Sociology: work and labour

In recent years, Mediterranean agriculture has experienced important transformations which have led to new forms of labour and production, and in particular to a surge in the recruitment of migrant labour.

This book offers a sociological account of the process by which companies instituted and continue to institute outsourcing in their organization.

The Decline of Trade Union Organisation (1987) considers the reasons behind the decline in trade union membership and discusses the prospects for recovery.

Originally published in 1990, Soviet Urbanization provides an assessment of Soviet urban systems.

Reconfiguring Stigma in Studies of Sex for Sale is about the production and effects of stigma in sex work or prostitution with contributions from four continents and different disciplines that taken together explore how such stigma is conditioned by differences in time, place, citizenship, gender, sexuality, class and race.

The Commonwealth consists of only a quarter of the world's states and yet the Commonwealth Secretariat and Foundation have made and continue to make a significant contribution to global politics.

This book marks a critical contribution to the intercultural dialogue about immigration.

Do the new Asian economies encourage gender equality?

European Trade Unionism (1973) examines the differences between the trade union movements of Europe, alongside noting their similarities.

This book presents the first published account in English of Sverre Lysgaard's theory of the 'worker collectivity' - a theory of an informal protective organisation among subordinate employees, which so far has been unknown outside Scandinavia.

Foresight for Organizations will acquaint the reader with various foresight methods and tools, to show the reader how these methods are used, what the pitfalls are and how the methods relate to each other.

The management of religious and ideological diversity remains a key challenge of our time deeply entangled with debates about the nature of liberal democracy, equality, social cohesion, minorities and nationalism, security and foreign policy.

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It is often claimed that we live in an expert society, a society where more and more individuals take expert roles in increasingly narrow fields.

Seafarer & Community (1973) examines life on shipboard and how the communities which rely on the sea for their livelihood exist.

First published in 1990.

This volume, first published in 1976, is addressed to the analysis of power and conflict in and of organizations.

China's workers have been transformed by the transition to capitalism.

Just what is a generation?

"e;Matching the rigour of the analysis with an extraordinary pedagogical capacity, the authors unveil all the arcana of the 'openness' capitalism model and digital labour.

This book presents an ethnographic investigation of intimate and reproductive behaviour in current Japanese society, grounded in the viewpoints of a group of Japanese mothers.

This book offers practical insight into the changing ways in which organizations operate today.

The Self at Work brings researchers in industrial and organizational psychology and organizational behavior together with researchers in social and personality psychology to explore how the self impacts the workplace.

What motivates a lifelong scholarly pursuit, and how do one's studies inform life outside the academy?

In diesem Band werden gemeinsam mit einigen der führenden Coaching-Experten aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz Fragen nach den Möglichkeiten und Chancen einer theoretischen und wissenschaftlichen Grundlegung für Coaching diskutiert.

What do people do all day?

Informal workers make up over two billion workers or about 50% of the global workforce.

This book is a re-interpretation of labour market policy models from a gender perspective, providing an analysis of within-gender inequality and how these policies affect inequality.

This volume is about why 'work' changed to become more precarious around the turn of the century.

Entrepreneurship depends on the decisions that people make about how to undertake that process; however, in recent years, entrepreneurship research has focused largely on the environmental characteristics influencing firm founding and the characteristics of entrepreneurial opportunities, ignoring the role of human agency.

This single-volume comprehensive compilation of documents integrates institutional labour history (movements and trade unions) with aspects of social and cultural history, as well as charting changes in trade union and managerial practices, and integrating the economics and politics of labour history.

This book contributes to research on therapeutic culture by drawing on longstanding ethnographic work and by offering a new theoretical reading of therapeutic culture in today's society.

For decades, the idea that more education will lead to greater individual and national prosperity has been a cornerstone of developed economies.

This innovative volume provides insight into the vast changes in societies now and in the near future, and highlights the need for a new sociological approach to analyse these changes.

This book, part of the new wave of political sociology in EU studies, examines the dialectics of construction/deconstruction of the European civil service through a succession of empirically grounded case studies.

The Institutional Theory of the Firm examines recent and previous organization theory literature to advocate what Evans (1995) refers to as the "e;embedded autonomy"e; of the firm, as well as its role in being simultaneously anchored in, for example, corporate legislation and regulatory practices on the national, regional (i.

Media coverage consistently features examples of organizations engaging in unethical or illegal behavior.

This book provides empirically driven discussions and investigations in the relevance of Actor Network Theory (ANT) and its theoretical concepts.

Das bundesweite Förderprogramm "Integration durch Qualifizierung (IQ)" arbeitet seit 2005 an der Zielsetzung, die Arbeitsmarktchancen für Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund zu verbessern.

Das Buch untersucht in einem integrativen Ansatz das Wirtschaftshandeln der Unternehmer, die Arbeitsorganisation, die Arbeits- und Leistungsbedingungen und die sozialen Beziehungen zwischen Unternehmer und Arbeitern einschließlich der Interessenvertretung der Arbeiter.

In Gesellschaften existieren zeitliche Rhythmen der Ruhe und Aktivität.

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.

This book, part of the new wave of political sociology in EU studies, examines the dialectics of construction/deconstruction of the European civil service through a succession of empirically grounded case studies.

In this volume, first published in 1983, the editors aim to achieve an understanding of performance from a variety of theoretical perspectives.

Today there are more technology, technologists, knowledge and experts than at any time in human history; but from a global perspective, it is difficult to argue that this accumulation of knowledge and technology has put the world in an unambiguously better position than it was in the past.

One of the principal aims of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua was to end the exploitation of the rural poor.

Managers are powerful.