Sociology: Work & Labour

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 ...

Seven years after the Arab uprisings, the social situation has deteriorated across the Middle East and North Africa. Political, economic and person...

How do institutions influence and shape cognition and action in individuals and organizations, and how are they in turn shaped by them? Various soc...

Every day in the People's Republic of China 70 million people receive help from the state through the minimum livelihood guarantee (dibao). What be...

Decent Work-Life in Business: Essential Tool for Sustainable Development presents a detailed discussion of the concept of decent work-life and its ...

A future mayor shining shoes, an atheist shilling Bible, a housewife heading to work during World War II, a now-famous designer getting fired - we ...

This book explores the intricate connections that link the current digitalization of manufacturing to our daily lives and identities as members of ...

Virtually everyone accepts that workplaces are complex, but there is little insight into how we might engage with complexity more skilfully. If com...

Through a deep dive into specific problem representations in the policymaking on anti- sexual harassment at workplaces (SHW) in India, this book ma...

This book offers new empirical research and policy-relevant care practices from across the globe to understand the interrelation of care, emotion, ...

This book illustrates two approaches for firms to shape successful circular strategies, namely, the Circular Economy and Circular Districts. The fo...

This title was first published in 2002: In recent years there has been a trend among young people across Europe towards remaining longer in their p...

This title was first published in 2000. Exploring issues surrounding the constitution of managerial knowledge, newer forms of organizational contro...

This title was first published in 2000: This work is aimed at international managers or business students who are interested in emerging markets, p...

Employment has changed dramatically in the last few decades with the onset of neoliberal globalization. This change has become the objective of inq...

During the period 2000 to 2010, tea plantations in India experienced a crisis and were at the threshold of transformation, framed by conflict and t...

This title was first published in 2001. A comparative sociological examination of artisans, exploring historical examples and theoretical reference...

There has been a growing interest among scholars in the fields of organizational behaviour and industrial psychology in what can be termed the dark...

This title was first published in 2003. The problem of illegal labour immigration is one of the most controversial and hotly debated issues to conf...

Strategic Management in Public Organizations: European Practices and Perspectives offers the first wide-ranging survey and assessment of strategic ...

Presenting a series of empirical studies by scholars working with approaches from ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, Medical and Healthcar...

This book is unique given its scholarly angle in unmasking irresponsible leadership (IL) by focusing on its meaning. For the first time the concept...

This book offers a sociological account of the process by which companies instituted and continue to institute outsourcing in their organization. D...

The working poor of the world are observed to engage in long hours in hard jobs and to work more if wages are further reduced. Mainstream economics...

Critical Management Studies (CMS) is often dated from the publication of an edited volume bearing that name (Alvesson and Willmott, 1992). In the t...

This book offers a critical analysis of consumer credit markets and the growth of outstanding debt, presenting in-depth interview material to explo...

This book aims to provide the reader with an insight into the relevance of a section of the economy, which is often referred to as the social and ...

This book traces how abstract managerial ideas about maximizing production flexibility and employee freedom were translated into concrete, day-to-d...

While research in organisational studies has become increasingly rich and complex, organisation researchers are constantly challenged by the growin...

Numerous challenges exist in respect to integrating work and family institutions and there is remarkable cross-national variation in the ways that ...

Much scholarship of any region focuses on the perceived problems that hold back a population. Central Asia is no exception, as it is a region with ...

Organizational research methods (ORM) are making an ontological turn by studying the nature of Being, becoming, and the meaning of existence in the...

For over a century, creativity has unfolded as a valuable field of knowledge. Emerging from disciplines like psychology, management and education, ...

Sex work studies have seen an expansion in publications over the past decade, drawing together disciplines from across the social sciences, namely ...

This title was first published in 2000. Exploring issues surrounding the constitution of managerial knowledge, newer forms of organizational contro...

The unifying theme of Women and Careers is womens educational and employment success, with the objective of profiling supportive public policy in g...

Taste is a core concept for the social sciences and an orienting notion in everyday practice. It is of equal relevance to academics and laypeople a...