Sociology: work and labour Books
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Ageing Labour Forces: Promises and Prospects
Book SynopsisThis provocative book considers the changing status of older workers, the evolution of public policy on age and work and the behaviour of employers. It attempts to answer the critical question: in an ageing society, can older workers look forward to the prospect of longer working lives with choice and security and make successful transitions to retirement? Ageing Labour Forces challenges the current stance of many governments and observers concerning policies to extend working lives. It utilises perspectives and case studies from public policy, employment policy and the attitudes and behaviour of older people. Philip Taylor argues that older workers have been at the forefront of industrialized society's efforts to respond to the crisis facing social welfare systems and the economic threats associated with population ageing. Their involvement has forced the restructuring of economies, adjustments to social welfare systems as well as redefinitions to the actual concept of old age. Containing contributions from leading researchers in a number of countries, this work will appeal to academics and researchers interested in work, ageing and public policy as well as labour economics.Trade Review'Philip Taylor has produced an important and excellent edited collection on a topic of immediate and ongoing relevance. . . The case studies presented in this collection are highly accessible and rich in detail, and provide comprehensive and interesting analyses of ageing labour forces. The book challenges myths and oft-accepted statements made by policy-makers and other commentators about population ageing, older workers' position in the labour market and in workplaces, and social supports for this segment of the labour force. In addition, the volume demonstrates the strength of the case study methodology in helping us to better understand social structures and relations. Of particular value is that the contributions are from researchers from varied disciplines across advanced industrialized countries. . . this collection is highly valuable for policy-makers, employers, unionists, and academics, and should not be ignored.' -- Vivian Shalla, Labour/LeTravail'This book makes an important contribution to the policy debate about age and the workforce, and will be valuable both to academic researchers interested in the labour market and ageing policy, and to policymakers who wish to understand the diversity of national approaches to a shared agenda. . . This book sheds new light on the differences between countries' approaches to the common policy issues, and highlights some of the issues which policy needs to address. Taylor's overarching argument that we should be cautious about making over-positive assumptions about the benefits of extending working life is timely.' -- Stephen McNair, Ageing and Society'The book is extremely valuable for policy makers, labour market and welfare (pensions) experts and the social partners, because it contains a comprehensive analysis of the legal, institutional, welfare and employment policy developments over the past few decades in the eight countries. It offers policy guidance and examples of good practices for dealing with an ageing workforce, but also showing the adverse effects of well-intentioned policies and legislation.' -- Hedva Sarfati, Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations'Ageing Labour Forces is a provocative work, which will appeal to academics and researches interested in work, ageing and public policy, as well as labour economics.' -- SirReadaLot.orgTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: The Promise of Ageing Labour Forces Philip Taylor 1. Looking Forward to Working Longer in Australia Sol Encel 2. Japan: Towards Employment Extension for Older Workers Masato Oka 3. Work and Retirement in Canada: Policies and Prospects Julie McMullin, Martin Cooke and Terri Tomchick 4. Sing if you’re Glad to be Grey. Working Towards a Happier Older Age in the United Kingdom Philip Taylor 5. Age and Work in the United States of America Sara Rix 6. Labour Market Policies Regarding Older Workers in the Netherlands Kène Henkens and Joop Schippers 7. Pulling up the Early Retirement Anchor in France Anne-Marie Guillemard and Annie Jolivet 8. Active Ageing in Employment – Prospects and Policy Approaches in Germany Frerich Frerichs and Gerhard Naegele 9. Conclusions: The Propsects for Ageing Labour Forces Philip Taylor Index
£95.00
University Press of Southern Denmark Emigration from Poland & the Wages for Those Who
Book SynopsisThis paper contributes to a small but growing literature that studies the effects emigration has on the labour markets of the sending countries, focusing on Poland for the period 1998-2007. The data used is unique, in that it contains information about household members who are currently living abroad, allowing the researchers to develop region specific emigration rates, and to estimate the effect emigration has on wages, using within-region variation.
£6.13
The University of Chicago Press Flawed SystemFlawed Self
Book SynopsisToday 4.7 million Americans have been unemployed for more than six months. In France more than ten percent of the working population is without work. And in Greece and Spain, that number approaches thirty percent. The author delves beneath these staggering numbers to explore the world of job searching and unemployment across class and nation.Trade Review"In Job-Search Games, Ofer Sharone develops a cogent, timely, and compelling account of why American employees blame themselves for their failure to secure employment and why their Israeli counterparts engage in system blame instead. Sharone moves the discussion well beyond global generalizations about the role of culture to make an important contribution to the literature of joblessness." (Steven Vallas, author of Work: A Critique)"
£76.00
University of California Press Kitchens
Book SynopsisOffering a portrait of the real lives of kitchen workers, this book presents their experiences, challenges, and satisfactions to colorful life.Trade Review"Oozes with first-hand accounts of pranks and mishaps... Fine's book entertains as it enlightens." North By NorthwesternTable of ContentsPreface to the 2009 Edition Preface to the First Edition Introduction Chapter 1. Living the Kitchen Life Chapter 2. Cooks'Time:Temporal Demands and the Experience of Work Chapter 3. The Kitchen as Place and Space Chapter 4· The Commonwealth of Cuisine Chapter 5· The Economical Cook:Organization as Business Chapter 6. Aesthetic Constraints Chapter 7· The Aesthetics of Kitchen Discourse Chapter 8. The Organization and Aesthetics of Culinary Life Appendix. Ethnography in the Kitchen:Issues and Cases Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press Trust Fall
£22.50
Harvard University Press The Woman in the Surgeons Body
Book SynopsisSurgery is the most martial and masculine of medical specialties. What, then, if the surgeon is a woman? An anthropologist enters this closely guarded arena to explore the work and lives of women practicing their craft in what is largely a man's world. Cassell observed 33 surgeons in five North American cities over the course of three years.Trade ReviewThis [is a] riveting study on women surgeons in the United States...The author studied 33 women surgeons of differing ages practising in eastern and mid-western United States. There was a wide representation of career stages and surgical subspecialties. She spent five days spread over a two week period shadowing each surgeon and also conducted structured, tape recorded interviews. She observed relationships with colleagues, patients, nurses, and trainees as well as aspects of family life. The aim of her study was to examine differences between male and female surgeons and the internal and external forces affecting these differences. Each chapter examines a key area and is vividly illustrated with extracts from the taped interviews as well as descriptions and analysis provided by the author. The frantic, fast paced, almost hysterical way of life in an American department of surgery provides an enthralling background. The author sensibly lets the interviewees speak for themselves when she wishes to make a point...I hope that this excellent book is widely read. -- Sarah Creighton * British Medical Journal *[An] exploration of the world of women surgeons, a world we are drawn into through skillful storytelling...Comfortable with the first person and drawing on 14 years of experiences as an anthropologist reflecting and writing on surgeons, Cassell provides the non-anthropological reader access to the practice of her craft...The author successfully permits our entry into the fascinating, gritty, complex world of women surgeons. The book is well organized and immensely