Sociology: work and labour

This book explores the multifaceted nature of AI implementation in modern business strategy, focusing on its present and future impact on various sectors.

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.

Although gender challenges in accounting are widely acknowledged, research often addresses the position of men and women in relation to various issues, without necessarily challenging the underlying structures and social constructions of gender.

In the context of ageing populations, increasing participation of women in the labour market, growing marketisation of care provision, and, most importantly, global inequalities, racialised care workers have come to fulfil a key role within older-age care in western European societies.

This book explores gender discrimination and women's movements in China - from the May Fourth movement to present day.

The alternative financing space has grown exponentially in the last few decades, namely as a consequence of the financial crisis, technological advancement, niche customer segments, and more recently the pandemic.

Ninety percent of companies' impacts on the environment come from their supply chains, and three in every four US businesses have reported supply chain disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

What do people say about you when you are not around?

When the status quo no longer works, the contrarian perspective reigns!

Weber wrote that capitalism in northern Europe evolved when the Protestant (particularly Calvinist) ethic influenced large numbers of people to engage in work in the secular world, developing their own enterprises and engaging in trade and the accumulation of wealth for investment.

Every company's ability to innovate depends on a process of experimentation whereby new products and services are created and existing ones improved.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on legal frameworks within the European Union and beyond.

To cope with the competitive worldwide marketplace, organizations rely on business intelligence to an increasing extent.

Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, and Modernity provides a new interpretation of the work of Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991), reframing it as being above all a metaphilosophy of modernity.

To fill the gaps in theoretical and empirical aspects of the existing international business and management literature, this book addresses several major issues of values in international business in a permanently changing world.

Since its existence in the 1950s, consumer policy in Germany has been understood and pursued primarily as a bundle of actions and measures initiated and institutionalised by the state.

You have a great idea, now what?

Jobs That Could Kill You is a fascinating collection of candid and intimate conversations with forty-two men and women who describe in gripping detail how physical risk is a familiar companion in their working lives, and how they deal with it.

Shortlisted for the Business Book Awards 2025 in the Change & Sustainability CategoryOur planet has never been smaller.

The continuing prevalence of racial inequality and discrimination is well documented in Britain.

This study examines the process of unionizing domestic workers in Lebanon, highlighting the potentialities as well as the obstacles confronting it, and looks at the multiple power relations involved through axes of class, gender, race, and nationality.

Feeding the world's growing population is a critical policy challenge for the twenty-first century.

Masters and Journeymen (1980) examines eighteenth-century trade unionism through nearly four hundred labour disputes in Britain between 1717 and 1800.

Research collaboration plays a pivotal role in not only disseminating existing knowledge but also catalyzing the generation of novel insights.

Many of us have had experiences of using IT systems at work that just don't work right or cause more problems than they solve.

This book makes the case that far too much work undertaken under the banner of 'behavioural safety' is overly person-focused.

This book presents a collection of research papers that aim to elucidate the pivotal role of digital systems in driving the formation and evolution of digital ecosystems, thereby shaping new scenarios for organizing in the digital age, by considering people practices, organizational processes, and system design issues.

Social innovation is an innovation whose main aim is to benefit society.

Using many real-world examples and cases, this book identifies key factors and processes that have contributed to the creation of successful new products, buildings, and innovations, or resulted in some failures.