Sociology: Work & Labour

Originally published in 1990, Soviet Urbanization provides an assessment of Soviet urban systems. Drawing on her personal experiences at the Soviet...

Striptease and other types of erotic dance increasingly make up a large, lucrative and visible part of the sex industries in the United Kingdom and...

Many governments seek to attract skilled migrants into the top occupational groups and now have significant groups of overseas-born professionals i...

Humans are accustomed to being tool bearers, but what happens when machines become tool bearers, calculating human labour via the use of big data a...

This book offers a general theoretical framework for approaching innovation and entrepreneurship, using practical and up-to-date examples to demons...

Contrary to the stereotype which depicts them as economic successes, Asian workers have a high incidence of underemployment when compared to white ...

How Speech Acting and the Struggle of Narratives Generate Organization seeks to shed understanding on how speaking or speech-acting affects how we ...

This title was first published in 2000. The essays in this volume explore the changing nature of family and gender relations in contemporary Tanzan...

This title was first published in 2001. This book is the result of an international study by leading economists and sociologists from across Europe...

In the past fifteen years, microsimulation models have become firmly established as vital tools for analysis of the distributional impact of change...

This title was first published in 2001: Examining the future of the welfare state in four globalizing economies - Sweden, UK, Japan and US - this b...

This challenging new study examines gender and sexuality in relation to the roving colonialism of sport mega-events. Built around four case studies...

This title was first published in 2000: Both the world of work and the sphere of family life are greedy, demanding time and energy of participants....

Trade Unions and European Integration brings together pessimists and optimists on trade unionism under the contemporary pressures of European integ...

Drawing on data from a Europe wide project, together with existing data on equality and diversity initiatives, this book explores the work of trade...

This was first published in 2000: This work is founded on the premise that many analyses of economic restructuring and of gender relations fail to ...

Strategic change and transformation are words used very commonly in business parlance but rarely defined. Besides, change and transformations are o...

First published in 1985, this book provides a descriptive study of social activities in a neurosciences laboratory. Based on fieldwork conducted by...

This title was first published in 2000. The essays in this volume explore the changing nature of family and gender relations in contemporary Tanzan...

Despite the Great Recession, slightly different forms of global capitalism are still portrayed as the only game in town by the vast majority of peo...

Respecifying Lab Ethnography delivers the first ethnomethodological study of current experimental physics in action, describing the disciplinary or...

The modern world is characterised by pervasive economic inequalities. Strong economic growth in some developing countries has contributed to a degr...

Greeces economy and society have undergone important structural changes in recent years as a result of the financial crisis and consequent austerit...

This international collection examines violence and abuse in and around organisations. The collection documents the causes, specifically from the p...

This is the era of flexibility. Under constant pressure to be adaptable, organizations increasingly adopt employment practices such as zero-hours c...

This comprehensive volume explores the remarkable expansion of higher education systems and institutions in Asia in recent decades, alongside chang...

This book is concerned with the rapid and varied changes in the nature of work and work relationships which have taken place in recent years. While...

Entrepreneurship is a growing field of research, attracting researchers from many different disciplines including economics, sociology, psychology,...

Organizations increasingly use temporary designs. Many temporary organizations are assembled by mixing and matching building blocks from static, bu...

This volume offers empirically based insights and findings on the question of how human service organizations are reacting to the increasing need f...

As the globalisation of migration intensifies, many countries have joined the international competition for the most talented, skilful, and resourc...

When a venture seems to be faltering, do you persist and hope that things will get better or do you cut your losses? This may be one of the most im...

Exploring the performance by immigrants of domestic and care work in European households, this book places the employer centre-stage, examining the...

Drawing on insights from work in medical history and sociology, this book analyzes changing meanings of personalized medicine over time, from the r...

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351765633, has been made available under a Creative Co...

For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone elses home was commonplace. Yet, despite their prevalence, lodgers and their householders have ...