Sociology: work and labour

Mit dem Subjektbegriff wird auf eine logisch nicht hintergehbare Entität verwiesen, die sich aus den Überlegungen einer konstruktivistischen Erkenntnistheorie ableiten lässt.

You know your organization needs creativity.

This book examines the digitalization of longstanding problems of technological advance that produce inequalities and automated governance, which relieves subjects of agency and critical thought, and prompts a need to weaponize thoughtfulness against technocratic designs.

If we are serious about finding a different way to run the post-credit crunch society, we must start by introducing alternatives to undergraduates.

Technological breakthroughs obliterate established methods and change entire industries.

Agent-based modeling/simulation is an emergent approach to the analysis of social and economic systems.

Fashion Branding and Consumer Behaviors presents eye-opening theory, literature review and original research on the mutual influence of branding strategies and consumer response.

Avoiding prejudice will be critical to economic success in the fourth industrial revolution.

First published in 1982, this book considers the position of young Afro-Caribbean people in Britain, in the 1980s.

This book will bridge the knowledge gap and provide valuable insights into how sustainable HRM practices can contribute not only to organizational sustainability but also to sustainability at large.

Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty presents new and surprising findings about career differences between female and male full-time, tenure-track, and tenured faculty in science, engineering, and mathematics at the nation's top research universities.

Max Weber is best known as one of the founders of modern sociology and the author of the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, but he also made important contributions to modern political and democratic theory.

When one considers broadband, the Internet immediately springs to mind.

Technological developments in recent years have been tremendous.

The Routledge Critical Companion to Leadership Studies offers a rich and insightful overview of critical leadership studies for students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the many factors that influence the internationalisation of SMEs into China.

The Subjectivities and Politics of Occupational Risk links restructuring in three industries to shifts in risk subjectivities and politics, both within workplaces and within the safety management and regulative spheres, often leading to conflict and changes in law, political discourses and management approaches.

Across Europe, there is an intense search for new and sustainable approaches to providing welfare.

This is the story of the radical intervention carried out by the Thatcher administration in response to 1986-89 Monopolies and Mergers Commission inquiry into brewing.

Through a first-of-its kind qualitative exploratory study, Bibi Arfeen elucidates the multifaceted complexities and dynamics that contribute to successful higher education-to-work transition among South Asian Ethnic Minority (EM) youths in Hong Kong.

This book presents a detailed and critical discussion about how human wellbeing can be maintained and improved in a postgrowth era.

The Security Risk Handbook assists businesses that need to be able to carry out effective security risk assessments, security surveys, and security audits.

How customers and consumer behavior have been changing due to technology and other forces is of prime interest.

In this ground-breaking book, Jorg Radtke offers for the first time within research, a comprehensive insight into the range of organizational structures of community energy projects in Germany and their contribution to the Energiewende.

This book, originally published in 1987, evaluates the human and managerial implications of new office information technology, based on the actual experiences of organisations using the new technology.

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Is a new spirit of capitalism emerging as a result of neoliberal adjustments in the global economy?

Creativity in Product Innovation describes a remarkable technique for improving creativity in product design.

Information about the characteristics of jobs and the individuals who fill them is valuable for career guidance, reemployment counseling, workforce development, human resource management, and other purposes.

Greece's economy and society have undergone important structural changes in recent years as a result of the financial crisis and consequent austerity policies that have been implemented.

In recent years, trust has enjoyed increasing interest from a wide range of parties, including organizations, policymakers, and the media.

This book brings together the theory and practice of managing public trust.

Designed to help midlevel and senior managers in organizations dedicated to public purposes, this book provides trained self-awareness to deploy values to guide decisions and build the culture of their organizations.

Family business is the most prominent form of business organization, and its importance to the global economy cannot be under-estimated.

This edited volume moves the study of South Asia to the center of sociological analysis, bringing together recent scholarship across sites in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Pakistan, as well as in Ethiopia and the USA.

This book introduces new approaches that deploy concepts from Marx's critique of political economy to renew the study of labour, value and social antagonisms in the broad area of management and organisation studies.

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The TUC Overseas (1986) traces the decisions made by the Trades Union Congress in response to domestic and external influences and events, from its establishment of a joint international committee with the Labour Party in 1917 to the first congress of the World Federation of Trade Unions in 1945.

This book explores the enactment of technologically mediated Human Resource Management (HRM) in the gig economy from various perspectives.

Non-profit Organizations and Co-production:The Logics Shaping Professional and Citizen Collaboration develops a novel framework for analyzing the practices of co-production between citizens and professionals in the non-profit sector.

With the transformation of the role of the welfare state, the "e;social engagement"e; and "e;active participation"e; were taking the place of passive benefits.

Innovation Strategy for the Knowledge Economy is intended for managers who have practiced the best of quality and re-engineering management techniques and are ready to transform their organizations with the systematic notions of knowledge creation and application.

The large-scale extraction of natural resources for sale in capitalist markets is not a new phenomenon, but in recent years global demand for resources has increased, leading to greater attention to the role of resource extraction in the development of the exporting countries.

Technology infrastructure supports the design, deployment and use of both individual technology-based components and the systems of such components that form the knowledge-based economy.

With China's rapid advancements in urbanization and industrialization, there has been significant labor movement away from agriculture in the rural regions.

This book tackles the emerging smart urbanism to advance a new way of urban thinking and to explore a new design approach.

Research and development infrastructures are a critical success factor in the platform of science and technology.