Sociology: work & labour books

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Lives on the Line: How the Philippines became the World's Call Center Capital

Lives on the Line: How the Philippines became the World's...

Author: Jeffrey J. Sallaz (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Arizona)
ISBN: 9780190630652
Format: Hardback
$343.20

"The call center industry is booming in the Philippines. Around the year 2005, the country overtook India as the...  Read More >>

Disturbing Business Ethics: Emmanuel Levinas and the Politics of Organization

Disturbing Business Ethics: Emmanuel Levinas and the...

Author: Carl Rhodes
ISBN: 9780367142872
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Searching for Work: Small-Scale Mobility and Unskilled Labor in Southeast Asia

Searching for Work: Small-Scale Mobility and Unskilled...

Author: Silvia Vignato ,  Matteo Carlo Alcano
ISBN: 9786162151439
Format: Paperback
$82.80

Small-scale, work-related mobility has become a constitutive feature of modern local Southeast Asian societies....  Read More >>

Lab Rats: Why Modern Work Makes People Miserable

Lab Rats: Why Modern Work Makes People Miserable

Author: Dan Lyons
ISBN: 9781786493941
Format: Paperback
$24.99

An hilarious and terrifying expose of the brave new world of work, explaining why it has all gone wrong and how...  Read More >>

Philanthropic Foundations in Higher Education: Comparative Perspectives from the United States and Germany

Philanthropic Foundations in Higher Education: Comparative...

Author: Janina Mangold
ISBN: 9783658273866
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Janina Mangold uncovers the contributions of philanthropic foundations in higher education in Germany and the USA....  Read More >>

The Viability of Organizations Vol. 2: Diagnosing and Governing Organizations

The Viability of Organizations Vol. 2: Diagnosing and...

Author: Wolfgang Lassl
ISBN: 9783030164720
Format: Hardback
$142.29

Organizations are complex social systems, and dysfunctionalities can settle in very quickly and almost unnoticed,...  Read More >>

Rethinking Public Relations: Persuasion, Democracy and Society

Rethinking Public Relations: Persuasion, Democracy and...

Author: Kevin Moloney (Bournemouth University, UK) ,  Conor McGrath (University of Ulster, UK)
ISBN: 9781138593657
Format: Hardback
$389.00

This third edition of Rethinking Public Relations argues that public relations is weak propaganda. While earlier...  Read More >>

Societal Development in Rural China

Societal Development in Rural China

Author: Wenrong Qian
ISBN: 9789811380815
Format: Hardback
$155.22

This book provides a broad survey of Chinese rural households, examining ongoing changes in Chinese society and...  Read More >>

The Institutional Theory of the Firm: Embedded Autonomy

The Institutional Theory of the Firm: Embedded Autonomy...

Author: Alexander Styhre
ISBN: 9780367142674
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book brings together a diverse literature to advance the argument that the corporation is best understood as...  Read More >>

Risk Management, 2 Volume Set

Risk Management, 2 Volume Set

Author: Gerald Mars ,  David Weir
ISBN: 9780367244606
Format: Mixed media product
$609.00

First published in 2000, Risk Management is a two volume set, comprised of the most significant and influential...  Read More >>

Workplace Equality in Europe: The Role of Trade Unions

Workplace Equality in Europe: The Role of Trade Unions...

Author: Anna Paraskevopoulou ,  Sonia McKay
ISBN: 9780367410346
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Drawing on data from a Europe wide project, this book explores the work of trade unions in supporting equality and...  Read More >>

Widersprechen in Vereinnahmenden Verhaltnissen: Eine Untersuchung Zur Moglichkeit Bildungstheoretischer Einspruche Innerhalb Der Und Gegen Die Gegenwartigen Hochschulpolitischen Entwicklungen in Anschluss an Die Machtkritischen Arbeiten Foucaults

Widersprechen in Vereinnahmenden Verhaltnissen: Eine...

Author: Katharina Danner
ISBN: 9783832548353
Format: Paperback
$147.84

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Self-Employment as Precarious Work: A European Perspective

Self-Employment as Precarious Work: A European Perspective...

Author: Wieteke Conen ,  Joop Schippers
ISBN: 9781788115025
Format: Hardback
$275.50

Since the 1970s the long term decline in self-employment has slowed – and even reversed in some countries – and...  Read More >>

Rethinking Public Relations: Persuasion, Democracy and Society

Rethinking Public Relations: Persuasion, Democracy and...

Author: Kevin Moloney (Bournemouth University, UK) ,  Conor McGrath (University of Ulster, UK)
ISBN: 9780367313005
Format: Paperback
$98.99

This third edition of Rethinking Public Relations argues that public relations is weak propaganda. While earlier...  Read More >>

Die Entscheidung: Lösungen einer unlösbaren Aufgabe

Die Entscheidung: Lösungen einer unlösbaren Aufgabe...

Author: Hans-Jürgen Arlt ,  Jürgen Schulz
ISBN: 9783658270605
Format: Paperback
$47.49

Über das politische Konfliktpotential und die persönlichen Zumutungen der Entscheidungsfreiheit legt die umfangreiche...  Read More >>

Black Women’s Narratives of NHS Work-Based Learning: An Ethnodrama: The Difference between Rhetoric and Lived Experience

Black Women’s Narratives of NHS Work-Based Learning:...

Author: Peggy Warren
ISBN: 9781789974621
Format: Paperback
$62.62

This is an eight scene ethnodrama portraying Black women reliving their journey of Higher Education and Work-based...  Read More >>

Confronting Crisis and Precariousness: Organised Labour and Social Unrest in the European Union

Confronting Crisis and Precariousness: Organised Labour...

Author: Stefan Schmalz ,  Brandon Sommer
ISBN: 9781786610478
Format: Hardback
$302.00

Focusing on the triangular relationship of precariousness, trade unions and social movements, this book draws on...  Read More >>

The Business of People: Leadership for the Changing World

The Business of People: Leadership for the Changing...

Author: Iain Fraser ,  Madeleine Taylor
ISBN: 9780367251024
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Work, Labour and Cleaning: The Social Contexts of Outsourcing Housework

Work, Labour and Cleaning: The Social Contexts of Outsourcing...

Author: Lotika Singha
ISBN: 9781529201468
Format: Hardback
$176.95

Outsourcing of domestic work in the UK has been steadily rising since the 1970s, but little research has considered...  Read More >>

Understanding Auctions

Understanding Auctions

Author: Srobonti Chattopadhyay ,  Rittwik Chatterjee
ISBN: 9781138575936
Format: Hardback
$110.00

The book elaborates the basic principles of Auction Theory. Auctions have gained popularity over other allocation...  Read More >>

The Future of Work, Technology, and Basic Income

The Future of Work, Technology, and Basic Income

Author: Michael Cholbi ,  Michael Weber
ISBN: 9781138316065
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book offers unique perspectives on the ever-changing nature of work and the plausibility of a universal basic...  Read More >>

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