Sociology: work and labour Books
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Gendered Talk at Work
Book SynopsisGendered Talk at Work examines how women and men negotiate their gender identities as well as their professional roles in everyday workplace communication. written accessibly by one of the field's foremost researchers explores the ways in which gender contributes to the interpretation of meaning in workplace interaction uses original and insightfully analyzed data to focus on the ways in which both women and men draw on gendered discourse resources to enact a range of workplace roles illustrates how a qualitative analysis of workplace discourse can throw light on the many ways in which workplace discourse provides a resource for constructing gender identity as one component of our complex socio-cultural identity Trade Review"Gendered Talk at Work offers rich empirical texture to support subtle and careful analysis of gender in workplace talk. Janet Holmes’s highly readable yet theoretically sophisticated book will be required reading not just for sociolinguists but for everyone interested in promoting gender equity in employment." Sally McConnell-Ginet, Cornell University "A particular strength of this book is its accessibility to non-linguists: it will assist women and men in the workplace to gain a more sophisticated understanding of how gender interacts with power in producing different ways of speaking." Anne Pauwels, The University of Western Australia "Janet Holmes’s account of gender and workplace discourse represents sociolinguistic scholarship at its best. Her detailed and wide-ranging analysis of language in interaction provides unique insights into the linguistic culture of the workplace and challenges stereotypical conceptions of gendered speaking styles – an invaluable resource." Joan Swann, The Open University "Holmes's text is a well-written accessible book that not only gives the reader an understanding of much of the work on gendered workplace talk but advances with equal clarity into Holmes's own subtle and nuanced additions to the field." Discourse & CommunicationTable of ContentsList of Figures. Acknowledgements. 1. The role of gender in workplace talk. 2. Gender and leadership talk at work. 3. Relational practice – not just women’s work. 4. Humour in the workplace – not just men’s play. 5. Contest, challenge and complaint - gendered discourse?. 6. Women and men telling stories at work. 7. Giving women the last word. Appendix: Transcription Conventions. References. Index.
£82.76
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Gendered Talk at Work
Book SynopsisGendered Talk at Work examines how women and men negotiate their gender identities as well as their professional roles in everyday workplace communication. written accessibly by one of the field's foremost researchers explores the ways in which gender contributes to the interpretation of meaning in workplace interaction uses original and insightfully analyzed data to focus on the ways in which both women and men draw on gendered discourse resources to enact a range of workplace roles illustrates how a qualitative analysis of workplace discourse can throw light on the many ways in which workplace discourse provides a resource for constructing gender identity as one component of our complex socio-cultural identity Trade Review"Gendered Talk at Work offers rich empirical texture to support subtle and careful analysis of gender in workplace talk. Janet Holmes’s highly readable yet theoretically sophisticated book will be required reading not just for sociolinguists but for everyone interested in promoting gender equity in employment." Sally McConnell-Ginet, Cornell University "A particular strength of this book is its accessibility to non-linguists: it will assist women and men in the workplace to gain a more sophisticated understanding of how gender interacts with power in producing different ways of speaking." Anne Pauwels, The University of Western Australia "Janet Holmes’s account of gender and workplace discourse represents sociolinguistic scholarship at its best. Her detailed and wide-ranging analysis of language in interaction provides unique insights into the linguistic culture of the workplace and challenges stereotypical conceptions of gendered speaking styles – an invaluable resource." Joan Swann, The Open University "Holmes's text is a well-written accessible book that not only gives the reader an understanding of much of the work on gendered workplace talk but advances with equal clarity into Holmes's own subtle and nuanced additions to the field." Discourse & CommunicationTable of ContentsList of Figures. Acknowledgements. 1. The role of gender in workplace talk. 2. Gender and leadership talk at work. 3. Relational practice – not just women’s work. 4. Humour in the workplace – not just men’s play. 5. Contest, challenge and complaint - gendered discourse?. 6. Women and men telling stories at work. 7. Giving women the last word. Appendix: Transcription Conventions. References. Index.
£36.05
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Working Bodies
Book SynopsisThrough a series of case studies of low-status interactive and embodied servicing work, Working Bodies examines the theoretical and empirical nature of the shift to embodied work in service-dominated economies.Trade Review"Nevertheless, the book is accessibly written, and the variety of themes it explores will ensure it has broad appeal among undergraduates and postgraduates studying social division, gender, service work, labour relations and their relationships. The book also provides academics working in and across the disciplines of sociology and human geography with a good overview of research into interactive work and its implications in contemporary society." (Work, Employment & Society, 25 March 2011) "Between the covers of this beautifully crafted book is a thoughtful, innovative, and thorough analysis of high-touch interactive service work that draws on numerous case studies and ethnographies, mostly from the United Kingdom, and on the author's own original research. . . . This ambitious book is insightful and informative, and it makes a valuable contribution to the study of work in contemporary capitalist societies". (Canadian Journal of Sociology, 2010)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vi Series Editors’ Preface vii Preface and Acknowledgements viii 1 Service Employment and the Commoditization of the Body 1 Part I Locating Service Work 23 2 The Rise of the Service Economy 25 3 Thinking Through Embodiment: Explaining Interactive Service Employment 49 Part II High-Touch Servicing Work in Private and Public Spaces 77 4 Up Close and Personal: Intimate Work in the Home 79 5 Selling Bodies I: Sex Work 101 6 Selling Bodies II: Masculine Strength and Licensed Violence 129 Part III High-Touch Servicing Work in Specialist Spaces 159 7 Bodies in Sickness and in Health: Care Work and Beauty Work 161 8 Warm Bodies: Doing Deference in Routine Interactive Work 191 9 Conclusions: Bodies in Place 212 References 229 Index 256
£54.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Working Bodies
Book SynopsisThrough a series of case studies oflow-status interactive and embodied servicing work, Working Bodies examines the theoretical and empirical nature of the shift to embodied work in service-dominated economies. Defines body work' to include the work by service sector employees on their own bodies and on the bodies of others Sets UK case studies in the context of global patterns of economic change Explores the consequences of growing polarization in the service sector Draws on geography, sociology, anthropology, labour market studies, and feminist scholarship Trade Review"Nevertheless, the book is accessibly written, and the variety of themes it explores will ensure it has broad appeal among undergraduates and postgraduates studying social division, gender, service work, labour relations and their relationships. The book also provides academics working in and across the disciplines of sociology and human geography with a good overview of research into interactive work and its implications in contemporary society." (Work, Employment & Society, 25 March 2011) "Between the covers of this beautifully crafted book is a thoughtful, innovative, and thorough analysis of high-touch interactive service work that draws on numerous case studies and ethnographies, mostly from the United Kingdom, and on the author's own original research. . . . This ambitious book is insightful and informative, and it makes a valuable contribution to the study of work in contemporary capitalist societies". (Canadian Journal of Sociology, 2010)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vi Series Editors’ Preface vii Preface and Acknowledgements viii 1 Service Employment and the Commoditization of the Body 1 Part I Locating Service Work 23 2 The Rise of the Service Economy 25 3 Thinking Through Embodiment: Explaining Interactive Service Employment 49 Part II High-Touch Servicing Work in Private and Public Spaces 77 4 Up Close and Personal: Intimate Work in the Home 79 5 Selling Bodies I: Sex Work 101 6 Selling Bodies II: Masculine Strength and Licensed Violence 129 Part III High-Touch Servicing Work in Specialist Spaces 159 7 Bodies in Sickness and in Health: Care Work and Beauty Work 161 8 Warm Bodies: Doing Deference in Routine Interactive Work 191 9 Conclusions: Bodies in Place 212 References 229 Index 256
£18.99
Johns Hopkins University Press The Working People of Paris 18711914
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1984. In The Working People of Paris, 18711914, Lenard Berlanstein examines how technological advances, expanding industrialization, bureaucratization, and urban growth affected the lives of the working poor and near poor of one of the world's most influential cities during an era of intense social and cultural change. Berlanstein departs from other historians of the working classes in treating, in a parallel manner, not only craftsmen and factory laborers but also service workers and lower-level white-collar employees. Avoiding the fallacy of letting the city limits set the boundaries of an urban study, he deals also with the industrial suburbs, with their considerable concentration of workers, to examine the transformation of the work, leisure, and consumer experiences of the people who did not own property and who lived from one payday to the next during the Second Industrial Revolution. The Working People of Paris describes a cycle of adaptation and resistTable of ContentsList of Tables and FiguresPrefaceChapter 1. The Working PopulationChapter 2. Material ConditionsChapter 3.The Work ExperienceChapter 4. Off-the-Job LifeChapter 5. Politics and ProtestChpater 6. ConclusionAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex
£35.10
Temple University Press,U.S. Cheaper by the Hour
Book SynopsisHow attorneys' work is deprofessionalized, downgraded, and controlled through part-time and temporary assignmentsTrade Review"Law schools paint bright illusions of their graduates’ earnings potential. This book is the reality. Nowhere near courtrooms or plush offices labor an exploited, minimally paid underclass of lawyers in a Dickens-meets-Dilbert world of 'document review,' in which professionals with advanced degrees live tenuous existences sorting documents into categories, work that ninth graders could accomplish and with nothing lawyerly about it.... Brooks presents a firsthand account of his own experiences and interviews coworkers in these dead-end jobs with no benefits, no chance for promotion, and no possibility to even act as a lawyer. It’s a scary world showing that nobody has any security. VERDICT Would-be law students must read this look at the profession’s dark underbelly... this is essential for law school libraries and a good purchase for comprehensive labor collections and large public library systems, as well." —Library Journal Table of ContentsContentsPreface 1. Degraded and Insecure: The “New” Workforce 2. “Basically Interchangeable”: The Creation of the Temporary Lawyer 3. Life on the Concourse Level: Doing Document Review 4. Box Shopping in “Nike Town”: Struggles over Work 5. “Keeping Count of Every Freakin’ Minute”: Struggles over Time 6. “A Glorified Data Entry Person”: Struggles over Identity 7. “I Would Rather Grow in India”: The Emerging Legal Underclass Appendix A: Document Review Project Summary Appendix B: The Questionnaire Appendix C: The Attorneys References Index
£49.50
Temple University Press,U.S. Strategizing against Sweatshops
Book SynopsisFor the past few decades, the U.S. anti-sweatshop movement was bolstered by actions from American college students. United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) effectively advanced the cause of workers' rights in sweatshops around the world. Strategizing against Sweatshops chronicles the evolution of student activism and presents an innovative model of how college campuses are a critical site for the advancement of global social justice.Matthew Williams shows how USAS targeted apparel companies outsourcing production to sweatshop factories with weak or non-existent unions. USAS did so by developing a campaign that would support workers organizing by leveraging their college's partnerships with global apparel firms like Nike and Adidas to abide by pro-labor codes of conduct.Strategizing against Sweatshops exemplifies how organizations and actors cooperate across a movement to formulate a coherent strategy responsive to the conditions in their social environment. Williams also provides a m
