Sociology: work and labour

Practical guide to managing engineering product development, using a holistic approach.

Practical guide to managing engineering product development, using a holistic approach.

This volume offers a powerful account of youth agency and young people''s rich relationship with the natural world.

This volume offers a powerful account of youth agency and young people''s rich relationship with the natural world.

Die 4-Tage-Woche schafft eine neue Arbeitskultur.

Survey of the theory, empirical evidence and public policy related to the role of patents in a global knowledge economy.

Key elements in the formation of smart cities are development based on cooperation between local governments and business, the realization of sustainable development goals, the creation of social sustainability, the advancement of information and communication technologies (ICT) and the use of innovative solutions.

A unique interdisciplinary analysis of the age discrimination debate in Britain and the USA.

An analysis of the different ways in which power operates within modern corporations.

Survey of the theory, empirical evidence and public policy related to the role of patents in a global knowledge economy.

Billions of people are paid for their work.

Billions of people are paid for their work.

Examines the nation''s emerging ranks of professional experts – including doctors, lawyers, scientists and administrators – and their role in shaping modern America.

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

Examines the nation''s emerging ranks of professional experts – including doctors, lawyers, scientists and administrators – and their role in shaping modern America.

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

A fresh theory of political judgement, using analysis of the Cuban Missile Crisis to provide new implications for political science.

A fresh theory of political judgement, using analysis of the Cuban Missile Crisis to provide new implications for political science.

An overview of Xerox''s social science tradition, with detailed case studies that show how client engagement was conducted over time.

An overview of Xerox''s social science tradition, with detailed case studies that show how client engagement was conducted over time.

Commercializing Nanotechnology: A Roadmap to Taking Nanoproducts from Laboratory to Market provides a step-by-step roadmap for taking the results of laboratory research on nanotechnology and nanomaterials and developing them into successful and profitable commercial ventures.

This unique edited collection explores the ways in which entrepreneurship acts to shape self-identity for Indian women and validate their identities in a patriarchal society.

This book explores the contemporary conditions of marginal work within the context of persistent unemployment, poverty, and homelessness in wealthy nations.

This collection examines the relationships between a globalising neoliberal capitalism, a post-GFC environment of recession and austerity, and the moral economies of young people's health and well-being.

This book explores the personal experiences of professionals who are a part of the post-colonial and late-industrializing reality in the global value chain in Singapore.

Volunteering and its nonprofit organizations have commonly been analyzed in economic terms, with volunteering being referred to as "e;unpaid (productive) work"e;.

This book proposes a theory of the legitimation crisis of neoliberalism.

With a particular focus on the British printing industry, this book tackles the ongoing issue of pay inequality and examines the challenges facing many women today.

This book argues that post-PhD career planning should ideally begin at the same time as the PhD itself.

This groundbreaking study offers new insights into public relations history with a focus on the changing relationship between women and public relations, the institutionalization of public relations education, and the significance of globalization in Australia in the second half of the twentieth century.

Since its establishment in 1965, Business Economics has been an essential resource for those who use economics in the workplace.

This book explores the highly significant and contested area of graduate employability and employment which is paid so much attention by those in the media and policy-makers.

This book provides a critical and theoretically-informed assessment of the nature and types of structural change occurring in the Irish welfare state in the context of the 2008 economic crisis.

To a backdrop of ageing societies, pension crises and labour market reforms, this book investigates how the policy shift from early retirement to active ageing has affected individual retirement behaviour.

This book assesses recent migration patterns in Europe, which have significantly included 'return migration' against the stream of East-West migration.

This book brings together current research on stigma, stigma management, and stigma theory as applied to business and management at the micro, meso, and macro levels.

This volume of original essays considers how the International Labour Organization has helped generate a set of ideas and practices, past and present, transnational and within a single nation, aimed at advancing social and economic reform in the Pacific Rim.

Theoretical and philosophical work on community has yielded multifold definitions and analytical frameworks.

Fear and terror have come to drive world politics, and the people who do the driving have shaped and used them to carry out their policies.

In this thought-provoking and innovative book, Kendra Coulter examines the diversity of work done with, by, and for animals.

The Dialectic of Taste examines the aesthetic economy in the context of economic crises.

This book critically reviews recent social scientific investigations of consumption, a controversial topic with moral overtones, and of popular public interest and political and economic significance.

This book examines a three-way interaction among market, state, and family in China's recent market reform.

This book re-shapes thinking on 'gender gaps'-differences between men and women in their incomes, their employment and their conditions of work.

This book tells the story of nearly five decades of Indian migration to Australia from the late 1960s to 2015, through the eyes of migrants and their families.

Disability Servitude traces the history and legacy of institutional peonage.

With the rise of the Internet, many pundits predicted that middlemen would disappear.

Tapping into proven strategies, mechanisms and patterns that have been fine-tuned over 3.

This book presents a framework for a different type of profitable growth for multinational companies in emerging markets: "e;scaling the tail.

The Danish Welfare State analyzes a broad range of areas, such as globalization, labor marked, family life, health and social exclusion, the book demonstrates that life in a modern welfare state is changing rapidly, creating both challenges and possibilities for future management.