Sociology: work and labour

This book brings together the theory and practice of managing public trust.

This edited collection offers a nontraditional approach to diversity management, going beyond gender, race, and ethnicity.

This book explores those who long for "e;bygone utopias,"e; times before rapid, culturally destructive social change stripped individuals of their perceived agency.

This book explores multidimensional issues concerning digital resilience and analyzes how people and organizations maintain, enhance and protect value stemming from digital technologies.

This pioneering edited collection explores the question of how organizations manage the future.

Authored by masters in the field of coaching, this book is designed as a course textbook for those studying coaching in general, but with a specific reference to the updated competences introduced by the International Coaching Federation in 2020.

This contributed volume presents a state-of-the-art compendium for startups and corporations, focusing on corporate ventures.

Urban social movements are influential agents in shaping cityscapes to reflect values and needs of communities.

This work explores essential debates on globalization and world-systems analysis.

This book explores how NGOs have been influential in shaping global biodiversity, conservation policy, and practice.

Adopting an Evidence-Based Management (EBM) approach, this book provides the best evidence available on a wide range of topics from Industrial and Organizational Psychology to help managers base their decisions on scientific findings.

This book discusses the foundations of social and environmental accounting and highlights local differences in countries like Italy and Bulgaria.

This book is an unprecedented effort to compare representations and practices of social distinction worldwide and over the centuries.

This book describes the social and economic issues that emerge from mothers in labor markets.

This new handbook builds on The Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations published in 2007, and is the only resource defining the field of study related to small nonprofit organizations and to studying communities from the standpoint of associations that make up communities.

This book critically analyses user-firm technology relationships and socioeconomic structures at the crossroads of community and commerce.

In an ever-changing working environment, customer and workplace demands have brought new challenges to how we organize and manage work.

This volume presents a comprehensive overview of methodological issues and empirical methods of practice-oriented research.

This book interrogates the existing theories of convergence culture and audience engagement within the media and communication disciplines by providing grounded examples of social media use as a social mobilization tool within the media industries.

In 2008, the European Commission relaunched the policy idea of active inclusion, with the aim of facilitating the integration of people into sustainable and quality employment.

This book presents the most comprehensive discussion of emerging trends in higher education in the Asia Pacific, ranging from graduate attributes to integrated workplace learning, with an in-depth focus on work readiness, employability and career development.

This book looks at the UEFA European Championship (Euro 2012) as both a crowning achievement of, and a way to sustain, the urban entrepreneurial strategy of Poznan, Poland.

This book takes a people-centred approach to the ever-fluid and rapidly-transforming professional world of public relations (PR) in the age of digital platforms.

This book presents a collection of research papers exploring the human side of digital innovation management, with a specific focus on what people say and share on social media, how they respond to the introduction of specific IT tools, and how digital innovations are impacting sustainability and inclusion.

This critical, international and interdisciplinary edited collection investigates the new normal of work and employment, presenting research on the experience of the workers themselves.

This handbook on relational sociology covers a rapidly growing approach in the social sciences-one which is connected to the interests of a large, diverse pool of researchers across a range of disciplines.

This anthology is an attempt to make sense of conferences and trade fairs as phenomena in contemporary society.

This book provides a rich overview and takes a closer look at the current state of theory and practice in the field of sustainable business models.

The volume brings together an international group of authors discussing basic concepts and approaches to plural policing as well as aspects and practices of plural policing in specific locations.

This book presents a detailed and critical discussion about how human wellbeing can be maintained and improved in a postgrowth era.

The book consolidates systems thinking as a new world-hypothesis that is already suggesting itself behind the advancement of quantum mechanics and Ashby's cybernetics.

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.

This book discusses the interaction between and the impact of overlapping actions by regional organizations while dealing with critical events.

This book provides a contemporary collection of key works that chart new and ongoing terrain on student sex work.

This book looks at the history of work and the meanings that are attached to it over time.

This handbook provides an overview on major developments that occurred in the field of economic sociology after its rebirth since the 1980s in the US.

This book addresses the complicated question of how markets and consumption create the possibilities for cross-cultural exchanges and the multicultural pleasures of omnivorous consumption, whilst at the same time building new boundaries and distinctions, paving the way for new exploitative relationships, and initiating novel modes of status and capital accumulation.

This edited book presents a range of chapters written by new and established authors, drawing on a range of different perspectives and traditions to critically analyse education, work and social change in the former coalfields.

This book presents a new intellectual history of neoliberalism through the exploration of the sovereign consumer.

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 argues that "e;organizing"e; is a broader term than managing, as it entails understanding how people and machines interact with each other; how resources, data, goods are exchanged in complex and intertwined value chains; and how lines of action and activities can be articulated using flexible protocols and often ad-hoc processes in situated practices of use and production.

This book reimagines the pleasures of sports and provides a critical perspective from the Global South.

This book contributes to research on therapeutic culture by drawing on longstanding ethnographic work and by offering a new theoretical reading of therapeutic culture in today's society.

This book portrays the scene where corporate international trade agreements, a new neoliberal state regime, and a growing textile market have contributed to the becoming of a new class of Muslim female workers-who labor in Bangladesh's apparel export factories under conditions of neoliberal capitalism.

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

This collection presents an array of policy debates and implications emerging from virtual work.

This book aims at presenting a conceptual apparatus and empirical analysis of the ways Nordic civil society is affected by social transformations by focusing on the Norwegian case.

This volume examines Max Weber's pre-World War I thinking about bureaucracy.

This book addresses changes in socio-economic systems.

This book, part of the new wave of political sociology in EU studies, examines the dialectics of construction/deconstruction of the European civil service through a succession of empirically grounded case studies.