Sociology: work & labour books

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Conscripted to Care: Women on the Frontlines of the COVID-19 Response

Conscripted to Care: Women on the Frontlines of the...

Author: Julia Smith
ISBN: 9780228018742
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Drawing on interviews and focus groups with nearly 200 women from a range of backgrounds and occupations – including...  Read More >>

Akademische Subjektivierung im Dispositiv neoliberaler Gouvernementalität

Akademische Subjektivierung im Dispositiv neoliberaler...

Author: Alexander Lenk
ISBN: 9783658427467
Format: Paperback
$131.97

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Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World

Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World...

Author: Michèle Lamont
ISBN: 9780241454633
Format: Hardback
$55.00

From internationally renowned sociologist Mich le Lamont, a game-changing argument about what we value and why How...  Read More >>

Universities and Academic Labour in Times of Digitalisation and Precarisation

Universities and Academic Labour in Times of Digitalisation...

Author: Thomas Allmer (Paderborn University, Germany)
ISBN: 9780367654948
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book provides a critical perspective on the digitalisation of universities and precarisation of academic labour....  Read More >>

The Value of Work since the 18th Century: Custom, Conflict, Measurement and Theory

The Value of Work since the 18th Century: Custom, Conflict,...

Author: Massimo Asta ,  Pedro Ramos Pinto
ISBN: 9781350332072
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Beginning in the 18th century, a turning point in labour history as work encountered an industrialising modernity,...  Read More >>

Figuren des Versagens: Poetik eines sozialen Urteils

Figuren des Versagens: Poetik eines sozialen Urteils...

Author: Nora Weinelt
ISBN: 9783111033020
Format: Hardback
$102.87

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Graduate Employability Across Contexts: Perspectives, Initiatives and Outcomes

Graduate Employability Across Contexts: Perspectives,...

Author: Tran Le Huu Nghia ,  Binh Chi Bui
ISBN: 9789811939617
Format: Paperback
$232.85

Based on empirical evidence, the authors develop a new graduate employability framework seeing it as a lifelong...  Read More >>

Expressions of High Status: A Comparative Synthesis

Expressions of High Status: A Comparative Synthesis...

Author: Jean-Pascal Daloz
ISBN: 9783031054037
Format: Paperback
$145.17

In two previous theoretical volumes on the topic (The Sociology of Elite Distinction and Rethinking Social Distinction)...  Read More >>

Workshops: Zu einer besonderen Form der Interaktion in Organisationen

Workshops: Zu einer besonderen Form der Interaktion...

Author: Mascha Nolte
ISBN: 9783658413330
Format: Paperback
$131.97

Die primär theoretischen Überlegungen sind dabei so angelegt, dass sich aus ihnen nützliche Reflexionsfragen für...  Read More >>

Consumer Policy from Below: Paradoxes, Perspectives, Problematizations

Consumer Policy from Below: Paradoxes, Perspectives,...

Author: Kai-Uwe Hellmann ,  Ansgar Klein
ISBN: 9783658424886
Format: Paperback
$237.57

Since its existence in the 1950s, consumer policy in Germany has been understood and pursued primarily as a bundle...  Read More >>

A Sociological Examination of the Gift Economy: Envisioning the Future

A Sociological Examination of the Gift Economy: Envisioning...

Author: Vjeran Katunarić (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
ISBN: 9781804551189
Format: Hardback
$172.99

On the whole, this book presents gift-giving as an intuitive path toward a viable economy, society, and culture...  Read More >>

These Potatoes Look Like Humans: The contested future of land, home and death in South Africa

These Potatoes Look Like Humans: The contested future...

Author: Mbuso Nkosi
ISBN: 9781776148400
Format: Paperback
$43.96

Offers a unique understanding of the intersection between land, labour, dispossession and violence experienced by...  Read More >>

Soziale Innovationen in und von Organisationen: Sozialwissenschaftliche Studien zur Transformation von Organisation

Soziale Innovationen in und von Organisationen: Sozialwissenschaftliche...

Author: Andreas Schröer ,  Birgit Blättel-Mink
ISBN: 9783658406943
Format: Paperback
$197.97

Soziale Innovationen in, von und durch Organisationen lassen sich aktuell vor allem vor dem Hintergrund von Ökologisierung...  Read More >>

The Symmetrical Family: A Study of Work and Leisure in the London Region

The Symmetrical Family: A Study of Work and Leisure...

Author: Michael Young ,  Peter Willmott
ISBN: 9781032573021
Format: Hardback
$252.00

First published in 1973, The Symmetrical Family combines evidence about the family of the past with information...  Read More >>

Restorative Practice at Work: Six habits for improving relationships in healthcare settings

Restorative Practice at Work: Six habits for improving...

Author: Lesley Parkinson
ISBN: 9781785836893
Format: Paperback
$49.99

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Invisible Migrant Nightworkers in 24/7 London

Invisible Migrant Nightworkers in 24/7 London

Author: Julius-Cezar MacQuarie
ISBN: 9783031361852
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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Perception of Family and Work in Low-Fertility East Asia

Perception of Family and Work in Low-Fertility East...

Author: Junji Kageyama ,  Eriko Teramura
ISBN: 9789819938582
Format: Paperback
$131.97

This book is the first of its kind to incorporate subjective well-being (SWB) data to comprehensively explore perceptional...  Read More >>

Organisierte Grenzrollen: Außendienst und Publikumskontakte in soziologischer Perspektive

Organisierte Grenzrollen: Außendienst und Publikumskontakte...

Author: André Kieserling ,  Martin Weißmann
ISBN: 9783658405960
Format: Paperback
$211.17

Die Beiträge dieses Bandes sind in der einen oder anderen Weise von zwei Begriffen aus dem Arsenal der soziologischen...  Read More >>

Three Decades of Polish Socio-Economic Transformations: Geographical Perspectives

Three Decades of Polish Socio-Economic Transformations:...

Author: Paweł Churski ,  Tomasz Kaczmarek
ISBN: 9783031061103
Format: Paperback
$290.37

The analysis covers the key aspects of this transformation, illustrated with references to the concepts and theories...  Read More >>

Cultural Work and Creative Subjectivity: Recentralising the Artist Critique and Social Networks in the Cultural Industries

Cultural Work and Creative Subjectivity: Recentralising...

Author: Xin Gu
ISBN: 9780367771195
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book critically investigates the declining status of creative workers in contemporary societies following changes...  Read More >>

Stevenage Ltd: Aspects of the Planning and Politics of Stevenage New Town 1945-78

Stevenage Ltd: Aspects of the Planning and Politics...

Author: Robert Mullan
ISBN: 9781032229010
Format: Paperback
$62.99

A study of particular aspects of the politics of planning a new town, this book, first published in 1980, covers...  Read More >>

Syrian Refugees and Agriculture in Turkey: Work, Precarity, Survival

Syrian Refugees and Agriculture in Turkey: Work, Precarity,...

Author: Saniye Dedeoglu (Mugla University, Turkey)
ISBN: 9780755646548
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Turkey is home to the largest Syrian refugee community in the world and the agricultural industry offers work opportunities...  Read More >>

Punishing Workers, Managing Labour: Volume 31

Punishing Workers, Managing Labour: Volume 31

Author: Christian de Vito ,  Adam Fagbore
ISBN: 9781009421348
Format: Paperback
$51.72

This volume addresses the historical role of punishment in the management of labour, examining a variety of cases...  Read More >>

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