Sociology: work and labour

This book is about the creative ways in which social entrepreneurs solve pressing and insurmountable social problems.

First published in 1989, Guards Imprisoned provides an in-depth look into the work and working life of prison guards as they perceive and experience it.

Industrial Relations in the Public Services (1989) assesses the changes in industrial relations following Thatcher's 1979 election in three particular parts of the public sector: local authorities, the national health service and the civil service.

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John Maynard Keynes expected that around the year 2030 people would only work 15 hours a week.

Dieses Buch untersucht den Bedeutungswandel innereuropäischer Erwerbsmobilität im 21.

The book reflects on ways of transcending Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) by establishing a dialogue between the professional experience of the authors and experts from academia and practitioners from financial services and executive search.

Despite Canada's economic success over the past thirty years, the country's ranking in productivity has continued to decline when compared to other industrialized nations.

Employment has changed dramatically in the last few decades with the onset of neoliberal globalization.

Revolutionary feminism is resurging across the world.

Organizational or corporate 'culture' is the most overused and least understood word in business, if not society.

As a stand-alone text, a self-study manual, or a supplement to a lab manual or comprehensive text, The Joy of Stats is a unique and versatile resource.

From incomparable storyteller and beloved diversity and inclusion expert, Steve L.

Japanese management techniques have attracted considerable interest amongst managers and academics.

Fair Work explores topics relating to work and labor at the intersection of ethics, social justice, and public policy.

Since the 1980s, neoliberalism has had a major impact on social life and, in turn, research in the social sciences.

This book takes an in-depth look at the European Commission's Erasmus programme.

'Interpretation' is used as an umbrella for bringing together a wide range of concepts and developments in the philosophy of social science that provide the foundation for clear thinking about social phenomena.

"e;To some a book on the origins of sexual inequality is absurd.

This accessible edited collection provides global context for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying the sociology of work and organisations.

This book critically interrogates the role of religious faith in the experiences and practices of migrant entrepreneurs against the backdrop of neoliberal Britain.

Das Buch untersucht die sozialen Proteste gegen die Neoliberalisierung der Wohnraumversorgung, die sich angesichts steigender Mieten und Wohnungspreise  in den letzten Jahren vielerorts  formiert haben.

The Routledge Critical Companion to Leadership Studies offers a rich and insightful overview of critical leadership studies for students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners.

Marcel Pillath untersucht Kooperationen zwischen Unternehmen und Nonprofit-Organisationen (NPOs) im Sport angesichts gegenwärtiger Debatten über Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) und Corporate Citizenship (CC).

This work offers a nuanced perspective based on empirical evidence of the role of talent and creativity for economic growth, prosperity, social and spatial inequality, and precarity in creative cities by arguing that creativity and talent need to be valued and eventually rewarded to achieve sufficient conditions for individual economic success.

This book explores the move from manufacturing towards service industry jobs in China's economic development during the 12th Five-Year Plan period.

Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives examines the repercussions of economic globalization on several manufacturing-dependent rural communities in Canada.

This book will give unique insight into how a new generation of Bourdieusian researchers apply Bourdieu to contemporary issues.

This book offers a critical and timely account of how labour law has become a means for protecting employers rather than workers.

Creating Excellence, first published in 1984, proposes a rational yet visionary blend of approaches for a winning, strategy-driven culture that can provide you and your company with the confidence that gets results.

Deciding when and how to retire are among the most important decisions most people make.

Web3 is the latest transformation of the World Wide Web, centred on public blockchains, Crypto tokens, and an ideology of decentralisation.

Could language be a reason why women are under-represented at senior level in the business world?

This book explores the paradox of women's paid and unpaid work in India.

Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2018Thousands of Palestinians, including children, are building and working on illegal Israeli settlements.

Three-time Ninkasi Award winner, Gordon Strong has been a towering presence in the homebrewing community for many years.

This title was first published in 2001.

The mismatch between goals and means is a major cause of crisis in labour law.

The application of probability and statistics to an ever-widening number of life-decisions serves to reproduce, reinforce, and widen disparities in the quality of life that different groups of people can enjoy.

This insightful book draws on a range of contemporary and classic studies to explore the connection between the personal experience of work and the wider social structures in which it takes place.

Citizenship is a central concept in political philosophy, bridging theory and practice and marking out those who belong and who share a common civic status.

"e;The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts"e; is an 1899 treatise by Thorstein Veblen.

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

This book presents an in-depth perspective of knowledge as a fundamental process of any organization rather than just another resource to be managed.

This original analysis of modern Greece's political culture attempts to present a "e;total social fact"e;-a coherent and complex representation of Greek socio-political culture-to identify the cultural causes of Greece's recent disastrous economic crisis.