readable. Social scientists will appreciate this exploration of women's place in a male-dominated profession. The structuralists among us will be heartened by the call to refocus our energies from women's 'choices' or coping strategies to the structure of the institution itself. -- Susan W. Hinze * Health *Dr. Cassell has conducted an ethnographic study of 33 women surgeons, following them through their workdays, meeting their families, and interviewing them and others in their lives. Her insights focus on surgery generally and the experience of women surgeons specifically...The author's narrative succeeds in raising essential questions while she recounts the lives and experiences of the women surgeons she has studied with respect, empathy, and admiration. -- Carol C. Nadelson * Psychiatric Services *I identified closely with many of the women profiled in The Woman In The Surgeon's Body. All of the feelings and emotions I have had regarding my surgical training and practice were so articulately crystalized in Cassell's accounts. It was thrilling for me to read how other women's experiences paralleled my own. This is a wonderfully researched work. -- Beth Ann Ditkoff, M.D.Joan Cassell asks whether a feminine body can be embodied in a surgeon's identity and ethos, and whether there is a difference between the work worlds of male and female surgeons. She studied 33 surgeons in five North American cities, women of varying age, rank, matrimonial and parental status, and from a number of surgical specialties. The result is a lively presentation of professional, dedicated women operating in a world that is not quite sure where and if they really fit. This book should appeal to a readership beyond the anthropologists for whom it is intended. -- Frances K. Conley, M.D., Stanford University[N]ew and provocative...This book should be of interest to women who are surgeons, any woman interested in becoming a surgeon, anyone involved in advising medical students, especially women students, about careers in surgery, and anyone in charge of a surgery training program. -- Sylvia Ramos, M.D. * Journal of the American Medical Association *This anthropologist's perspective on the development of women surgeons will ring true in different degrees to all women physicians, and it will add a dimension of understanding and, one hopes, empathy from their male peers. * Psychiatric Services *In this enjoyable, fast-paced ethnography of women surgeons, Cassell emphasizes gender analysis and the anthropological concept of habitus in order to get at the social construction of the experience and the place in that experience of 'difference.' She uses her impressive interview transcripts to round out an effective portrait of women surgeons. -- Arthur Kleinman, M.D., Harvard UniversityTable of Contents* What's an Anthropologist Doing Studying Surgeons? * Bodies of Difference * Telling Stories * Women Leading * Forging the Iron Surgeon * The Gender of Care * A Greedy Institution * A Worst-Case Scenario * Surgeons in This Day and Age * Notes * References * Index
£27.86
Manchester University Press The Sociology of Unemployment
Book SynopsisAn analysis of the experience and governance of unemploymentTable of Contents1. Introduction – Tom Boland and Ray GriffinPart I: Being unemployed2. Talk: Nothing to be done – Tom Boland3. Dialog: Focus groups with young and mature unemployed – Jennifer Yeager and Jonathon Culleton4. City: Redundant workers, forgotten citizens? The case of Waterford Crystal – Josh Lalor5. Places: Graceful living: The experience of unemployment and the built environment – John O’Brien6. Rural: Beyond the deprivation theory: examining rural experience – Gordon B. Cooke, Deidre Hutchings, Jimmy Donaghey and Isik U. ZeytinogluPart II: Becoming unemployed7. Forms: Up one: observations on decoding a form of unemployment – Ray Griffin8. Spaces: Autoethnographies of Irish social welfare offices – Tom Boland and Ray Griffin9. Job-seeking: Making a self for the labour market – Tom Boland10. Experiencing activisation: Ireland’s new pathway? – Tom BolandPart III: Knowing unemployment11. Media: Nothing to be said – Tom Boland, Rose Shearer and Aisling Tuite12. Statistics: On the statistical composition of unemployment – Ray Griffin and John O’BrienConclusionIndex
£23.83
Cornell University Press A World of Work
Book SynopsisEver wonder what it would be like to be a Parisian street magician? A fish farmer in Norway? A costume designer in Bollywood? This playful and accessible book looks at different types of work around the world.Trade Review"I read with real pleasure and enjoyment this imaginative collection of essays produced mostly by established anthropologists, and a few others who are practitioners of their crafts, on a quirky diversity of jobs. Charmingly, Ilana Gershon offers this collection as 'a graduation gift to my students, a bouquet of possibilities so that you can start thinking in concrete detail about what you need to know to do many different kinds of unusual jobs.' A very valuable gift indeed for the sorts of job markets that a highly cosmopolitan and ethnically diverse college student body faces today. I was charmed by its imaginative and readable format, and A World of Work is also quite a deep collection on the nature of work in a number of specializations. It is for anyone who enjoys the drama, humor, and achievement of applying learned skills in everyday life." -- George E. Marcus, Director of the Center for Ethnography, University of California, Irvine, co,-author of Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary"This delightful book takes the reader into the everyday work lives of people all over the world. What is it like to be doctor in Malawi, a magician in Paris, a crime scene investigator in Sweden? Each chapter is unexpected and engaging. You'll discover your own work and cultural underpinnings by experiencing how different life is for others. This is the most interesting and entertaining job-oriented book I’ve read in a long time." -- Nicholas Lore, best-selling author of The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and SuccessTable of ContentsIntroduction by Ilana Gershon1. Letter to a Young Malawian Doctor by Claire Wendland and Chiwoza Bandawe2. What You Need to Know to Be a Fish Farmer in West Norway by Marianne Elisabeth Lien and John Law3. How to Be a Magician in Paris by Graham M. Jones with Loïc Marquet4. Being a Village Court Magistrate in Papua New Guinea by Melissa Demian5. The Chaplain: Being a Physician of the Soul in a Secular Age by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan and Christopher Swift6. Being a Crime Scene Technician in Sweden by Corinna Kruse7. Playing Piano without a Piano in Bolivia by Michelle Bigenho8. Making Do in Perpetual Crisis: How to Be a Journalist in Buryatia by Kathryn E. Graber9. How to Be a Professional Organizer in the United States by Carrie M. Lane10. The Character in Question: How to Design Film Costumes in India by Lovleen Bains and Clare Wilkinson11. Reflections from a Life on the Line: How to Be a Factory Worker by Caitrin Lynch and Warren Chamberlain12. How to Be a Cell Phone Repair Technician by Amanda Kemble, Briel Kobak, Joshua A. Bell, and Joel Kuipers13. Becoming a Professional Wrestler in Mexico City by Heather Levi14. The Pains and Peaks of Being a Ballerina in London by Helena WulffAfterword by Jean LaveList of Contributors Index
£19.94
University of Toronto Press Contingent Work Disrupted Lives
Book SynopsisContingent Work, Disrupted Lives examines the repercussions of economic globalization on several manufacturing-dependent rural communities in Canada. Foregrounding a distinct interest in the ''grassroots'' effects of such contemporary corporate strategies as plant closures and downsizing, authors Anthony Winson and Belinda Leach consider the impact of this restructuring on the residents of various communities. The authors argue that the new rural economy involves a fundamental shift in the stability and security of people''s lives and, ultimately, it causes wrenching change and an arduous struggle as rural dwellers struggle to rebuild their lives in the new economic terrain. Beginning with broader theoretical and empirical literature on global changes in the economy and the effects of these changes on labour, the text then focuses exploration on manufacturing in Ontario with an analysis of five community case studies. Winson and Leach give considerable attention to th
£29.70
Southern Illinois University Press Domestic Occupations Spatial Rhetorics and
Book SynopsisExplores women’s complex and changing relationship to the home and how that affected their entry into the workplace. Jessica Enoch examines the spatial rhetorics that defined the home in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and considers how its construction and reconstruction has shaped women’s efforts at taking on new kinds of work.
