Sociology: work and labour

Employability has become an increasingly widespread concept both in management and policy, but its meaning remains somewhat enigmatic and ambiguous.

Die Edition präsentiert den Elitetheoretiker Robert Michels von einer bislang völlig unbekannten Seite.

Digitalization is changing the world of work.

Sustainability is a phenomenon that must be pursued in a complex system of interrelated elements of business, society, and ecology.

Originally published in 1983 The Urban and Regional Transformation of Britain, analyses economic and social changes recorded across the cities and regions of Britain since the Barlow Report.

Mit der gescheiterten Leinenmanufaktur in Heilbronn des Verlegers Johann Friedrich Cotta wird der seltene Fall eines untergegangenen Unternehmens dokumentiert und mit der erfolgreichen Einführung neuer Techniken in Blaubeuren verglichen.

In the second half of the 1980s Japan has emerged as one of the new major destination countries for migrants from Asia.

This volume offers empirically based insights and findings on the question of how human service organizations are reacting to the increasing need for greater impact, effectiveness, and performance.

In this book, author Claire Oueslati-Porter describes her field research  in Binzart, Tunisia's sprawling factory zone and in the surrounding city.

This book offers broad evidence on how new information and communication technologies (ICT) impact social development and contribute to social welfare.

The concepts of social sciences, social action and organizations as texts, are no longer unfamiliar ones.

The aftermath of the 2008 crisis has substantially increased the regulation of banks and insurance companies and curtailed their risk taking, which has shifted much of the risk to their clients: firms and consumers.

Global economic growth, recently fuelled by Asia's emerging economies, has greatly accelerated the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and boosted demand for scarce natural resources, including energy, food and mineral raw materials.

In Multipreneurship: Diversification in Times of Crisis, Nick Harkiolakis argues against the more commonly held view that diversification at the level of the individual entrepreneur, rather than that of the established corporation, is the wrong business strategy to pursue in times of economic crisis.

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.

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Seit nunmehr 50 Jahren gibt es die Institution des Freiwilligen Sozialen Jahres in Deutschland.

The concept of social capital refers to the ways in which people make use of their social networks in "e;getting ahead.

In response to a Congressional mandate, the National Research Council conducted a review of the Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) at the five federal agencies with SBIR programs with budgets in excess of $100 million (DOD, NIH, NASA, DOE, and NSF).

In Working at Leisure (originally published in 1986), Barrie Sherman envisages a world where homeworking will be the norm, the cities will be deserted, the suburbs the new centres of work and leisure.

What are the possibilities for a radical politics of universal humanity, at a time when the politics of identity increasingly defines the agenda of the left?

The start of the twenty-first century has been marked by global demands for economic justice.

In the past six years, planned downsizing has reduced the civilian work force of the U.

In recent years, cultural work has engaged the interest of scholars from a broad range of social science and humanities disciplines.

In this new book, Hara, Kambayashi and Matsushima gather together a collection of case studies of innovation in various industries in modern Japan, including automobile, electronics, semiconductor, component, chemical, pharmaceutical and service industries.

Businesses spend billions on innovation with very little to show for their investment or effort.

Clare Holdsworth develops an account of everyday busyness by identifying busyness with a relational interpretation of time.

Any study of contemporary industrial societies must take into account the role of power, ideology and class, and the degree to which these determine the development of social structures.

Dance has proliferated in movies, television, Internet, and retail spaces while the spiritual power of dance has also been linked with mass consumption.

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

Virtually everyone accepts that workplaces are complex, but there is little insight into how we might engage with complexity more skilfully.

This book provides insights into how new ventures in emerging economies and developing countries generate social innovation.

Der Tagungsband „Demokratie und Soziale Arbeit“ befasst sich aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven mit zentralen aktuellen Fragen der Sozialen Arbeit.

This book utilizes the School to Work Transition Survey (SWTS) of the ILO to discuss what shapes an individual worker's decision to participate in unionization and how her working condition is affected by that.

Drawing on sociology and social policy, this intriguing volume considers various aspects of gender and professional identity.

This book provides an alternative means of discussing the development and significance of managers and management in universities and colleges.

This book, originally published in 1977, is a comparative study of worker participation in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Britain.

The insight that institutions, and the communicative practices that create, sustain, and challenge them, are multimodal accomplishments has garnered increasing attention from scholars in organization and management research over the last decade.

Mirroring a worldwide phenomenon in industrialized nations, the U.

YES, YOU CAN INNOVATE!

In his newest book, Stehr builds on his classic book Knowledge Societies (1994) to expand the concept toward one of knowledge capitalism for a now, much-changed era.

In Multipreneurship: Diversification in Times of Crisis, Nick Harkiolakis argues against the more commonly held view that diversification at the level of the individual entrepreneur, rather than that of the established corporation, is the wrong business strategy to pursue in times of economic crisis.

'Social innovation' can be simply defined as the new ideas and initiatives that make it possible to meet our society's challenges in areas such as the environment, education, employment, culture, health and economic development.

The workplace can be a hotbed of difficulty and incivility-from rumors spread about an individual, to the agonies of stress, to physical attacks and even death.

Originally published in 1990, Youth in Transition addresses the issue of large-scale policy intervention, related to problems of employment in Britain's youth.