Sociology: Work & Labour

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 ...

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...