Sociology: work and labour

In a challenging economy filled with multiple competitors, no one can afford to stagnate.

Improving Industrial Relations (1985) presents and discusses the findings of research into the advisory function of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS).

As sales of fair-trade goods explode across the globe, Fair Trade and the Citizen-Consumer provides a timely analysis of the organizations, institutions and grassroots networks behind this growing movement.

This book considers the global response on governance after the pandemic while sociologically addressing the effects of COVID-19 on life and work experience.

In Beyond E-Business: Towards Networked Structures Paul Grefen returns with his tried and tested BOAT framework for e-business, now fully expanded and updated with the very latest overview of digitally connected business; from business models, organization structures and architecture, to information technology.

Few terms elicit such strong and varied feelings and yet have so little clarity as "e;democracy.

Using an innovative, action research approach, Vickers explores the lives of women who work full time while caring for a child with significant chronic illness or disability.

Based on qualitative research carried out with young people aged from 18 to 30 in five European countries, Young Europeans, Work and Family examines young people's pathways to adulthood, and their perspectives on their future work and family lives.

In the era of modern industrial regimes, the role of technology in tackling climate change is pivotal.

Founded in 1919 along with the League of Nations, the International Labour Organization (ILO) establishes labor standards and produces knowledge about the world of work, serving as a forum for nations, unions, and employer associations.

This book offers a critical and timely account of how labour law has become a means for protecting employers rather than workers.

Die vorliegende Arbeit ist aus Diskussionen entstanden, die wir untereinander wie mit anderen kritischen Beobachterinnen und Beobachtern über die geg- wärtigen Entwicklungen des Strafrechts, der Kriminal- und Sicherheitspolitik geführt haben.

In an age where digital disruptions rewrite the rules of commerce, Customer Engagement and Digital Business presents a timely and cutting-edge examination of how businesses must rethink engagement to thrive.

2017 marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, a work acknowledged as one of the most insightful books written in the twentieth century.

The goal of this book is to define Sustainable Value Creation in terms of a set of principles that differentiate it from existing definitions of CSR, and from related concepts such as sustainability and business ethics.

This book explores a new area of psychology of sustainability and sustainable development with specific focus on organizations, and introduces a range of advanced perspectives for healthy business, harmonization and decent work.

The transition from school to work is recognized by developmental psychologists as a significant phase in maturation of young people.

As we become more and more of a global trading world, the challenges of leading and managing within this turbulent environment and its associated, complex, interconnected markets and disconnected relationships are indisputable, so just how far can any change requirements be practically engaged with, whilst also keeping the employee at the organisation's central core?

This book re-shapes thinking on 'gender gaps'-differences between men and women in their incomes, their employment and their conditions of work.

Two seminal crises of the early 21st century - the 9/11 terrorist attacks and COVID-19 pandemic - have led emerging generations of workers to prioritize the meaning and purpose of work.

In this title, first published in 1918, Lord Leverhulme explores the ideas of co-partnership, piece-work, housing, and the benefits of shorter hours of labour.

Die Fallstudie gibt einen Einblick in die betriebliche Doppelwirklichkeit eines umfassenden Restrukturierungsprozesses auf Basis eines ganzheitlichen Produktionssystems.

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

This book analyses key theoretical influences on Indian culture in a business context.

Interconnecting the concepts of sustainability, innovation and transformation, this book explains how organizations have successfully transformed themselves and wider society to foster a more sustainable future, and identifies the difficulties and challenges along the way.

Although some people had doubts about the usefulness of such solutions in the past, artificial intelligence (AI) plays a growing role in modern business.

Industrial Relations in a Changing World (1975) shows how industrial relations embrace very deep-rooted attitudes and institutions, and that change, if it is to be radical, is slow.

User research war stories are personal accounts of the challenges researchers encounter out in the field, where mishaps are inevitable, yet incredibly instructive.

We have gone through one of the most disruptive societal changes, on a global scale, over the last three years due to COVID-19.

First published in 1977, this Routledge Revival is a reissue of the first comprehensive sociological study of the role of the personnel manager, which considers both the individual experience of the person working in this field and the role the occupation plays in the management of employing organizations.

Originally published in 1970.

Aviation safety and astronautics safety are taught as technical subjects informed, for the most part, by quantitative methods.

Responsible and sustainable business practices are becoming increasingly important in the information age, as companies are realizing the need to address ethical and social issues associated with their operations.

Climbing the Ladder (1986) looks at the fundamentals for women breaking the glass ceiling, examining the barriers to progress and the ways to success.

This fascinating book argues for a new way of looking at the world and at human systems, companies or (Western) society as a whole.

​In der Photovoltaik-Industrie sind technologische Entwicklungen, wie in vielen anderen Branchen auch, der Schlüssel zum Erfolg.

An overview of Xerox''s social science tradition, with detailed case studies that show how client engagement was conducted over time.

This book brings together public services policy and public services management in a novel way that is likely to resonate with academics, policy makers and practitioners engaged in the organization of public services delivery as it is from a perspective that challenges many received ideas in this field.

Although women have made important inroads in science and engineering since the early 1970s, their progress in these fields has stalled over the past several years.

This edited volume investigates how refugee communities in the Middle East have adapted to secure their livelihoods within the informal economy.

This book presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted view of the state of corporate social responsibility (CSR) development in organizations in different industries around the world.

Selecting migrants based on skill has become a widely practised migration policy in many countries around the world.

This collection describes the changing structure of employment during the period of robust employment expansion that preceded the credit crunch and features contributions from a team of leading labour market researchers from Europe and the United States.

Edith Penrose is best known for The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, originally published in 1959, but she made major contributions in other fields, including patents, the oil industry, and development economics.

This book contends that the Chinese economic reform inaugurated since 1978 has been a top-down passive revolution, in Gramsci's term, and that after three decades of reform the role of the Chinese state has been changing from steering the passive revolution through coercive tactics to establishing capitalist hegemony.