£73.80
Temple University Press,U.S. Strategizing against Sweatshops
Book Synopsis For the past few decades, the U.S. anti-sweatshop movement was bolstered by actions from American college students. United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) effectively advanced the cause of workers’ rights in sweatshops around the world. Strategizing against Sweatshops chronicles the evolution of student activism and presents an innovative model of how college campuses are a critical site for the advancement of global social justice. Matthew Williams shows how USAS targeted apparel companies outsourcing production to sweatshop factories with weak or non-existent unions. USAS did so by developing a campaign that would support workers organizing by leveraging their college’s partnerships with global apparel firms like Nike and Adidas to abide by pro-labor codes of conduct. Strategizing against Sweatshops exemplifies how organizations and actors cooperate across a movement to formulate a coherent strategy responsive to the conditions in theiTrade Review"Williams’s study of the anti- sweatshop movement from the mid-1990s to the late 2000s traces how haphazard student efforts to empower sweated laborers evolved into a coordinated project with international reach. His interviews with anti-sweatshop activists and his history of the movement also raise the sobering question of how to build solidarity in a world of 'neoliberal globalization.'... Williams does a solid job of incorporating his interviews into a broader historical and analytical narrative of the U.S. anti-sweatshop movement."—Contemporary Sociology"A well-documented and welcome addition to the literature on transnational labor activism and organizational processes and, as an engaging case study of U.S. student organizing, would fit well into an undergraduate course on social movements…. The book provides important insights into an understudied dimension of the global antisweatshop movement and will be of interest not only to scholars in the field but to student activists as well."—American Journal of Sociology"Strategizing against Sweatshops impressively details the connections between college campus activists in the United States and apparel workers around the world in a sustained movement of transnational solidarity. Scholars of student activism and social movements will benefit from Williams’s analysis of the precise mechanisms used to exert power globally in an era of neoliberal policies and race-to-the-bottom corporate labor practices. While their successes have been limited, the USAS [United Students Against Sweatshops] provides a helpful case study to explore transnational strategies for rebuilding workers’ rights."—Teachers College Record"[A] detailed study of how university students rose up against the exploitation of workers in the global garment industry…. Williams delivers valuable understanding into the decision-making process of social movements committed to labor issues.”—Labor History"Williams’ interviews bring the messy, dynamic process of movement strategizing to life.... [T]hey offer insightful insider analysis into their campaigns, what did and did not work, and how they responded to new challenges. This is the core of the book, and its greatest strength.... [A]n expertly done, in-depth study of a movement that managed to thrive and survive in an exceptionally challenging period for progressive social movements."—Social Forces"[A]n insightful analysis of a U.S. college student organization.... Strategizing Against Sweatshops represents a sophisticated yet highly readable account of student activism—a book that should interest seasoned scholars and student activists alike. Indeed, by taking students seriously as agents of social change, the book has the potential to inspire future students who are looking for insights on how to bring about important changes on their campuses and in the wider society."—Work and Occupations
£25.19
University of Toronto Press Beyond Caring Labour to Provisioning Work
Book SynopsisAlthough women have long been members of the labour force, the proportion of domestic, caring, and community work they provide compared to men or the state has yet to decrease substantially. Beyond Caring Labour to Provisioning Work offers a powerful new framework for understanding women's work in a holistic sense, acknowledging both their responsibilities in supporting others as well as their employment duties.Beyond Caring Labour to Provisioning Work is based on a four-year, multi-site study of women who are members of contemporary community organizations. The authors reveal the complex ways in which these women define and value their own work, investigating what supports and constrains their individual and collective efforts. Calling on the state to assist more with citizens' provisioning responsibilities, Beyond Caring Labour to Provisioning Work provides an excellent basis for new discussions on equitable and sustainable public policies.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Preface Chapter 1 An Introduction: Conceptialising the Work of WOmen in the 21st Century Chapter 2 Securing the Future by Positioning the Past in the Present Section A Chapter 3 Provisioning Responsibilities of Women: Relationships Shape the Work Chapter 4 Collective Provisioning: Naming the Work of Vital Spaces Section B Chapter 5 Producing Racial Knowledge in Community Programmes for 'At Risk' Young Women Chapter 6 Provisioning for Children in a Low Income Community Chapter 7 Revealing Older Women's Provisioning Responsibilities Chapter 8 Counting the Costs of Provisioning for Women Living on Low Incomes Section C Chapter 9 Collective Spaces as Incubators of Citizenship Chapter 10 A Sharing of Life's Glories Appendix 1 References Index
£46.80
Bristol University Press The Immigrant War
Book SynopsisIn this original, accessible book, Vittorio Longhi uses a global perspective to highlight the 'immigrant war and struggle for human rights, citizenship and equality', despite a policy vacuum towards immigration among governments of developed states.Trade Review"A good introduction to the subject of global migration....succinct and compelling" Migrants' rights network"The immigrant war is one of the most insightful books ever written on global migration patterns and their consequences from a humane perspective. A must read." Devendra Dhungana, UNDP's Livelihood Recovery for Peace Project"The breadth of research and the comparative approach makes [The immigrant war] a valuable document. Longhi makes a convincing case that the labour conditions of all workers cannot be improved without understanding and addressing the problems faced by migrant workers. The Immigrant War adds greatly to our understanding of those problems." Counterfire"Here is a book which truly takes forward the struggle for social justice. Vittorio Longhi's comprehensive and vivid study reveals a growing international movement that gets negligible coverage in the mainstream press but yet which requires a radical rethink of dominant approaches to immigration, development and democracy. 'The immigrant war' introduces us to a new generation of migrants who will shape the world in aftermath of neo-liberalism." Hilary Wainwright, Transnational Institute, and co-editor of Red Pepper"Longhi expertly combines scholarly analysis with sharp reporting, drawing on his detailed knowledge of the global labour movement and trade unionist activism. The material is admirably well-organized and well-assembled. I know of no other book like this." Matt Carr, journalist"An extraordinary account in its up-front questioning of how our states and societies construct the immigrant and erase the memory of our own migrant origins. This book shows us how laws have become blunt instruments for bland evasions of our obligations." Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Territory, Authority, Rights"Inspiring... Longhi is an eloquent advocate." TruthOutTable of ContentsIntroduction: The war against immigrants; In the Persian Gulf; In the United States; In France; In Italy; Rethinking migration.
£20.89
Bristol University Press The Immigrant War
Book SynopsisIn this original, accessible book, Vittorio Longhi uses a global perspective to highlight the 'immigrant war and struggle for human rights, citizenship and equality', despite a policy vacuum towards immigration among governments of developed states.Trade Review"An extraordinary account in its up-front questioning of how our states and societies construct the immigrant and erase the memory of our own migrant origins. This book shows us how laws have become blunt instruments for bland evasions of our obligations." Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Territory, Authority, Rights"Longhi expertly combines scholarly analysis with sharp reporting, drawing on his detailed knowledge of the global labour movement and trade unionist activism. The material is admirably well-organized and well-assembled. I know of no other book like this." Matt Carr, journalist"Here is a book which truly takes forward the struggle for social justice. Vittorio Longhi's comprehensive and vivid study reveals a growing international movement that gets negligible coverage in the mainstream press but yet which requires a radical rethink of dominant approaches to immigration, development and democracy. 'The immigrant war' introduces us to a new generation of migrants who will shape the world in aftermath of neo-liberalism." Hilary Wainwright, Transnational Institute, and co-editor of Red Pepper"The Immigrant War is one of the most insightful books ever written on global migration patterns and their consequences from a humane perspective. A must read by International journalist Vittorio Longhi." Devendra Dhungana, Facebook commentTable of ContentsIntroduction: The war against immigrants; In the Persian Gulf; In the United States; In France; In Italy; Rethinking migration.
£13.99
Bristol University Press Disabled People Work and Welfare
Book SynopsisEPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Led by the disability movement's concern with the employment choices faced by disabled people, this controversial book uses sociological and philosophical approaches, as well as international examples, to critically engage with possible alternatives to paid work for disabled people.Trade Review"Grover and Piggott offer a compelling challenge to those who view paid work as the only route out of poverty for disabled people. Their book should be essential reading for scholars of disability studies and social policy, and for policy makers interested in supporting disabled people." Colin Lindsay, University of StrathclydeTable of ContentsDisabled people, work and welfare ~ Chris Grover and Linda Piggott; Part One: Changing constructions of disability and welfare; Disabled people, conditionality and a civic minimum in Britain: reflections from qualitative research ~ Ruth Patrick and Deborah Fenney; Doing the 'hard yakka': implications of Australia's workfare policies for disabled people ~ Alan Morris, Shaun Wilson and Karen Soldatic; Part Two: Social policy, work and disabled people; Why are the policies and organisations seeking to help disabled people access work failing? ~ Bruce Stafford; Disabled people, welfare reform and the balance of rights and responsibilities ~ Dan Heap; Disabled people and employment in Poland ~ Monika Struck-Peregończyk; Disability and employment in the United States: the intersection of healthcare reform and welfare-to-work policy ~ Randall Owen, Robert Gould and Sarah Parker Harris; Social dialouge, partnership and the Danish model of activation of disabled people: challenges and possiblities in the face of austerity ~ David Etherington and Jo Ingold; Part Three: Assistance and access to paid work; Employment experiences and outcomes of young people in Scotland who are deaf or hard of hearing: intersections of deafness and social class ~ Mariela Fordyce and Sheila Riddell; Supply- and demand-side policies and the employment of learning disabled people in Britain ~ Sarah Woodin; How can integrated services help sick and disabled people remain in employment? Findings from an evaluation of an in-work support service in the North of England ~ Jon Warren, Kayleigh Garthwaite and Clare Bambra; Part Four: Alternatives to, and validated lives beyond, paid work; Thinking differently about 'work' and social inclusion for disabled people ~ Edward Hall and Robert Wilton; A right not to work and disabled people ~ Chris Grover and Linda Piggott; Disability, work and welfare: the disappearance of the polymorphic productive landscape ~ Alan Roulstone; Part Five: Conclusion; Themes in Disabled people, work and welfare ~ Chris Grover and Linda Piggott.
