Sociology: work and labour

The literature on gender and professions shows that professional careers continue to be impacted by gender - albeit with important differences among professions and countries.

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This book is an unprecedented effort to compare representations and practices of social distinction worldwide and over the centuries.

In recent decades, organizational stress researchers have repeatedly called for more longitudinal studies.

In recent years, interest in the large group of skilled immigrants coming from India to the United States has soared.

Highly original and based on unique empirical research in the fields of organization theory and organization behaviour, this work makes an invaluable contribution to the literature on bureaucracy and innovation.

Labor resides at the center of all media and communication production, from the workers who create the information technologies that form the dynamic core of the global capitalist system and the designers who create media content to the salvage workers who dismantle the industry's high-tech trash.

Many countries around the world are investing a great amount of resources in government IT initiatives.

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

While the field of football studies has produced an abundance of literature on professional, top-league football, there is little research output to do with the non-top level football.

This book reports on cutting-edge research related to social and occupational factors.

The idea of a 'leisure society' was in its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, when it was predicted that the pattern of falling working hours which had been experienced in Western societies in the first half of the twentieth century would continue indefinitely.

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This book explores major similarities and differences in the structure, conduct, and performance of the national technology transfer systems of Germany and the United States.

The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina, poultry plant sets the stage for this dramatic story of human struggle in an age of globalization.

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.

Understanding the Montessori Approach is a much-needed source of information for those wishing to extend and consolidate their understanding of the Montessori Approach and how it is used in the teaching and learning of young children.

Global Perspectives of Employee Assistance Programs is the first book of its kind to empirically address the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) concept and model in a diverse, global context.

The Routledge Companion to Critical Marketing brings together the latest research in Critical Marketing Studies in one authoritative and convenient volume.

This book demonstrates, in detail, why annual performance appraisals might still work in hierarchical environments, but largely fail in agile ones.

From the rise of fully automated factories to the creation of new migrant workforces, the world of work, employment and production is rapidly changing.

The National Research Council has convened the Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards to provide expert, science-based advice on monitoringcompliance with international labor standards.

It is over 40 years since we began to reflect upon risk in a more social than technological and economic fashion, firstly making sense of the gap between expert and public assessment of risks, such as to our health and environment.

The premise of this book is that research into gossip, organization, and work is an important idea whose time has come.

The social, cultural and economic significance of sport has never been more evident than it is today.

Global cities with a largely cosmopolitan environment, such as Auckland, Berlin, Dubai, London, New York, Shanghai or Singapore, are successfully developing and attracting entrepreneurs from all over the world.

This book presents a new governance framework for socially oriented business management.

This book investigates the interplay of the recent transformation of working life and the growing appeal of political right-wing populism and extremism in Europe.

In the early 1980s, against the background of chronic unemployment in Britain, the particular plight of young people had come to be identified as a subject for special concern.

A sustainable European workforce has become increasingly relevant in our present day and age.

This book examines an issue of constant concern in the construction industry, that of productivity.

This book explores the intricate connections that link the current digitalization of manufacturing to our daily lives and identities as members of highly technologized societies.

Published in 1999, this text is influenced by two sets of theories, namely regulation theories and theories on social citizenship.

This book explores how the conceptual lens of Holistic Flexibility presents new advancements in systems thinking.

This book traces the interacting histories of the disciplines of ecology and economics, from their common origin in the ancient Greek concept of oikonomia, through their distinct encounters with energy physics, to the current obstruction of neoliberal economics to responses to the ecological and climate crisis of the so-called Anthropocene.

This book sheds light on the invisible early post-arrival period of female family migrants, traditionally considered to be low skilled or professionally quiescent.

This book explores the economic coping practices of rural widows in the aftermath of the Cambodian civil war.

This book introduces and reviews recent advances inthe field in a comprehensive and non-technical way by focusing on the potentialof emerging citizen-science and social-computation frameworks, coupled with thelatest theoretical and modeling tools developed by physicists, mathematicians,computer and social scientists to analyse, interpret and visualize complex datasets.

The 21st century has born witness to myriad changes in the way the world is secured from the many emergencies that continually threaten to disrupt it.

Critically examining economic developments within the last sixty years, this book argues that a crisis in global social reproduction is altering existing understandings of work, labour and the economy.

Storytelling is part of social action and interaction that actually shapes the future of organizations.

The classical concept of organizations as comprising solitary 'walled-in' actors with clear operational boundaries is increasingly being challenged.

Marxist discourse around automation has recently become waylaid with breathless techno-pessimist dystopias and fanciful imaginations of automated luxury communism.