Sociology: Work & Labour

This book is about the rise of digital labor. Companies like Uber and Amazon Mechanical Turk promise autonomy, choice, and flexibility. One of netw...

Millions of young people-and increasingly some not-so-young people-now work as interns. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand magazine offices...

The sex industry is an endless source of prurient drama for the mainstream media. Recent years have seen a panic over online red-light districts,...

Passing the buck is Volume 5 No 1 of the international interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal, Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation. Casual...

Volume 6 Number 1 of the international interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal 'Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation focuses on the gender i...

The topics covered in this book can be divided into four broad groups: studies of labour conditions up to the middle of the nineteenth century; stu...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Societal grand challenges have moved from a marginal concern t...

Mercenaries and Missionaries examines the relationship between rapidly diffusing forms of capitalism and Christianity in the Global South. Using mo...

City-state Greece and nation-state Europe were civilisations of a special kind. Historical and geographical conditions favoured, in both cases, the...

Why too much work and too little time is hurting workers and companiesand how a proven workplace redesign can benefit employees and the bottom line...

This book draws upon original research into womens workplace protest to deliver a new account of working-class womens political identity and partic...