£29.44
Bristol University Press Living on the Margins
Book SynopsisLiving on the margins offers a unique insight into the working lives of undocumented (or `irregular') migrants living in London, and their employers. It offers an international context to the research and provides theoretical, policy and empirical analyses.Trade Review"Alice Bloch and Sonia McKay not only show the challenges faced by those living without documentation, but also explore current legislation and policies that are shaping these experiences." LSE Review of Books"Bloch and McKay provide a thorough-going account of...the undocumented migrant." Chartist"A very welcome contribution in a context where immigrants are seen as scapegoats for unemployment and weakening social cohesion." Asian and Pacific Migration Journal"This is a fascinating and accessible account of the everyday lives of undocumented migrants. Drawing on high quality empirical research it provides a compelling narrative of their experiences and how they navigate the pressures of living on the margins of society." John Solomos, University of Warwick"Based on lengthy interviews with workers and employers from China, Turkey, and Bangladesh, the book documents in tragic detail the penalties of 'illegality' for undocumented migrants living and working in London during an era of global economic downturn. Essential and timely." Jacqueline Maria Hagan, University of North Carolina, USATable of ContentsIntroduction; Policy, law and rights; Migration: Motives, journey and status mobility; Undocumented migrants living and working in London; Ethnic enclave entrepreneurs; Social networks and social lives; The consequences of being undocumented; Grasping life on the margins.
£75.99
Bristol University Press Living on the Margins
Book SynopsisLiving on the margins offers a unique insight into the working lives of undocumented (or `irregular') migrants living in London, and their employers. It offers an international context to the research and provides theoretical, policy and empirical analyses.Trade Review"Alice Bloch and Sonia McKay not only show the challenges faced by those living without documentation, but also explore current legislation and policies that are shaping these experiences." LSE Review of Books"Bloch and McKay provide a thorough-going account of...the undocumented migrant." Chartist"A very welcome contribution in a context where immigrants are seen as scapegoats for unemployment and weakening social cohesion." Asian and Pacific Migration Journal"This is a fascinating and accessible account of the everyday lives of undocumented migrants. Drawing on high quality empirical research it provides a compelling narrative of their experiences and how they navigate the pressures of living on the margins of society." John Solomos, University of Warwick"Based on lengthy interviews with workers and employers from China, Turkey, and Bangladesh, the book documents in tragic detail the penalties of 'illegality' for undocumented migrants living and working in London during an era of global economic downturn. Essential and timely." Jacqueline Maria Hagan, University of North Carolina, USATable of ContentsIntroduction; Policy, law and rights; Migration: Motives, journey and status mobility; Undocumented migrants living and working in London; Ethnic enclave entrepreneurs; Social networks and social lives; The consequences of being undocumented; Grasping life on the margins.
£26.59
Policy Press Labour exploitation and workbased harm
Book SynopsisThis book provides a critical understanding of contemporary forced labour as a global social problem and argues that it should be located within the broader study of work-based harm.Trade Review"A cogent and compelling framework for identifying and tackling the systematic embeddedness of workplace exploitation." Mick Wilkinson, University of HullTable of ContentsIntroduction The labour exploitation continuum Lessons of history Direct workplace controls Indirect workplace controls Exogenous controls Navigating the edges of acceptability Preventing exploitation and harm Conclusions
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Policy Press Gender Ageing and Extended Working Life
Book SynopsisA challenge to the assumption that there is appropriate employment available for people who are expected to retire later and the gender-neutral way the expectation for extending working lives is presented in most policy-making circles.Trade Review"A compelling and much-needed analysis of the different challenges facing older women and men, as pressures to extend working lives intensify." David Lain, Brighton Business School"The 11 contributions challenge widely accepted assumptions about later-life work and retirement by grounding their reflections in empirical evidence from a range of national and international sources… Overall, this book offers a welcome, evidence-based perspective on extended working lives in which the arguments are inspired by rich empirical data.” Ageing and SocietyTable of ContentsPART ONE: Gendering later life work: Empirical, theoretical and policy issues The empirical landscape of extended working lives ~ Debra Street Theoretical and conceptual issues in the extending working lives agenda ~ Clary Krekula and Sarah Vickerstaff Gender perspectives on extended working life policies ~ Áine Ní Léime and Wendy Loretto PART TWO: Extended working life in seven OECD countries The Australian empirical landscape of extended working lives: a gender perspective ~ Elizabeth Brooke Extended working lives in Germany from a gender and life-course perspective: a country in policy transition ~ Anna Hokema Extended working life, gender and precarious work in Ireland ~ Áine Ní Léime, Nata Duvvury and Caroline Finn Ageing and older workers in Portugal: a gender-sensitive approach ~ Sara Falcão Casaca and Heloísa Perista Sweden: an extended working life policy that overlooks gender considerations ~ Clary Krekula, Lars-Gunnar Engström and Aida Alvinius The United Kingdom - a new moral imperative: live longer, work longer ~ Sarah Vickerstaff and Wendy Loretto Is 70 the new 60? Extending American women’s and men’s working lives ~ Debra Street and Joanne Tompkins PART THREE: Conclusion Gendered and extended work: research and policy needs for work in later life ~ Sarah Vickerstaff, Debra Street, Áine Ní Léime and Clary Krekula
£77.39
Policy Press Gender Ageing and Extended Working Life
Book SynopsisA challenge to the assumption that there is appropriate employment available for people who are expected to retire later and the gender-neutral way the expectation for extending working lives is presented in most policy-making circles.Trade Review"The 11 contributions challenge widely accepted assumptions about later-life work and retirement by grounding their reflections in empirical evidence from a range of national and international sources… Overall, this book offers a welcome, evidence-based perspective on extended working lives in which the arguments are inspired by rich empirical data.” Ageing and Society"A compelling and much-needed analysis of the different challenges facing older women and men, as pressures to extend working lives intensify." David Lain, Brighton Business SchoolTable of ContentsPART ONE: Gendering later life work: Empirical, theoretical and policy issues The empirical landscape of extended working lives ~ Debra Street Theoretical and conceptual issues in the extending working lives agenda ~ Clary Krekula and Sarah Vickerstaff Gender perspectives on extended working life policies ~ Áine Ní Léime and Wendy Loretto PART TWO: Extended working life in seven OECD countries The Australian empirical landscape of extended working lives: a gender perspective ~ Elizabeth Brooke Extended working lives in Germany from a gender and life-course perspective: a country in policy transition ~ Anna Hokema Extended working life, gender and precarious work in Ireland ~ Áine Ní Léime, Nata Duvvury and Caroline Finn Ageing and older workers in Portugal: a gender-sensitive approach ~ Sara Falcão Casaca and Heloísa Perista Sweden: an extended working life policy that overlooks gender considerations ~ Clary Krekula, Lars-Gunnar Engström and Aida Alvinius The United Kingdom - a new moral imperative: live longer, work longer ~ Sarah Vickerstaff and Wendy Loretto Is 70 the new 60? Extending American women’s and men’s working lives ~ Debra Street and Joanne Tompkins PART THREE: Conclusion Gendered and extended work: research and policy needs for work in later life ~ Sarah Vickerstaff, Debra Street, Áine Ní Léime and Clary Krekula
£27.54
Bristol University Press Work and Health in India
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary work connects the transformation of India's labour market with changes in health and health problems to offer an analysis that is unprecedented in scope and depth.Trade Review"Issues such as work-related stress and its impact on health are increasingly a concern for countries such as India. This book will help raise awareness, encourage further research and promote good practice." Aditya Jain, University of NottinghamTable of ContentsIntroduction: Work, stress and health in India ~ Martin Hyde, Holendro Singh Chungkham, Laishram Ladusingh Work, stress and health: Theories and models ~ Linda Magnusson-Hansson, Martin Hyde, Holendro Singh Chungkham & Hugo Westerlund Work environment, health and the international development agenda ~ Martin Hyde and Tores Theorell Employment trends in India: Some issues for investigation ~ A.V.Jose Rural-urban and gender differences in time spent in unpaid household work in India ~ Laishram Ladusingh Activity status, morbidity patterns and hospitalisation in India ~ Harihar Sahoo Occupational class and chronic diseases in India ~ Sanjay K. Mohanty and Anshul Kastor Stress and health among the Indian police ~ Vaijayanthee Kumar and T.J. Kamalanabhan Health status and lifestyle of the Oraon tea garden labourers of Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal ~ Subrata K. Roy and Tanaya Kundu Chowdhury The role of work-family support factors in helping individuals achieve work-family balance in India ~ Sarlaksha Ganesh and M.P.Ganesh Working conditions, health and well-being among the scavenger community ~ Vimal Kumar Lessons and future research directions from work environment research in India ~ Martin Hyde, Holendro Singh Chungkham, Laishram Ladusingh
£77.39
Bristol University Press Labour Market Policies in the Era of Pervasive
Book SynopsisThis edited volume investigates the changing patterns of labour market and unemployment policies in EU member states during the period since the politics of austerity took hold in 2010.Trade Review"This edited volume provides the most exhaustive and systematic analysis of labour market policy reforms in Western and Eastern European countries during and after the 2007-08 financial crisis" Tim Vlandas, Associate Professor in Comparative Political Economy, University of Reading"...the breadth and relevance of the topics addressed in the book will appeal to a range of audiences. It constitutes an up-to-date resource for researchers and advanced students of social policy with an interest in European countries" Social Policy & AdminstrationTable of ContentsLabour market policies in the era of European pervasive austerity: a review ~ Sotiria Theodoropoulou Structural reforms in Europe: a comparative overview ~ Chiara Agostini and David Natali Income support policies and labour market reforms under austerity in Greece ~ Manos Matsaganis The Italian labour market policy reforms and the economic crisis: coming towards the end of Italian exceptionalism? ~ Patrik Vesan and Emmanuele Pavolini French employment market policies: dualisation and destabilisation ~ Hélène Caune and Sotiria Theodoropoulou The German exception: welfare protectionism instead of retrenchment ~ Werner Eichhorst and Anke Hassel The Netherlands and the crisis: from activation to ‘deficiency compensation’ ~ Marcel Hoogenboom Dualising the Swedish model: Insiders and outsiders and labour market policy reform in Sweden: an overview ~ Johan Bo Davidsson No longer ‘fit for purpose’? Consolidation and catch-up in Irish labour market policy ~ Fiona Dukelow Retrenchment, conditionality and flexibility: UK labour market policies in the era of austerity ~ Elke Heins and Hayley Bennett Czechia: political experimentation or incremental reforms? ~ Tomáš Sirovátka Slovakia: perpetual austerity and growing emphasis on activation ~ Stefan Domonkos Slovenian labour market policies under austerity: narrowing the gap between the well- and the less well-protected in the labour market? ~ Miroljub Ignjatović and Maša Filipovič Hrast Conclusions ~ Sotiria Theodoropoulou
£77.39
Bristol University Press Welfare to Work in Contemporary European Welfare
