Sociology: work and labour

White-Collar Proletariat (1980) explores the major changes in the industrial and political behaviour of British civil servants in the 1970s.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents a key technology for social change in the 21st century.

'Revolutionises our understanding of the carceral state' - Fidelis Chebe, Director of Migrant ActionDuring 2019-20 in England and Wales, over 17 million hours of labour were carried out by more than 12,500 people incarcerated in prisons, while many people in immigration removal centres also worked.

While methodological individualism is a fundamental approach within the social sciences, it is often misunderstood.

The Humanities, the Social Sciences and the University is an intellectual history of research in the humanities and social sciences.

This book discusses the foundations of social and environmental accounting and highlights local differences in countries like Italy and Bulgaria.

Exploring pressing questions around Canadian citizenship, Canada in Question delves into contemporary issues that come into play in identifying what it means to be Canadian.

Comparing the UK, US, Germany and Japan, this book draws on innovative concepts of varieties of gender regime as well as varieties of capitalism.

This book is about the underlying mechanisms of agile management that control work processes in the context of industrial tech development.

Global capitalism is a precarious system.

Exceptionally clear and well-written chapters provide engaging discussions of the methods of accessing, generating, and analyzing social science data, using methods ranging from reflexive historical analysis to critical ethnography.

This book lays out what we know about the scale, history and impacts of tax abuse.

Understanding experience at work, especially in toxic organizations, is a multidimensional undertaking that must include all senses.

Dive into the shadowy corridors of history with Martin Sommer's "e;The Secret Brotherhood: Exploring the Odd Fellows' Path,"e; a riveting exploration of one of the world's most enigmatic fraternal organizations.

This book examines how social inequalities in higher education shape the positional competition in graduate labour markets.

Young people in Europe have been disproportionally affected by unemployment as a result of the economic crisis and a large number of the most disadvantaged are migrant youth, or those of a different ethnic origin, living in deprived city neighbourhoods.

Germany is a central case for research on comparative political economy, which has inspired theorizing on national differences and historical trajectories.

Globally there is growing concern over charities abilities to raise funds.

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, and regular corporate scandals, there has been a growing concern with the moral and ethical foundations of business.

The manifestation of the colonial nation-state as a legal-bureaucratic-police structure - an exploitation tool - undermined customary modes of governance in colonies.

How pervasive is sex segregation in the workplace?

The purpose of this book, originally published in 1991, is to provide managers with a practical approach to planning and managing significant changes.

Originally published in 1996, Workers' Dilemmas analyses the management skills of those with least resources, the women of the urban poor, and finds that there is an abundance of evidence on the high levels of managerial competence within this group.

The Air Force requires technical skills and expertise across the entire range of activities and processes associated with the development, fielding, and employment of air, space, and cyber operational capabilities.

This book is the first to present a rich selection of over 30 real-world cases of how leading organizations conduct Business Process Management (BPM).

This is the first book to explore the meaning and significance of leisure in Chinese society, as well as the relationship between leisure and work that reveals so much about a society's cultural values.

Originally published in 1970.

Islamic Macroeconomics proposes an Islamic model that offers significant prospects for economic growth and durable macroeconomic stability, and which is immune to the defects of the economic models prevailing both in developed and developing countries.

This book, first published in 1969, was written for the manager or potential manager concerned with strategic decision-making.

This volume contains two Open Access Chapters.

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

This book addresses the challenge of securing high-paying jobs for American workers.

This monograph investigates current issues in labour law enforcement from a socio-legal perspective.

This book addresses the complex labour and life conditions faced by workers in the agricultural borderlands of northern South Africa.

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 sociological perspective and how to go about doing it, as presented through three case studies of 20th-century Swedish and Scandinavian philosophy.

The last ten years have seen a dramatic upsurge of interest in socialist theory and politics.

The lack of women on boards has galvanised much public and policy interest, which has led to many countries introducing quotas for women on boards, or to concerted voluntary action.

This volume embodies the twin purpose of highlighting topics beyond the purview of themes commonly associated with workplace bullying, emotional abuse and harassment and of presenting insights into those occupations, professions  and sectors which either have received extensive research attention or hold a pronounced propensity to trigger workplace bullying, emotional abuse and harassment.

Innovation - the process of obtaining, understanding, applying, transforming, managing and transferring knowledge - is a result of human collaboration, but it has become an increasingly complex process, with a growing number of interacting parties involved.

The world changes like the patterns in a kaleidoscope: trends expand, contract, break up, melt, disintegrate and disappear, while others are formed.

In the last two decades there has been an explosion of research inspired by Michel Foucault's suggestion of a new concept, 'governmentality'.

Creative hubs have become a cornerstone of economic and cultural policy with only the barest amount of discussion or scrutiny.

Workplace pensions are a vital part of Canada's retirement income system, but these plans have reached a state of crisis as a result of their low coverage and inadequate, insecure, and unequally distributed benefits.

Adult Education contradicts the theorists and practitioners who claim that empowering organizations can only be created when those at the top decide to share power.

Der Band bietet einen Überblick über die Geschichte und den aktuellen Stand der französischen sozial- und gesellschaftstheoretischen Perspektiven und Forschungsprogramme der Soziologie - dabei auch über die Disziplingrenzen hinausblickend, um soziologische Theorien jenseits des Faches einzubeziehen: namentlich solche, die sich selbst eher in der Philosophie (des Politischen) oder Anthropologie verorten würden.