Sociology: work and labour

Building on the work of Daniel Kahneman (Thinking Fast and Slow), Dan Ariely (Predictably Irrational), Shaw and Hamilton provide a new understanding of how people behave, explain what it means for organizations who really want to understand their customers, and show you what to do to create exceptional customer experiences.

Both research and policy on balancing work and family life have tended to focus on mothers' lives.

This editedcollection takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the Active Ageing agenda toenable readers to consider the implications of this phenomenon for the law, theworkplace, and for working lives from a holistic perspective.

This book analyzes national anti-poverty measures at a local level via a set of unique and up-to-date empirical studies of minimum income support schemes and activation measures in five European cities.

Introducing the first macro-sociological perspective on the concept of creativity this book includes a review of ten domains which have studied creativity.

This book provides a thorough and novel examination of the gendered nature of innovations in the new economy.

What did the cosmetic practices of middle-class women in the nineteenth century have in common with the repair of men's bodies mutilated in war?

This book analyses the dynamics that underlie the awarding of public funding to small voluntary organisations in the UK.

Judicial authority is constituted by everyday practices of individual judicial officers, balancing the obligations of formal law and procedure with the distinctive interactional demands of lower courts.

In this long-awaited book, Ursula Huws brings together the results of decades of prescient research on labour market transformation to provide an authoritative overview of the impacts of technological, economic, social and political change on working life in the 21st century.

We have spent the last three decades engaged in a pointless and irrelevant debate about the relative merits of privatization or nationalization.

We all play games at work - but have you ever wondered how your identity becomes bound up with game playing?

This book uniquely applies theoretical approaches from criminology and sociology to the problem of corruption.

The Politics of Agrarian Reform in Brazil examines the interrelationships among peasant mobilization, agrarian reform and cooperativism in contemporary Brazil.

Co-authored by two leading experts in the field, this unique and forward thinking new core textbook shows how innovation in processes, products, services, business models and networks may be managed by what we care about.

This book provides a framework for understanding the global flows of cuisine both into and out of Asia and describes the development of transnational culinary fields connecting Asia to the broader world.

This volume addresses issues of precariousness in a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, looking at socio-economic transformations as well as the identity formation and political organizing of precarious people.

This book critically explores ways of thinking about the city and its relevance for the profession of social work.

This book offers the first ethnographic account of the experiences of highly educated young professional women, hailed by the Chinese media as 'white-collar beauties'.

This book contends that the Chinese economic reform inaugurated since 1978 has been a top-down passive revolution, in Gramsci's term, and that after three decades of reform the role of the Chinese state has been changing from steering the passive revolution through coercive tactics to establishing capitalist hegemony.

Global Vision: How Companies Can Overcome the Pitfalls of Globalization addresses the business challenges that globalization poses.

Examining women's diverse experiences of male-dominated work, this ground-breaking book explores what sexuality and gender means to women working in the construction and transport industries.

This unique book breaks original ground in management and organization studies by drawing on over 21/2 years of ethnographic study in a major UK international airport group.

This collection analyzes shifting relationships between gender and labour in post-Fordist times.

This book explores the emergence of a new scientific field, synthetic biology, and the many bold promises its proponents have made to change the future of science, industry, humanity and the global environment.

Contemporary bureaucracy is a set of norms, rules, procedures, and formalities which includes administration, business, and NGOs.

In this book, Po-Yi Hung uses tea production as a lens to investigate the tension between nature and society under the market economy in frontier China.

This edited collection calls for renewed attention to the concept of the sociological imagination, allowing social scientists to link private issues to public troubles.

This book explores how the kinds of world-wide restructurings of higher educationand research work that are underway today havenot only increased employment insecurity in academia but may actually beproducing unemployment both for those within academia and forgraduate job-seekers in other sectors.

This book offers the first ethnographic account of prison managers in England.

The Open Incubator Model analyzes the different support policies needed in big cities, rural areas and country borders for entrepreneurs in developed and developing countries to generate cooperation and improve the business models of local SMEs.

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History, Time, and Economic Crisis in Central Greece explores how the inhabitants of a Greek town face the devastating consequences of the worst economic crisis in living memory.

This project provides an in-depth study of the role of worker-activist leaders in industrial strikes in China, a country where labor rights face significant challenges from state and industry suppression and by current lack of formal organization.

The return of interest in socialism and the critique of capitalism make Beyond Post-Socialism a timely work.

In the digital age tasks are increasingly modularised and consumers are increasingly becoming prosumers.

This book critically examines coordination work between police officers and agencies.

This edited volume assesses from a variety of perspectives the policies introduced to support the development of household services across Europe.

Filip Vostal examines the changing nature of academic time, and analyzes the 'will to accelerate' that has emerged as a significant cultural and structural force in knowledge production.

In Profit From Science , author George Danner presents solutions to the big problems that modern business face solutions that are grounded in logic and empiricism.

This edited volume seeks to enhance our understanding of the concepts of space and place in the study of digital work.

The emerging world of virtual work is not tied to physical workplaces or particular locations, but is dispersed and footloose.

The assumptions made in the media regarding graduate skills and occupations are no longer valid within the changing educational context.

This volume explores current interventions into the digital labour theory of value, proposing theoretical and empirical work that contributes to our understanding of Marx's labour theory of value, proposes how labour and value are transformed under conditions of virtuality, and employ the theory in order to shed light on specific practices.

This volume approaches questions about gender and the politics of appearance from a new perspective by developing the notion of aesthetic labour.

Institutions Incorporated draws together aspects of human and organizational corporeality and links them to institutions.

Comprising the study, documentation, and comparison of plant-level workers' participation around the world, this volume meets the challenge of offering a global perspective on workers' participation, representation, and models of social partnership.

Informed by in-depth case studies focusing on a wide spectrum of micro and macro post-socialist realities, this book demonstrates the multi-faceted nature of informality and suggests that it is a widely diffused phenomenon, used at all levels of a society and by both winners and losers of post-socialist transition.

In Challenging Neoliberalism at Turkey's Gezi Park, Gurcan and Peker explore the events of May 31, 2013, when what began as a localized demonstration against the demolition of Gezi Park, a public park in Istanbul turned into a nationwide protest cycle with an unprecedented form and scale never before seen in Turkey's history.

This Handbook incorporates a variety of disciplines and approaches in order to provide a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the issues that result from increasing age diversity at work.