Sociology: work and labour

At a time of global economic crisis and disillusionment with capitalism, Adodo offers refreshing and positive insight into a more integral way of business management, enterprise and community development as well as holistic healing in Africa.

Written by experts on innovation and growth, this book provides the necessary tools to systematically develop and sustain profitable innovation pipelines.

Soziale Kontrolle von abweichendem Verhalten und Kriminalität wandelt sich in hohem Tempo.

The Organization Gap (1972) addresses the gap which exists between the organization theory to be found in the literature on the subject, and the urgent everyday problems a manager is called on to tackle.

This book offers a detailed theoretical analysis of the fields of learning and management in the digital age.

With contributions from six leading scientific countries of the Global North and from the general European Higher Education Area, this book questions the predominant view on academic freedom and pleads for a holistic approach.

This volume is about why 'work' changed to become more precarious around the turn of the century.

Published works on Saudi women in organizational contexts are overwhelmingly reductionist, producing a singular story and a monolithic "e;Saudi woman.

First published in 1979, The Miners: A History of the National Union of Mineworkers 1939-46 describes the events and factors that led to the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1946.

This book provides an original contribution to contemporary research surrounding the environmental, humanitarian and socio-political crises associated with contemporary capitalism.

Strategic Renewal is an original research anthology offering insight into a subject area which, although critical for the sustained success of organizations, has received relatively little attention as distinct from the more general phenomenon of strategic change.

Using Germany as a national case study, this volume examines the historical genesis of precarity, its evolution from 19th-century industrial modernity to the present, and its reflections and reconfigurations in artistic production, in particular with relation to work, gender, and sexuality.

This book is a cultural critique of labor and globalization that considers whether one can represent the other.

This book explores the stark stratification and struggles over classifications in US academia from a relational perspective, looking beyond material differences and tracing its roots to symbolic power relations.

The analysis of the various components of human work is the most important approach to a systematic study of people at work.

This title was first published in 2003.

With a focus on the European labour market, this book seeks to understand how digital transformation affects changes in employee-employer relations.

Due to automation, nearly half of the jobs will vanish over the next two decades in the US.

Ania Zbyszewska''s feminist, socio-legal approach to the European working time regime examines its gender dynamics and influence in the Polish working time reform.

Die jüngsten Umweltdebatten scheinen infolge des Klimawandels verstärkt technisch geprägt.

This is a powerful new approach to marketing that will multiply the impact of every dollar invested.

This book analyzes the everyday lives of labour migrants in a rapidly developing city-state.

Current systems are failing the poor because these systems are unable to provide the financial inclusion needed for basic subsistence and commerce, which in turn would drive micro- and macro-economic growth.

How have rapid changes in biotechnologisation, for example around assisted reproductive technologies or (re)constructive surgery, effected those seeking help with fertility treatment or clitoral reconstruction?

Clinical trials used to be conducted overwhelmingly in the US and Europe but for a range of economic, technical and ethical reasons, the number of multicentre studies recruiting subjects in different regions of the World has grown exponentially.

The book presents a critical framework for assessing whether organisational practice and function reinforces unseen potential differences amongst individuals in the workplace.

The book presents a description of the phenomenon of organising street performances, both informal and within formalised structures, as well as its interpretation from the point of view of humanistic management.

Automation and Its Macroeconomic Consequences reveals new ways to understand the economic characteristics of our increasing dependence on machines.

This international collection examines violence and abuse in and around organisations.

This book includes a selection of the best research papers presented at the annual conference of the Italian chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), which took place in Verona, Italy in October 2016.

Elizabeth Ferry explores how members of the Santa Fe Cooperative, a silver mine in Mexico, give meaning to their labor in an era of rampant globalization.

"e;Bongiovanni's message should be heeded, especially in Brussels, Berlin and Paris"e; - John Peet, Political Editor, The EconomistFrancesco Bongiovanni returns with a sequel to The Decline and the Fall of Europe, a book Guardian journalist Nils Pratley labelled 'a wake-up call for the twenty-first century'.

A key question for China, which has for some time been a leading global manufacturing base, is whether China can progress from being a traditional centre of manufacturing to becoming a centre for innovation.

This book looks at the historical and contemporary impact of minority immigrant and ethnic communities on the built and social environment in Australian cities, rural and regional areas.

Smart Technologies are revolutionizing tourism, as they promise to change the way tourists behave and how companies interact with them and generate profits.

This book highlights the parallel transformations of the concepts of citizenship and the welfare state, and their dependence on the dominant political ideology, from the post-war period to the present.

This study, originally published in 1919, examines certain aspects of industrial psycho-physiology, and explores the importance of the close collaboration between science and industry.

The reality of everyday organizational life is that it is filled with uncertainty, contradictions and paradoxes.

This book, part of the new wave of political sociology in EU studies, examines the dialectics of construction/deconstruction of the European civil service through a succession of empirically grounded case studies.

In the digital age tasks are increasingly modularised and consumers are increasingly becoming prosumers.

Written in vivid prose and with a keen eye for detail, Women's Equality in America is a valuable resource for understanding the issues and trends that dominate public discourse in discussions of women's rights and gender equality in America.

Woran liegt es, wenn sich Wirtschaft tot(-langweilig) anfühlt?

This book reimagines the pleasures of sports and provides a critical perspective from the Global South.

Desde siempre los temas relacionados con el Gobierno y la Gestión de las Tecnologías y Sistemas de Información (TSI) han preocupado no sólo a los responsables de informática (CIOs) sino también a los directores generales (CEOs).

Economic Restructuring and Social Exclusion provides a timely reminder of persisting inequalities of class, race and gender as a consequence of the changes which have engulfed Europe in less than a decade.

All cultures appear to share the belief that they do things 'correctly', while others, until proven otherwise, are assumed to be ignorant or barbaric.

This book discusses social psychological research in organizations and illustrates the implications of this research for organizational theory and practice.

Lucia Artner befasst sich mit einem grundlegenden Paradox der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit – der Idee der Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe.

This collection examines the work of the Italian economist and social theorist Vilfredo Pareto, highlighting the extraordinary scope of his thought, which covers a vast range of academic disciplines.