£36.71
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC StartUp Century
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAttempting entrepreneurship changed my life. This brilliant book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand why the world has changed irrevocably and we are all entrepreneurs now. -- Baroness Martha Lane-Fox * Chancellor, The Open University, Board of Chanel and previously Board of Twitter *We need more entrepreneurs, risk-takers and wealth creators. This vital book is packed with good ideas that will help budding entrepreneurs seize on new technologies and succeed in a fiercely competitive world. -- Sir James Dyson * Chief Engineer and Founder of Dyson *Every technological revolution changes the conditions for business and the conditions of work. Understanding how the change is happening now and how it can be facilitated is crucial for the social and economic success of any country. This book is a guide for both understanding and effective action. -- Professor Carlota Perez * Author of Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital *Careers will be wildly different in the era ahead, driven by a surge in entrepreneurship and the human desire to stand out through creativity as productivity is achieved through compute. In Start-Up Century, James captures the forces at play to empower people with ideas to build. -- Scott Belsky * Founder of Behance and Author of The Messy Middle *James argues insightfully why, today more than ever, is the time to start up and what governments and institutions do to support the self-employed. If you are not yet convinced entrepreneurship is good for the world, read this! -- Maria Raga * Former CEO of Depop *New technologies, especially AI, are opening up entrepreneurial opportunities everywhere. This timely book covers how we can best navigate this new world of work and the challenges it presents. -- Suranga Chandratillake OBE * Partner at Balderton and Member of the Prime Minister’s Council of Science and Technology *A fascinating book, bursting with bold and practical ideas for how we can flourish in the 21st century, from one of the great technological minds of our time. -- Daniel Susskind * Author of A World Without Work and Growth: A Reckoning *In this fascinating book, James explains why entrepreneurship has never been more prevalent – or more important. An in-depth analysis and useful guide to what’s causing this shift, it’s also a powerful rallying cry for why start-ups are so essential to our future. The next few decades will be driven by builders rather than big companies. Start-Up Century shows why. -- Mustafa Suleyman * Co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI and Author of The Coming Wave *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Building something new Chapter 2: What’s an entrepreneur Chapter 3: The speed of change Chapter 4: The rise and fall of the factory Chapter 5: The rise and fall of the firm Chapter 6: Putting passion back into the economy Chapter 7: Entrepreneurial frontiers Chapter 8: For better or worse Chapter 9: Building the digital scaffolds Chapter 10: Educating entrepreneurs Chapter 11: A new skills bargain Chapter 12: Keeping the balance Chapter 13: The public innovator Chapter 14: Funding the future Chapter 15: The digital dividend Sources Acknowledgements
£25.00
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
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
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Work
Book SynopsisMuch of our life involves working, preparing for work, searching for work, or thinking and worrying about work. Whether paid or unpaid, free or coerced, full-time, part-time, or zero-hours, work defines us and helps shape our behavior both on and off the job. In this accessible book, leading labor economist Bruce Pietrykowski offers a highly engaging exploration of the history and contemporary organization of work under capitalism. His clear presentation of the theoretical debates is illustrated by real-world examples from across the globe and a skillful account of alternatives that point toward a post-capitalist future. Employing a progressive, worker-centered vision that goes beyond mainstream economics, he examines themes ranging from inequality, care work, and the gig economy to technological change and a universal basic income. His analysis emphasizes power, conflict, solidarity, and cooperation, interpreted through the lenses of class, race, gender, and place. This comprehensive and highly readable book will be of interest to students of economics, sociology, labor studies, and politics seeking to learn more about work and workers in the global economy, as well as interested general readers.Trade Review�This bright, readable, and radical overview of labor economics points a smart finger at the work that goes on behind and beyond capitalist employment.�Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts �This book provides a lucid and readable introduction to the political economy of work for students and non-economists. Drawing on Marxist, feminist, and Post-Keynesian schools of thought, and a wealth of historical examples, Pietrykowski provides a toolkit to break the intellectual fetters of mainstream economics. Starting with the question of what is special about labor, Pietrykowski's discussion covers labor-market inequality, work in the household, employer behavior, worker ownership, technological change, and much more.�Ian Greer, Cornell University�Bruce Pietrykowski has written a sharp and nuanced critique of mainstream perspectives in labor economics that will broaden readers' understanding of what constitutes �work� in the modern economy.�Journal of Labor and Society�Very insightful...the book functions as Cliff Notes...for the classics and gives interested readers a wealth of citations and material on contemporary debates.�Daniel James Joseph, Labour
£42.75
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Will the gig economy prevail?
