Sociology: work and labour

We have spent the last three decades engaged in a pointless and irrelevant debate about the relative merits of privatization or nationalization.

Ob bewusst oder unbewusst, gewollt oder nicht: Wir arbeiten ständig.

Contemporary financial markets have been characterized by sociocultural phenomena such as "e;meme stocks"e;, the Gamestop short squeeze, and "e;You Only Live Once (YOLO) trading"e;.

Regulation has been stimulated by industrialisation and particularly by the advent of the consumer economy.

This book, first published in 1982, aims to re-examine the phenomenon of job redesign in a series of different but related contexts by including accounts, often using case study material, from people trained in a range of social science disciplines utilising different frames of reference.

This book presents an institutional ethnography of budgeting processes of commissioning contracts within welfare, education, and health ministries as case studies.

In Challenging Neoliberalism at Turkey's Gezi Park, Gurcan and Peker explore the events of May 31, 2013, when what began as a localized demonstration against the demolition of Gezi Park, a public park in Istanbul turned into a nationwide protest cycle with an unprecedented form and scale never before seen in Turkey's history.

This book describes the conversational competencies that enable innovative entrepreneurial teams to create new products and ventures, and it presents several exercises and games to help readers master these conversational moves.

"e;Everything worth winning in life boils down to teamwork and leadership.

Scientific concepts on the co-evolution of technology and society, as well as recent sociotechnical system approaches, focus on the general interrelations between technology, socioeconomic structures, and institutions.

This book contributes new insights into the organization of free/open source (F/OS) software communities by examining the links between learning, division of labour and commercialization, demonstrating the need for a synthesis of work on both community organization and cooperation to understand F/OS community dynamics.

This book examines patterns of political engagement of long-term unemployed youth.

This textbook examines the extent to which moral values play a role as productive forces for the economy, and explores the effect of ethical and unethical Behavior on the economy.

In each year between 1994 and 1996, more than 7,000 individuals received a Ph.

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) highlight the potential of this technology to affect productivity, growth, inequality, market power, innovation, and employment.

Mobile Telecommunications in a High Speed World tells the story of 3G and higher-speed mobile communication technologies.

In Gesellschaften existieren zeitliche Rhythmen der Ruhe und Aktivität.

A human-centered society creatively balances investments in sources of innovation, while also governing in a manner that eventually limits exploitation by originators once innovations have proven their value in the marketplace, broadly defined to include both private and public constituencies.

In this book, first published in 1989, the authors have sought to highlight some of the major themes in the study of time and work within separate but related fields of study.

Academia versus the World Outside lays out the givens of the knowledge industry located within the ivory tower, colleges and universities.

While significant research has been produced in the field of disability studies, little attention has been paid to experiences of chronic illness.

International competition and skills shortages caused by technological advancement have raised entirely new issues for workers, not least how responsibility is increasingly being transferred to them.

Originally published in 1985 this book looks at the way in which some businesses in high technology manufacturing industry have organised their structures and processes in order to manage product innovation effectively.

This book, first published in 1986, is concerned with the changing world environment for multinational business and the relationships between multinational parent companies and their subsidiaries which will be necessary to meet the challenges that are being faced.

The proliferation of open banking and open finance regimes across the globe demonstrates an ever-increasing interest of policymakers in empowering customers to take control of their data through innovative data sharing frameworks.

This project provides an in-depth study of the role of worker-activist leaders in industrial strikes in China, a country where labor rights face significant challenges from state and industry suppression and by current lack of formal organization.

Originally published in 1978 The Origins of British Social Policy arose dissatisfaction with conventional approaches to the subject of welfare responsibilities in the state.

In 2003, just before the start of the US invasion of Iraq, military planners predicted that the mission's success would depend on using diverse sources for their workforce.

A guide to understanding digital research from both a conceptual and practical perspective, helping the reader to make sense of the issues, challenges and opportunities of social science research in the digital age.

Technological innovation is fundamental to firm performance and economic prosperity.

Anhand von sechs empirischen Portraits entwirft Laura Hanemann eine Phänomenologie der Solo-Selbstständigkeit, die Auskunft über das breite und dynamische Spektrum der Mentalitäten und Motivationen der Selbstständigkeit gibt.

Domestic service has long been one of the largest forms of urban employment across southern Africa.

The world we live in is increasingly complex.

This book takes a case study approach to explore leadership narratives of women in healthcare and science, paying attention to the intersection of gender, identity, and race in each story.

This second edition of the critically acclaimed core textbook provides students from technology and science based backgrounds with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to transform innovative ideas into commercially viable businesses for profit or social ends.

The fourth edition of Career Choice and Development brings together the most current ideas of the recognized authorities in the field of career development.

This work is the first encyclopedia on the labor practices that constitute modern-day slavery-and the individuals and organizations working today to eradicate them.

The emergence of China as a major world economy is of great importance to the global political economy and to international business.

Dieses Buch untersucht den Bedeutungswandel innereuropäischer Erwerbsmobilität im 21.

This bookpresents a collection of papers discussing especially social factors thatsupport individuals, organizations, markets, and societies confronted withsocio-economic crises.

Although most federal facilities projects are successfully completed (i.

Classical sociology considered money as central to the functioning of modern society, relatingit to a progressive expansion of instrumental rationality and the emergence of weaker social ties.

This book is part of the Human Centered Book Trilogy, the 2021 volumes of the Routledge Human Centered Management HCM Series.

This book examines the impact of CEOs on firm performance and focuses on their role in science-based innovation to answer the question, is it possible to lead highly complex R&D projects and innovation that you do not understand?