Sociology: work and labour

The application of probability and statistics to an ever-widening number of life-decisions serves to reproduce, reinforce, and widen disparities in the quality of life that different groups of people can enjoy.

Over the last decade workforce diversity has attracted much scientific attention.

Skills and workforce development are at the heart of much research on work, employment, and management.

As modern societies become more diverse and multicultural, the call for greater inclusion within organizations is getting louder.

This book offers perspectives, insights, techniques, and approaches for efficient and contemporary management practices in an organization.

The Transformation of Discontent demonstrates that far from disappearing from the workplaces of the Global North, labor protest has merely changed character and now focuses on healthcare and education, with white-collar and white coat employees clashing with employers over wages, working conditions, and professional autonomy.

As the economies of western countries move from primarily resource-based to knowledge-based, and trade liberalization limits what governments can do through direct action, the landscape of innovation is changing and policymakers must react accordingly.

Storytelling is part of social action and interaction that actually shapes the future of organizations.

Liberating Temporariness?

This volume lays out a variety of ways of engaging in research projects focused on exploring the everyday relational practices of organizing and leading is presented.

This fully updated second edition explores the importance of innovation and innovative thinking for the long-term success of today's leading media, telecommunications, and information technology companies.

Precarity is a key theme in political discourse, in media and academic discussions of employment, and within the labour movement.

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of the changes and development of the civil international aircraft/aviation industry.

Sustainability, Technology and Innovation 4.

This book uncovers the mysterious social and political structures of China's "e;Third Front,"e; the large state-sponsored development of inland China during the late Maoist period.

In a turbulent environment, companies face disruptive events and must build organisational resilience in order to thrive.

Over the last decade or so, aesthetic and art theory has played an increasingly significant role in the way work and its organization has come to be understood.

This book presents a novel and comprehensive process theory of organization applicable to 'a world on the move', where connectedness prevails over size, flow prevails over stability, and temporality prevails over spatiality.

This book emphasizes the need for promoting innovation on the African continent.

Part of the Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment series, this edited collection brings together contributions from leading international scholars to initiate an important dialogue between labour process analysis and scholarship on work in the Global South.

This volume is a step-by-step guide to implementing predictive data analytics in human resource management (HRM).

Women as a group have often been divided by a number of intersecting inequalities: class, race, ethnicity, caste.

The purpose of this book, originally published in 1991, is to provide managers with a practical approach to planning and managing significant changes.

The People Project Triangle refers to the trade-off between the project, the ongoing business, and the people working in them.

In a fragile and conflict-ridden context such as the Gaza Strip, where the de facto Hamas government faces isolation and lacks international recognition, the provision of aid and development schemes challenges donors and CSOs delivering services to Palestinians.

Ce livre est une transcription de deux conférences données à l’Université du Québec à Montréal, qui ont porté sur la grande entreprise, à comprendre comme acteur politique.

Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London explores a largely obscured marketplace of motherhood that provided ways for women to manage the stigma of illegitimacy and their respectable identities within Victorian and Edwardian society.

This book provides a theoretically informed, empirically grounded account of the origin, expansion, and institutionalization of the EU's action against food poverty and severe material deprivation.

Über welche schulischen Erfahrungen verfügen mexikanische Familien, deren Lebensbedingungen durch Armut geprägt sind?

The international fragmentation of economic activities - from research and design to production and marketing - described through the lens of the global value chain (GVC) approach impacts the structure and performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) agglomerated in economic clusters.

This book focuses on the notion of "e;vintage innovation"e; and its application in various old technology-based communities of practice.

This book considers the effectiveness of well-known trade mark protection at an international level.

The climate problem is getting worse, but the solutions are getting better.

Die Gründe für den Erfolg oder Misserfolg von Betriebsgründungen sind so vielfältig wie die Betriebe selbst.

This book conducts a critical investigation into everyday intercultural recognition and misrecognition in the domain of paid work, utilising social philosopher Axel Honneth's recognition theory as its theoretical foundation.

This book includes evidence-based accounts of inequities in the arts as well as a focus on systems that perpetuate and resolve inequities in this context - a topic of wide interest to researchers and practitioners in arts and culture.

This report is the second edition of the 1992 COSEPUP report "e;Science and Technology Leadership in American Government: Ensuring the Best Presidential Appointments.

This book examines the importance of work in human well-being, addressing several related philosophical questions about work and arguing on the whole that meaningful work is central in human flourishing.

This book deals with how to measure innovation in crisis management, drawing on data, case studies, and lessons learnt from different European countries.

This book disentangles the foundations of coopetition (i.

Brain Based Enterprises offers a unique synthesis of intelligent thought fused with pragmatic and pithy insights on the art and discipline of leading enterprises, where intelligence, ideas and innovation are the currencies of Sustainable Coopetive Advantage (SCA).

This book offers a comprehensive look at the current literatures and research based on empirical data from across different countries in Africa.

What is the nature of slavery as practiced and at times reintroduced over the past two centuries in the Middle East and North Africa?

During the last two decades, rapid economic growth and development in India has been based upon the mass employment of informal labour.

Research and development infrastructures are a critical success factor in the platform of science and technology.

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