Book SynopsisWith welfare to work programmes under intense scrutiny, this book ranges widely across Europe to review existing policies and explore future ones. It shows how many schemes do not adequately address social rights and lived experiences, and consider alternatives based on theories of non-domination.Table of ContentsWelfare to work, social justice and domination: an introduction to an interdisciplinary normative perspective on welfare policies ~ Anja Eleveld, Thomas Kampen and Josien Arts PART I: Legal perspectives Workfare’s persistent philosophical and legal issues: forced labour, reciprocity and a basic income guarantee ~ Amir Paz-Fuchs The right to work: a justification for welfare to work? ~ Elise Dermine Limitation of welfare to work: the prohibition of forced labour and the right to freely chosen work ~ Elise Dermine The duty to work as precondition for human dignity: a Swiss perspective on work programmes ~ Melanie Studer and Kurt Pärli The prohibition of forced labour and the right to freely chosen work: a comparison of Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK ~ Anja Eleveld, Neville Harris and Christian H. Schøler PART II: Sociological perspectives Implementing social justice within activation policies: the contribution of the capability approach ~ Jean-Michel Bonvin and Luca Perrig The silent expansion of welfare to work policies: how policies are enhanced through the use of categorizations, evidence-based knowledge and self-governance ~ Mathias H. Nielsen, Sophie Danneris and Niklas A. Andersen Questions of conduct and social justice: the ethics of welfare conditionality within UK social security ~ Peter Dwyer Pressing, repressing and accommodating: local modes of governing social assistance recipients in welfare to work programmes in the Netherlands ~ Josien Arts Left in limbo: social assistance recipients' evolving views on the fairness of workfare volunteerism ~ Thomas Kampen PART III: Philosophical perspectives Welfare to work and the republican theory of non-domination ~ Anja Eleveld Unconditional basic income and duties of contribution: exploring the republican ethos of justice ~ Simon Birnbaum Freedom, exit and basic income ~ Stuart White Conclusion: exit, voice and the minimization of domination in welfare to work relationships ~ Anja Eleveld
£77.39
Bristol University Press Dualisation of PartTime Work
Book SynopsisThis book brings together leading international authors from a number of fields to provide an up to date understanding of part-time work at national, sector, industry and workplace levels.Trade Review“This rich collection, with contributions from leading scholars, broadens our understanding of part-time work in contemporary labour markets. The study of the politics of part-time work - at different levels and in a wide range of countries and its consequences for the quality of work and work-life balance - offers an invaluable contribution to scholars and students in the field.” Anne Lise Ellingsæter, University of Oslo“This book provides a much-needed contemporary analysis of part-time work in an era of increasingly fragmented employment. It delivers new and important insights around the motivations for part-time work, job quality and regulation across different institutional contexts. Highly recommended.” Jim Arrowsmith, Massey Business School and University of WarwickTable of ContentsPart 1: Introduction; Dualization of part-time work - the new normal? ~ Heidi Nicolaisen, Hanne Kavli and Ragnhild Steen Jensen; Part 2: Institutional and organizational regulations of part-time work; Regulations and governance of part-time work at the European level ~ Sonia Bekker and Dalila Ghailani; So far, so close? Employment de-standardisation trends in Italy and Spain and their effects in gender equality ~ Lara Maestripieri and Margarita León; Dualist employer responses to national regulations – the case of the Norwegian health care industry ~ Hanne C. Kavli, Heidi Nicolaisen & Sissel Trygstad; Part 3: Work-family reconciliation policies and part-time work; Why do women work in ‘Minijobs’ in Germany? Explanation with supply and demand side factors ~ Birgit Pfau-Effinger and Thordis Reimer Part-time work strategies of working parents in the Netherlands and Australia ~ Mara A. Yerkes and Belinda Hewitt; How Does the South Korean Labor Market Marginalize Female Part-Time Workers? ~ Sophia Seung-yoon Lee and Min Young Song; Part 4: Working conditions; Good and Bad Part-Time Jobs in the United States ~ Kenneth Hudson and Arne L. Kalleberg; Part-time work and wage levels in private services - does gender matter ~ Trine P. Larsen, Anna Ilsøe and Jonas Felbo-Kolding; Part time working women’s access to other flexible work arrangements across Europe ~ Heejung Chung; Part 5: Part-time work and labour market mobility; Dualization or normalisation of part-time work in the Nordic countries: job quality and mobility over time ~ Kristine Nergaard and Juokko Nätti; Immigrant women in part-time employment – stepping in or stepping out? ~ Hanne C. Kavli and Roy Nilsen; Part 6: Conclusion; Conclusion ~ Heidi Nicolaisen, Hanne C. Kavli and Ragnhild Steen-Jensen.
£75.99
Bristol University Press The Flexibility Paradox
Book SynopsisThroughout the COVID-19 pandemic, flexible working has become the norm for many workers. This volume examines flexible working using data from 30 European countries and drawing on studies conducted in Australia, the US and IndiaTable of ContentsIntroduction: The flexibility paradox and contexts The demand for and trends in flexible working The dual nature of flexibility: Family-friendly or performance-oriented logic? The outcomes of flexible working The flexibility paradox: Why more freedom at work leads to more work The empirical evidence of the flexibility paradox Gendered flexibility paradox Flexibility stigma and the rewards of flexible working The importance of contexts COVID- 19 and flexible working Conclusion: Where do we go from here?
£76.00
Bristol University Press Hidden Voices
Book SynopsisWelfare states are a major feature of many societies. This book draws on qualitative interviews with people receiving various working age welfare payments in Ireland to analyse welfare conditionality and explore stigma, social reciprocity and the notions of the deserving and undeserving poor.Table of ContentsForeword by Fred Powell Introduction 1. Setting the Stage: The Development of the Irish Welfare State and its Place in the World of Welfare 2. Welfare, Marginality and Social Liminality: Life in the Welfare ‘Space’ 3. The Effect of the Work Ethic 4. Welfare Conditionality 5. Maintaining Compliance and Engaging in Impression Management 6. Deservingness: Othering, Self-Justification and the Norm of Reciprocity 7. Welfare is 'Bad' Bringing It All Together 8. COVID-19: Policy Responses and Lived Experiences Conclusion
£76.50
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina From Coveralls to Zoot Suits The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front
£25.60
University of Texas Press Engendering Revolution
Book SynopsisThe first in-depth study of the overlooked yet pivotal role played by maternalism, poor and working-class women's unpaid labor, and unequal gender power relations in propelling and sustaining Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution.Trade Review[A] well executed book…[Elfenbein] makes a strong case for why a gendered lens is indispensable to understanding Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution and politics more generally...Engendering Revolution is an exceptional contribution to our gendered understanding of revolutionary states. * Journal of Women, Politics & Policy *A rich and engaging history...Engendering Revolution adds a critical dimension to existing work on women and the Bolivarian revolution by addressing the burden of popular women’s unpaid work, the ways it buttressed the Bolivarian state, and what Elfenbein would describe as the continued reproduction of hegemonic gender roles in the revolutionary process...Engendering Revolution is revealing in its mapping of the history of women’s organizing and mobilization before and during the time of Chávez. Its thorough treatment of the subject and engagement with the gendered nature of the state, state power, and state-society relations remind the reader that gender relations are indeed power relations, and that women’s visibility and mobilization may not necessitate power. * The Latin Americanist *"[Elfenbein] offers a radical view of the Bolivarian revolution that has been unavailable in the past, as she not only makes women visible within the movement but portrays their socio-political and economic participation as being vital to the continuation of Chávez’s leadership...Engendering Revolution is a must-read for all scholars of gender relations, social reproduction, social movements and the state, as it makes an especially unique and powerful contribution to the discussion of the Bolivarian process in Venezuela. * Mobilization *A pioneering and in-depth study…In addition to being a broad, arduous, and rigorous research from a methodological point of view, Engendering Revolution provides sociological, ethnographic, and political results that, under a gender perspective, reveal in different ways the dynamics between the working class women and their organizations, but also the Bolivarian revolutionary state during the Chávez mandate...Elfenbein conducts a masterful extended case study with a methodology that she adapted in a creative manner to the social reality under study...this overwhelming book offers a new way of approaching the gender role and gender justice in Venezuela, a thorough research that seeks to find the essence of the dynamics of relations between the state and poor women and their organizations in that country. * Journal of Latin American Politics and Society *Table of Contents List of Tables and Images Acknowledgments Glossary of Abbreviations and Terms Introduction. The Unpaid Labor and Suffering of the Women Undergirding the Bolivarian Revolution Chapter 1. Out of the Margins: The Struggle for the Rights to State Recognition of Women’s Unpaid Housework and Social Security for Homemakers Chapter 2. Between Fruitless Legislative Initiatives and Executive Magic: Contestations over the Implementation of Homemakers’ Social Security Chapter 3. State Imaginations of Popular Motherhood within the Revolution: The Institutional Design of Madres del Barrio Mission Chapter 4. Regulating Motherhood in Madres del Barrio: Intensifying yet Disregarding the Unpaid Labor of the Mothers of the Bolivarian Revolution Chapter 5. In the Shadows of the Magical Revolutionary State: Popular Women’s Work Where the State Did Not Reach Chapter 6. Mobilized yet Contained within Chavista Populism: Popular Women’s Organizing around the 2012 Organic Labor Law Conclusion: Imagining a More Dignified Map for Popular Women’s Unpaid Labor and Power Notes References Index
£73.95
University of Texas Press Engendering Revolution
Book SynopsisThe first in-depth study of the overlooked yet pivotal role played by maternalism, poor and working-class women's unpaid labor, and unequal gender power relations in propelling and sustaining Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution.Trade Review[A] well executed book…[Elfenbein] makes a strong case for why a gendered lens is indispensable to understanding Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution and politics more generally...Engendering Revolution is an exceptional contribution to our gendered understanding of revolutionary states. * Journal of Women, Politics & Policy *A rich and engaging history...Engendering Revolution adds a critical dimension to existing work on women and the Bolivarian revolution by addressing the burden of popular women’s unpaid work, the ways it buttressed the Bolivarian state, and what Elfenbein would describe as the continued reproduction of hegemonic gender roles in the revolutionary process...Engendering Revolution is revealing in its mapping of the history of women’s organizing and mobilization before and during the time of Chávez. Its thorough treatment of the subject and engagement with the gendered nature of the state, state power, and state-society relations remind the reader that gender relations are indeed power relations, and that women’s visibility and mobilization may not necessitate power. * The Latin Americanist *"[Elfenbein] offers a radical view of the Bolivarian revolution that has been unavailable in the past, as she not only makes women visible within the movement but portrays their socio-political and economic participation as being vital to the continuation of Chávez’s leadership...Engendering Revolution is a must-read for all scholars of gender relations, social reproduction, social movements and the state, as it makes an especially unique and powerful contribution to the discussion of the Bolivarian process in Venezuela. * Mobilization *A pioneering and in-depth study…In addition to being a broad, arduous, and rigorous research from a methodological point of view, Engendering Revolution provides sociological, ethnographic, and political results that, under a gender perspective, reveal in different ways the dynamics between the working class women and their organizations, but also the Bolivarian revolutionary state during the Chávez mandate...Elfenbein conducts a masterful extended case study with a methodology that she adapted in a creative manner to the social reality under study...this overwhelming book offers a new way of approaching the gender role and gender justice in Venezuela, a thorough research that seeks to find the essence of the dynamics of relations between the state and poor women and their organizations in that country. * Journal of Latin American Politics and Society *Table of Contents List of Tables and Images Acknowledgments Glossary of Abbreviations and Terms Introduction. The Unpaid Labor and Suffering of the Women Undergirding the Bolivarian Revolution Chapter 1. Out of the Margins: The Struggle for the Rights to State Recognition of Women’s Unpaid Housework and Social Security for Homemakers Chapter 2. Between Fruitless Legislative Initiatives and Executive Magic: Contestations over the Implementation of Homemakers’ Social Security Chapter 3. State Imaginations of Popular Motherhood within the Revolution: The Institutional Design of Madres del Barrio Mission Chapter 4. Regulating Motherhood in Madres del Barrio: Intensifying yet Disregarding the Unpaid Labor of the Mothers of the Bolivarian Revolution Chapter 5. In the Shadows of the Magical Revolutionary State: Popular Women’s Work Where the State Did Not Reach Chapter 6. Mobilized yet Contained within Chavista Populism: Popular Women’s Organizing around the 2012 Organic Labor Law Conclusion: Imagining a More Dignified Map for Popular Women’s Unpaid Labor and Power Notes References Index
