Sociology: work and labour

This is the first book published in English to present a concise but panoramic overview of the social, economic and political roots of the current Brazilian crisis.

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

This book details qualitative research focusing on Internet startups, digital entrepreneurship, race and sex discrimination, and the sharing economy.

This book analyses the circular migration of care workers in Central Europe using the example of Slovak carers in 24-hour care provision for the elderly in Austria.

This book investigates how people encounter, experience and shape their careers.

This comparative study examines the processes of development and the configurations of export industries in northern Morocco and on the northern border of Mexico.

Minimum income schemes (MIS) have become key social protection institutions for European citizens, but we know little regarding the logic and dynamics of institutional change in this policy field.

Based on two unique survey studies of elites in Norway, this book examines whether elite attitudes towards central national issues have changed in the wake of international and national events and developments since 2000.

The so-called shadow education system of private supplementary tutoring has become a global phenomenon but has different features in different settings.

This book analyses legal orders, actors and democracy in contemporary India, with a particular focus on the everyday contexts and dynamics of human rights, citizenship and socio-economic rights and laws.

A much-needed addition to literature, this timely edited collection aims to provide clarity and understanding on how modern organizations work.

The wide-ranging European perspectives brought together in this volume aim to analyse, by means of an interdisciplinary approach, the numerous implications of a massive shift in the conception of 'work' and the category of 'worker'.

This book examines management and management-related activities as a feature of everyday life.

This book presents an innovative institutional transpositional ethnography that examines the textual trajectory of "e;the life of a calling script"e; from production by corporate management and clients to recontextualization by middle management and finally to application by agents in phone interactions.

This book explores the relationship between the changing nature of capitalism and the creation of the new worker.

This anthropological study of university governance organizations has four main purposes.

This book explores the key conceptual features of the development of the Sociology of Work (SoW) in Europe since 1945, using eleven country case studies.

This textbook examines the extent to which moral values play a role as productive forces for the economy, and explores the effect of ethical and unethical Behavior on the economy.

In an analysis of political, economic, and social development in Peru in the years between 1980 and 2016, this book explores the failure of the socialist Left to realize its project of revolutionary social transformation.

Through the lens of the fashion industry, Iva Petkova explores not only how institutionalized organizations react and adapt to the rise of start-up outsiders, but also how these outside "e;disruptors"e; seek to cultivate legitimacy and win influence.

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 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.

The proceedings of the 2017 Symposium on Chaos, Complexity and Leadership illuminate current research results and academic work from the fields of physics, mathematics, education, economics, as well as management and social sciences.

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

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

This book takes up the problems of social policy, state intervention and support in the hard times of austerity introduced by the Coalition government 2010-15, and continued under the Conservative government today.

This provocative volume takes an international, multidisciplinary approach to understanding globalization and assessing its economic, social, and environmental effects.

This book explores all aspects of the sharing economy, pursuing a multidisciplinary approach encompassing Service Design, Spatial Design, Sociology, Economics, Law, and Transport and Operations Research.

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 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 describes and maps congregations of Christian confessions and denominations, as well as groups with Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, and various other spiritual faiths, in different European countries.

This book is situated in the nexus between technology, labour and politics.

This volume examines visual artists' careers in the East German region of Saxony, as seen through the lens of cultural policy studies.

Caring in Times of Precarity draws together two key cultural observations: the increase in those living a single life, and the growing attraction of creative careers.

This book analyses the current state-of-the-art research on families, working hours and well-being in Europe, addressing both paid and non-paid work from a family perspective, and introducing emerging issues related to working hours and family life.

This book takes an in-depth look at the European Commission's Erasmus programme.

Examining the subtle forms of aggression, violence, and harassment that occur in our society and manifest in institutions and places of work, the expert contributors collected here describe the experience of social marginalization and expose how vulnerable individuals work to navigate exclusionary climates.

"e;Bongiovanni's message should be heeded, especially in Brussels, Berlin and Paris"e; - John Peet, Political Editor, The EconomistFrancesco Bongiovanni returns with a sequel to The Decline and the Fall of Europe, a book Guardian journalist Nils Pratley labelled 'a wake-up call for the twenty-first century'.

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

This edited collection explores building construction as an inspiring, yet often overlooked, place to develop new knowledge about the development of human societies.

In the economical changing and political disturbing times we are living a question concerns us all: Is this the society I want to live in?

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.

Grounded in extensive and original ethnographic fieldwork, this book makes a novel contribution to migration studies by examining a European labour migration to the Global South, namely contemporary Portuguese migration to Angola in a postcolonial context.

This book addresses changes in socio-economic systems.

The 21st century has born witness to myriad changes in the way the world is secured from the many emergencies that continually threaten to disrupt it.

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

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

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

This book presents the findings, applications, and theoretical underpinnings of a unique leadership communication model: motivating language theory.

This book presents Social Dialogue as a social innovation strategy for managing diversity at any step of the human resource circle.