Book SynopsisIncreasingly, employees are being falsely treated as ‘self-employed’. This phenomenon – the ‘gig economy’ – is seen as the inevitable shape of things to come. In this book, Colin Crouch takes a step back and questions this logic. He shows how the idea of an employee – a stable status that involves a bundle of rights – has maintained a curious persistence. Examining the ways companies are attacking these rights, from proffering temporary work to involuntary part-time work to ‘gigging’, he reveals the paradoxes of the situation and argues that it should not and cannot continue. He goes on to propose reforms to reverse the perverse incentives that reward irresponsible employers and punish good ones, setting out an agenda for a realistic future of secure work. Crouch’s penetrating analysis will be of interest to everyone interested in the future of work, the welfare state and the gig economy.Trade Review‘A timely and thought-provoking read, lifting the lid on how the gig economy is undermining workers, damaging society and compromising our prosperity. It ought to act as a wake-up call to policy-makers and politicians.’Frances O’Grady, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress ‘Crouch presents a careful discussion of the relevant data and posits a powerful set of proposals for reforming labour markets in the era of the gig economy.’Steven Vallas, Northeastern University
£33.25
Springer International Publishing AG Work-Life Balance in Africa: A Critical Approach
Book SynopsisWork-life balance has drawn much attention from academic researchers, professionals, and politicians over the past two decades. However, despite the increased interest globally, there has been an under-representation of academic work on work-life balance across the African continent. So, this book serves as a collection of cases from various contexts across Africa and an exploration of the challenges and how best to manage human resources in this ‘Mother Continent’ with phenomenal potential. The book’s contributions draw on various types of research (conceptual, theoretical and empirical) and incorporate contextual issues such as technology, politics, culture, and economics to supplement the readers’ insights into the varying work-life balance experiences in African countries. By highlighting theoretical underpinnings and emphasising the practical relevance of issues related to managing work and non-work commitments, this book will offer an insightful guide for students and scholars interested in Business Management, Human Resource Management, Sociology of Work, and Industrial and Organisational Psychology in developing economies.Table of ContentsChapter 1: An Introduction: The Nature and Determinants of Work-Life Balance Hakeem Adeniyi Ajonbadi, Chima Mordi and Olatunji David Adekoya Chapter 2: Reimagining Work-Life Balance from Africa: Insights for Renewed Human Resource Management Ameeta Jaga and Bongekile P. Mabaso Chapter 3: A Critical Approach to Work-Life Balance: The Moroccan Perspective Siham Lekchiri and Barbara A.W. Eversole Chapter 4: Work-Life Balance Experiences in Nigeria: Institutional and Sociocultural Perspectives Chantal Epie Chapter 5: Traditional and Contemporary Perspectives of Work-Life Balance Research and Practices: A Case of Kenya Gladys Muasya Chapter 6: An Exploration of Work-Life Balance Practices in Ethiopia: Leaders’ Role in Incorporating Family-Friendly Policies and Initiatives and Employee Coping Mechanisms Abeba Beyene Mengistu Chapter 7: Engaging the Flexibility Paradox: Working from Home and Work-Family Conflict among Working Adults in South Africa Kwaku Abrefa Busia, Pascal Agbadi and Zitha Mokomane Chapter 8: Work-Family Conflict among Formal and Informal Sector Working Mothers in Urban Ghana Kwaku Abrefa Busia Chapter 9: Understanding the Concept and Practice of Work-life Balance: A Case of Nigerian Entrepreneurial Women Loliya Agbani Kagher and Kaine Chinwah Chapter 10: Work-family Policies and Practices in South Africa: Highlights from a Family-Responsible Employer Survey Zitha Mokomane Chapter 11: Work-Life Balance Experiences in the Algerian Health Sector: A Work-Life Border Theory Perspective Hakeem Adeniyi Ajonbadi, Mokhtar Ghoul, Olatunji David Adekoya, Chima Mordi and Florence Chiwetu
£132.99
University of Chicago Press Free Labor
Book SynopsisThe fact that WEP workers are denied the legal status of employees and make far less money and enjoy fewer rights than do city workers has sparked fierce opposition. This book focuses on changes in the language and organization of the political coalitions on both sides of the debate.Trade Review"Brimming with novel analyses and methodological strategies, Free Labor presents both a compelling analysis of the rise of workfare as a neoliberal policy project and a finegrained examination of the travails and partial successes of anti-WEP coalitions." - Marc Steinberg, author of Fighting Words"
£76.00
Columbia University Press An Empire of Touch Womens Political Labor and the
Book SynopsisPoulomi Saha offers an innovative account of women's political labor in East Bengal over more than a century. Through a material account of text and textile, An Empire of Touch crafts a new narrative of gendered political labor under empire.Trade ReviewA brilliant provocation in the debate about female political subjectivity in the Global South, An Empire of Touch is an important and timely book. Going beyond the typical focus on women’s empowerment and independence, it demonstrates how women in East Bengal through their symbolic and material labor produce the terms of their own political self-conception. Saha’s deft and sophisticated readings of the material particulars of women’s labor reveal a relational politics of the self that expands what and who count as political. -- Mrinalini Sinha, author of Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an EmpireSaha has given us a thought-provoking, incisive, elegant, and necessary work wherein she recasts and regenerates postcolonial criticism. This book is well written, beautifully researched, creative, and politically vital. -- Erin Manning, author of Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, SovereigntySaha proposes that the diaphanous nature first of muslin and then of other fabrics constitutes neither a simple product with exchange value nor an ephemeral or affective form of labor we have come to associate with certain kinds of women’s work. Forms of touch are woven into the fabric of colonial and postcolonial exchange. And they carry a spectral quality. Rather like the visor effect in Derrida’s reading of Hamlet in Specters of Marx, fabric casts a shadow on abstracted beings moving through history teleologically, and weaves a different affect. -- Ranjana Khanna, author of Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation, 1830 to the PresentA must-read for students of Bengal, historical and contemporary. Given the diversity of themes, the book will appeal to a wide range of scholars, of political movements, literature and language, social and economic history, colonialism and imperialism, labor and artisanal production, and development and gender studies. * H-Asia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Reading the Body Politic1. Virgin SuicidesPart II: The Fetish of Nationalism2. The Fetish Touch3. Oceanic FeelingsPart III: International Basket Case4. Archive Asylum5. Machine MadeEpilogueGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex
£22.00
University of Notre Dame Press Working
