Sociology: Work & Labour

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Opting Out and In: On womens careers and new lifestyles introduces a new perspective and definition of opting out that better reflects contemporary...

Published in 1999, this is a collection of recent research results by acknowledged researchers in the field of enterprise transformation and indust...

This book reframes tourism, as well as leisure, within mobilities studies to challenge the limitations that dichotomous understandings of home/away...

Executives continue to lose their position because of inability to communicate organizational decisions to employees and boards effectively. More t...

Drawing on insights from work in medical history and sociology, this book analyzes changing meanings of personalized medicine over time, from the r...

This book presents a new way of understanding organizational ethnography due to its strong emphasis on what the word organizational means in organi...

The Nordic countries have the world's best working life. Unlike in many other countries, global competition has not created inequality, uncertainty...

Power, Diversity and Public Relations addresses the lack of diversity in PR by revealing the ways in which power operates within the occupation to ...

Transculturalism and Business in the BRIC States, edited by Yvette Sánchez and Claudia Franziska Brühwiler, is the first handbook on the BRIC Sta...

Consumer co-operatives provide a different approach to organizing business through their ideals of member ownership and democratic practice. Every ...

Originally published in 1997 Working for Women? examines the ways in which women's patterns of paid and unpaid work have been mediated by the polic...

Published in 1970: The leading idea of the book is that present knowledge only enables us to maintain our present state, that national progress is ...

How Speech Acting and the Struggle of Narratives Generate Organization seeks to shed understanding on how speaking or speech-acting affects how we ...

For centuries, almost all economic activity was family-based. The family business rested on the division of labor among family members. Therefore t...

First published in 1972, this book rejects as inadequate the trait and functionalist theories of the professions and instead presents an alternativ...

Standard employment relationships, with permanent contracts, regular hours, and decent pay, are under assault. Precarious work and unemployment are...

Published in 1999, this text is influenced by two sets of theories, namely regulation theories and theories on social citizenship. Regulation theor...

This book critically examines key features of the contemporary organizational landscape by focusing on major beneficiaries of recent historical pol...

Seismic changes in ideology and economic policy in China followed the death of Mao Zedong but one aspect of culture has remained constant: the use ...

Politics is an aspect of everyday life within organizations, and is a force that inhibits individual and collective behaviour. If not fully underst...

The recent recession has led to an ongoing crisis in the youth labour market in Europe. This timely book deals with a number of areas related to th...

There is a long tradition of research on politics, power and exclusion in areas such as sociology, social policy, politics, womens studies and phil...

Ageism: Past, Present, and Future presents perspectives for understanding ageism and puts ageism in the context of specific social institutions. Mc...

This title was first published in 2003. Fields traces the origins of recent economic growth in Ireland over a long period of development. In doing ...

This title was first published in 2001. A comparative sociological examination of artisans, exploring historical examples and theoretical reference...

This title was first published in 2001. Addressing a significant gap in existing literature, this book presents a gender-informed analysis of the p...

This title was first published in 2002. Throughout much of the developing world and especially in Africa and Latin America, the informal employment...

This title was first published in 2003. The working poor of the world are observed to engage in long hours in hard jobs and to work more if wages a...

The destruction of the Covid-19 pandemic has marked every society with deep-seated wounds whose scars have only begun to heal. Yet, even as societi...

What fuels capitalism and what stops it from collapsing? Does marketing communications support and sustain the economic and political status quo?Th...

Catholic Labor Movements in Europe narrates the history of industrial labor movements of Catholic inspiration in the period from the onset of World...

The Science of People and Office Design: Planning for Thinking, Discussing and Achieving has been written for practitioners who would like to apply...

The Science of People and Office Design: Planning for Thinking, Discussing and Achieving has been written for practitioners who would like to apply...

Since 1991, the National Research Council, under the auspices of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, has undertaken a program of...

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships, and was established in 19...