Sociology: Work & Labour

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...

We are told that the future of work will be increasingly automated. Algorithms, processing massive amounts of information at startling speed, will ...

Although Tijuana has historically been one of the primary crossing points between Mexico and the United States for undocumented migrants, represent...

This revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism. In Undoing Work, Rethinking Community, James A....

In High Tech and High Touch, James E. Coverdill and William Finlay invite readers into the dynamic world of headhunters, personnel professionals wh...

In The Tumbleweed Society, Allison Pugh offers a moving exploration of sacrifice, betrayal, defiance, and resignation, as people cope in a society ...

How educated and culturally savvy young people are transforming traditionally low-status manual labor jobs into elite taste-making occupations In ...

Beaten, pushed, exploited, overworked, unpaid; a far cry from the cared-for and nurtured lives our children should expect in the twenty-first centu...

''It might just save your life - and your children''s lives. The Globotics Upheaval is a manifesto for future-proofing our jobs and prosperity'' Su...

In Confronting Dystopia, a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological revolution for jobs, working condi...

This revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism. In Undoing Work, Rethinking Community, James A....

''It is my thesis that this general production of life, or subsistence production - mainly performed through the non-wage labour of women and other...

Decades of neoliberal authoritarianism have propelled Turkey into crisis. Regime change, economic disaster and Erdogans ambition to impose one-man ...

With the world changing at breakneck speed and workers at the whim of apps, bad bosses and zero-hours contracts, why should we care about unions? A...

'Jane Holgate is a brilliant thinker' - Jane McAlevey In Arise, Jane Holgate argues that unions must revisit their understanding of power in order...

This volume contains two Open Access Chapters.   Volume 64 of Research in the Sociology of Organizations takes stock of research on processes of i...

Detroit's Cold War locates the roots of American conservatism in a city that was a nexus of labor and industry in postwar America. Drawing on metic...

Some 10 million migrant workers cross national borders each year and, if they pay an average $1,000 to recruiters, moving workers over borders is a...

More than 130 years after Karl Marx's death and 150 years after the publication of his opus magnum Capital: Critique of Political Economy, capitali...