Sociology: Work & Labour

An edited book in the Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment series associated with the annual International Labour Process Conference. The b...

Along with fast-food workers, retail workers are capturing the attention of the public and the media with the Fight for $15. Like fast-food workers...

In the decades following World War II, factories in many countries not only provided secure employment and a range of economic entitlements, but al...

Booklist Editors Choice Best Books of 2019 An intimate portrait of the joys and hardships of rural life, as one man searches for community, equal...

Much has been written about Titanic, the British passenger liner that sank on her maiden voyage after a collision with an iceberg in 1912; however,...

City of Broken Dreams brings the global debate about the urban university to bear on the realities of South African rust-belt cities through a deta...

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

Organizations are ubiquitous, from clubs and associations to firms and public agencies. They confer meaning to all of us, and our attachment to and...

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

They Taught Us Skills for Life: We are the Engineers! Scotland's labour history has been the subject of many important studies, surveys, articles a...

An ethnographic study of Ontario Works-a jobs program for welfare recipients-this reference points to unsolved problems going back to 1996, when th...

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

Head and shoulders above almost all other new books about China, this unflinching and yearningly compassionate portrait of the lives and loves of o...

Women and minorities have entered higher-paying occupations, but their overall earnings still lag behind those of white men. Why? Looking nationwid...