Sociology: work and labour

In this edited volume, scholars from Mumbai, Bengaluru, Jakarta, Cape Town, Sao Paulo and other cities of the global South explore the complex relationship between platformization and informality through a different lens.

Tourism can take many different forms and types but increasingly it is viewed as one of the most innovative industries.

Aid sector staff work in some of the world's most challenging environments, from conflict zones to sites of natural disaster and refugee camps.

Assembling Consumption marks a definitive step in the institutionalisation of qualitative business research.

This book is the first volume to explore criminal justice work and criminological research through the lens of emotional labour.

Elke Weyer sheds light on the question why, after more than three decades of higher education reforms in some countries, it is still not clear whether the reforms have achieved their stated goals, i.

This book takes a Marxist approach to the study of media piracy - the production, distribution, and consumption of media texts in violation of intellectual property laws - to examine its place as an endemic feature of the cultural economy since the rise of the Internet.

This book investigates the phenomenon of strategic myopia, which refers to important cognitive distortions that managers systematically display.

Japan's employment practices were long considered a cornerstone to its economic success.

This title, originally published in 1972, explores the nature of management in an organisation close to Parliament and subject to the pressure of political forces.

Originally published in 1991, this book looks at the problems of applying Western computer programmes to the developing world, arguing that the difficulties are as much cultural as technological.

What is it like to work as a classical musician today?

Women on the Line is a pioneering ethnographic classic of the world of work in a British motor components factory.

This book addresses the question of how to achieve social coordination in Socio-Cognitive Technical Systems (SCTS).

Business Model Innovation Process: Preparation, Organization and Management examines a range of critical questions that merit thoughtful interdisciplinary consideration, such as: Why do business models, and their innovation in particular, matter today?

Agile Readiness is designed to provide guidance to the manager or business leader in establishing a successful environment to enable fast moving agile and lean project methods focused on business systems transformation.

This book draws upon thinking about the work of the dead in the context of deindustrialization-specifically, the decline of the textile industry in Kaduna, Nigeria-and its consequences for deceased workers' families.

This volume addresses the relationship between childbearing, paid work and work-life balance policies across Europe in the 21st century, illuminating the uncertainty and risk related to insecure labour force attachment, the incoherence of women's and men's access to education and employment and the unequal share of domestic responsibilities.

There has been increased emphasis on smart cities due to the economic, environmental and technological shifts that have impacted on society.

This book explores the complexities of the recreational summer camp experience and its reliance on the expertise and emotion work of young people.

This book provides an understanding of innovation models and why they are important in the business context, and considers sources of innovation and how to apply business frameworks using real-world examples of innovation-led businesses.

The public relations profession positions itself as expert in building trust throughout global markets, particularly after crisis strikes.

"e;Behind-the-scenes"e; stories of ranting directors, stingy producers, temperamental actors, and the like have fascinated us since the beginnings of film and television.

Volkshochschulen sind in vielfältige Kooperationen eingebunden.

In this day and age, much has been discussed as to what it means 'to be an Arab'.

The crucial actors of a global knowledge-based economy are multinational enterprises (MNEs).

A stimulating, theoretically driven examination of the relationship between human rights and the globalizing process.

Economic Transition and International Business brings together academic experts in International Business and sheds new light on the international phenomenon of transitions in the worldwide economy.

History reveals countless attempts by great minds to solve life's paradoxes.

Presenting a series of empirical studies by scholars working with approaches from ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, Medical and Healthcare Interactions studies real-life work and training encounters among medical and healthcare professionals and trainees or between professionals and patients.

Drawing on ethnographic data gathered from fieldwork spanning a 15-year period, this book offers new insights into understanding the lives and experiences of women managers in Japan.

In order for High Technology (HT) companies to tackle contemporary demanding market challenges, they frequently deploy time-reduction strategies with respect to product launch.

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die subjektive Wahrnehmung von Beschäftigung jenseits der klassischen Normalarbeit.

This book provides a framework to understand the disregarded aspect of emerging market growth which is informal employment.

Louis R.

Wie sieht die Entwicklung weiblicher Berufskarrieren von 1865 bis heute aus?

Trust in Generative Artificial Intelligence: Human Robot Interaction and Ethical Considerations is a comprehensive exploration of the critical role of trust in the rapidly evolving world of AI.

This book addresses the complicated question of how markets and consumption create the possibilities for cross-cultural exchanges and the multicultural pleasures of omnivorous consumption, whilst at the same time building new boundaries and distinctions, paving the way for new exploitative relationships, and initiating novel modes of status and capital accumulation.

Artificial intelligence is shaking up economies around the world as well as society at large and is predicted to be either the best or worst thing to happen to humanity.

Professions have long provided a dependable body of expertise that organisations have relied upon to fulfil goals.

This book offers a conceptual, theoretical, and empirical overview of the role of total quality management (TQM) in Indian higher education from the perspectives of the engineering faculty, students, and alumni.

Chinese Labor in a Korean Factorydraws on fieldwork in a multinational corporation (MNC) in Qingdao, China, and delves deep into the power dynamics at play between Korean management, Chinese migrant workers, local-level Chinese government officials, and Chinese local gangs.

This book, originally published in 1975, is an attempt to bridge the gap between economic theory and business practice by relating the tools of economic analysis to the decision making process itself.

Employment has changed dramatically in the last few decades with the onset of neoliberal globalization.

Cooperation between science and business (S2B cooperation) is a very important issue from the points of view of the domestic economy, companies, and universities.

When the Coalition Government came to power in 2010 in claimed it would deliver not just austerity, as necessary as that apparently was, but also fairness.

The Business of People is purposefully focused on people.

This new book presents case studies from the US, the UK and Japan.