Sociology: Work & Labour

In Songs of the Factory, Marek Korczynski examines the role that popular music plays in workers culture on the factory floor. Reporting on his ethn...

In many countries, the number of people working beyond pension age is increasing. This volume investigates this trend in seven different countries,...

This book presents a new and nuanced exploration of the position of women in Muslim countries, based on research involving more than 300,000 women ...

Active labour market policies aim to assist people not in work to move into employment through a range of interventions including job search, prepa...

In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas. In just a decade, this vast r...

We have spent the last three decades engaged in a pointless and irrelevant debate about the relative merits of privatization or nationalization. We...

Das Buch gibt einen Überblick über die bisherigen Entwicklungen und den gegenwärtigen Stand zentraler Themenbereiche der Arbeitssoziologie. Es verm...

Anlass für dieses Buchs sind die zunehmende Kälte im Umgang der Bürger miteinander und ihre mangelnde Empathie: normenverletzendes Handeln zulasten...

Women migrants are doubly-disadvantaged by their sex and outsider status when moving to a new country. Highly skilled women are no exception to thi...

This book analyzes the everyday lives of labour migrants in a rapidly developing city-state. Using the emirate of Dubai as a case study, Migrant Du...

This book analyzes the everyday lives of labour migrants in a rapidly developing city-state. Using the emirate of Dubai as a case study, Migrant Du...

The book explores the intersection of emotions and migration in a number of case studies from across the USA, Europe and Southeast Asia, including ...

Craft is resurgent. More people are buying craft; more money is being spent on craft products than ever before. This book centres craft as a creati...

Global Vision: How Companies Can Overcome the Pitfalls of Globalization addresses the business challenges that globalization poses. It will help ma...

The idea of occupational devotion, or devotee work, was conceptualized and incorporated in the serious leisure perspective as one of the two seriou...

This book explores how the conceptual lens of Holistic Flexibility presents new advancements in systems thinking in management science. Systems thi...

What Work Means goes beyond the stereotypes and captures the diverse ways Americans view work as a part of a good life. Dispelling the notion of Am...

What Work Means goes beyond the stereotypes and captures the diverse ways Americans view work as a part of a good life. Dispelling the notion of Am...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. This absorbing study examines the remarkable campaign for do...

Mit diesem sechsbändigen Werk erscheint erstmals eine vollständige Edition der Aufsätze und Vorträge Niklas Luhmanns zum Thema Organisation. Die Bä...