Sociology: work and labour

Building the Atlantic Empires explores the relationship between state recruitment of unfree labor and capitalist and imperial development.

Using theory and method, this book seeks to critique and illuminate rural matters.

Using theory and method, this book seeks to critique and illuminate rural matters.

This book engages the reader in a critical and necessary examination of the nature and range of behaviours that comprise diversity and discrimination in business and society.

This book engages the reader in a critical and necessary examination of the nature and range of behaviours that comprise diversity and discrimination in business and society.

After more than 40 years of market reform and transformation, Chinese business associations have come to play an important role in China's economic and social system.

After more than 40 years of market reform and transformation, Chinese business associations have come to play an important role in China's economic and social system.

Despite significant theoretical advances in social and behavioural macroeconomics, little has been done to synthesise the disparate developments in these fields and point the way forward to future research directions and policy implications.

Housing has always had a close association with the lives refugees lead in exile and the settlement of refugees is, at its core, a housing issue.

Housing has always had a close association with the lives refugees lead in exile and the settlement of refugees is, at its core, a housing issue.

This book provides a critical, ethnographically grounded examination of the hype surrounding the idea of impact by investigating the work of those attempting to create innovative social ventures.

This book provides a critical, ethnographically grounded examination of the hype surrounding the idea of impact by investigating the work of those attempting to create innovative social ventures.

This book is about the urgent need to have time for health.

This book is about the urgent need to have time for health.

Through a deep dive into specific 'problem' representations in the policymaking on anti- sexual harassment at workplaces (SHW) in India, this book makes broader sense of gendered, caste-based and colonial regimes of power.

This textbook provides an introduction to the socioeconomics of food.

Through a deep dive into specific 'problem' representations in the policymaking on anti- sexual harassment at workplaces (SHW) in India, this book makes broader sense of gendered, caste-based and colonial regimes of power.

This textbook provides an introduction to the socioeconomics of food.

This book is based on an international, mixed methods research project that conducted interviews with 25 deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH) faculty members from mainstream universities and 19 university students who took classes taught by DHH faculty members and collected surveys from 57 DHH faculty members and 104 university students worldwide.

This book is based on an international, mixed methods research project that conducted interviews with 25 deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH) faculty members from mainstream universities and 19 university students who took classes taught by DHH faculty members and collected surveys from 57 DHH faculty members and 104 university students worldwide.

Drawing on Tarde's and Deleuze's monadology, this book investigates the affective turn of contemporary capitalism.

Drawing on Tarde's and Deleuze's monadology, this book investigates the affective turn of contemporary capitalism.

This book problematises the socioeconomic and institutional construction of prostitution in Thai contexts, identifying the root causes that propel underprivileged, discriminated and deprived women and girls to enter the sex industry.

This book traces the development of video (especially short video, duan shipin) in China over the past few years, exploring how these videos engaged with China's rapidly changing society, how they enriched existed theories of society, media and communication, and new theories to be extracted.

This book traces the development of video (especially short video, duan shipin) in China over the past few years, exploring how these videos engaged with China's rapidly changing society, how they enriched existed theories of society, media and communication, and new theories to be extracted.

This book addresses the impact of Covid-19 on employment relations and provides a reconstruction and a critical assessment of the measures enacted worldwide to tackle the economic and social crisis triggered by the global health emergency.

This book addresses the impact of Covid-19 on employment relations and provides a reconstruction and a critical assessment of the measures enacted worldwide to tackle the economic and social crisis triggered by the global health emergency.

At present, 80% of the employees are no longer engaged in their work and capable of performing, while 44% are experiencing work related stress and getting sick from working.

Work-life balance has drawn much attention from academic researchers, professionals, and politicians over the past two decades.

Work-life balance has drawn much attention from academic researchers, professionals, and politicians over the past two decades.

At present, 80% of the employees are no longer engaged in their work and capable of performing, while 44% are experiencing work related stress and getting sick from working.

This book explores two unique studies of women's economic behaviour during Australia's COVID-19 crisis.

This book explores two unique studies of women's economic behaviour during Australia's COVID-19 crisis.

This book focuses on the socio-political problems that emanate from Western states' harsh deterrence policies in their responses to refugee crises.

This book focuses on the socio-political problems that emanate from Western states' harsh deterrence policies in their responses to refugee crises.

This book is the first of its kind to incorporate subjective well-being (SWB) data to comprehensively explore perceptional factors that relate to fertility behavior in East Asia.