Sociology: work and labour

Although most federal facilities projects are successfully completed (i.

"Was wir heute tun, entscheidet darüber, wie die Welt morgen aussieht.

Innovation in money is just as important as innovation in any other sphere of activity; money is always a "e;work in progress.

Although one perspective depicts young consumers as vulnerable and passive in the marketplace system, our knowledge of this consumer group will be inadequate if limited to this contention.

Private Risk and Public Dangers is comprised of a collection of chapters which were originally papers presented in the 1991 British Sociological Association Conference on Health and Society, and they address a range of private risks and public dangers.

The Air Force requires technical skills and expertise across the entire range of activities and processes associated with the development, fielding, and employment of air, space, and cyber operational capabilities.

It is impossible to view the news at present without hearing talk of crisis.

Partnering with Online Program Managers for Distance Education offers fresh insights into the practice, implications, and outcomes of partnerships between higher education institutions and for-profit online program managers (OPMs).

Discover what challenges lie ahead for occupational therapists Single women receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) often find themselves tangled in difficulties because of current changes in welfare reform, including workfare.

This book will advance readers' understanding of the knowledge development, building and/or management process within human service organizations, informed by the author's experience in human service organizations, as consultant, and practitioner.

Moving beyond the individualisation paradigm in sociological theory, this book develops an approach to the analysis of human activities and the social phenomena produced by them that centres on the processes that generate coordinated behaviours among individuals.

This book is an insightful text looking at sustainable innovation and the emerging fourth sector, i.

Ergebnisse langjähriger Arbeit belegen in diesem Sammelband, inwiefern Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprojekten in der Sozialarbeits- bzw.

This book examines gender and professions in the 21st century.

In this book, leading organization theorist Gibson Burrell presents a provocative and challenging approach to the study of organizations, aiming to move beyond the two-dimensionality of much organizational thinking and present more complex 3-D models, which allow for the 'intractions' of apparently disparate perspectives.

Migrant women are the primary source of paid domestic labor around the world.

The changing nature of waged work in contemporary advanced industrial nations is one of the most significant aspects of political and economic debate.

This book explores the renewal of forms of capital accumulation and the institutions that shape it.

One of the key determinants of success for today's high-technology companies is product strategy-and this guide continues to be the only book on product strategy written specifically for the 21st century high-tech industry.

This second edition of Research Projects for Business and Management Students provides students undertaking extended research with a foundation upon which to build their practice.

Thisvolume discusses the challenge of dealing with complexity in entrepreneurship,innovation and technology research.

Like the Green Revolution of the 1960s, a “Blue Revolution” has taken place in global aquaculture.

Steel is the foundational material of modern civilization and constitutes the core of industry, and yet, it is overproduced across the world.

What isn't management and why doesn't it matter?

This book provides a detailed discussion of four class-action discrimination cases that have recently been settled within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and have led to a change in the way in which the USDA supports farmers from diverse backgrounds.

In this book, author Claire Oueslati-Porter describes her field research  in Binzart, Tunisia's sprawling factory zone and in the surrounding city.

In einer zunehmend globalisierten und digitalisierten Arbeitswelt, geprägt von rasanten Veränderungen und Unsicherheit, sind Führungskräft gefordert, neue Wege zu finden, um ihre Teams erfolgreich zu führen.

Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations considers how organizations operate as spaces in which minds are gendered and men and women constructed.

This book explores how the conceptual lens of Holistic Flexibility presents new advancements in systems thinking.

This is a book about payments, and how they are evolving, from centralised to decentralised and everything in between, and the new opportunities they present.

Proven methods for achieving environmental excellence while increasing profitability"e;If your goal is to design and develop environmentally sustainable products that also drive shareholder value, then this book is a must read.

This book seeks to understand emotions in the virtual world.

Megaprojects, also referred to in the literature as Large Engineering Projects or Major Projects, are generally defined as large-scale investment initiatives worth 1b /$ or more and, facing similar problems independent of the country where they are implemented and the industry they belong to.

Does flexible working really provide a better work-life balance?

This unique social history spans the last half century, when developments in birth control and the education of women have increased opportunities for women to have successful careers.

Many business-to-business (B2B) managers think that customers act rationally and base decisions mostly on price, customer loyalty isn't considered.

Exploring recent contemporary debates on gender and migration, this book scrutinizes the relationship between women's work in ethnic economies and social integration, arguing that women in Britain zigzag their way to social integration.

Wer sich mit der Zeitthematik im aktuellen Diskurs befasst, könnte meinen, auf eine moderne Diskussion gestoßen zu sein.

This inter-disciplinary and wide-ranging study unravels the social processes of decision-making at the interface of central banks and financial market participants, and thereby raises important questions about responsible central bank governance and its obligations to stakeholders in society.

Originally published in 1917 in the midst of World War I, Carpenter argues that industry in pre-war Britain was simply exploitation of labour for private gain and attempts to look toward a future with more socialist values.

Based on qualitative work in car plants in Argentina, this book offers new insights for an understanding of workers' collective struggles in a radical perspective.

Work and Enterprise Culture examines the world of work in the light of the major changes that have occurred over the last decade.

Nazim Diehl untersucht das Image von Versicherungsunternehmen und Versuche der Branche, darauf Einfluss zu nehmen.

In economic theory and in management studies, innovation is widely regarded as the motor of economic activities and as being the primary source of renewal in the economic system.

Sustainability, Technology and Innovation 4.

Intense globalization, rapidly changing workplaces and family patterns have renewed the international interest in quality of life.