Sociology: work and labour

This book is a multifaceted examination of the nature of inequalities in CEE countries.

Digital transformation is one of the most discussed topics today because of its impact on society and the economy.

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 will advance readers' understanding of the knowledge development, building and/or management process within human service organizations, informed by the author's experience in human service organizations, as consultant, and practitioner.

This book is a compilation of economic views on the purpose of life.

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 proposes an original approach to analyse the social and professional trajectories of migrant women with tertiary education.

This book studies the dramatic changes in consumption patterns in Vietnam over the past decades, combining a focus on everyday practices and societal transformations.

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

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 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 deals with the important topic of policies for sustainable agriculture, since food insecurity is a growing concern for policy makers and will affect the quality of life and well-being of generations to come.

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

This edited volume analyses and discusses the systematisation of Polish socio-economic transformations of the last three decades using selected examples of the most important changes.

This book, adopting a multidisciplinary approach, investigates the definition of autonomous work and the kind of protection it receives and should receive in a global perspective.

In times of globalization, digitalization and demographic change, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us the fragility and complexity of the world of work.

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 describes the early career outcomes for female creative graduates in Australia and the UK.

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

This book compiles empirical evidence on both the challenges raised by neo-liberal policies and the internet to trade unions, and the development of more flexible forms of worker organisation and collective representation.

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

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

This handbook provides an overview of developments in the youth mobility and migration research field, with specific emphasis on movement for education, work and training purposes, encompassing exchanges sponsored by institutions, governments and international agencies, and free movement.

This edited volume moves the study of South Asia to the center of sociological analysis, bringing together recent scholarship across sites in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Pakistan, as well as in Ethiopia and the USA.

This Palgrave Pivot provides an overview of rural labour relations in different regions of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil.

This contributed volume book aims at discussing transdisciplinary approaches to address common problems.

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 presents a unified approach to the problem of inequality, combining results from a variety of research fields - the human life cycle, group dynamics, networks, markets, and economic geography.

Challenging the simplistic story by which feminism has become complicit in neoliberalism, this book traces the course of globalization of women's economic empowerment from the Global South to the Global North and critically examines the practice of empowering low-income women, primarily migrant, indigenous and racialised women.

This volume offers new, convincing empirical evidence on topical risk- and risk management-related issues in diverse settings, using an interdisciplinary approach.

What does the proliferation of food festival tell us about rural areas?

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

This book explores a new area of psychology of sustainability and sustainable development with specific focus on organizations, and introduces a range of advanced perspectives for healthy business, harmonization and decent work.

This handbook explores feeling like an 'imposter' in higher education and what this can tell us about contemporary educational inequalities.

This book contributes to the development of a relational view of economics.

This edited volume critically reflects on the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has affected and continues to affect women in India.

This book integrates the findings of group research emphasizing "e;Madness of the Crowd"e; versus collective intelligence that highlights "e;Wisdom of the Crowd.

The hypercomplex digital-technological environment is exponential and revolutionary.

This book presents scholarly reflections on women's entrepreneurial propensity and on women's entrepreneurship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields.

In our rapidly changing world, digitalization is often either the key to survival or the driving force behind organizations' success.

This book engages with Foucault's theoretical works to understand the (re-) making of the working-class in China.

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

The edited volume New Economies for Sustainability: Limits and Potentials for Possible Futures brings together a range of alternative views on economy and organization to illustrate different perspectives on how to work towards more sustainable solutions to production, consumptions and economic organization more generally.

This edited volume examines the contemporary practice of human trafficking on the African continent.