Sociology: work & labour books

This book explores how the labour and leisure lives of people in contemporary rural China have been structured and...  Read More >>

Is that promise betrayed by the realities of pathways into creative work, or does a creative identification offer...  Read More >>

A large proportion of informal employment (86 per cent) is self-employment and this category of employment has been...  Read More >>

In der Studie wird die Mehrdimensionalität der Wanderungsbewegungen in einem transnationalen Raum analysiert, die...  Read More >>

Argues that the changing world of work cannot be divorced from several overlapping power dynamics that have resonance...  Read More >>

A dive into the tumultuous protests in Hong Kong that are forming the identity of a generation  Read More >>

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Die Widersprüche und Pathologien werden unmittelbar sichtbar und insbesondere die gesellschaftsprägende Kraft der...  Read More >>

What are the grand dynamics that drive the history of economies? The laws of supply & demand, most economists would...  Read More >>

This open access book investigates how trade unions representing different social classes use YouTube videos for...  Read More >>

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Originally published in 1978 The Origins of British Social Policy stresses the complexity of conscious and unconscious...  Read More >>

Puts the reader on the ground in frenetic urban Kingston, the capital and largest city in Jamaica. Winnifred Brown-Glaude...  Read More >>

Gerda Kuiper here interprets the work on the farms as ‘agro-industrial labour’: a labour system characterized by...  Read More >>

Drawing on multi-disciplinary analyses by 37 researchers, the book presents an integrative assessment of the characteristics...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the core problems of occupational health, safety and well-being of workers in the informal...  Read More >>

Providing an ethnographic account of the everyday life of a household of artisans in the Telangana state of southern...  Read More >>

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Today’s complexity, speed, and need for adaptation are putting organizations under stress. Understanding how organizations...  Read More >>

This book presents the first published account in English of Sverre Lysgaard's theory of the ‘worker collectivity’...  Read More >>

In the context of ageing populations, increasing participation of women in the labour market, growing marketisation...  Read More >>

This proceedings volume examines the impact of ethics on business and entrepreneurship predominantly from the Romanian...  Read More >>

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