Book SynopsisThis text proposes different ways of thinking about work. It explores many of the ways in which human beings have thought about the place of work in life - its meanings, its limits, and its relation to other obligations, to the life cycle, to play and to rest.Trade Review"… a tool-chest for anyone who wishes to think through the relation between God's calling and our daily tasks." —Vocation, 2005“Working is a treasure of 75 selections from sources as diverse as Aristotle, Xenophon, and the Bible, to Longfellow, Marx, Michael Novak and Josef Pieper. Meilaender deserves our gratitude for bringing together such a workman-like short library of poetry, fiction, and thoughtfulness. Anyone who works or thinks about work will find something here to nourish his soul.” —Pro Ecclesia“[A] fascinating, instructive and entertaining anthology on the subject. It is a worthy resource for all congregational libraries.” —Church and Synagogue Libraries“...shining gems of reflection and narrative. It is both a thoughtful and accessible compilation.” —Religious Studies Review“This volume provides a fine resource for serious reflection—in the context of our Western moral heritage—on how the working life might become a more integral part of the good life.” —Religion and Liberty“This anthology as a whole will promote important reflections on the ‘ethical’ meaning of work and is highly recommended for undergraduate, theological, and public libraries. A very valuable resource for undergraduate courses in ethics.” —Choice Magazine“Meilaender is a writer of elegance and power; a thinker of subtlety and grace. He reminds us of the compelling and continuing force of Scriptural and theological understandings of work. Most importantly, in a time when work dominates so much of our lives—or busyness does, at any rate—he asks us, through his commentary and selections, to ponder the meaning and role of work in our lives and to assess work within a wider framework of God’s creation and purpose for us.” —Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, The University of Chicago, and author of Augustine and the Limits of Politics“Who could have put together a quilt of passages as diverse and imaginatively patterned as the selections Gilbert Meilaender has chosen—from Marx to Mark Twain—for this anthology on working? W. H. Auden perhaps. Meilaender has also favored us with a wise and elegantly written introduction to a volume that should enrich personal reflection and stimulate classroom and public discussion.” —William F. May, Cary M. Maguire Professor of Ethics, Southern Methodist University
£15.19
University of Washington Press Tea and Solidarity
Book SynopsisTrade Review"With clear, heartfelt prose, methodological imaginativeness, and careful attention to intersecting axes of power and distinction, this book not only makes essential contributions to the fields of anthropology and gender studies but also to scholars interested in South Asia, decoloniality, and ethical research methods." * New Books in Anthropology (NBN) *"This vivid ethnography lifts the veil on a community that has been marginalised and invisibilized but whose labor and contributions are central to make sense of SL’s global recognition as a leading tea exporter that has contributed greatly to the country’s economic growth and history as a post-colonial state in SA. " * Lekh *"Tea and Solidarity reinvigorates conversations in feminist political economy and presents an exciting and inspiring example of the richness of the anthropologyof work today." * Anthropology of Work Review *"Tea and Solidarity is an excellent read and provokes an engagement with such issues as positionality, situated knowledge, ethical responsibilities as researchers, and more importantly the transformative potential of transnational rights-based interventions. By focusing on ‘how gender, work and value making shape Hill-Country Tamil Women’s lives’, Jegathesan shifts the terms of feminist engagement to stand in solidarity with them." * Gender, Place & Culture *"[A]n insightful, rich ethnography, which stands as an original contribution to the plantation as an object of anthropological inquiry." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *
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University of California Press Cut Loose
Book SynopsisYears after the Great Recession, the economy is still weak, and an unprecedented number of workers have sunk into long spells of unemployment. This book provides an account of the experiences of some of these men and women, through the example of a historically important group: autoworkers.Trade Review"Rich... Chen constructs a skilled analysis of overlapping issues rising from differences of race, gender and family status." -- Angelia R. Wilson Times Higher Education "The book is full of accounts, many containing moving, first-person stories of the impact on individuals and families of difficult work... Recomended." -- C. K. Piehl CHOICE connect "Cut Loose is an illuminating look at the impacts of prolonged joblessness that accompanied economic restructuring for a group of long-term unemployed autoworkers in Michigan and Ontario in 2009-10." American Journal of Sociology "[Chen's] in-depth interviews are both empathetic and perceptive... Important." Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. They Had It Coming 2. All This Garbage from Life: Education and the Capital Speedup 3. Decline and Fall: Hardship, Race, and the Social Safety Net 4. Half a Man: Fragile Families and the Unmarriageable Unemployed 5. Vicious Circles: The Structure of Power and the Culture of Judgment 6. Loser: The Failures of the American Dream 7. There Go I Appendix: Research Methods and Policy Details Notes Index
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University of California Press Scratching Out a Living Latinos Race and Work in the Deep South 38 California Series in Public Anthropology
Book SynopsisHow has Latino immigration transformed the South? In what ways is the presence of these newcomers complicating efforts to organize for workplace justice? This is a portrait of neoliberal globalization and calls for organizing strategies that bring diverse working communities together in mutual construction of a more just future.Trade Review"Scratching Out a Living is a model of engaged scholarship. In this timely, beautifully-written, and deeply researched activism-based ethnography about the poultry industry in the American South, Stuesse demonstrates how workers are exploited and divided on the basis of racial and ethnic identities within the context of neoliberal globalization. Without underestimating the difficulties, her research reveals that the basis for inter-racial working class solidarity among African Americans and Latinos does indeed exist in the newest 'new' South." -Judges' Comments, 2017 C.L.R. James Award for Published Books for Academic or General Audiences Working-Class Studies AssociationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Southern Fried: Globalization and Immigrant Transformations 2. Dixie Chicken: Racial Segregation, Poultry Integration, and the Making of the "New" South in Central Mississippi 3. The Caged Bird Sings for Freedom: Black Struggles for Civil and Labor Rights, 1950-1980 4. To Get to the Other Side: The Hispanic Project and the Rise of the Nuevo South 5. Pecking Order: Latino Newcomers, Receptions, and Racial Hierarchies 6. A Bone to Pick: Labor Control and the Painful Work of Chicken Processing 7. Sticking Our Necks Out: Challenges to Union and Workers' Center Organizing 8. Walking on Eggshells: Illegality, Employer Sanctions, and Disposable Workers 9. Plucked: Labor Contractors and Immigrant Exclusion 10. Flying Upwind: Toward a New Southern Solidarity Postscript Home to Roost: Reflections on Activist Research Notes References Index
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University of California Press Unsustainable
Book SynopsisFrom famously humble origins, Amazon has grown to become one of the most successful businesses in history. In its effort to provide its trademark fast and convenient Prime delivery, the company built a vast worldwide network of fulfillment centers and warehouses. Unsustainable looks inside the company's warehouses to reveal that the rise of Amazon is only made possible by the exploitation of workers' labor and communities' resources. Juliann Emmons Allison and Ellen Reese expose the real-world repercussions of these pernicious strategies through a chilling case study of the socioeconomic and environmental harms associated with the largely unchecked growth of warehousing in Inland Southern California, one of the nation's largest logistics hubs, where Amazon is the largest private-sector employer. Tracing the rise of grassroots resistance to the warehouse industry by workers and communities across this region, the country, and the globe, Unsustainable provides fresh insight into one of tTrade Review"The book develops a broad and insightful analysis of the human and environmental costs that flow from Amazon’s virtually unchecked domination of local communities, low-wage labor markets, and the workers whose labor it exploits." * Social Forces *
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Princeton University Press The Emergence of Organizations and Markets
