Sociology: Work & Labour

Media coverage consistently features examples of organizations engaging in unethical or illegal behavior. Given its potential to impact and even da...

During the period 1990 to 2010, U.S. job growth occurred primarily in the high-skilled and low-skilled sectors. Yet, one-third of projected job gro...

Demand for tech professionals is expected to increase substantially over the next decade, and increasing the number of women of color in tech will ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is transforming the global economy and significantly shifting workforce demand, requiring quick, adaptive responses. The pand...

With the advent of colonialism and the monetarized market economy, the gift economy, once a widely embedded cultural and economic practice, has bec...

This book presents a collection of research papers that aim to elucidate the pivotal role of digital systems in driving the formation and evolution...

This textbook provides an introduction to the socioeconomics of food. Aimed mostly at students of economics and related social sciences, it explain...

Housing has always had a close association with the lives refugees lead in exile and the settlement of refugees is, at its core, a housing issue. R...

Arbeitsverhältnisse werden seit Jahren zunehmend heterogener und das sogenannte Normalarbeitsverhältnis verzeichnet eine rückläufige Tendenz. Mit d...

This unique book provides an international comparison of labour markets, migrant professionals and immigration policies, and their interaction in r...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents a key technology for social change in the 21st century. Numerous technological applications are now in use ...

Dieses Buch bietet eine auf empirischen Fallstudien basierende gabentauschtheoretische Analyse des belohnungsbasierten Crowdfunding. Projekte des b...

At the heart of capitalism lies the idea of homo economicus: an ever-rational human being motivated by self-interest which arguably leads societies...

At the heart of capitalism lies the idea of homo economicus: an ever-rational human being motivated by self-interest which arguably leads societies...

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The #MeToo movement sparked many debates and increased the demand for more problema...

Marx argued that capitalist society acts against the core capacities, skills and talents of human beings, and that it also limits their realisation...

The Handbook for the Future of Work offers a timely and critical analysis of the transformative forces shaping work and employment in the 21st cent...

The gold standard of American labor history references, updated to include the latest political, social, and economic developments of the 2020s Lab...

Virtually everyone accepts that workplaces are complex, but there is little insight into how we might engage with complexity more skilfully. If com...

Using a unique analytical framework based on host-stranger relations, this book explores the response of cities to the arrival and settlement of la...

Forty-five contributions from renowned international specialists in the field provide readers with expert analysis of the core issues related to th...

Focusing on representations of womens experiences in contemporary France, Taking Up Space examines how women inhabit a variety of work spaces. It a...

Substantial claims are made about the extent and impacts of volunteering, often characterised by limited engagement with research evidence. Volunte...

Substantial claims are made about the extent and impacts of volunteering, often characterised by limited engagement with research evidence. Volunte...

How is practical change work carried out in modern organizations? And what kind of challenges, tasks and other difficulties are normally encountere...

How is practical change work carried out in modern organizations? And what kind of challenges, tasks and other difficulties are normally encountere...

While a large number of studies exist on political-economic institutional explanations for the prevalence of precarious work, few have delved into ...

Why do we think about some practices as work, and not others? Why do we classify certain capacities as economically valuable skills, and others as ...

Across the social sciences, scholars are increasingly showing how people 'work' to construct organizational life, including the rules and routines ...

Activist networks throughout Europe developed the concept of precarity at the turn of the 21st century. Retail chain employees, freelancers, cultur...

This book injects a burst of energy into the sociology of work, offering a perspective that is both innovative and deeply informed. Leading sociol...

This book injects a burst of energy into the sociology of work, offering a perspective that is both innovative and deeply informed. Leading sociol...

Every working mother's path is unique and should be celebrated, not lamented. Yet all too frequently, working mothers are presented with advice, ru...

The last ten years have seen a dramatic upsurge of interest in socialist theory and politics. As a recent Washington Post op-ed put it, We are livi...

Exploring the unintentional production of seemingly feminist outcomes In India, elite law firms offer a surprising oasis for women within a hostile...

How and why did credible scientists, engineers, government officials, journalists, and others collectively give rise to a drastic failure to contro...

This chilling look inside the history of employment agencies in the U.S. argues that they should have been abolished with slavery, or at the very l...

This edited volume explores and makes explicit the links between neoliberal economic policies and right-wing ideology. The book focuses on the case...

This book aims to shed new light on the puzzle of the late Soviet conversion to the market and capitalism by revisiting the history of Soviet refor...

Does it matter who owns and funds the media? As journalists and management consultants set off in search of new business models, there's a pressing...

Does it matter who owns and funds the media? As journalists and management consultants set off in search of new business models, there's a pressing...

This book brings together the work of the late Anders Petersen, presenting his exciting and innovative transdisciplinary paradigm that offers insig...

Au pairs are relied upon by tens of thousands of UK families to do everything from childcare and housework to elder care, pet feeding and waiting a...

This book reorients the lens of global creative economies in order to focus on ecological articulations of cultural production ecosystems. While nu...

In dieser (auto-)ethnografischen Studie geht es in erster Linie um die Frage, wie sich verschiedene Differenzen etwa sprachliche, ethnische, kultu...

In dieser (auto-)ethnografischen Studie geht es in erster Linie um die Frage, wie sich verschiedene Differenzen etwa sprachliche, ethnische, kultu...