£25.19
University of Texas Press Making It at Any Cost
Book SynopsisAn examination of the vast counterfeit clothing marketplace in Buenos Aires known as La Salada, this book is the first ethnographic study to examine how aspirations shape behaviors of workers in an informal and illegal economy.Trade Review[Making It at Any Cost] is a sophisticated piece of ethnographic work, especially relevant for academic research focused on the study of urban economic structures in Latin American cities. Throughout the book, the well-structured analytical sequence and narrative followed by the author is captivating and manages to engage the reader in the everyday living of the inhabitants of La Salada. * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *[Dewey] demonstrates a clear attachment to both the location and his subjects and provides a rich description of their lives and their struggles...One of the core values of ethnographic research is an immersive and detailed depiction of a setting, and Dewey meets this objective. * American Journal of Sociology *Making It at Any Cost is a fantastic ethnographic work that enters into great detail without boring the reader, and without failing to acknowledge the importance of the broader spatial and historical context...Making It at Any Cost is the best of all existing books on La Salada. Colleagues working on how social relations are governed in illegal marketplaces and on sweatshop economies producing fast fashion will most probably be left with pages of questions, answers, and doubts that will modify their research agendas. * Economic Sociology *[Making It at Any Cost] is an important contribution to the role local economic practices play in organizing commitments, subjectivities, and personal trajectories, and marries European and US economic sociology with Latin American studies of urban and labor informality, aiming to expand some of its lessons beyond the site-specific characteristics of La Salada...The book calls our attention to the creativity, and resilience of subaltern agents in the global economy...This is an excellent book that uses creatively the case of La Salada to elegantly fill gaps in the US and European economic sociology scholarship, expending current understandings of morality in illegal and contested markets. As such, it would be a great addition to courses on informal markets, studies of morality, global chains, and Latin American urban studies. * Social Forces *Making It at Any Cost provides a nuanced account of a counterfeit market that reveals itself to be as rational, hardworking, and creative as any of its 'legal' counterparts in the global supply chain. In doing so, the book shows how actors themselves create order and sustained relationships precisely where the state’s presence is most attenuated and where distrust predominates...Future scholars will do well to return to this book. * Latin American Politics and Society *Table of Contents Maps The Structure of La Salada Marketplace List of La Salada Characters Acknowledgments Introduction: Aspirations amid Distrust Part I: History, Place, and Politics Chapter 1. The Garment Market and the Marketplace Chapter 2. Governing La Salada Chapter 3. With God and the Devil Part II: Prisoners of Aspirations Chapter 4. All I Want Is a Sweatshop Chapter 5. The Garment Entrepreneur at La Salada Chapter 6. Dynamics of Aspirations Part III: Aspirations in Action Chapter 7. Narratives of Sacrifice and Autonomy Chapter 8. Taste, Credit, and Bullets Chapter 9. Squatters, Cart-Pullers, and Demolition Conclusion Epilogue Methodological Appendix Notes Works Cited Index
£31.50
University of Toronto Press Productivity and Prosperity
Book SynopsisIn Productivity and Prosperity, Karen Foster zeroes in on the paradox of productivity: that it is the key to economic prosperity and yet its connection to well-being and median incomes has all but disappeared.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. The Discovery of Productivity 2. Managing and Measuring Productivity 3. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics 4. The National Productivity Council 5. The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency 6. The Decline of Productivity? 7. Conclusion: Productivity's Future and the Limits of Growth Bibliography Notes
£49.30
University of Toronto Press Closing the Enforcement Gap
Book SynopsisThe nature of employment is changing: low wage jobs are increasingly common, fewer workers belong to unions, and workplaces are being transformed through the growth of contracting-out, franchising, and extended supply chains. Closing the Enforcement Gap offers a comprehensive analysis of the enforcement of employment standards in Ontario. Adopting mixed methods, this work includes qualitative research involving in-depth interviews with workers, community advocates, and enforcement officials; extensive archival research excavating decades of ministerial records; and analysis of a previously untapped source of administrative data collected by Ontario’s Ministry of Labour. The authors reveal and trace the roots of a deepening enforcement gap that pervades nearly all aspects of the regime, demonstrating that the province’s Employment Standards Act (ESA) fails too many workers who rely on the floor of minimum conditions it was devised to provide. Arguably, theTrade Review"This book makes a substantial and impressive contribution to knowledge on the politics and outcomes of labor regulation." -- Sean O’Brady, McMaster University * ILR Review *Table of ContentsList of Graphs, Tables, and Figures Authorship Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Mapping the Enforcement Gap: Historical and Contemporary Dynamics Part One: Charting the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap in Ontario 2. Responsibilization, Reprisal and (Non)Remediation: Interrogating the role of an Individualized Complaints System 3. Administering Complaints: Dilemmas of Accountability 4. Recovering Employees' Wages? 5. The Contradictory Role of Workplace Inspections 6. The Deterrence Gap: Towards an Explanation 7. Strengthening Participatory Approaches to Enforcement Part Two: Views from Elsewhere: Contextualizing the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap in Ontario 8. Enforcement of Wage Recovery in Britain 9. Out of the Shadows and into the Spotlight: The Sweeping Evolution of Employment Standards Enforcement in Australia 10. Enforcing Employment Standards in Quebec: One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward? 11. Strategic Enforcement to Confront Wage Theft in the US: An Insider Account 12. Improving Protections for People in Precarious Jobs Notes Supplementary Information on Quantitative & Qualitative Methods: Ontario Component Appendix A: Quantitative Data A.1. Administrative Data A.2. National Surveys Appendix B: Qualitative Data B.1. Worker Interviews B.2. MOL Interviews B.3. Community Representative Interviews Appendix C: Archival Research Bibliography Secondary Sources Primary Sources Government Documents Statistics Archival Sources Index Glossary
£68.00
University of Toronto Press Productivity and Prosperity
Book SynopsisIn Productivity and Prosperity, Karen Foster zeroes in on the paradox of productivity: that it is the key to economic prosperity and yet its connection to well-being and median incomes has all but disappeared.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. The Discovery of Productivity 2. Managing and Measuring Productivity 3. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics 4. The National Productivity Council 5. The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency 6. The Decline of Productivity? 7. Conclusion: Productivity's Future and the Limits of Growth Bibliography Notes
£26.09
University of Toronto Press Closing the Enforcement Gap
Book SynopsisThe nature of employment is changing: low wage jobs are increasingly common, fewer workers belong to unions, and workplaces are being transformed through the growth of contracting-out, franchising, and extended supply chains. Closing the Enforcement Gap offers a comprehensive analysis of the enforcement of employment standards in Ontario. Adopting mixed methods, this work includes qualitative research involving in-depth interviews with workers, community advocates, and enforcement officials; extensive archival research excavating decades of ministerial records; and analysis of a previously untapped source of administrative data collected by Ontario’s Ministry of Labour. The authors reveal and trace the roots of a deepening enforcement gap that pervades nearly all aspects of the regime, demonstrating that the province’s Employment Standards Act (ESA) fails too many workers who rely on the floor of minimum conditions it was devised to provide. Arguably, theTrade Review"This book makes a substantial and impressive contribution to knowledge on the politics and outcomes of labor regulation." -- Sean O’Brady, McMaster University * ILR Review *Table of ContentsList of Graphs, Tables, and Figures Authorship Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Mapping the Enforcement Gap: Historical and Contemporary Dynamics Part One: Charting the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap in Ontario 2. Responsibilization, Reprisal, and (Non)Remediation: Interrogating the Role of an Individualized Complaints System 3. Administering Complaints: Dilemmas of Accountability 4. Recovering Employees' Wages? 5. The Contradictory Role of Workplace Inspections 6. The Deterrence Gap: Towards an Explanation 7. Strengthening Participatory Approaches to Enforcement Part Two: Views from Elsewhere: Contextualizing the Employment Standards Enforcement Gap in Ontario 8. Enforcement of Wage Recovery in Britain 9. Out of the Shadows and into the Spotlight: The Sweeping Evolution of Employment Standards Enforcement in Australia 10. Enforcing Employment Standards in Quebec: One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward? 11. Strategic Enforcement to Confront Wage Theft in the US: An Insider Account 12. Improving Protections for People in Precarious Jobs Notes Supplementary Information on Quantitative and Qualitative Methods: Ontario Component Appendix A: Quantitative Data A.1. Administrative Data A.2. National Surveys Appendix B: Qualitative Data B.1. Worker Interviews B.2. MOL Interviews B.3. Community Representative Interviews Appendix C: Archival Research Bibliography Secondary Sources Primary Sources Government Documents Statistics Archival Sources Index Glossary
£31.50
Cornell University Press Achieving Workers Rights in the Global Economy