Book SynopsisA dynamic framework for studying social emergenceThe social sciences have sophisticated models of choice and equilibrium but little understanding of the emergence of novelty. Where do new alternatives, new organizational forms, and new types of people come from? Combining biochemical insights about the origin of life with innovative and historically oriented social network analyses, John Padgett and Walter Powell develop a theory about the emergence of organizational, market, and biographical novelty from the coevolution of multiple social networks. They demonstrate that novelty arises from spillovers across intertwined networks in different domains. In the short run actors make relations, but in the long run relations make actors.This theory of novelty emerging from intersecting production and biographical flows is developed through formal deductive modeling and through a wide range of original historical case studies. Padgett and Powell build on the biochemiTrade Review"[Padgett and Powell] see the 'percolation of perturbations' through complex networks as the next research frontier in the program of study that they propose, and they hope their initial forays in The Emergence of Organizations and Markets will inspire readers across the sciences to pick up the torch. If that happens, this theoretically innovative contribution to social science will have catalyzed the regeneration of historical applications of complexity science."--Michael Macy, Science "This important book ... combines insights from biochemical origins of life and social network analysis to study the emergence of organizational forms that have been important in the development of market societies. This unusual synthesis provides original perspectives to the fourteen case studies in the book. These studies make sense of detailed relational data through models of biological evolution. In addition to being informative on some of the major turning points in economic history, the case studies suggest new explanations for the background and origins of major organizational innovations."--Ozge Dilaver Kalkan, JASSS "Combining biochemical insights about the origin of life with innovative and historically oriented social net-work analyses, John Padgett and Walter Powell develop a theory about the emergence of organizational market, and biographical novelty from the coevolution of multiple social networks."--World Book Industry "Padgett and Powell have put together an imposing positive theoretical and empirical account of organizational novelty that bears even the potential to inspire the natural sciences in return, irrespective of any remaining qualms on the part of less naturalistic social scientists."--Guido Mollering, Economic Sociology European Newsletter "The Emergence of Organizations and Markets will unquestionably change how scholars think about innovation and the economy, highlighting the importance of coevolution across multiple network domains and the duality between actors and social relations."--James N. Baron, American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsContributors ix List of Illustrations xiii List of Tables xvii Acknowledgments xix Chapter 1 The Problem of Emergence John F. Padgett and Walter W. Powell 1 Part I Autocatalysis 31 * Chapter 2 Autocatalysis in Chemistry and the Origin of Life John F. Padgett 33 * Chapter 3 Economic Production as Chemistry II John F. Padgett, Peter McMahan, and Xing Zhong 70 * Chapter 4 From Chemical to Social Networks John F. Padgett 92 Part II Early Capitalism and State Formation 115 * Chapter 5 The Emergence of Corporate Merchant-Banks in Dugento Tuscany John F. Padgett 121 * Chapter 6 Transposition and Refunctionality: The Birth of Partnership Systems in Renaissance Florence John F. Padgett 168 * Chapter 7 Country as Global Market: Netherlands, Calvinism, and the Joint-Stock Company John F. Padgett 208 * Chapter 8 Conflict Displacement and Dual Inclusion in the Construction of Germany Jonathan Obert and John F. Padgett 235 Part III Communist Transitions 267 * Chapter 9 The Politics of Communist Economic Reform: Soviet Union and China John F. Padgett 271 * Chapter 10 Deviations from Design: The Emergence of New Financial Markets and Organizations in Yeltsin's Russia Andrew Spicer 316 * Chapter 11 The Emergence of the Russian Mobile Telecom Market: Local Technical Leadership and Global Investors in a Shadow of the State Valery Yakubovich and Stanislav Shekshnia 334 * Chapter 12 Social Sequence Analysis: Ownership Networks, Political Ties, and Foreign Investment in Hungary David Stark and Balazs Vedres 347 Part IV Contemporary Capitalism and Science 375 * Chapter 13 Chance, Necessite, et Naivete: Ingredients to Create a New Organizational Form Walter W. Powell and Kurt Sandholtz 379 * Chapter 14 Organizational and Institutional Genesis: The Emergence of High-Tech Clusters in the Life Sciences Walter W. Powell, Kelley Packalen, and Kjersten Whittington 434 * Chapter 15 An Open Elite: Arbiters, Catalysts, or Gatekeepers in the Dynamics of Industry Evolution? Walter W. Powell and Jason Owen-Smith 466 * Chapter 16 Academic Laboratories and the Reproduction of Proprietary Science: Modeling Organizational Rules through Autocatalytic Networks Jeannette A. Colyvas and Spiro Maroulis 496 * Chapter 17 Why the Valley Went First: Aggregation and Emergence in Regional Inventor Networks Lee Fleming, Lyra Colfer, Alexandra Marin, and Jonathan McPhie 520 * Chapter 18 Managing the Boundaries of an "Open" Project Fabrizio Ferraro and Siobhan O'Mahony 545 * Coda: Reflections on the Study of Multiple Networks Walter W. Powell and John F. Padgett 566 Index of Authors 571 Index of Subjects 573
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Princeton University Press Chasing Innovation
Book Synopsis"A vivid look at how India has developed the idea of entrepreneurial citizens as leaders mobilizing society and how people try to live that promise"--Provided by publisher.Trade Review"Winner of the ICA Outstanding Book Award, International Communication Association""Winner of the Diana Forsythe Prize, Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing of the General Anthropology Division, and the Society for the Anthropology of Work""... profoundly comparative with important theoretical implications. This book certainly needs to be read carefully and very widely." * American Journal of Sociology *"Brilliant ethnography."---Elliott Prasse-Freeman, Asian Journal of Social Science
£80.75
Pluto Press The Spirit of Marikana
Book SynopsisA comprehensive examination of the contemporary mineworkers’ movement in South Africa, in a vivid ethnographic narrativeTrade Review'Opens a window on the struggles of South Africa miners to overcome not only the opposition of the plutocratic mineowners, but also the opposition of the entrenched union establishment created in an earlier era of upheaval.' -- Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York Graduate Center'Highlights the crucial role of ordinary workers in changing history. It is a richly textured portrayal of the lives and activities of the grassroots worker leaders who organised the historic platinum strikes in South Africa. It is a path-breaking history of the labour movement and a scholarly tribute to the agency of the slain Marikana miners and their comrades' -- Trevor Ngwane, South African socialist and anti-apartheid activist'The book provides what is currently missing - a detailed and sympathetic history, from within the ranks of the unions and workers committees and in the words of the strikers themselves' -- Leo Zeilig, editor of Class Struggle and Resistance in Africa (2008)'This book provides a fascinating and unique account of a set of pivotal events in recent South African history, as well as insight that is both locally and comparatively profound' -- Dunbar Moodie, Professor of Sociology, Wits University'An incisive yet empathetic account' -- African Studies Quarterly'Exceptionally extraordinary' -- CLR JournalTable of ContentsGlossary of South African Organisations List of Acronyms and Abbreviations List of Leaders Timeline of Key Events Acknowledgements Maps 1. Introduction 2. The Spark Underground 3. The Spirit of Marikana is Born 4. Amplats Carries the Torch 5. The Rise of the AMCU and the Demise of Worker Committees 6. Insurgent Trade Unionism and the Great Strike of 2014 Postscript Appendices Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Pluto Press Social Reproduction Theory
