Sociology: Work & Labour

This is a book about who we are today, and how we have become who we are. It is about the engineers of the modern soul, the entrepreneurial self. I...

Despite Canadas economic success over the past thirty years, the countrys ranking in productivity has continued to decline when compared to other i...

Work is, and always will be, a central institution of society. What makes a capitalist society unique is that it treats the human capacity to engag...

As a stand-alone text, a self-study manual, or a supplement to a lab manual or comprehensive text, The Joy of Stats is a unique and versatile resou...

The call center industry is booming in the Philippines. Around the year 2005, the country overtook India as the world's voice capital, and industry...

A sweeping history of the full range of human labor Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even f...

A sweeping history of the full range of human labor Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even f...

Artistic labour was exemplary for Utopian Socialist theories of 'attractive labour', and Marxist theories of 'nonalienated labour', but the rise of...

Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that we are living on the cusp of an era of rapid te...

A young Chinese girl forced to work in a New York sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful memoir about labour and self-worth,...

Sonic branding, guerrilla marketing, celebrity endorsements, customer service excellence and multi-channel advertising are just some of the popular...

'Shanzhai' from Cantonese slang, refers to the production of fake goods in China, which enjoy an anti-authoritarian-like dissemination across the g...

This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society...

As the twentieth century dawned and France entered an era of extraordinary labor activism and industrial competition, an insistently romantic visio...

''''A manifesto for future-proofing our jobs and prosperity'''' THE SUNDAY TIMESWe stand on the edge of a new era that will bring change to our wor...

How has the way we spend our time changed over the last fifty years?Are we really working more, sleeping less and addicted to our phones?What does ...

*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2017* *Winner of the 2016 Labor History Best Book prize* Over a million p...

Corporations are crucial to society's well-being. Yet, not many have chosen to adapt themselves to the expectations of employees and the society at...

* Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Po...

'Basic Income is an idea whose time has come, and Guy Standing has pioneered our understanding of it... Standing's analysis is vital' Paul Mason'Gu...

The Industrial Workers of the World is a union unlike any other. Founded in 1905 in Chicago, it rapidly gained members across the world thanks to i...

In todays new economyin which good jobs are typically knowledge or technology basedmany well-educated and culturally savvy young people are instead...

The experience of Hong Kongs innovative and creative industries and the challenges they face serves as an important case study for other Chinese an...

''''Under the latest iteration of the American Dream, if you aren''''t a billionaire yet, you haven''''t tried hard enough.'''' At the height of...

In recent years the Danish flexicurity model has attracted attention from the European Union as a successful way of combining a flexible labour law...

Shortlisted for the CMI Management Books of the Year Awards. An expert on innovation argues that many capable women are losing out at work, and th...

This book, designed to give a survey history of American labor from colonial times to the present, is uniquely well suited to speak to the concerns...