Sociology: work and labour

This new (third) edition of Rethinking Public Relations continues the argument of previous editions that public relations is weak propaganda.

A much-needed addition to literature, this timely edited collection aims to provide clarity and understanding on how modern organizations work.

Flexible Electronics for Security, Manufacturing, and Growth in the United States is the summary of a workshop convened in September 2010 by Policy and Global Affairs' Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy to review challenges, plans, and opportunities for growing a robust flexible electronics industry in the United States.

Research on consumption can shed light on many fundamental questions, such as the character of society, including social and cultural dimensions; the relations between the generations; dependency on technology and the risks involved; the rise of Asia and its potential consumption preferences; the question of whether we must continuously increase our consumption to avoid a recession and whether this is ecologically sustainable.

Wie gehen Organisationen mit ihrer Vergangenheit um und was geschieht, wenn sie sich der Vergangenheit anderer annehmen?

This book, first published in 1974, explores the processes by which organisations (and larger entities) attempt to influence their populations (and prospective future populations).

Joel Beinin''s book offers a survey of subaltern history in the Middle East.

This study, originally published in 1986, is directed to the period before the establishment of scientific management as a recognised movement, in an attempt to answer two basic questions: was there a body of management literature immediately preceding the emergence of scientific management?

Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen, die das Wagnis strategischer Innovationspartnerschaften mit der Wirtschaft eingehen, agieren in einem dauerhaften Spannungsverhältnis zwischen ihrem öffentlich-rechtlichen Auftrag zu Forschung, Wissens- und Technologietransfer und ihren eingeschränkten Möglichkeiten, tatsächlich zur Verwertung neuer Lösungen wirtschaftlich am Markt tätig zu werden.

This book explores the thought of Olive Schreiner, the internationally famous writer, feminist theorist, social critic, opponent of imperialism and nationalism, and analyst of violence and war, best known for her novels and short stories, articles and critical commentaries, and her feminist treatise, Women and Labour.

A fundamental problem of public sector governance relates to the very way of thinking it reflects; where organization is thought of as a 'thing', a system designed to deliver what its designers choose.

Stefanie Büchner untersucht in ihrer qualitativ-explorativen Studie die Fallbearbeitung in drei Jugendämtern.

Over the past 50 years the global labour market is transforming from reliable employment to low-wage and unstable informal and precarious jobs.

In this increasingly neoliberal gig economy, exponentially expanding with technological advances, the ability to work online remotely has led some western millennials to travel the world to work and play, while making a subsistence living as digital platform workers.

During the eighteenth century, the French and British empires mobilized thousands of workers in what is now Canada through a system of mandatory labour known as corvee.

Governing Affects explores the neoliberal transformation of state governance in Europe towards affective forms of dominance exercised by customer-oriented neo-bureaucracies and public service providers.

The labourers at the heart of this study built the canals and railways undertaken as public works by the colonial governments of British North America and the federal government of Canada between 1841 and 1882.

Wie orientieren sich Jugendliche angesichts des Wandels von Arbeit und welche Bedeutung hat dies für politische Lern- und Bildungsprozesse?

A pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and behaviour Mary Parker Follett authored a number of books and numerous essays, articles and speeches on human relations, political philosophy, psychology and management.

This book offers the core conceptual base for the practice of T-Group facilitation.

This title was first published in 2001: Examining the future of the welfare state in four globalizing economies - Sweden, UK, Japan and US - this book presents a detailed analysis of the ways in which social and economic aspects of these welfare states have altered under growing market-first ideology and economic globalization.

This book presents a collection of research papers exploring the human side of digital innovation management, with a specific focus on what people say and share on social media, how they respond to the introduction of specific IT tools, and how digital innovations are impacting sustainability and inclusion.

This collection covers how success and well-being relate to each other in early career development in the domains of employment and education.

This ethnographic book enhances our understanding of asylum screening, an area of immigration that is often overlooked and remains under-researched.

The articles in the volume examine the intersection of gender with other characteristics in a variety of settings including factory floors and corporate offices, welfare offices, state legislatures, the armed forces, universities, social clubs and playing fields.

All organisations, whether private or public sector, seek to improve criminal justice workplace practice from an evidence base, but often find it difficult to effectively translate research findings into policy or design best-practice interventions.

This study, originally published in 1990, introduces a rich array of approaches to defining and developing the competency of managerial performance.

This book explores the complexities of the recreational summer camp experience and its reliance on the expertise and emotion work of young people.

Made to Work analyses the conditions of mobile knowledge work (MKW) in contemporary worklives, contrasting and drawing parallels among three highly significant sectors of the Knowledge Economy: academia, information communication technology (ICT) management, and digital creative work.

This book offers a critical analysis of consumer credit markets and the growth of outstanding debt, presenting in-depth interview material to explore the phenomenon of mass indebtedness through the life trajectories of self-identified debtors struggling with the pressures of owing money.

For centuries, almost all economic activity was family-based.

Originally published in 1985, this book brings together diverse perspectives of global policy and experience concerning threatened or high levels of youth unemployment and the measures taken in the countries concerned.

International Business and Culture: Challenges in Cross-Cultural Marketing and Management explores the intricate relationship between culture and business, offering valuable insights for both practitioners and scholars.

Academia is an important site for producing knowledge, which is crucial in driving economies and societies around the globe at the beginning of the 21st century.

In the current times of more frequent crises and ever shortening innovation cycles, the management of change has become a crucial task of survival.

This book is about the currently evolving global standardization of corporate workplace models and the challenges this poses for their implementation in a local context.

In this book, first published in 1971, the author develops and tests a productivity system based on Added Value as the measure of company income and output.

This book presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art portrait of entrepreneurship and small business management issues in Iran, and among the Iranian Diaspora.

Bureaucracy is a curse - it seems we can't live with it, we can't live without it.