Sociology: work and labour

The book guides the reader through the auditing and compliance process of the newly released ISO Artificial Intelligence standard.

This ethnography analyses labour relations within the export-oriented cut flower industry at Lake Naivasha in Kenya.

Quantitative consumer research has long been the backbone of consumer psychology producing insights with peerless validity and reliability.

Entrepreneurship and innovation play a vital role in fostering sustainable development.

The notion of capital has enjoyed a rich career in the social sciences, its use across a range of subjects and in diverse academic and professional contexts having served to establish its conceptual status as 'given'.

Projects are constantly beset by problems, often caused by seemingly small mistakes which collectively lead to larger issues.

Consumers are not usually incorporated into the sociological concept of 'division of labour', but using the case of household recycling, this book shows why this foundational concept needs to be revised.

Humans are accustomed to being tool bearers, but what happens when machines become tool bearers, calculating human labour via the use of big data and people analytics by metrics?

This report summarizes a workshopStrengthening Science-Based Decision-Making: Implementing the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants held June 7-10, 2004, in Beijing, China.

Crisis in the Professions: The New Dark Age presents a wide, panoramic view into the state of modern professional work in the United States.

The mismatch between goals and means is a major cause of crisis in labour law.

Dr Pechlaner and Dr Innerhofer, the editors of Competence-Based Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism, argue that the industry operates within highly challenging and competitive environments.

Organizations are complex social systems, and dysfunctionalities can settle in very quickly and almost unnoticed, costing valuable time and resources.

In Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Business Clusters, Panos Piperopoulos provides a comprehensive introduction to what entrepreneurship is all about, how and why entrepreneurs innovate and how innovation systems operate.

In this comprehensive Handbook, scholars from across the globe explore the relationships between workers and nature in the context of the environmental crises.

Japan's high-speed Internet access services such as ADSL, CATV Internet and FTTH are considered the cheapest and fastest state-of-the-art services drawing international attention.

Social movements are not only a potential challenge tosocieties, they also challenge social theory.

Project Management for Book Publishers provides readers with a solid understanding of efficient processes and workflows for content creation, product development, and the marketing and distribution of both physical and digital products.

This book examines modern consumption, focusing on concepts of autonomy and rationality.

An increasingly globalized world economy creates new economic, cultural, and social opportunities.

This book provides a fundamental and practical introduction to Enterprise Engineering, demonstrating how to employ this approach to map the essence of an organization at the core level of internal cooperation.

Die Autoren untersuchen die Frage, wie andere Länder in Europa mit psychosozialen Belastungen, vor allem mit der Prävention von Stress am Arbeitsplatz, umgehen.

Peter Paul Latzke zeigt, wie aus Qualitätsmanagement, Dienstleistungsmarketing, Arbeitsbedingungen und Fachwissen ein marktführendes Leistungsnetzwerk für arbeitsintensive Dienstleistungen gesponnen wird.

Sexual Orientation at Work: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives brings together contemporary international research on sexual orientation and draws out its implications for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and heterosexual employees and managers.

With the exception of Haiti, the sensationalized issues of hunger reported in certain parts of the developing world are largely unknown in the Caribbean.

This book provides a systematic overview on issues and challenges related to work identity and identification at work in the 'new' South African workplace.

This book provides an in-depth understanding of key variables that play a significant role at the various stages of the innovation process, leading to successful commercialisation of products and services.

This work focuses on the creation of new knowledge, and how this has happened throughout all ages, as far back as the time of ancient philosophy to today.

Quantitative consumer research has long been the backbone of consumer psychology producing insights with peerless validity and reliability.

'The book is very simplistically written and, I consider that undergraduate students would find maximum chapters easy to comprehend and apply.

RICHMOND WAS NOT only the capital of Virginia and of the Confederacy; it was also one of the most industrialized cities south of the Mason-Dixon Line.

While change in the aviation sector is hardly a new phenomenon, going forward the rate of change will accelerate due to the emergence, convergence, and intersection of powerful internal and external forces.

Over the past 50 years the global labour market is transforming from reliable employment to low-wage and unstable informal and precarious jobs.

In recent years, the Canadian labour movement has undergone fundamental change in response to demands for greater inclusion and representation by women, visible and sexual minorities, and people with disabilities.

We are now entering a new phase in the establishment of historical organization studies as a distinctive methodological paradigm within the broad field of organization studies.

Explores the ethical frameworks, policies and procedures of professional practice for multidisciplinary teams.

In recent decades, organizational stress researchers have repeatedly called for more longitudinal studies.

This book takes a people-centred approach to the ever-fluid and rapidly-transforming professional world of public relations (PR) in the age of digital platforms.

The digital transformation of work during the COVID-19 pandemic seemed in many ways a fair treaty between employers and employees.

This book contributes to our understanding of the transformation of work in the information economy, through a detailed examination of labor markets in Silicon Valley.

Ramparts of Resistance examines the experience of British and US workers during the last three decades to show the urgency of the need for a new independent politics of trade unionism.

Leadership, Psychoanalysis, and Society describes leadership as a relationship between leaders and followers in a particular context and challenges theories of leadership now being taught.

This book provides a description of advanced multi-agent and artificial intelligence technologies for the modeling and simulation of complex systems, as well as an overview of the latest scientific efforts in this field.

Decision intelligence (DI) has been widely named as a top technology trend for several years, and Gartner reports that more than a third of large organizations are adopting it.

Der Band fasst die neueren Publikationen sowie einige Originalbeiträge des Autors zur Arbeits- und Wirtschaftssoziologie zusammen, in denen eine gesellschaftstheoretische Interpretation kapitalistischer Dynamik entwickelt wird.

States of Crisis and Post-Capitalist Scenarios engages with the crisis of our capitalist world, with a view to explaining its origins, unravelling its symptoms, and demystifying the anodyne corrective solutions so far proposed.