Sociology: work and labour

With the arrival of the 'Internet of Things' (IoT), smartphones, real-time payments systems, plus FinTech activity, Financial Inclusion services can now be integrated into a country's National Payment System (NPS), which means there should be no systemic barriers to transitioning the socio-economic pyramid, as actors build their financial status.

Human Resource Development: Critical Perspectives and Practices is a landmark textbook on HRD scholarship and practice and is a significant departure from the standard HRD texts available.

Men at Work (1974) examines the effects of various environmental factors on the efficiency and well-being of men at work.

This book captures the hidden labour of migrant nightworkers in 24/7 London.

Manfred Kets de Vries wears many "e;hats"e;-psychoanalyst, executive coach, consultant, management educator, researcher, writer-but he has noticed that whichever hat he is wearing, every question he is asked boils down to one thing: "e;How can I live a well-lived life?

The African continent is colloquially referred to as the youngest in the world.

Human Resource Development: Critical Perspectives and Practices is a landmark textbook on HRD scholarship and practice and is a significant departure from the standard HRD texts available.

"e;How and how much should we seek R&D knowledge to pursue 21st century human and economic goals?

This book reorients the lens of global creative economies in order to focus on ecological articulations of cultural production ecosystems.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in research on the relationship between occupational trajectories over the life course and health.

This book offers a unique grounded analysis of recent crises and transformations in academic work.

Artists have worked from home for many reasons, including care duties, financial or political constraints, or availability and proximity to others.

The competitiveness of companies plays an important role in developing their effectiveness.

In an unpredictable world, how do we go about supporting leaders to develop more democratic and inclusive ways of working and living?

This book presents a sociomaterial perspective on work and organizational practices within the operating room.

Using Germany as a national case study, this volume examines the historical genesis of precarity, its evolution from 19th-century industrial modernity to the present, and its reflections and reconfigurations in artistic production, in particular with relation to work, gender, and sexuality.

With the advent of colonialism and the monetarized market economy, the gift economy, once a widely embedded cultural and economic practice, has become a niche of modern diplomacy, often serving as the means for corruption rather than human connection.

The growth of digital technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to increase global wealth and tackle some of the world's most serious problems, including economic marginalization.

Institutions shape states, society, businesses, and the interactions between them.

Man & Work provides a comprehensive overview of European literature focusing on the changing role of work and its impact on industrial society.

This book presents a conceptualization of the process of using artificial intelligence (AI) in public administration, along with its operationalization in terms of technology, competence, and the use of AI by employees of municipal offices.

Man & Work provides a comprehensive overview of European literature focusing on the changing role of work and its impact on industrial society.

Richtwerte für due Düngung 2025 ist eine praxisorientierte, bedarfsgerechte und wissenschaftlich fundierte Publikation nach guter fachlicher Praxis.

This book provides detailed case studies exploring how industry-leading organizations are integrating corporate innovation and sustainability initiatives.

**Shortlisted for the The Leadership Book of the Year Award 2024** **Business Book Awards 2024 Finalist** Your gender stats are tumbling, women aren't advancing, their feedback is poor, and too many are leaving.

Desde los años noventa del siglo XX se comenzó a observar que se invertía una cantidad ingente de recursos para mejorar la calidad de vida de la población en los países en desarrollo, pero los indicadores no mejoraban y muchas veces, por el contrario, empeoraban.

**Shortlisted for the The Leadership Book of the Year Award 2024** **Business Book Awards 2024 Finalist** Your gender stats are tumbling, women aren't advancing, their feedback is poor, and too many are leaving.

This book explores gender discrimination and women's movements in China - from the May Fourth movement to present day.

**FINALIST: Women's Literature (non-fiction): Next-Generation Indie Book Awards**Sensitivity is a superpower.

**FINALIST: Women's Literature (non-fiction): Next-Generation Indie Book Awards** Sensitivity is a superpower.

This book explores the wider implications of how workers move within and across cities and regions to reach economic opportunities.

Productivity and Amenity (1974) considers social responsibility in business and the balance between the social requirements for enhancing productivity and amenity.

Productivity and Amenity (1974) considers social responsibility in business and the balance between the social requirements for enhancing productivity and amenity.

The advancement of technology, such as data analytics and AI, has led to the birth of Industry 4.

This book provides guidelines for the pragmatic integration of new marketing tools and business strategies for managers, researchers and students to implement innovative strategies in various industries.

This edited collection aims to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area of business management.

The advancement of technology, such as data analytics and AI, has led to the birth of Industry 4.

This book provides guidelines for the pragmatic integration of new marketing tools and business strategies for managers, researchers and students to implement innovative strategies in various industries.

This edited collection aims to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area of business management.

While airlines have been looking into the next generation of retailing practices for several years, developments since the beginning of 2020 have accelerated the need to take retailing to a new paradigm.

While airlines have been looking into the next generation of retailing practices for several years, developments since the beginning of 2020 have accelerated the need to take retailing to a new paradigm.

This book explores the wider implications of how workers move within and across cities and regions to reach economic opportunities.

This book guides the reader in discovering contemporary professions and the critical changes they have lived through after the post-industrial transformation of advanced capitalist societies.

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.

The anthology presents the social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in the field of work and gainful employment from a multidisciplinary perspective of social and economic sciences.

This book offers a completely new approach to the complex social phenomenon of the Mafia: In addition to the origins, organization and actions  of the Mafia, the author Anita Bestler examines above all the close connection between organized crime and politics.

This book is a study of digital workers across diverse contexts in China and Europe, giving valuable insight into their origins, abilities, and working conditions.

The author provides a comprehensive discussion of the political, economic, curricular, and instructional issues relevant to workforce education for Latinos with low levels of literacy and formal education.

This book works to unpack and explicate women's personas.