Sociology: work and labour

The essence of this book can be found in a line written by the ancient Roman Stoic Philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca: "e;Fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid"e;.

This book presents a Marx that is in many ways different from the one popularized by the dominant currents of twentieth-century Marxism.

In recent decades, organizational stress researchers have repeatedly called for more longitudinal studies.

Organizations are complex social systems, and dysfunctionalities can settle in very quickly and almost unnoticed, costing valuable time and resources.

This book covers a wide range of topics relating to the health and wellbeing of the construction workforce.

This book examines the concept of the fourth industrial revolution and its potential impact on vocational education and training.

Contributing to the debate on work performance evaluation in a time of technological transformation, this book explores the impact of digitisation on production and organisation models, as well as on the rights and interests of the stakeholders involved.

This book deals with the widespread economic and financial crime issues of corruption, the shadow economy and money laundering.

This book introduces the research agenda of relational economics as a political economy for the governance of local and global economic transactions in modern societies.

This book is a timely and innovative exploration of the vital relationship between sex and capitalism in the digital age.

"e;Matching the rigour of the analysis with an extraordinary pedagogical capacity, the authors unveil all the arcana of the 'openness' capitalism model and digital labour.

This book proposes a theory of the legitimation crisis of neoliberalism.

This book examines how the police make decisions in real life situations, particularly in major enquiries.

With a particular focus on the British printing industry, this book tackles the ongoing issue of pay inequality and examines the challenges facing many women today.

This book examines the development of women in the Hong Kong Police Force (HKP) over the past 68 years, beginning from the early colonial years when calls to include women in law enforcement first emerged, to the recruitment of the first female sub-inspector in 1949, and through to the current situation where policewomen constitute 15% of the total HKP establishment.

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In this unique and lively ethnography of women who sell cars, sociologist Helene M.

This book examines patterns of political engagement of long-term unemployed youth.

This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of 21st century families in Britain through an exploration of intergenerational relationships.

This book explores the personal experiences of professionals who are a part of the post-colonial and late-industrializing reality in the global value chain in Singapore.

This collection examines the relationships between a globalising neoliberal capitalism, a post-GFC environment of recession and austerity, and the moral economies of young people's health and well-being.

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

This book tells the story of nearly five decades of Indian migration to Australia from the late 1960s to 2015, through the eyes of migrants and their families.

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

A history of the twentieth-century feminists who fought for the rights of women, workers, and the poor, both in the United States and abroadFor the Many presents an inspiring look at how US women and their global allies pushed the nation and the world toward justice and greater equality for all.

The banking sector is evolving rapidly due to technological advancements, regulatory changes, and shifting customer expectations.

Appreciative Inquiry has touched and inspired the work of thousands who apply its development principles in a wide range of settings including industry, government, spiritual and not-for-profit organizations.

Randy Hodson was one of contemporary sociology's central figures in the study of work, occupations, and inequality.

How do you break through to impossible-to-reach executive buyers who are intent on blocking out the noise that confronts them every day?

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

This study examines the process of unionizing domestic workers in Lebanon, highlighting the potentialities as well as the obstacles confronting it, and looks at the multiple power relations involved through axes of class, gender, race, and nationality.

This volume introduces the notion of Thinking Infrastructures to explore a broad range of phenomena that structure attention, shape decision-making, and guide cognition: Thinking Infrastructures configure entities (via tracing, tagging), organise knowledge (via search engines), sort things out (via rankings and ratings), govern markets (via calculative practices, including algorithms), and configure preferences (via valuations such as recommender systems).

The classical concept of organizations as comprising solitary 'walled-in' actors with clear operational boundaries is increasingly being challenged.

The User Experience Team of One prescribes a range of approaches that have big impact and take less time and fewer resources than the standard lineup of UX deliverables.

This ground-breaking ethnography of an export-orientated garment assembly factory in Egypt examines the dynamic relationships between its managers emergent Mubarak-bizniz (business) elites who are caught in an intensely competitive globalized supply chain and the local daily-life realities of their young, educated, and mixed-gender labour force.

Don't fly blind.

Workers in the United States are losing sleep.

Doug Hall shares data-proven methods that can make sales, marketing, and business development measurably more effective.

Building value in our global economy increasingly demands creating new opportunities and solving new problems.

Delve into the complex landscape of the informal economy with the Routledge Handbook of the Informal Economy, a groundbreaking volume that transcends conventional economic analysis by contextualizing it within a broader regulatory and social framework.

Nueve de cada diez argentinos vivimos en ciudades.

Los momentos creativos son de vital importancia para todo lo que realizamos en cualquier vertiente de la vida: relaciones, familia, trabajo, comunidad.

A lo largo de nuestra vida aceptamos muchos cambios importantes: el matrimonio, los hijos, las nuevas tecnologías o los nuevos trabajos.

This book is about geography, economics, society, and innovation.

A multifaceted ecological and socio-cultural crisis confronts us, and the irresponsible and unsustainable operations and actions encouraging this predicament are bound up with contemporary societal, economic, organisational, and managerial practices.

Wage Regulation under the Statute of Artificers (1938) is a study of the enforcement of the 1562 Statute of Artificers during the period of its operation, with particular reference to wage assessment and the contract of employment.

This book focuses on the experience of social dialogue in Turkey, which is a European Union candidate country.

La educación es un arma, un pueblo educado es un pueblo capaz de elegir su propio rumbo.

The welcome culture of 2015 in Germany has, not least due to the (re)definition of safe countries of origin, turned into a deportation policy.

Digital technologies can have a profound impact on modern organisations, changing the way they operate, communicate, cooperate, and deliver value to stakeholders.