Sociology: work & labour books

This volume considers the impact of public sector unions on the labour movement and their role in renewing labour...  Read More >>

A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what...  Read More >>

It is impossible to view the news at present without hearing talk of crisis: the economy, the climate, the pandemic....  Read More >>

This book provides a critical psychosocial analysis of legal practice, documenting a mental health crisis among...  Read More >>

Call center employees once blended skill and emotional intelligence to solve customer problems while the workplace...  Read More >>

This book provides a critical psychosocial analysis of legal practice, documenting a mental health crisis among...  Read More >>

Written with a core understanding of wellbeing and the different challenges and stresses on our mental health, this...  Read More >>

Industrial Relations and Health Services (1982) provides a comparative treatment of labour and industrial relations...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary collection addresses women's under-representation in science across Europe, focusing on physics...  Read More >>

Delve into the landscape of the informal economy with the Routledge Handbook of Informal Economy, a groundbreaking...  Read More >>

Critiques presented here in defence of development address not only racism and the industrial reserve, but also...  Read More >>

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This book attempts to show the “environmental” struggles of the Landless Movement, which prefigure a new way of...  Read More >>

How the CIA used American unions to undermine workers at home and subvert democracy abroad  Read More >>

The gold standard of American labor history references, updated to include the latest political, social, and economic...  Read More >>

When thinking about the work of caring for others we often neglect the human cost born by those performing this...  Read More >>

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Breathing fresh life into...  Read More >>

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Originally published in 1976, the 14 papers in this collection discuss the history and significance of the concept...  Read More >>

The 1921 founding congress of the Red International of Labour Unions brought together diverse forces, seeking to...  Read More >>

Dhobis of Delhi covers more than forty years of interactions with an 'untouchable' caste--the Dhobis (washermen...  Read More >>

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