Sociology: work and labour

This book addresses the impact of Covid-19 on employment relations and provides a reconstruction and a critical assessment of the measures enacted worldwide to tackle the economic and social crisis triggered by the global health emergency.

This book addresses the impact of Covid-19 on employment relations and provides a reconstruction and a critical assessment of the measures enacted worldwide to tackle the economic and social crisis triggered by the global health emergency.

This book explores the critical intersection of digital competence, operational performance, and organizational agility, offering insights for academics, professionals, and decision-makers navigating the digital era.

At present, 80% of the employees are no longer engaged in their work and capable of performing, while 44% are experiencing work related stress and getting sick from working.

Work-life balance has drawn much attention from academic researchers, professionals, and politicians over the past two decades.

Work-life balance has drawn much attention from academic researchers, professionals, and politicians over the past two decades.

At present, 80% of the employees are no longer engaged in their work and capable of performing, while 44% are experiencing work related stress and getting sick from working.

This book explores two unique studies of women's economic behaviour during Australia's COVID-19 crisis.

This book explores two unique studies of women's economic behaviour during Australia's COVID-19 crisis.

This book focuses on the socio-political problems that emanate from Western states' harsh deterrence policies in their responses to refugee crises.

This book focuses on the socio-political problems that emanate from Western states' harsh deterrence policies in their responses to refugee crises.

The need for this book arises from the growing cybersecurity challenges faced by small to medium-sized healthcare facilities, which often lack the resources, expertise, and dedicated staff to interpret and implement complex security regulations.

This book is the first of its kind to incorporate subjective well-being (SWB) data to comprehensively explore perceptional factors that relate to fertility behavior in East Asia.

This book is the first of its kind to incorporate subjective well-being (SWB) data to comprehensively explore perceptional factors that relate to fertility behavior in East Asia.

This book analyzes the recent development of accounting in Japan from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing specifically on how institutional reality is constructed.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to navigating the transformation of the workforce due to the influence of artificial intelligence (AI) across industries and discusses detailed strategies for executing reskilling and upskilling programs for professionals and managers in charge of workforce development, training, and employee retention in an AI-driven landscape.

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted global financial systems, exposing vulnerabilities in regulatory frameworks and governance structures.

This book argues that American democracy is in crisis.

This book aims at China's economic and social development, which has embarked on a new journey.

This book, situated at the intersection of humanistic management, aesthetics, and artificial intelligence (AI) studies, aims to explore how the emergence of AI-driven solutions reshapes managerial paradigms, alters human experiences within organisations, and redefines the values guiding leadership, communication, and organisational development.

This book helps undergraduate and graduate students understand Chester Barnard's organization theory.

This book provides a description of advanced multi-agent and artificial intelligence technologies for the modeling and simulation of complex systems, as well as an overview of the latest scientific efforts in this field.

This book presents a synopsis, with an innovative approach, of abundance, types and conditions of work performed in the tropical plantation and natural forests.

This book explores stakeholders' perspectives, their practices, and engagement with enacting the employability agenda in the context of a rapidly changing world.

This book analyzes the recent development of accounting in Japan from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing specifically on how institutional reality is constructed.

Through a case study of Guyana, a society in which structural pluralism and ethnic/racial divisions coincide to a large extent, this book explores the specific way in which social structures interact with and affect social institutions, ethnic stratification, social actions, and both group-based and purportedly universalist ideologies.

Artificial Intelligence from Science Fiction to Reality examines various aspects, starting with the evolution of human and artificial intelligence (AI).

This book problematises the socioeconomic and institutional construction of prostitution in Thai contexts, identifying the root causes that propel underprivileged, discriminated and deprived women and girls to enter the sex industry.

This book argues that American democracy is in crisis.

This book aims at China's economic and social development, which has embarked on a new journey.

This book aims to delve into the application of feminist ethnography by engaging with the lived experiences of vulnerable workers, occupied by India's informal workforce, across its deeply stratified labour-market landscape.

Entrepreneurship depends on the decisions that people make about how to undertake that process; however, in recent years, entrepreneurship research has focused largely on the environmental characteristics influencing firm founding and the characteristics of entrepreneurial opportunities, ignoring the role of human agency.

The studies in this volume provide an ethnography of a plantation frontier in central Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo.

This book examines the links between employee-organisation relationships, work wellness and the impact thereof on the labour market from a South African perspective.

This book investigates the professional needs and training requirements of an ever-changing public service workforce in Australia and the United Kingdom.

This book explores stakeholders' perspectives, their practices, and engagement with enacting the employability agenda in the context of a rapidly changing world.

This book helps undergraduate and graduate students understand Chester Barnard's organization theory.

This book provides a framework to understand the disregarded aspect of emerging market growth which is informal employment.

The studies in this volume provide an ethnography of a plantation frontier in central Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo.

This book investigates the professional needs and training requirements of an ever-changing public service workforce in Australia and the United Kingdom.