Sociology: work and labour

Turbulence--rapid and sometimes tumultuous changes--has characterized the labor markets of the 1970's and 1980's.

"e;True wellness innovation requires the recruitment of multi-disciplinary participants.

This comprehensive volume introduces the nature and the impact of the new information and communication technologies on business and society.

Yours for the Union stands as a landmark history of the making of the black working class in South Africa.

This book looks at service innovation, service industries, and innovation performance in services.

Ever since the dawn of the Hollywood star system in the early 1920s, consumers have been fascinated by film stars and other celebrities and their seemingly glamorous private lives.

This book demonstrates that a holistic approach to the bioeconomy is essential if it is to achieve its full potential in driving economic growth while simultaneously providing ecological, social and technological benefits.

Strategic thinking has become a core competency for business leaders globally.

This edited volume critically reflects on the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has affected and continues to affect women in India.

Society is now facing challenges for which the traditional management toolbox is increasingly inadequate.

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What are the grand dynamics that drive the history of economies?

This book offers a sociological overview of the theories and research on economic innovation.

With a particular focus on the British printing industry, this book tackles the ongoing issue of pay inequality and examines the challenges facing many women today.

Artificial Intelligence for Business Creativity provides an in-depth examination of the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the business sector to foster creativity.

These Potatoes Look Like Humans offers a unique understanding of the intersection between land, labour, dispossession and violence experienced by Black South Africans from the apartheid period to the present.

A timely work that reviews the phenomenon of gender and its many manifestations of equality.

Each of 32 nonprofit organizations contributing a presentation to the Pan-Organizational Summit on the Science and Engineering Workforce (November 11-12, 2002; The National Academies, Washington, DC) was invited to issue a corresponding position paper to be reproduced in this volume.

This book examines the implications of China's economic reforms for domestic work and domestic workers.

Theory is an essential element in the development of any academic discipline and sport management is no exception.

Digitalization is on everyone's lips as new technology changes business landscapes and conventional companies are outperformed by younger digital and agile contestants.

Originally published in 1982 Diversity and Decomposition in the Labour Market, is an edited collection addressing the contemporary sociology of the labour market.

Stepping into an IT leadership role for the first time?

Ein radikal politischer Blick auf ein missverstandenes Gefühl, wissenschaftlich fundiert und mit überraschenden Erkenntnissen.

Competition from emerging and developing countries, challenges related to energy and water, the continuing increase in the global population and the obligation to be sustainable are all impacting developed countries such as the United States, France, etc.

The book uncovers the nuances of the lives of unskilled migrant labourers in India.

As qualitative researchers incorporate computer assistance into their analytic approaches, important questions arise about the adoption of new technology.

Originally published in 1960.

This book offers a new approach to workforce education for youth.

Volume 1 provides an overview of the core areas of sociology and the development of the discipline that is both comprehensive and up to date.

Evolving from Digital Transformation to Digital Acceleration Using The Galapagos Framework challenges established thinking and offers a new way to deliver digital change.

This ethnographic book enhances our understanding of asylum screening, an area of immigration that is often overlooked and remains under-researched.

Friederike Höher beschäftigt sich mit der nachhaltigen Wirksamkeit von Mentoring.

Seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre ist in Deutschland eine verstärkte Kritik der „Wirtschaftselite“ zu beobachten, die seit der 2008 einsetzenden Finanzmarktkrise Züge einer Generalabrechnung trägt.

Michael Goller gives a structured overview of the current discourses of human agency in relation to professional learning and development.

First published in 1991, this book represents the first wide-ranging review of young people's understanding of the social world and the functioning of society.

Despite the Great Recession, slightly different forms of global capitalism are still portrayed as the only game in town by the vast majority of people in power in the world today.

This book presents racial stratification as the underlying system that accounts for the differential in outcomes in the labour market.

Offering a fresh and practical perspective for employers and gender-diverse professionals, this book presents useful tools, information, and resources to help organizations and individuals to understand and leverage the power of gender authenticity as a pathway to business success.

The Organization Gap (1972) addresses the gap which exists between the organization theory to be found in the literature on the subject, and the urgent everyday problems a manager is called on to tackle.