Sociology: work & labour books

This book integrates botanical and linguistic data to analyze and interpret the history of grain legume domestication....  Read More >>

This book presents a new account of the significance and the human costs of work. A collaboration between experts...  Read More >>

This book brings together a range of authors that collectively...  Read More >>

Every fall, a new crop of college freshmen arrives on campuses eager to acquire skills that will prepare them for...  Read More >>

In Confronting Dystopia, a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological...  Read More >>

In Confronting Dystopia, a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological...  Read More >>

This book examines the development of ideas and practice surrounding employee voice and participation. It tracks...  Read More >>

This book examines the concept and practice of mentoring, as well as the wider scope and diversity of the mentoring...  Read More >>

Adopting an Evidence-Based Management (EBM) approach, this book provides the best evidence available on a wide range...  Read More >>

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This far-sighted volume describes emerging trends and challenges in university-level social sciences education in...  Read More >>

This edited collection explores building construction as an inspiring, yet often overlooked, place to develop new...  Read More >>

In his latest book, scholar-historian Murray G. Murphey exhaustively explores the life and theory of Thorstein Veblen...  Read More >>

This book addresses the question of how to achieve social coordination in Socio-Cognitive Technical Systems (SCTS)....  Read More >>

This book offers a rich ethnographic account of blue-collar workers’ everyday life in a central Russian industrial...  Read More >>

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Robert Cooper, who died in 2013, was the leading theorist of organization working in England over the past few decades....  Read More >>

This challenging new study examines gender and sexuality in relation to the ‘roving colonialism’ of sport mega-events....  Read More >>

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This book presents a new way of understanding organizational ethnography due to its strong emphasis on what the...  Read More >>

Aimed at scholarly researchers and academics in the field, this edited volume draws upon case-based research from...  Read More >>

This book traces how abstract managerial ideas about maximizing production flexibility and employee freedom were...  Read More >>

This book assesses CMS in fourteen countries and regions where it has a more or less extensive presence. Each chapter...  Read More >>

After the financial collapse of 2008 and the bailing out of banks in the US and the UK, the long-term viability...  Read More >>

This new handbook builds on The Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations published in 2007, and is...  Read More >>