Sociology: work and labour

Through personal accounts and revelations, this book explores bullying at work and offers solutions to help overcome this stressful, often isolating experience facing many women and men.

**Winner of the UALE Book Award 2021**Amazon is the most powerful corporation on the planet and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, has become the richest person in history, and one of the few people to profit from a global pandemic.

A partir de la sociologia de Pierre Bourdieu, este libro analiza las particularidades del discurso juridico en Colombia para delimitar sus caracteristicas como campo social.

Esta es la historia de todos los médicos, enfermeros y técnicos sanitarios en emergencias que trabajan en las ambulancias velando por nuestra salud.

Wie lassen sich die Wege von Jugendlichen an der Schwelle zwischen Schule und Beruf reibungsloser gestalten?

Como parte de un nuevo proyecto institucional, la Flacso México asume el reto de un debate renovado e innovador de las ciencias sociales en tanto eje transversal de su agenda de docencia e investigación.

Der Übergang von der Schule in die Berufsausbildung gelingt längst nicht allen Jugendlichen: Viele bekommen erst über teure und zeitraubende Umwege aus Übergangsmaßnahmen eine Lehrstelle oder bleiben ganz ohne Ausbildung.

"Este trabajo explora las formas en que la desigualdad social se proyecta en las intimidades del servicio doméstico, y analiza las experiencias y trayectorias de vida de tres mujeres que trabajan como empleadas domésticas en Bogotá, en torno a las tensiones que implican las diferencias sociales entre patrones y empleadas.

Santo Tomas de Aquino es uno de los mas grandes filosofos de la historia universal.

"Hay libros que se escriben desde la imaginación y hay libros que se forjan en la experiencia.

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This is the book that made its author Henry George suddenly famous.

Sobre la felicidad y la brevedad de la vida es una obra clásica explora la esencia de la del sentir y el hecho de vivir.

El libro que tienes entre las manos, Networking, tiene la pretension de ser una guia de iniciacion al mismo.

Wenn bei Phonebitch die 0190-Nummer aufleuchtet, ist ganzer Einsatz gefragt.

¿Sabe usted cuál es su posición en el ámbito laboral actual?

What does it feel like to drive a lorry that's out of control?

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Welche Erfahrungen machen Jugendliche heute?

This earnest and eloquent Letter to the Pope is by far the most remarkable utterance which the Encyclical of 1890 has evoked.

Este libro es una suerte de refugio necesario para poner en orden algunas ideas en torno a una realidad paradójicamente sobrecogedora en la esfera cotidiana, pero igualmente inadvertida como objeto de reflexión académica.

Weber wrote that capitalism in northern Europe evolved when the Protestant (particularly Calvinist) ethic influenced large numbers of people to engage in work in the secular world, developing their own enterprises and engaging in trade and the accumulation of wealth for investment.

What does the collapse of India's tea industry mean for Dalit workers who have lived, worked and died on the plantations since the colonial era?

Durch die Corona-Pandemie ist die alte Debatte um Care-Arbeit in Deutschland neu entflammt.

"Frauen gehören eigentlich nicht in die Wissenschaft.

Die Buchlinie "bwlBlitzmerker" beschäftigt sich mit aktuellen betriebswirtschaftlichen Themen.

Eigentlich reicht doch der schlanke Satz im Grundgesetz Artikel 3 (2): ›Männer und Frauen sind gleichberechtigt.

Based on 15 months of ethnographic research in the city of Alto Hospicio in northern Chile, this book describes how the residents use social media, and the consequences of this use in their daily lives.

La educación es un arma, un pueblo educado es un pueblo capaz de elegir su propio rumbo.

Organizations are now competing in two markets, one for their products and services and one for the talent required to produce or perform them.

In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years.

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

Any organization, no matter how stolid, may be unsettled by the news that a new boss is about to take over.

In this book the authors examine the relations between work and time and explore the possibilities of developing new and more flexible working patterns.

*Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize, 2015* *Winner of the ICA Bookshop Book of the Year 2014*Stitched Up delves into the alluring world of fashion to reveal what is behind the clothes we wear.

In this stimulating and highly original work, Kevin Doogan looks at contemporary social transformation through the lens of the labour market.

This book provides a long-overdue account of online technology and its impact on the work and lifestyles of professional employees.

This highly topical book is a concise and accessible account of the relationship between technology and work.

The author of The Long Descent examines a solution for the troubles of our modern age: technical regression.

*Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize, 2015* *Winner of the ICA Bookshop Book of the Year 2014*Stitched Up delves into the alluring world of fashion to reveal what is behind the clothes we wear.

Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work.

Immigrants and their descendants are growing populations that are rapidly changing the racial/ethnic diversity of the United States and many societies across the globe.

This book is about the rise of digital labor.

This book is an original interpretation of the professions and the role of the professional in Western industrial societies today.

Workplace pensions are a vital part of Canada's retirement income system, but these plans have reached a state of crisis as a result of their low coverage and inadequate, insecure, and unequally distributed benefits.

Immigrants and their descendants are growing populations that are rapidly changing the racial/ethnic diversity of the United States and many societies across the globe.

Many families leave their children for years to be looked after by young people about whom they know next to nothing, from places they have barely heard of.