Sociology: work and labour

Although additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, has been around for almost 40 years, few people know how it actually works and the huge impact and benefits it offers.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain (SC) mapping appeared as one of the critical SC capabilities that could make a striking difference in organizations' SC performance and improve sustainable operations.

This book provides a critical perspective on the digitalisation of universities and precarisation of academic labour.

This volume is a theoretically informed comparative analysis of the telecommunications and information policy-making process in two major developing economies, China and India.

First published in 1979, The Miners: A History of the National Union of Mineworkers 1939-46 describes the events and factors that led to the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1946.

First published in 1979, The Miners: A History of the National Union of Mineworkers 1939-46 describes the events and factors that led to the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1946.

This book provides a critical perspective on the digitalisation of universities and precarisation of academic labour.

This volume is a theoretically informed comparative analysis of the telecommunications and information policy-making process in two major developing economies, China and India.

How can responsible business work in the highly competitive areas of innovation?

This book is a novel exploration of the complex interplay between modern work structures, artificial intelligence (AI), and economic sustainability.

Economists measure the effects of immigration through the yardstick of income.

Using a nationally representative data set, this book examines the characteristics of Chinese college students' mobility since the expansion of higher education.

This book exposes how inequalities based on class and social background arise from employment practices in the digital age.

This book exposes how inequalities based on class and social background arise from employment practices in the digital age.

Using a nationally representative data set, this book examines the characteristics of Chinese college students' mobility since the expansion of higher education.

Fewer than 20% of Baby Boom women will experience a secure retirement.

Stepping into an IT leadership role for the first time?

Das Alkoholentzugssyndrom ist eine ernsthafte Herausforderung, die sowohl körperliche als auch psychische Auswirkungen haben kann.

This examination of the history, development, activities, successes, and limitations of the largest membership organization in the country will be of interest to anyone who belongs to or is curious about this sometimes-controversial group.

Strategy is essentially about achieving organisational success.

Immer wieder richten Politik und Forschung ihren kritischen Blick auf die Beschäftigungsbedingungen des sogenannten wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses.

This innovative volume provides a comprehensive overview of improvisation as a pervasive organizational process, essential in ever-changing business environments.

This innovative volume provides a comprehensive overview of improvisation as a pervasive organizational process, essential in ever-changing business environments.

Selbst wachsen und Wachstum begleitenDieses Buch ist für jeden gedacht, der das Bedürfnis hat, sich selbst weiter in das Leben und in Beziehungen hinein zu entfalten.

With the vast majority of healthcare and social workers identifying as women, the vanguard of the COVID-19 response was distinctly gendered.

With the vast majority of healthcare and social workers identifying as women, the vanguard of the COVID-19 response was distinctly gendered.

This book is about the people who always get taken for granted.

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

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

Against the backdrop of high Internet penetration and smartphone use, coupled with the widespread diffusion of credit cards, Korea has been leading the digital payment revolution, transforming itself into a cashless society.

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

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.

This book brilliantly illustrates how blockchain and Web3 are revolutionizing value exchange in society.

This second fascinating and cutting-edge text provides insight into the meaning and interpretation of Machiavelli and his works for management, marketing, and political thought and highlights their particular relevance to the manager and policymaker today.

This second fascinating and cutting-edge text provides insight into the meaning and interpretation of Machiavelli and his works for management, marketing, and political thought and highlights their particular relevance to the manager and policymaker today.

This book explores various portrayals of women managers in American culture from the late 1960s to the present.

Billions of dollars, Euros, yen, and yuan in public funds are spent annually to promote innovation in metropolitan regions, attempting to transform the economy by attracting technology-based companies and supporting small startups to secure high-paying jobs.

Written by an international team of respected scholars, Human Resource Management: A Critical Approach, 3rd edition, adopts a critical perspective to examine the core management function of human resource management (HRM) in all its complexity - including its darker sides.

This textbooks provides a comprehensive examination of poverty, wealth, and economic inequality from a psychological perspective.

This textbooks provides a comprehensive examination of poverty, wealth, and economic inequality from a psychological perspective.

Dance has proliferated in movies, television, Internet, and retail spaces while the spiritual power of dance has also been linked with mass consumption.

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Global Health involves, among many things the intensified travelling of people, resources, technologies, knowledge, standards, and ideas.

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.

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

The subjects of this book are acquaintances that have shared their hardships and obstacles to achieve their dreams of success; true entrepreneurs.

The belief of many in the early sexual liberation movements was that capitalism's investment in the norms of the heterosexual family meant that any challenge to them was invariably anti-capitalist.