to improve a hostile or uncomfortable environment at work, or interested in how such tension can arise? Experts in organizationa...

How does social spending relate to economic growth and which countries have got this right and wrong? Peter Lindert examines the experience of coun...

Labour internationalism is often viewed as impossible or inevitable, depending upon political perspective. O'Brien argues for a more nuanced, diver...

As remote working becomes the norm rather than the exception for many office workers around the globe, The Nowhere Office proposes a radical new wa...

An exciting, fresh look at one of the most important questions of medieval scholarship - the decline of serfdom and its implications. Scholars fro...

This book explores understandings and experiences of 'dirty work' tasks or occupations that are seen as disgusting and degrading. It complicates t...

Based on contributions from international experts, this volume provides an up-to-date account of globalization's influences on individual life cour...

This volume examines the role of women workers who are joining the workforce in urban India. Employment opportunities have opened up and are consta...

A nurse inserts an I.V. A personal care attendant helps a quadriplegic bathe and get dressed. A nanny reads a bedtime story to soothe a child to sl...

This book provides a novel approach to unemployment as a contested political field in Europe and examines the impact of welfare state regimes, conc...

Intense globalization, rapidly changing workplaces and family patterns have renewed the international interest in quality of life. This book examin...

This book examines the development of enterprise among key migrant groups in Europe and the United States. It argues that the development of 'ethni...

In the long course of late imperial Chinese history, servants and concubines formed a vast social stratum in the hinterland along the Grand Canal, ...

This volume deals with issues of widespread interest including, the origins of investor rights in different markets, the political, legal and econo...

An exciting, fresh look at one of the most important questions of medieval scholarship - the decline of serfdom and its implications. Scholars fro...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. The post-Brexit envir...

Prior to the millennium, economists and policy makers argued that free trade between the United States and Mexico would benefit both Americans and ...

This first of two companion volumes places the labor markets, workplaces, jobs and workers of Europe in comparative perspective. It focuses on the ...

Presents the outcomes of a major 14-country project aimed at empowering girls and young women. Provides a discussion of their choices in life, comp...

Appreciative Inquiry has touched and inspired the work of thousands who apply its development principles in a wide range of settings including indu...

This book presents a comparative historical overview of female employment patterns across the Mediterranean region, analyzing how the relationship ...

This volume addresses issues of precariousness in a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, looking at socio-economic transformations as well as the ...