Sociology: Work & Labour

The idea of a moral economy has been explored and assessed in numerous disciplines. The anthropological studies in this volume provide a new per...

Marxist discourse around automation has recently become waylaid with breathless techno-pessimist dystopias and fanciful imaginations of automated l...

As remote working becomes the norm rather than the exception for many office workers around the globe, The Nowhere Office proposes a radical new wa...

A remarkable look at how the growth, technology, and politics of high-frequency trading have altered global financial marketsIn todays financial ma...

A Times Business Book of the Year 2021 Whether its working for free in exchange for experience, enduring poor treatment in the name of being part o...

In the years leading up to and directly following rapprochement with China in 1992, the South Korean government looked to ethnic Korean (Chosnjok) ...

Youth unemployment and joblessness are major issues for national governments and international organizations across the globe. In this respect, the...

Activation policies which promote and enforce labour market participation continue to proliferate in Europe and constitute the reform blueprint fro...

Several major transformations have characterized the world of work in recent years. Those transformations follow different patterns in different co...

This transdisciplinary volume investigates the ways in which people and organisations deal with the overflow of information, goods or choices. It e...

Problems confronting the financial-industrial system, or the ills of the casino economy, have never been more urgent than they are today. This is b...

Living on the margins offers a unique insight into the working lives of undocumented (or irregular) migrants living in London, and their employers....

Does real poverty still exist in Britain? How do people differentiate between the supposed deserving and undeserving poor? Is there a culture of wo...

Interns. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand newsrooms, MPs' offices, and film sets, but they also deliver aid in Afghanistan, design high-e...

Oh, Men, with Sisters dear! Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you re wearing out, But human creatures lives! Stitch stitch stitch, I...

Working hours in Korea are considerably longer than those of most other countries throughout the world. The 40 hour workweek was eventually introdu...

The Chicago Teachers Union strike was the most important domestic labor struggle so far this century-and perhaps for the last forty years-and the...

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

Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in efforts to advance womens work and in exploring the implicit obstacles to gender equity ...

'Revolutionises our understanding of the carceral state' - Fidelis Chebe, Director of Migrant Action During 2019-20 in England and Wales, over 17 ...

An incendiary examination of burnout - what got us here, the pressures that sustain it and the need for drastic changeAre you tired, stressed and t...

Whether its working for free in exchange for experience, enduring poor treatment in the name of being part of the family, or clocking serious overt...

A compelling investigation into the phenomenon of dirty work labour that society considers essential, but morally compromised. A New Statesman Bo...