Book SynopsisHow do childcare, healthcare, education, family life and the roles of gender, race and sexuality affect our lives under capitalism?Trade Review'Theoretically robust and empirically grounded chapters demonstrate the enduring value of a Marxist feminist approach. A welcome collection!' -- Rosemary Hennessy, L.H. Favrot Professor of Humanities and Professor of English, Rice University, and author of Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism'The varied and suggestive essays in this rich collection are of great value, not only to newcomers to the field, but also to those already grounded in this rich arena for inquiry and organising' -- Hester Eisenstein, author of Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women's Labour and Ideas to Exploit the World (2009)'A must read for those who want to go beyond the binaries and the 'social' conceived as an aggregation of intersecting systems or overlapping spheres. It is an ambitious project aiming for epistemologies of resistance' -- Himani Bannerji, author of The Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism, and Gender (2000)'A marvellous new collection' -- Jordy Rosenberg, Los Angeles Review of Books'Every socialist needs to read it now' -- Socialist Action'Feminist thinking about questions of social reproduction offers a much-needed break with the impasse that mainstream feminism finds itself in - and this collection provides a fantastic weapon for that task' -- Red PepperTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword by Lise Vogel 1. Introduction: Mapping Social Reproduction Theory - Tithi Bhattacharya 2. Crisis of Care? On the Social-Reproductive Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism - Nancy Fraser 3. Without Reserves - Salar Mohandesi and Emma Teitelman 4. How Not to Skip Class: Social Reproduction of Labor and the Global Working Class - Tithi Bhattacharya 5. Intersections and Dialectics: Critical Reconstructions in Social Reproduction Theory - David McNally 6. Children, Childhood and Capitalism: A Social Reproduction Perspective - Susan Ferguson 7. Mostly Work, Little Play: Social Reproduction, Migration and Paid Domestic Work in Montreal - Carmen Teeple Hopkins 8. Pensions and Social Reproduction - Serap Saritas Oran 9. Body Politics: The Social Reproduction of Sexualities - Alan Sears 10. From Social Reproduction Feminism to the Women's Strike - Cinzia Arruzza Notes Index
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Cornell University Press Chinese Workers in Comparative Perspective
Book SynopsisAs the world's factory China exerts an enormous pressure on workers around the world. Many nations have had to adjust to a new global political and economic reality, and so has China. Its workers and its official trade union federation have had to contend with rapid changes in industrial relations. Anita Chan argues that Chinese labor is too often viewed from a prism of exceptionalism and too rarely examined comparatively, even though valuable insights can be derived by analyzing China's workforce and labor relations side by side with the systems of other nations. The contributors to Chinese Workers in Comparative Perspective compare labor issues in China with those in the United States, Australia, Japan, India, Pakistan, Germany, Russia, Vietnam, and Taiwan. They also draw contrasts among different types of workplaces within China. The chapters address labor regimes and standards, describe efforts to reshape industrial relations to improve the circumstances of workersTrade ReviewMost academic research about the working conditions of Chinese factory workers has been focused on China itself, with little or no reference and comparison to workers and working conditions in other countries. However, this new book edited by Chan (China Research Center, Univ. of Technology, Sydney, Australia) attempts to convince readers that China is not exceptional and that it is critical to use a comparative perspective as an analytical tool to explain Chinas labor conditions. -- R.M. Ramazani * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Fallacy of Chinese Exceptionalism by Anita ChanPart I. Historical and Structural Developments1. Exporting Corporatism? German and Japanese Transnationals' Regimes of Production in China by Boy Lüthje2. Globalization and Labor in China and the United States: Convergence and Divergence by Mingwei Liu, Frederick Scott Bentley, Mary Huong Thi Evans, and Susan J. SchurmanPart II. Labor Standards3. Recomposing Chinese Migrant and State-Sector Workers by Kevin Lin4. Industrial Upgrading and Work: The Impact of Industrial Transformation on Labor in Guangdong’s Garment and IT Industries by Florian Butollo5. The Working and Living Conditions of Garment Workers in China and Vietnam: A Comparative Study by Kaxton Siu6. Race to the Bottom: The Soccer Ball Industry in China, Pakistan, and India by Anita Chan, Hong Xue, Peter Lund-Thomsen, Khalid Nadvi, and Navjote KharaPart III. Trade Unions, Collective Bargaining, and the Right to Strike7. Labor NGOs under State Corporatism: Comparing China since the 1990s with Taiwan in the 1980s by Chris King-chi Chan and Yu-bin Chiu8. One Step Forward: Collective Bargaining Experiments in Vietnam and China by Katie Quan9. Creating a Right to Strike in China: Some Lessons from the Australian Experience by Thomas Nice and Sean Cooney10. Trade Union Reform in Russia and China: Harmony, Partnership, and Power from Below by Tim PringleNotes Contributors Index
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. A New Labor Movement for the New Century
Book SynopsisThis work charts the possibilities for a more vibrant, inclusive and democratic labour movement in the USA. It discusses issues such as: how is labour responding to a workforce increasingly made up of women and people of colour?; and what are the best tactics for organizing and mobilizing?
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Cornell University Press No One Size Fits All
Book SynopsisWorkers and their organizations are facing enormous obstacles today. Corporations wield immense power, not only in the marketplace but also in politics, which has, for many years, effectively blocked the updating of antiquated laws governing labor relations. Instead, unions have been subjected to a steady onslaught of attacks at the state level...Table of ContentsIntroductionSection One: Building Organization1. Understanding Worker Center Trajectories2. Sizing Up Worker Center Income (2008–2014): A Study of Revenue Size, Stability, and Streams3. Labor Unions/Worker Center Relationships, Joint Efforts, and Experiences4. Union Organizing, Advocacy, and Services at the Nexus of Immigrant and Labor Rights5. The National Black Worker Center Project: Grappling with the Power-Building Imperative6. "Greedy" Institutions or Beloved Communities? Assessing the Job Satisfaction of Organizers7. Innovative Union Strategies and the Struggle to Reinvent Collective Bargaining8. The Strike as the Ultimate Structure Test: Rebuilding Working-Class Power Through Mass Participation StrikesSection Two: Bargaining9. Bargaining for the Common Good: An Emerging Tool for Rebuilding Worker Power10. A Primer on 21st-Century BargainingSection Three: State and Local Policy11. "$15 and a Union": Searching for Workers' Power in the Fight for $15 Movement12. Governing the Market from Below: Setting Labor Standards at the State and Local Levels13. Expanding Domestic Worker Rights in the 21st Century: Statewide Campaigns for Domestic Worker Bills of RightsSection Four: Working Up the Chain14. Worker-Driven Social Responsibility: A Replicable Model for the Protection of Human Rights in Global Supply Chains15. Taming Globalization: Raising Labor Standards Across Supply Chains16. Mobilizing High-Road Employers and Private SectorStrategies: National Domestic Workers Alliance17. Union–Cooperative Alliances: Conditions for Realizing Their Transformational Potential
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Refusal of Work