Book SynopsisThe world was shocked in April 2013 when more than 1100 garment workers lost their lives in the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex in Dhaka. It was the worst industrial tragedy in the two-hundred-year history of mass apparel manufacture. This so-called accident was, in fact, just waiting to happen, and not merely because of the corruption and exploitation of workers so common in the garment industry. In Achieving Workers'' Rights in the Global Economy, Richard P. Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein argue that such tragic events, as well as the low wages, poor working conditions, and voicelessness endemic to the vast majority of workers who labor in the export industries of the global South arise from the very nature of world trade and production.Given their enormous power to squeeze prices and wages, northern brands and retailers today occupy the commanding heights of global capitalism. Retail-dominated supply chainssuch as those with Walmart, Apple, and Nike at Trade ReviewAchieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy seeks to understand why sweatshops continue in the apparel industry despite the 20-year-long investment in private regulation (monitoring corporate codes of conduct) by major brands and retailers.... In sum, Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy is an important book that is particularly useful as a textbook for students learning about the barriers to effective improvements in labor standards, as well as for useful pathways to explore for the future. In addition, practitioners will gain from the discussion of potential avenues forward. -- Matthew Fischer-Daly * ILR Review *Fourteen papers analyze the system of world capitalism under which the majority of workers labor, explaining how corporate social responsibility (CSR) has failed to achieve its professed objectives, different approaches to the governance of global suply chains, the prospects for workers' rights in China, and the way forward for labor rights. * JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy Richard P. Appelbaum and Nelson LichtensteinPart I SELF-GOVERNANCE: THE CHALLENGES AND LIMITATIONS OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY1. Outsourcing Horror: Why Apparel Workers Are Still Dying, One Hundred Years after Triangle Shirtwaist Scott Nova and Chris Wegemer2. From Public Regulation to Private Enforcement: How CSR Became Managerial OrthodoxyRichard P. Appelbaum3. Corporate Social Responsibility: Moving from Checklist Monitoring to Contractual Obligation? Jill Esbenshade4. The Twilight of CSR: Life and Death Illuminated by Fire Robert J. S. RossPart II GOVERNANCE OF GLOBAL PRODUCTION NETWORKS5. The Demise of Tripartite Governance and the Rise of the Corporate Social Responsibility Regime Nelson Lichtenstein6. Deepening Compliance?: Multistakeholder Communication in Monitoring Labor Standards in the Value Chains of Brazil’s Apparel Industry Anne Caroline Posthuma and Renato Bignami7. Law and the Global Sweatshop Problem Brishen Rogers8. Assessing the Risks of Participation in Global Value Chains Gary Gereffi and Xubei LuoPart III PROSPECTS FOR WORKERS’ RIGHTS IN CHINA9. Apple, Foxconn, and China’s New Working Class Jenny Chan, Ngai Pun, and Mark Selden10. Labor Transformation in China: Voices from the Frontlines Katie Quan11. CSR and Trade Union Elections at Foreign-Owned Chinese Factories Anita ChanPart IV A WAY FORWARD?12. The Sustainable Apparel Coalition and Higg Index: A New Approach for the Apparel and Footwear Industry Jason Kibbey13. Learning from the Past: The Relevance of Twentieth-Century New York Jobbers’ Agreements for Twenty-First-Century Global Supply Chains Mark Anner, Jennifer Bair, and Jeremy Blasi14. Workers of the World Unite!: The Strategy of the International Union League for Brand Responsibility Jeff Hermanson
£97.20
Cornell University Press Achieving Workers Rights in the Global Economy
Book SynopsisThe world was shocked in April 2013 when more than 1100 garment workers lost their lives in the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex in Dhaka. It was the worst industrial tragedy in the two-hundred-year history of mass apparel manufacture. This so-called accident was, in fact, just waiting to happen, and not merely because of the corruption and exploitation of workers so common in the garment industry. In Achieving Workers'' Rights in the Global Economy, Richard P. Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein argue that such tragic events, as well as the low wages, poor working conditions, and voicelessness endemic to the vast majority of workers who labor in the export industries of the global South arise from the very nature of world trade and production.Given their enormous power to squeeze prices and wages, northern brands and retailers today occupy the commanding heights of global capitalism. Retail-dominated supply chainssuch as those with Walmart, Apple, and Nike at Trade ReviewAchieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy seeks to understand why sweatshops continue in the apparel industry despite the 20-year-long investment in private regulation (monitoring corporate codes of conduct) by major brands and retailers.... In sum, Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy is an important book that is particularly useful as a textbook for students learning about the barriers to effective improvements in labor standards, as well as for useful pathways to explore for the future. In addition, practitioners will gain from the discussion of potential avenues forward. -- Matthew Fischer-Daly * ILR Review *Fourteen papers analyze the system of world capitalism under which the majority of workers labor, explaining how corporate social responsibility (CSR) has failed to achieve its professed objectives, different approaches to the governance of global suply chains, the prospects for workers' rights in China, and the way forward for labor rights. * JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy Richard P. Appelbaum and Nelson LichtensteinPart I SELF-GOVERNANCE: THE CHALLENGES AND LIMITATIONS OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY1. Outsourcing Horror: Why Apparel Workers Are Still Dying, One Hundred Years after Triangle Shirtwaist Scott Nova and Chris Wegemer2. From Public Regulation to Private Enforcement: How CSR Became Managerial OrthodoxyRichard P. Appelbaum3. Corporate Social Responsibility: Moving from Checklist Monitoring to Contractual Obligation? Jill Esbenshade4. The Twilight of CSR: Life and Death Illuminated by Fire Robert J. S. RossPart II GOVERNANCE OF GLOBAL PRODUCTION NETWORKS5. The Demise of Tripartite Governance and the Rise of the Corporate Social Responsibility Regime Nelson Lichtenstein6. Deepening Compliance?: Multistakeholder Communication in Monitoring Labor Standards in the Value Chains of Brazil’s Apparel Industry Anne Caroline Posthuma and Renato Bignami7. Law and the Global Sweatshop Problem Brishen Rogers8. Assessing the Risks of Participation in Global Value Chains Gary Gereffi and Xubei LuoPart III PROSPECTS FOR WORKERS’ RIGHTS IN CHINA9. Apple, Foxconn, and China’s New Working Class Jenny Chan, Ngai Pun, and Mark Selden10. Labor Transformation in China: Voices from the Frontlines Katie Quan11. CSR and Trade Union Elections at Foreign-Owned Chinese Factories Anita ChanPart IV A WAY FORWARD?12. The Sustainable Apparel Coalition and Higg Index: A New Approach for the Apparel and Footwear Industry Jason Kibbey13. Learning from the Past: The Relevance of Twentieth-Century New York Jobbers’ Agreements for Twenty-First-Century Global Supply Chains Mark Anner, Jennifer Bair, and Jeremy Blasi14. Workers of the World Unite!: The Strategy of the International Union League for Brand Responsibility Jeff Hermanson
£17.99
Cornell University Press Hard Sell
Book SynopsisAlong with fast-food workers, retail workers are capturing the attention of the public and the media with the Fight for $15. Like fast-food workers, retail workers are underpaid, and fewer than five percent of them belong to unions. In Hard Sell, Peter Ikeler traces the low-wage, largely nonunion character of U.S. retail through the history and ultimate failure of twentieth-century retail unionism. He asks pivotal questions about twenty-first-century capitalism: Does the nature of retail work make collective action unlikely? Can working conditions improve in the absence of a union? Is worker consciousness changing in ways that might encourage or further inhibit organizing? Ikeler conducted interviews at New York City locations of two iconic department storesMacy's and Target. Much of the book's narrative unfolds from the perspectives of these workers in America's most unequal city. When he speaks to workers, Ikeler finds that the Macy's organization displays an adversaTrade ReviewThough hardly Marx’s "Satanic mills," their cheery veneer hides more than a few dirty secrets. It is behind this veil that Peter Ikeler’s new book, Hard Sell, takes us, focusing specifically on the subjective positions and experiences of workers themselves. In so doing, he joins a handful of notable scholars who have sought to, once again, bring the study of work back into labor sociology. -- Jamie McCallum, Middlebury College * American Journal of Sociology *Ikeler's ethnography invites antrhopologists to critically engage anew with areas of work and labor not simply as places in which workers struggle to make a living, but places in which other political battles are underway and where the very identity of workers is being shaped. * Polar: Political & Legal Anthropology Review *Table of Contents1. All Quiet on the Service Front? 2.The Making of Big-Box Retail 3. The Not-So-Hidden Abode: Work Organization at Macy's and Target 4. Carrots, Sticks, and Workers: The Relations of Employment 5. A Regime of Contingent Control 6. Class Consciousness on the Sales Floor 7. Service Worker Organizing A Note on Class Consciousness
£21.84
Cornell University Press High Tech and High Touch
Book SynopsisIn High Tech and High Touch, James E. Coverdill and William Finlay invite readers into the dynamic world of headhunters, personnel professionals who acquire talent for businesses and other organizations on a contingent-fee basis. In a high-tech world where social media platforms have simplified direct contact between employers and job seekers, Coverdill and Finlay acknowledge, it is relatively easy to find large numbers of apparently qualified candidates. However, the authors demonstrate that headhunters serve a valuable purpose in bringing high-touch search into the labor market: they help parties on both sides of the transaction to define their needs and articulate what they have to offer.As well as providing valuable information for sociologists and economists, High Tech and High Touch demonstrates how headhunters approach practical issues such as identifying and attracting candidates; how they solicit, secure, and evaluate search assignments from client compTrade ReviewFrom archival and interview data—1,106 industry publications articles and interviews with 33 headhunters, 7 of whom were also informants for the first book—a fascinating case study emerges of an occupation markedly shaped by the evolutions of the last 20 years.... this is a fascinating and consequential look into the behavior of one group who sits on the fault line between the impending forces changing the face of the labor market as we know it. The rich descriptions speak to the evolution of an occupation under the impact of technology. * Work and Occupations *[High Tech and High Touch] provides a fascinating account of an infrequently studied profession at [a] significant moment in time that will deepen your understanding of how labor markets work. * Social Forces *Finlay and Coverdill help shine a light on the social aspects of this market, in which personal characteristics matter more and the actively employed are potentially considered as candidates. Their work highlights that the full implications of the technological and cultural revolution undergirding the "new economy" are only beginning to be understood. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Getting Clients and Job Orders 2. Qualifying Clients and Job Orders 3. Constructing Candidates and Securing Placements 4. Evolution or Revolution? 5. Booms, Busts, and Changing Labor Markets 6. Being a Headhunter Conclusion References Index
£97.20
Cornell University Press High Tech and High Touch
Book SynopsisIn High Tech and High Touch, James E. Coverdill and William Finlay invite readers into the dynamic world of headhunters, personnel professionals who acquire talent for businesses and other organizations on a contingent-fee basis. In a high-tech world where social media platforms have simplified direct contact between employers and job seekers, Coverdill and Finlay acknowledge, it is relatively easy to find large numbers of apparently qualified candidates. However, the authors demonstrate that headhunters serve a valuable purpose in bringing high-touch search into the labor market: they help parties on both sides of the transaction to define their needs and articulate what they have to offer.As well as providing valuable information for sociologists and economists, High Tech and High Touch demonstrates how headhunters approach practical issues such as identifying and attracting candidates; how they solicit, secure, and evaluate search assignments from client compTrade ReviewFrom archival and interview data—1,106 industry publications articles and interviews with 33 headhunters, 7 of whom were also informants for the first book—a fascinating case study emerges of an occupation markedly shaped by the evolutions of the last 20 years.... this is a fascinating and consequential look into the behavior of one group who sits on the fault line between the impending forces changing the face of the labor market as we know it. The rich descriptions speak to the evolution of an occupation under the impact of technology. * Work and Occupations *[High Tech and High Touch] provides a fascinating account of an infrequently studied profession at [a] significant moment in time that will deepen your understanding of how labor markets work. * Social Forces *Finlay and Coverdill help shine a light on the social aspects of this market, in which personal characteristics matter more and the actively employed are potentially considered as candidates. Their work highlights that the full implications of the technological and cultural revolution undergirding the "new economy" are only beginning to be understood. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Getting Clients and Job Orders 2. Qualifying Clients and Job Orders 3. Constructing Candidates and Securing Placements 4. Evolution or Revolution? 5. Booms, Busts, and Changing Labor Markets 6. Being a Headhunter Conclusion References Index
