Sociology: Work & Labour

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...

This edited book emerges from the observation that the current literatures on migration in China are constrained by a series of shortfalls, includi...

This book provides a critical perspective on the digitalisation of universities and precarisation of academic labour.While research and teaching be...

Employing the intellectual migration analytical framework, this book examines the dynamics of student and professional migration. Intellectual migr...

How Chinas economic development combines a veneer of unprecedented progress with the increasingly despotic rule of surveillance over all aspects of...

This book lays the groundwork for a relational theory of the firm as a network of stakeholder resources and interests. Drawing on the authors earli...

This book examines the large-scale return migration of South and Southeast Asian workers triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring its causes, ...

This open access handbook combines multiple theoretical and practical approaches for enabling a nuanced understanding of the phenomenon of marriage...

Guardian's Best Non-Fiction, 2019The Tablet's Highlights of 2019Personality tests. Team-building exercises. Forced Fun. Desktop surveillance. Open-...

A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens nextFaith in technological ...

What will it take to build high-performing, purpose-oriented public sector organizations in India? In answering this question, the voices of India'...

First published in 1941, the original blurb read: Women have been among the worst sufferers not only in war-time but in every ill-organized time of...