Sociology: work and labour

This collection of papers considers how people who are low paid can be given better opportunities in the British labour market.

Das Ziel des Bandes besteht darin, einen Überblick über die Grundfragen, Kernthemen und Handlungsfelder der praktischen Wirtschaftsphilosophie zu geben.

The global economy is characterized by increasing locational competition to attract the resources necessary to develop leading-edge technologies as drivers of regional and national growth.

Craig Heron is one of Canada's leading labour historians.

Providing a new comparative analysis of the changes which have radically questioned the 'old' organizational arrangements of the delivery of welfare services since the early 1980s, this book argues that new managerial accountability regimes severely undermine the democratic foundations of the welfare state in Europe.

Social policy in modern industrialised societies is increasingly challenged by new social risks.

The digital age has transformed business opportunities and strategies in a resolutely practical and data-driven project universe.

Bereits seit einigen Jahren wird dem Wissen fiktionaler Literatur in den Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften verstärkte Aufmerksamkeit zuteil.

Originally published in 1987, The Creation of Local Authority Sector of Higher Education is a macro-analysis of the creation and development of the local authority sector of higher education from the early 1960s to the 1980s.

This book investigates the professional needs and training requirements of an ever-changing public service workforce in Australia and the United Kingdom.

Inequality remains one of the most intensely discussed topics on a global level.

This book explores the unique socioeconomic challenges encountered by female leaders in China, India, Japan, Korea, and other Asian countries where traditional cultural expectations and modernized values coexist.

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

Explores the ethical frameworks, policies and procedures of professional practice for multidisciplinary teams.

In 1933 Congress granted American laborers the right of collective bargaining, but farmworkers got no New Deal.

Gendered processes of globalisation, transnationalisation and urbanisation are increasing local and global inequalities and widening the gap between the rich and the poor.

The critical tradition in accounting historiography has come to occupy a prominent place in the discipline's academic scholarship.

This book offers a fresh and comprehensive approach to the essentials that constitute the discipline of organizational behaviour with a strong emphasis on the application of organizational behaviour and performance management in practice.

The dominant cultural script is that the Baby Boomers have 'had it all', thereby depriving younger generations of the opportunity to create a life for themselves.

This book explores the history and metamorphosis of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), the premier business and management schools in India, and their significance within the changing landscape of higher education, nation-building and socio-economic development in the country.

First Published in 1988.

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

Both parties and interest groups matter to democracy.

In entlegenen, ländlichen Räumen ergeben sich komplexe Problemlagen, die eine interdisziplinäre Erforschung notwendig machen.

Examines the development of child helpers in varied cultural contexts, reviewing evidence and discussing the benefits of the helper stage.

This book is a re-interpretation of labour market policy models from a gender perspective, providing an analysis of within-gender inequality and how these policies affect inequality.

The book presents the results of the first comprehensive empirical study on the control of minimum wages in Germany.

Much of the debate on the future of work has focused on responses to technological trends in the Global North, with little evidence on how these trends are impacting work and workers in the Global South.

Since its emergence at the end of the seventeenth century, industrial capitalism as a specific form of social organisation has set recurrent challenges to its own persistence, and until today, it has proved to be successful to develop new ways of accumulation based on its capacity of adaptation.

In the economical changing and political disturbing times we are living a question concerns us all: Is this the society I want to live in?

Originally published in 1970.

This book challenges the idea that development is synonymous with ''upgrading'' global value chains through an institutional theory of trade and development.

Die Autorin beschäftigt sich mit der bildungs- und hochschulpolitisch wichtigen und empirisch bislang kaum untersuchten Frage, welche Bedeutung formale, non-formale und informelle Lernkontexte für die Entwicklung beruflicher und privater Lebensperspektiven von Bachelorstudierenden in den geisteswissenschaftlichen Fächern haben.

This unique book enhances our understanding of the links between professions, the state and the market - and their implications for the public in terms of professional practice.

In an ever-changing working environment, customer and workplace demands have brought new challenges to how we organize and manage work.

This volume summarizes some results of the trans-national European research project Self-employment activities concerning women and minorities: their success or failure in relation to social citizenship policies"e; that was supported by the Directorate General Research of the European Commission within the Targeted Socio-Economic Research Program (TSER).

The proliferation of giant multi-organizational agencies in the last decade has fostered a rethinking of inter-organizational interactions.

The Political Economy of International Financial Instability (1986) discusses international financial problems as a global issue, concentrating on systemic interactions.

Sinnerfüllung in der Arbeit ist einer der wichtigsten Motivations- und Resilienzfaktoren.

Rethinking Organizational Change: The Role of Dialogue, Dialectic & Polyphony in the Organization makes an important scholarly contribution to our understanding of dialogue applied to the management of change.

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