£17.99
Cornell University Press Casino Women
Book SynopsisCasino Women is a pioneering look at the female face of corporate gaming. Based on extended interviews with maids, cocktail waitresses, cooks, laundry workers, dealers, pit bosses, managers, and vice presidents, the book describes in compelling detail a world whose enormous profitability is dependent on the labor of women assigned stereotypically female occupationsmaking beds and serving food on the one hand and providing sexual allure on the other. But behind the neon lies another world, peopled by thousands of remarkable women who assert their humanity in the face of gaming empires'' relentless quest for profits.The casino women profiled here generally fall into two groups. Geoconda Arguello Kline, typical of the first, arrived in the United States in the 1980s fleeing the war in Nicaragua. Finding work as a Las Vegas hotel maid, she overcame her initial fear of organizing and joined with others to build the preeminent grassroots union in the nationthe 60,000-member Trade ReviewFor all of the popular culture that's been based in and around the casino industry—Casino Royale, 21, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and many others—few have ever taken into account the stories of women working to keep the industry going.... Susan Chandler and Jill B. Jones penned this book with the desire to not only fill the void, but also to provide inspiration for others....The emphasis is most certainly on the harsh working conditions and uncertainty that many of Nevada’s women face. Casino Women unashamedly offers this view in an attempt to make more people aware of the conditions faced, and in the longer term, to improve these women’s’ lives.... Many of the tales included are certainly fascinating and provide an intriguing insight to an area hardly ever spoken about. * CasinoOnline.co.uk *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. "You Have to Do It for the People Coming"Part I: Back of the House, Front of the House2. "They're Treating Us Like Donkeys, Really": Housekeeping and Other Back of the House Work3. "Kiss My Foot": Cocktail WaitressingPart II: Union Women4. "I'll Always Love the Union"5. "Here's My Heart"Part III: Nonunion Women Stand Up6. Darlene Jespersen v. Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc.7. Liberation Theology, Pit Boss StylePart IV: Dealers: The Illusion of Power8. Dealing: The View from Dead Center9. Stuck10. Big Tobacco Rides the StripPart V: Women in Management11. Crossing Over to the Other Side12. Conclusion: "A Marvelous Victory"Notes Bibliography Index
£19.94
Cornell University Press Public Workers
Book SynopsisFrom the dawn of the twentieth century to the early 1960s, public-sector unions generally had no legal right to strike, bargain, or arbitrate, and government workers could be fired simply for joining a union. Public Workers is the first book to analyze why public-sector labor law evolved as it did, separate from and much more restrictive than private-sector labor law, and what effect this law had on public-sector unions, organized labor as a whole, and by extension all of American politics. Joseph E. Slater shows how public-sector unions survived, represented their members, and set the stage for the most remarkable growth of worker organization in American history. Slater examines the battles of public-sector unions in the workplace, courts, and political arena, from the infamous Boston police strike of 1919, to teachers in Seattle fighting a yellow-dog rule, to the BSEIU in the 1930s representing public-sector janitors, to the fate of the powerful Transit Workers UnioTrade ReviewSlater analyzes the legal and historical origins of government employee unions and compares them with the private sector experience.... Slater concludes with a comparison of the public and private models. He suggests that employer opposition to workers' organizing activities in the private sector explains much of the divergence in membership levels. Overall, the book is a well-researched contribution to the study of U.S. labor history. * Choice 42:3 *Slater produces a rich examination of five critical episodes in the history of mid-twentieth century public labor relations, and, in doing so, demonstrates the complex intersection of law, work, social movements, and the political process.... Slater successfully bridges the fields of legal and labor history to present a lucid and compelling thesis about the importance of law for union effectiveness, while also paying careful attention to the vital importance of the social movement organizing process itself. -- Jeffrey T. Coster * Maryland Historian *
£23.74
Cornell University Press Undoing Work Rethinking Community
Book SynopsisThis revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism. In Undoing Work, Rethinking Community, James A. Chamberlain argues that paid work and the civic duty to perform it substantially undermines freedom and justice. Chamberlain believes that to seize back our time and transform our society, we must abandon the deep-seated view that community is constructed by work, whether paid or not. Chamberlain focuses on the regimes of flexibility and the unconditional basic income, arguing that while both offer prospects for greater freedom and justice, they also incur the risk of shoring up the work society rather than challenging it. To transform the work society, he shows that we must also reconfigure the place of paid work in our lives and rethink the meaning of community at a deeper level. Throughout, he speaks to a broad readership, and his focus on freedom and social justice will interest scholars and activists alike. ChamberlainTrade ReviewThe book is well worth reading for its clear synthesis of a number of issues and thinkers on topics such as UBI, work, immaterial labour, welfare and flexibility.... In my view, it deserves to be read just for its extended treatment of André Gorz's work, which is undeservedly neglected within our discipline. Scholars of alternative organization, in particular, could usefully harness the utopian variant of UBI and the reduction of work without income to consider how organization could develop in the context of voluntary co-operation and in the service of social justice and human flourishing. * Organization Studies *In his comprehensive analysis and evaluation of the social function of work under capitalism, Chamberlain demonstrates repeatedly that even prominent postwork scholars do not escape the remnants of work. Moreover, he provides a reassessment of neoliberalism's regimes of flexibility. * Perspectives in Politics *Chamberlain has given us something rare: not an easy or a comfortable book, but a genuinely radical one. * Autonomy *Chamberlain places a set of inquiries that will largely enhance the boundaries on debates about work in a post-work era: is it even possible to think about societies in a wider sense that could overcome work as the main knot of relationships, and thus, recognition? * British Journal of Industrial Relations *Table of Contents1. The Ends of Work 2. The Work Society 3. Flexibility 4. Unconditional Basic Income 5. Community beyond Work 6. The Postwork Community
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Cornell University Press Well Call You If We Need You
Book SynopsisSusan Eisenberg began her apprenticeship with Local 103 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in 1978, the year president Jimmy Carter set goals and timetables for the hiring of women on federally assisted construction projects and for the inclusion of women in apprenticeship programs. Eisenberg expected not only a challenging job and the camaraderie of a labor union but also the chance to be part of a historic transformation, social and economic, that would make the construction trades accessible to women.That transformation did not happen. In this book, full of the raw drama and humor found on a construction site, Eisenberg gracefully weaves the voices of thirty women who worked as carpenters, electricians, ironworkers, painters, and plumbers to examine why their numbers remained small. Speaking as if to a friend, women recall their decisions to enter the trades, their first days on the job, and their strategies to gain training and acceptance. They assess Trade ReviewEisenberg makes a persuasive case for beefing-up affirmative action guidelines and revising archaic union apprenticeship programs that were designed with eighteen-year-old men in mind. -- Maureen Corrigan * Fresh Air *We'll Call You if We Need You... is an inspirational and life-affirming book. Eisenberg tells the story through interviews with thirty women—carpenters, electricians, ironworkers, painters, and plumbers. * New York Times Book Review *Eisenberg's book engenders a new respect for the women in the trades and the difficult work they do. * The Progressive *
£18.99
Cornell University Press Confronting Dystopia
Book SynopsisIn Confronting Dystopia, a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological revolution for jobs, working conditions, and income. Focusing on the economic and political implications of AI, digital connectivity, and robotics for both the Global North and the Global South, they move beyond diagnostics to seek solutions that offer better lives for all. Their analyses of the challenges of technology are placed against the backdrop of three decades of rapid economic globalization. The two in tandem are producing the daunting challenges that analysts and policymakers must now confront.The conjuncture of recent advances in AI, machine learning, and robotization portends a vast displacement of human labor, argues the editor, Eva Paus. As Confronting Dystopia shows, we are on the eve ofindeed we are already amida technological revolution that will impact profoundly the livelihoods of people everywhere in the world.Across a broadTrade Review"Confronting Dystopia is a well-executed volume on an important topic, with wide-ranging coverage of both the Global North and the Global South. The contributors present original interpretations as well as a range of insightful policy prescriptions. The result is a significant contribution to the literature on our economic future." -- James Boyce, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst"Confronting Dystopia offers a rich, multidimensional analysis of the complex challenges posed by digitization, robots, and AI as they affect different countries and countries at different levels of economic development and per capita GDP." -- Eileen Appelbaum, Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and Visiting Professor of Management, University of Leicester
£97.20
Cornell University Press Confronting Dystopia
Book SynopsisIn Confronting Dystopia, a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological revolution for jobs, working conditions, and income. Focusing on the economic and political implications of AI, digital connectivity, and robotics for both the Global North and the Global South, they move beyond diagnostics to seek solutions that offer better lives for all. Their analyses of the challenges of technology are placed against the backdrop of three decades of rapid economic globalization. The two in tandem are producing the daunting challenges that analysts and policymakers must now confront.The conjuncture of recent advances in AI, machine learning, and robotization portends a vast displacement of human labor, argues the editor, Eva Paus. As Confronting Dystopia shows, we are on the eve ofindeed we are already amida technological revolution that will impact profoundly the livelihoods of people everywhere in the world.Across a broadTrade Review"Confronting Dystopia is a well-executed volume on an important topic, with wide-ranging coverage of both the Global North and the Global South. The contributors present original interpretations as well as a range of insightful policy prescriptions. The result is a significant contribution to the literature on our economic future." -- James Boyce, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst"Confronting Dystopia offers a rich, multidimensional analysis of the complex challenges posed by digitization, robots, and AI as they affect different countries and countries at different levels of economic development and per capita GDP." -- Eileen Appelbaum, Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and Visiting Professor of Management, University of Leicester
£22.39
Cornell University Press Well Call You If We Need You
