Sociology: work and labour

Public Sector Industrial Relations (1992) concentrates on individual relations in the public sector, identifying the distinctive features of management organization, collective bargaining, strikes and dispute resolution.

The Space Industry of the Future consists of the first instance of guidance for the space industry on how value creation in space can occur for the greater benefit of humanity using principles of capitalism and sustainability.

Die Versuchsanordnung:20 Autorinnen und Autoren stellten sich im Juni 2023 dem Thema »Regen«.

The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism is a state-of-the-art reference work which maps out the current developments and debates around the sociology of the professions, and how they relate to management and organizations.

Dying on the Job is the first book on workplace violence to focus exclusively on workplace murder.

This book analyses social conflict among fishers in Indonesia by implementing class theory, thus adopting a new approach to analysing fishers' conflicts in Indonesia.

The book's broad theme is that the evolution of the power to control labour flows among different territorial jurisdictions was of major importance in the formation of a system of states.

High quality cost estimating gives a business leader confidence to make rational financial decisions.

For most Western audiences, Cuba is a touristic paradise stuck in time and virtually detached from world technology networks by the US embargo - anything but a hub of industrial innovation and high value-added biotechnology.

This book examines management and management-related activities as a feature of everyday life.

How does an extended stay in Japan influence Indian migrants' sense of their identity as they adapt to a country very different from their own?

Gossip is a complex and ubiquitous phenomenon, widely found and variously practiced.

This book provides an account of the evolution of social security and employment policy and governance in Britain between 1973 and 2023.

Italy is not a country for young people.

This cutting-edge new textbook examines how effective knowledge management can make organizations more innovative.

How does gendered organizational life impact on individuals' identities in their everyday working lives?

In 21st Century Airlines: Connecting the Dots, Nawal Taneja addresses the challenges and opportunities facing the airline industry as it tries to innovate and create products and services that are radically different by 'connecting the dots' at four key levels: recognizing the implications of global events, improving cross-functional collaboration within the organization, working more closely with the travel chain, and providing much higher engagements with connectors within the social networks.

Unfree labor has not disappeared from advanced capitalist economies.

This collection addresses the path to a new prosperity after the Great Recession.

In today's workplaces we work harder and longer, labouring under the illusion that this will bring us more wealth.

The outstanding moral problem of our time is the emergence of an underclass, provoking both pity and an angry political backlash.

The Routledge International Handbook of Deindustrialization Studies is a timely volume that provides an overview of this interdisciplinary field that emerged in response to the widespread decline of manufacturing and heavy industry from the 1980s onward.

Work is widely thought to have become more precarious.

This book reviews China's industrialization from the perspective of inclusiveness, and discusses the challenges arising from its industrialization process and how the Chinese people view and seek to overcome these challenges.

First published in 1982, this book considers the position of young Afro-Caribbean people in Britain, in the 1980s.

Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.

Interest in applying analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to sales and marketing has grown dramatically, with no signs of slowing down.

This leading, comprehensive text for courses on the sociology of work covers many vital new topics since the last edition (2015), just as it continues to offer foundational writings and discusses different types of jobs, inequality and intersectionality, work and family, and more.

Many contemporary surveillance practices take place in information infrastructures which are from the public domain.

Informed by in-depth case studies focusing on a wide spectrum of micro and macro post-socialist realities, this book demonstrates the multi-faceted nature of informality and suggests that it is a widely diffused phenomenon, used at all levels of a society and by both winners and losers of post-socialist transition.

This volume explores the role of territory in the creation, maintenance and extension of a new type of frontier, the electronic frontier, from a social and economic point of view.

In today's organizational sociology, organizations are usually regarded as late achievements of modernity in the history of mankind.

This is the first book of its kind to systematically integrate crowdfunding in the entrepreneurial finance research field and extend the current debate to show how crowdfunding can be leveraged as a strategic tool to grow new ventures.

The essays in this volume were published across the 1984-2011 period, and range across a variety of topics and approaches to investigate the changing nature of global capitalism as a social order.

This guide serves as a roadmap for integrating digital value stream mapping (eVSM) into your Lean deployment to improve production processes.

One of the challenges met by green entrepreneurs and product developers who have tried to develop more sustainable products is that efforts to have better products in environmental terms do not always translate into effective business cases.

While the west has experienced multiple post-war economic, social and political revolutions, India by contrast has had two distinct moments of transformation in the past century: Independence in 1947 and the economic liberalisation that began in 1991.

Economy, Work and Education: Critical Connections addresses effects of neoliberal capitalism in particular regard to work and education.

This book presents a collection of research papers that aim to elucidate the pivotal role of digital systems in driving the formation and evolution of digital ecosystems, thereby shaping new scenarios for organizing in the digital age, by considering people practices, organizational processes, and system design issues.

Critical Management Studies (CMS) is often dated from the publication of an edited volume bearing that name (Alvesson and Willmott, 1992).

Verwaltungswissenschaft wird in dem Buch als eine interdisziplinäre Integrationswissenschaft präsentiert, die eine selbstständige Wissenschaftsdisziplin neben Rechtswissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft und anderen Sozialwissenschaften ist.

Accessible and amusing in style, Humour, Work and Organization explores the critical, subversive and ambivalent character of humour, work and comedy as it relates to organizations and organized work.

Youth unemployment in the UK remains around the one million mark, with many young people from impoverished backgrounds becoming and remaining NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training).

Originally published in 1981, this study is concerned with the extent to which the goal of sexual equality in employment, as set out, for example, in the Soviet constitutions of 1936 or 1977, had been realised in the USSR at the time.

This study, originally published in 1919, examines certain aspects of industrial psycho-physiology, and explores the importance of the close collaboration between science and industry.