Sociology: Work & Labour

Receiving education and training that lead to a meaningful job, having a career, and being a valued contributor to a professional environment is ta...

In todays world of unequal globalization, Bangladesh has drawn international attention for the spate of factory disasters that have taken the lives...

There is little doubt that in recent years, enterprise has been considered an essential approach in the alleviation of deprivation existing in the ...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Though organizational scholarship traces its intellectual linea...

Originally published in 1983, this book promotes understanding of the provision for the young unemployed in Britain in the 1980s, both in policy an...

The complexion of labour migration in the European Union (EU) has altered in recent years. Not only has there been a shift in the length of time la...

This book provides a critical, ethnographically grounded examination of the hype surrounding the idea of impact by investigating the work of those ...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) or billionaire philanthropy is like a Rorschach test the same act can look very different depending on how w...

How is gender signified, produced and reproduced through paid and unpaid labour? In what ways does gender intersect with other kinds of disadvantag...

This book provides an ethnographic investigation of the white, upper-middle classes in Britain. It follows the Jack Wills brand to demonstrate how ...

It is impossible to view the news at present without hearing talk of crisis. This timely book looks at how three major crises the economy, pandemi...

This book gives an insight to the introduction, initiatives and community engagement in community based tourism, along with its management and mark...

A vivid look at how India has developed the idea of entrepreneurial citizens as leaders mobilizing society and how people try to live that promiseC...

Family caregiving is not simply an outside obligation that has no bearing on the workings of academic science, technology, engineering, mathematics...

The volume offers a comparative and transnational exploration of women's work in the twentieth century, concentrating especially on the turbulent p...

While the working lives of tech entrepreneurs and delivery platform workers seem far removed, both are engaged in digital labor. What unites their ...

Delve into the complex landscape of the informal economy with the Routledge Handbook of the Informal Economy, a groundbreaking volume that transcen...

From the rise of fully automated factories to the creation of new migrant workforces, the world of work, employment and production is rapidly chang...

Against the backdrop of rapid socio-economic change in post-1990 India, scholars and policy makers have expressed surprise at the low rate of women...

Offering a unique, comprehensive, and critical introduction to increasingly visible social inequalities, this textbook examines the political and e...

Offering a unique, comprehensive, and critical introduction to increasingly visible social inequalities, this textbook examines the political and e...

Beyond nostalgic tea industry ads romanticizing colonial Ceylon and the impoverished conditions that beleaguer Tamil tea workers are the stories of...

Call center employees once blended skill and emotional intelligence to solve customer problems while the workplace itself encouraged camaraderie a...

Beyond nostalgic tea industry ads romanticizing colonial Ceylon and the impoverished conditions that beleaguer Tamil tea workers are the stories of...

Canada's student body is diverse and the transition from student to worker is often challenging. Working in Canada's intersectional and practical a...

Part manifesto, part manual, this book offers historians of all levels both subject and approach. The subject is work. In every place-time people m...

Call center employees once blended skill and emotional intelligence to solve customer problems while the workplace itself encouraged camaraderie a...

Rural-urban migration has been going on in China since the early 1980s, resulting in complicated sociolinguistic environments. Migrant workers are ...

Together with changes in the nature of modernity, globalisation is restructuring society. The sovereignty of the nation-state is undermined, the st...

The contributors investigate the inter-relationships between migrant remittances and the family in Asia. They argue that, in the context of Asian t...

An in-depth look at how employers today perceive and evaluate job applicants with nonstandard or precarious employment historiesMillions of workers...

The lives of the men depicted in Perilous Wagers take place in the squalor of Tokyo's old day-laborer district, San'ya, where they can be found eki...

The lives of the men depicted in Perilous Wagers take place in the squalor of Tokyo's old day-laborer district, San'ya, where they can be found eki...

Based on the case of the ILO, both as an actor and driver of international social policy, this collection explores the internationalization process...

Work Identity at the End of the Line? tells the story of workplace culture and identity in the railway industry before during and after privatizati...

Against the backdrop of the environmental impact of household electricity consumption and the history of cooling practices, Marlyne Sahakian consid...

This book introduces the sociology of philosophy as a research field, asking what can be gained by looking at the discipline of philosophy from a s...

When the Coalition Government came to power in 2010 in claimed it would deliver not just austerity, as necessary as that apparently was, but also f...

The third book in the Great Minds in Finance series examines the pricing of securities and the risk/reward trade off through the legends, contribut...

This book explores the history and global expansion of AB Volvo, one of the hundred largest corporations in the world, through the experiences of i...

While recent Labour and coalition governments have insisted that many unemployed people prefer state benefits to a job, and have tightened the rule...

This book is a timely revival of the social and political importance of meaningful work, which explores a philosophy of work based upon the value o...

Bringing together important contributions from leading Israeli Jewish and Palestinian scholars, this comprehensive and multi-disciplinary volume ad...

Many families leave their children for years to be looked after by young people about whom they know next to nothing, from places they have barely ...

During the last decade, many European countries introduced extensive reforms to the way that income protection and activation programmes for the un...

This bookexamines inclusive growth in a range of social and economic areas in India, including physical infrastructure, vulnerable sections of the ...

Set against the backdrop of contemporary US economic history, Puerto Rico Is in the Heart examines the emigration, labor, and political experiences...

How does an industrial community cope when they are told that closure is inevitable? What if this is only the last in a 200 year long line of threa...