Sociology: Work & Labour

Since its founding in 1982, the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program has become the largest and most comprehensive public research and...

The extraction of mineral resources provides the raw materials necessary to produce the products and technologies on which the global economy depen...

Today's knowledge economy is driven in large part by the nation's capacity to innovate. One of the defining features of the U.S. economy is a high ...

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs provide federal research and development fundi...

The market for high-skilled workers is becoming increasingly global, as are the markets for knowledge and ideas. While high-skilled immigrants in t...

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs provide federal research and development fundi...

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

Recent years have yielded significant advances in computing and communication technologies, with profound impacts on society. Technology is transfo...

Skilled technical occupationsdefined as occupations that require a high level of knowledge in a technical domain but do not require a bachelor's de...

The Manufacturing USA initiative seeks to reinforce U.S.-based advanced manufacturing through partnerships among industry, academia, and government...

Inextricably linked to neoliberal market economies, public relations influence in our promotional culture is profound. Yet many aspects of the prof...

Institutions shape states, society, businesses, and the interactions between them. Understanding how these interactions shape the growth paths of d...

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...