Sociology: work and labour

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?

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

The ability of organisations to generate long-term value and growth depends to a very large extent on the capacity of the executive cohort to conceive and implement strategic initiatives through a well-motivated and enabled workforce.

Originally published in 1993.

When originally published in 1988, this book presented new evidence of inequalities in health found among communities in different areas of the North of England.

This title was first published in 2001.

This volume, first published in 1976, is addressed to the analysis of power and conflict in and of organizations.

The Poetic Logic of Administration is an investigation of the most important organizational forms of our time, theoretically as well as practically.

This volume introduces the notion of Thinking Infrastructures to explore a broad range of phenomena that structure attention, shape decision-making, and guide cognition: Thinking Infrastructures configure entities (via tracing, tagging), organise knowledge (via search engines), sort things out (via rankings and ratings), govern markets (via calculative practices, including algorithms), and configure preferences (via valuations such as recommender systems).

This edited volume examines the relationship between collective intentionality and inferential theories of meaning.

Insulated from the dust, noise, and crowds churning outside, China's luxury hotels are staging areas for the new economic and political landscape of the country.

This book discusses the interaction between and the impact of overlapping actions by regional organizations while dealing with critical events.

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Katharina Agostini untersucht in dieser qualitativ-rekonstruktiven Studie die Bedeutsamkeit von Wertorientierungen und organisationalen Werten für das Alltagshandeln von Akteuren und Akteurinnen eines öffentlich-rechtlichen Finanzdienstleistungsunternehmens.

Village China Under Socialism and Reform offers a comprehensive account of rural life after the communist revolution, detailing villager involvement in political campaigns since the 1950s, agricultural production under the collective system, family farming and non-agricultural economy in the reform, and everyday life in the family and community.

The importance of social relationships at work has long been recognized in the social sciences.

Based on extensive interdisciplinary research and the author's over 30 years of experience in the field, this book provides best practice skills for auditors and investigators in any type of investigation and adapts them to ensure they are relevant to a corporate environment where the powers available to police are absent.

There is a growing body of work examining the 'consequences', or more accurately the inter-relationships between information and communications technologies (ICTs) and society at the microsocial (individual, household) level.

Published in 1994, this book gathers together a series of original studies on occupational socialization and the everyday realities of work.

The book examines the evolution and current state of corporate social responsibility (CSR), using a five-stage maturity model: defensive, charitable, promotional, strategic and transformative CSR.

"Die ArtSet-Forschergruppe hat mit ihrem Buch der Organisationsforschung und der Organisationsberatung eine spannende neue Perspektive eröffnet.

By drawing on the experiences of Danone, Nestle, Coca-Cola and SABMiller, this book provides an insight into why and how the managing a Chinese Partner can deliver value for a joint venture in China, a goal shared by many but achieved by few.

It has been estimated that over 75% of the innovative projects that begin through the Innovation Management System (IMS) are either failures or they failed to produce the desired results.

Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World is the first book to provide readers with an authoritative and comprehensive assessment of the impact of New Labour governments on employment relations and trade unions.

„Wenn Du Frieden willst, sorge für Gerechtigkeit“ steht in lateinischen Worten auf dem Grundstein des ersten Gebäudes der Internationalen Arbeitsorganisation (bekannt als ILO, deutsch: IAO), die vor mehr als 100 Jahren als Teil des Friedensvertrags von Versailles gegründet wurde.

Originally published in 1917 in the midst of World War I, Carpenter argues that industry in pre-war Britain was simply exploitation of labour for private gain and attempts to look toward a future with more socialist values.

Following a congressional directive in its FY 2006 Appropriations Act, the National Science Foundation asked the STEP Board to "e;propose a plan for administering prizes to individuals or teams that achieve novel solutions to specified social or research needs or capitalize on recognized research opportunities.

From language classrooms to outdoor markets, the workplace is fundamental to socialisation.

Feminism, Diversity and HRD aims to enhance critical understandings of feminism, diversity and HRD theorization and practice in the global political economy.

Die Untersuchung gibt einen aktuellen Überblick über Verbraucherorganisationen in Deutschland.

Silvia Bermudez's fascinating study reveals how Spanish popular music, produced between 1980 and 2013, was the first cultural site to engage in critical debate about ethnicity and race in relation to the immigration patterns that have been changing the social landscape of Spanish society since the late 1970s.

Presenting a series of empirical studies by scholars working with approaches from ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, Medical and Healthcare Interactions studies real-life work and training encounters among medical and healthcare professionals and trainees or between professionals and patients.

Clear, concise and easy to read, thisbook explores key debates around global studies today.

Based on long-term fieldwork, six vivid ethnographies from Colombia, India, Poland, Spain and the southern and northern U.

Changes in the work sphere and the "e;vanishing"e; of standard work may end the old breadwinner type of masculinity.

This book evaluates the consequences of economic, social, environmental and cultural change on people living and working within Teesside in the North-East of England.

Hazards of the Job explores the roots of modern environmentalism in the early-twentieth-century United States.

There has, in recent times, been an increasing interest in history, broadly defined, among management scholars.

Originally published in 1977.

Hidden and Devalued Feminized Labour in the Digital Humanities examines the data-driven labour that underpinned the Index Thomisticus-a preeminent project of the incunabular digital humanities-and advanced the data-foundations of computing in the Humanities.

Cyrill Spale untersucht die Bedeutung von Marken im Szenesport für das Funktionieren der Sportarten und zeigt, dass sie Netzwerke mit glaubwürdigen Akteuren bilden, um sich innerhalb der Gemeinschaft erfolgreich positionieren zu können.

What is life like for workers in the gig economy?

Critical Social Theory and the End of Work examines the development and sociological significance of the idea that work is being eliminated through the use of advanced production technology.

This book focuses on gig work and organising among gig workers in the Indonesian online transport service, situated within the context of widespread precaritisation and digitalisation in today's world of work.

The Home in the Digital Age is a set of multidisciplinary studies exploring the impact of digital technologies in the home, with a shift of emphasis from technology to the people living and using this in their homes.