Sociology: work and labour

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.

This book takes readers behind the screen to uncover how digital technologies have affected the UK sex industry.

This book examines employee welfare in British and German companies from the 19th century through to the present day.

This book examines a basic assumption behind most of the critical, progressive thinking of our times: that trade unions are necessarily tools for solidarity and are integral to a more equal and just society.

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 edited collection analyses social inequality in the European Union, within and between countries.

This edited collection addresses a paradox at the heart of the European Union: if it is a constantly enlarging empire of governance, how can almost thirty member states design policies as an administrative whole, whilst narrowly approaching all political issues from one economic point of view?

Art and the Challenge of Markets Volumes 1 & 2 examine the politics of art and culture in light of the profound changes that have taken place in the world order since the 1980s and 1990s.

This book evaluates the consequences of economic, social, environmental and cultural change on people living and working within Teesside in the North-East of England.

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 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 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 book uses a variety of empirical cases on topics including drug development, egg donation, and governance of healthcare facilities, to investigate how actors navigate the uncertainties that permeate the interfaces of health, technologies, and politics in post-Soviet settings and what the implications of their chosen navigation routes are.

This book presents a foresight-based exploratory analysis on the coming post-capitalist society and the transforming role of technology, creativity, and social innovation in the new economy.

This book reinvigorates the debate about the origins and development of police culture within our changing social, economic and political landscape.

This volume presents for the first time a collection of historically important papers written on the concept of rationality in the social sciences.

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

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This book includes a selection of the best research papers presented at the annual conference of the Italian chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), which took place in Verona, Italy in October 2016.

This book targets the critical issue of decision making in uncertain conditions and situations.

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

This book provides a unique insight into negotiations around language investment for employability in the context of public employment services.

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

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

This book explores various forms of highly skilled mobility in the European Union, assessing the potential for this movement to contribute to individual and societal development.

The book presents a critical framework for assessing whether organisational practice and function reinforces unseen potential differences amongst individuals in the workplace.

This book provides a richly detailed contribution to the understanding of healthy volunteer experiences in clinical drug trials in the UK.

This enlightening auto-ethnography examines how social class (and other social institutions and structures) affect how people grow up.

This book explores critical perspectives on ageing in organisations and offers both managerial and workplace practices for dealing with this prominent issue.

This book is the first to present a rich selection of over 30 real-world cases of how leading organizations conduct Business Process Management (BPM).

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.

This edited collection provides a series of accounts of workers' local experiences that reflect the ubiquity of work's digitalisation.

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 volume examines the social history of oil workers and investigates how labor relations have shaped the global oil industry during the twentieth century and today.

This book focuses on workplace innovation, which is a key element in ensuring that organizations and the people within them can adapt to and engage in healthy, sustainable change.

This edited collection provides a structured and in-depth analysis of the current use of quota strategies for resolving the pressing issue of gender inequality, and the lack of female representation on corporate boards.

This book is about how people construct career stories: the stories we use to make sense of our work life.

This book covers various aspects of leadership in critical situations and under extreme conditions.

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

This book examines the new ways of working and their impact on employees' well-being and performance.

This book provides an evidence-based approach to understanding declining levels of employee engagement, offering a set of practices that individuals and organizations can adopt in order to improve productivity and organizational performance.

This work offers a nuanced perspective based on empirical evidence of the role of talent and creativity for economic growth, prosperity, social and spatial inequality, and precarity in creative cities by arguing that creativity and talent need to be valued and eventually rewarded to achieve sufficient conditions for individual economic success.

This volume examines why the 2008 financial crisis with the subsequent Great Recession did not foster a major institutional transformation of the capitalist market economy.

This book offers a new framework for conceptualizing and managing organizations when using new information and communication technologies, for example decision support and artificial intelligence.

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

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

This book addresses the challenge of securing high-paying jobs for American workers.

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