Book SynopsisSusan Eisenberg began her apprenticeship with Local 103 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in 1978, the year president Jimmy Carter set goals and timetables for the hiring of women on federally assisted construction projects and for the inclusion of women in apprenticeship programs. Eisenberg expected not only a challenging job and the camaraderie of a labor union but also the chance to be part of a historic transformation, social and economic, that would make the construction trades accessible to women.That transformation did not happen. In this book, full of the raw drama and humor found on a construction site, Eisenberg gracefully weaves the voices of thirty women who worked as carpenters, electricians, ironworkers, painters, and plumbers to examine why their numbers remained small. Speaking as if to a friend, women recall their decisions to enter the trades, their first days on the job, and their strategies to gain training and acceptance. They assess Trade ReviewEisenberg makes a persuasive case for beefing-up affirmative action guidelines and revising archaic union apprenticeship programs that were designed with eighteen-year-old men in mind. -- Maureen Corrigan * Fresh Air *We'll Call You if We Need You... is an inspirational and life-affirming book. Eisenberg tells the story through interviews with thirty women—carpenters, electricians, ironworkers, painters, and plumbers. * New York Times Book Review *Eisenberg's book engenders a new respect for the women in the trades and the difficult work they do. * The Progressive *
£97.20
Cornell University Press Mercenaries and Missionaries
Book SynopsisMercenaries and Missionaries examines the relationship between rapidly diffusing forms of capitalism and Christianity in the Global South. Using more than two hundred interviews in Bangalore and Dubai, Brandon Vaidyanathan explains how and why global corporate professionals straddle conflicting moral orientations in the realms of work and religion. Seeking to place the spotlight on the role of religion in debates about the cultural consequences of capitalism, Vaidyanathan finds that an apprehensive individualism generated in global corporate workplaces is supported and sustained by a therapeutic individualism cultivated in evangelical-charismatic Catholicism.Mercenaries and Missionaries uncovers a symbiotic relationship between these individualisms and shows how this relationship unfolds in two global citiesDubai, in non-democratic UAE, which holds what is considered the world''s largest Catholic parish, and Bangalore, in democratic India, where the Catholic ChuTrade ReviewVaidyanathan's brilliant ethnography breaks ground in the study of capitalism in the Global South. * Choice *A fascinating portrait of a certain section of the transnational professional class. It provides an important and sensitive analysis of how such professionals, especially those from developing countries, struggle to integrate their Christian faith with their career ambitions. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *
£27.54
Cornell University Press The Politics of Social Inclusion and Labor
Book SynopsisIn The Politics of Social Inclusion and Labor Representation, Heather Connolly, Stefania Marino, and Miguel Martínez Lucio compare trade union responses to immigration and the related political and labour market developments in the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The labor movement is facing significant challenges as a result of such changes in the modern context. As such, the authors closely examine the idea of social inclusion and how trade unions are coping with and adapting to the need to support immigrant workers and develop various types of engagement and solidarity strategies in the European context.Traversing the dramatically shifting immigration patterns since the 1970s, during which emerged a major crisis of capitalism, the labor market, and society, and the contingent rise of anti-immigration sentiment and new forms of xenophobia, the authors assess and map how trade unions have to varying degrees understood and framed these issues and immigrant Trade ReviewThe book can be useful to both academics and policy makers. While analysing an extensive amount of data, the book remains clear, wellwritten and nicely structured with a framework that facilitates the comparisons it makes. * British Journal of Industrial Labor Relations *The book is clearly of interest to an academic audience–students and researchers. This book really brings what might be possible into sharp focus. * Transfer *Table of ContentsForeword by Richard Hyman Preface List of Abbreviations 1. Understanding and Framing the Questions of Trade Union Responses to Immigration and Social Inclusion 2. Uncovering the Nature and Tensions of Inclusion and Labor Relations: Research Context and Methods 3. Trade Unions and Immigration in the Netherlands: Between Race and Social Rights 4. Trade Unions and Immigration in Spain: From Class to Social Renewal? 5. Trade Unions and Immigration in the UK: Equality and Immigrant Worker Engagement without Collective Rights 6. Trade Union Responses to Immigration in Europe: Policy, Politics, and the Crafting of Social Inclusion across Borders 7. The Geometry of Trade Union Responses to Immigration and the Politics of Inclusion: The Challenge of Solidarity Notes References Index
£44.10
Cornell University Press Dust and Dignity
Book SynopsisWhat makes domestic work a bad job, even after efforts to formalize and improve working conditions? Erynn Masi de Casanova''s case study, based partly on collaborative research conducted with Ecuador''s pioneer domestic workers'' organization, examines three reasons for persistent exploitation. First, the tasks of social reproduction are devalued. Second, informal work arrangements escape regulation. And third, unequal class relations are built into this type of employment. Accessible to advocates and policymakers as well as academics, this book provides both theoretical discussions about domestic work and concrete ideas for improving women''s lives.Drawing on workers'' stories of lucha, trabajo, and sacrificiostruggle, work, and sacrificeDust and Dignity offers a new take on an old occupation. From the intimate experience of being a body out of place in an employer''s home, to the common work histories of Ecuadorian women in different cities, to the possTrade ReviewDust and Dignity provides a most useful resource for scholars of gender, politics and the workplace. This book is a promising and unique contribution to the history and experiences of women working in domestic employment in Ecuador. * Gender, Work, and Organization *Table of ContentsForeword, by Maximina Salazar Introduction 1. In Search of the Ideal Worker 2. Embodied Inequality 3. Informed but Insecure: (Written in Collaboration with Leila Rodriguez) 4. Pathways through Poverty 5. Like Any Other Job? Conclusion Epilogue
£22.79
Stanford University Press Waiting on Retirement: Aging and Economic
Book SynopsisAmerica is witnessing a retirement crisis. As the labor market shifts to the gig economy and new strains restrict social security, the American Dream of secure retirement becomes further out of reach for up to half of the population. In Waiting on Retirement, Mary Gatta takes the case of restaurant workers to examine the experiences of low-wage workers who are middle-aged, aging, and past retirement age. She deftly explores the many factors shaping what it means to grow old in economic insecurity as her subjects face race- and gender-based inequities, health hazards associated with their work, and the bitter reality that the older they get the fewer professional opportunities are available to them. More importantly, Gatta demonstrates that these problems are pervasive, as more industries adopt the worst workplace practices of service work. In light of these trends, we must consider the devastating effects on already vulnerable Americans because, as Gatta contends, this crisis does not need to be inevitable. Taking as a model the small percentage of "good" restaurant jobs that exist, she ultimately offers incisive commentary on what can be done to stave off this bleak future.Trade Review"Mary Gatta provides an important look at how the current—and future—retirement crisis affects some of the country's most vulnerable workers. Her research should inspire academics, activists, and policy makers to address the large segment of the workforce that is unable to sustain themselves at the end of their working years."—Deborah Harris, Texas State University"Mary Gatta's new book is a timely and necessary addition to the literature on restaurant workers. A career for millions of Americans, the industry does not ensure the economic security of its workforce. Gatta gives voice to the people who have devoted their lives to restaurant work, providing a much-needed warning call for the country and addressing the steps we must take to ensure a better future."—Teófilo Reyes, UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy and Restaurant Opportunities Centers United"An intimate account of the startling impacts of the restaurant industry's precarious conditions. Women in particular have been subject to a wage structure that creates economic volatility, perpetuates harassment, and offers a blurry image of their future. In this groundbreaking historical moment, Mary Gatta provides a timely call to action, stressing that we need one fair wage and long-term economic security."—Saru Jayaraman, author of Forked: A New Standard for American Dining"Sociologist Gatta has provided a compassionate, clearly written, and jargon-free account of the difficult situation of American low-wage restaurant workers who do not retire, because they cannot afford to...She displays their nuanced situation without condescension or blame. Recommended."—R. R. Shield, CHOICETable of Contents1. The New Normal: Economic Insecurity in America 2. The Fast Money Trap 3. Aging in Low-Wage Work 4. Retiring in a Coffin 5. Crisis or Come Together
£19.79
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Global Labour Studies
Book SynopsisFrom the rise of fully automated factories to the creation of new migrant workforces, the world of work, employment and production is rapidly changing. By reshaping the global distribution of wealth, jobs and opportunities, these processes are unleashing profound social and environmental tensions, as well as new political movements. As a means to address these crucial themes, Global Labour Studies elaborates an innovative interdisciplinary framework that builds upon the concepts of power, networks, space and livelihoods. This approach is deployed to explore core topics including global production networks, labour market dynamics, formal and informal sectors, migration and forced labour, agriculture and environment, corporate social responsibility and new labour organizations. Written in a lively and engaging format that draws upon a diverse range of illustrative case studies, the book provides the reader with an accessible repertoire of analytical tools and offers an essential guide to the field. This makes it a uniquely rich text for undergraduate courses on global labour issues across the fields of geography, politics, sociology, labour studies and international development.Trade Review"Marcus Taylor and Sébastien Rioux have opened the horizon to a truly global labour studies. Grounded in heterodox political economy, and animated by critical development studies, feminism, economic sociology, human geography, and more, Global Labour Studies is interdisciplinary in both spirit and practice. It is also a model of lucid, dynamic, and socially engaged exposition, shining light on lived experiences, deep connections, and structural conditions together across the rapidly changing worlds of labour."Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia"A most engaging text for readers who want to understand key labor issues in a rapidly changing global economy. Taylor and Rioux ably help us navigate the complex institutions, processes and relations that shape contemporary work, as well as their implications for politics, inequality and justice."Ching Kwan Lee, University of California, Los Angeles “The book is a remarkable accomplishment. Not only are the authors able to cover numerous topics central to the field in a relatively small amount of space without succumbing to superficiality, they do so in a lively and engaging way. Perhaps most significantly, the book provides readers with the necessary analytical and methodological tools to enter into and further their knowledge of and work in the field of global labour studies. For these and many more reasons, it is highly recommendable for students new to the field.”Labour/Le TravailTable of Contents Chapter 1: Thinking Global Labour Studies Chapter 2: The Toolkit of Global Labour Studies Chapter 3: Labour Regimes Chapter 4: Global Production Networks Chapter 5: Formal Work in Transition Chapter 6: Labour in the Informal Economy Chapter 7: Agrarian Labour Chapter 8: Migrant Labour Chapter 9: Forced Labour Chapter 10: The Nature of Labour Chapter 11: Corporate Social Responsibility Chapter 12: Organizing Global Labour Conclusion: The Futures of Global Labour
£16.86
