Sociology: Work & Labour

An innovative view of how everyone doing part-time work and part-time caregiving would promote flourishing families, free time, equality, and the t...

The book argues that trade unionism must break into the new worlds of work by radically transforming contemporary trade union structures and cultur...

A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens nextFaith in technological ...

Financial Times Business Books of the MonthEconomist Best Books of 2023 With a foreword by Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn'A handbook for disr...

A fresh look at the boom in entrepreneurship and start-ups and how its changing the world of work. Does it feel like everyone you know is thinkin...

Americans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work hard, regardless of their social status, yet it ...

With dual-working households now the norm, Food, Families and Work is the first comprehensive study to explore how families negotiate everyday food...

This book presents new theories and international empirical evidence on the state of work and employment around the world. Changes in production sy...

From famously humble origins, Amazon has grown to become one of the most successful businesses in history. In its effort to provide its trademark f...

How does the insecurity of work affect us? We know what job insecurity does to workers at work, the depressive effect it has on morale, productivit...

The twenty-first century workplace compels Americans to be more flexible. To embrace change, work with unpredictable schedules, be available 24/7, ...

Assembling Archaeology provides a radical rethinking of the relationships between teaching, researching, digging, and practicing as an archaeologis...

The stunning photographs in this book are not only an anthropological study on the types of work done all over the world and the different societie...

Winner of the First Prize in the Joyce Rothschild Book AwardsPlatform cooperatives reimagine a world where domestic workers can double their income...

From internationally renowned sociologist Michèle Lamont, a game-changing argument about what we value and why How do we measure our self-worth? F...

'This is a book for the future: it gives us exactly the tools we need to dismantle racial injustice in our society' Baroness Doreen Lawrence 'A ...

From Chris Guillebeau, the New York Times bestselling author of The $100 Startup, comes a captivating guide that explains how to thrive in today's ...

Offering the six historical essays from the out-of-print Bicentennial volume originally published by the U.S. Department of Labor, this book tells ...

Revolutionary feminism is resurging across the world. But what were its origins? In the early 1970s, the International Feminist Collective began to...

Privatization of Americas Public Institutions describes the transformation of the military, K12 public schools, public universities and colleges, a...