Book SynopsisDavid Frayne is a sociology teacher and social researcher, based at Cardiff University, UK. You can follow him @theworkdogma.Trade ReviewWhere other writers elaborate the scourge of neoliberalism—surely an important and pressing topic—they are less clear about how we, as individuals and political movements, might begin to build alternatives. Addressing this lacuna, Frayne’s approach is a refreshing addition to the conversation. * Contrivers' Review *A well-written romp through theory and critiques of work… Amid the hard-work rhetoric, this book feels liberating and a worthy provocation. * Financial Times *Leads the reader to question if the growing disillusionment with work could blossom into a political alternative and create change on a societal level. * Impakter *Rigorous arguments for the desirability of an end – or a radical reduction – to the amount of work we do, and searching analyses of how this might be achieved. * LSE Review of Books *Provides an easily understood theoretical framework which legitimates the feelings of discomfort, dissatisfaction — or worse — which many encounter in the course of their working life. * The Morning Star *Frayne has accomplished something worthy of admiration. He has written the best primer and introduction to the anti-work philosophy; a fascinating ethnography of people who actively try to resist work. * The New Rambler *The best primer and introduction to anti-work philosophy. * The New Rambler *A humane reassessment of the ethics of work which will appeal to anyone who has wondered whether the job they are fighting so hard to get, or to hold on to, really is worth the struggle. At its heart lies the provocative and sometimes poignant accounts of those individuals who may be showing the way towards an engagement with work which is better for all of us. * Ralph Fevre, author of The Demoralization of Western Culture and Trouble at Work *A fascinating book…a very concise run down of philosophical ideas and accounts around work, and the possibility for resistance and change….What I enjoyed most was the notion of freedom and the elevation and championing of leisure time. * Reflections on Learning blog *This is the most engaging and comprehensive book I’ve ever read about how work dominates our lives. It is insightful and inspiring and should be read by everyone who goes to work every day, if they can find the time. * Sharon Beder, author of Selling the Work Ethic *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Work Dogma 1. A Provocation 2. Working Pains 3. The Colonising Power of Work 4. The Stronghold of Work 5. The Breaking Point 6. Alternative Pleasures 7. Half a Person 8. From Escapism to Autonomy
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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
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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
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Zone Policeman 88: A Close Range Study of the
Book SynopsisHarry A. Franck was an American travel writer during the first half of the 20th century. Frank took a job on the Panama Canal as a census taker and then as a police officer. This book is a day to day account of the lives of the workers and managers of the Canal Project.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Agricultural Labor in the United States:
Book SynopsisThis book explores the possible economic implications of large shifts in the supply of foreign-born, hired farm labour that could result from substantial changes in U.S. immigration laws or policies. Hired labour is an important input to U.S. agricultural production, accounting for about 17 percent of variable production expenses and about 40 percent of such expenses for fruit, vegetables, and nursery products. Over the past 15 years, roughly half of the hired labourers employed in U.S. crop agriculture have lacked the immigration status needed to work legally in the United States. Thus, changes in immigration laws or policies could lead to markedly different economic outcomes in the agricultural sector and the market for hired farm labour. The same is generally true for other economic sectors that rely on large numbers of unauthorised workers.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Labor Force Characteristics: Race, Ethnicity &
Book SynopsisLabour market differences among the race and ethnicity groups are associated with many factors, not all of which are measurable. These factors include variations across the groups in educational attainment; the occupations and industries in which the groups work; the geographic areas of the country in which the groups are concentrated, including whether they tend to reside in urban or rural settings; and the degree of discrimination encountered in the workplace. This book describes the labor force characteristics and earnings patterns among the largest race and ethnicity groups living in the United States -- Whites, Blacks, Asians, and Hispanics -- and provides detailed data through a set of supporting tables. The book also includes a limited amount of data for American Indians and Alaska Natives and for Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders, people who are of Two or More Races, detailed Hispanic ethnicity and, for the first time, detailed Asian groups. This book also discusses minimum wage worker characteristics from 2013.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Sustainability of the European Social Model:
Book SynopsisThe response of European Union institutions to the Eurocrisis demonstrated their fragile and failing commitment to the role of social policy in advancing European economies and societies. The present volume, exploring the positive scope for such policies, is therefore timely and welcome. While sharply critical of much of what goes on at both EU and several national levels, the authors are constructive in tone and point the way to sustainable alternatives to neoliberalism.'- Colin Crouch, University of Warwick, UK and External Scientific Member, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, GermanyHighly valued by its citizens, the European social model is a defining feature of Europe and the European Union yet is under threat from the effects of both globalisation and the aftermath of the financial crisis. The Sustainability of the European Social Model addresses this issue in light of the current crisis that changed the landscape. It examines how social Europe responds to uncertainties that affect its development from a range of different disciplinary perspectives.The book begins by analysing interactions between EU law and national policies from a comparative perspective, highlighting the legal, social and institutional complexities that constrain the development of 'social Europe' It assesses the sustainability of EU law and policies in the areas of pensions and employment policy and then focuses on two crucial areas of EU social policy: the regulations on working time and the provisions of social services of general interest. The expert contributors compare the experiences of a range of Member States (and also bring in external comparison) to explore topics such as ageing, job quality, social protection and employment policies, social dialogue and the relationship between the various methods of European policymaking such as the 'community method' and the Open Method of Co-ordination. The analyses show that sustainability of the European social model will depend heavily on addressing failings in European governance.Insightful and comprehensive, this book is a detailed and timely resource for academic researchers. Its practical, policy-oriented insights into important issues in social and employment policy, as well as into European policymaking itself, will also be of great interest to practitioners and policymakers.Contributors: J.-C. Barbier, I. Begg, F. Colomb, C. Erhel, J. Gautié, B. Gazier, M. Hartlapp, M. Keune, A. Koukiadaki, P. Marginson, N. Ramos Martín, R. Rogowski, T. Sirovátka, E. Sol, M. van der VosTrade Review‘The response of European Union institutions to the Eurocrisis demonstrated their fragile and failing commitment to the role of social policy in advancing European economies and societies. The present volume, exploring the positive scope for such policies, is therefore timely and welcome. While sharply critical of much of what goes on at both EU and several national levels, the authors are constructive in tone and point the way to sustainable alternatives to neoliberalism.’ -- Colin Crouch, University of Warwick, UK and Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany‘In summary, this collective research has the merit of giving the reader a broad vision of the state of EU influence on specific aspects of social law and redistributive policies. The usefulness of the book is increased by a complete Table of Cases and a well-structured Index. This book is undoubtedly valuable for academics and lawyers interested in the evolution of EU social and economic integration.’ -- Common Market Law ReviewTable of ContentsContents: The Sustainability of the European Social Model Jean-Claude Barbier, Ralf Rogowski and Fabrice Colomb PART 1 EU LAW AND GOVERNANCE OF SOCIAL AND EMPLOYMENT POLICIES 1. The Janus Face of EU Law - A Sociological Perspective on European Law Making and its Influence on Social Policy in the EU Jean-Claude Barbier and Fabrice Colomb 2. EU Governance of Sustainable Development: Social and Environmental Policies Iain Begg 3. European Social Dialogue as Multi-level Governance: Towards more Autonomy and New Dependencies Paul Marginson and Maarten Keune 4. EU Governance on Ageing: Older, Wider and more Influential than the OMCs Miriam Hartlapp 5. In Search of a European Employment Strategy: The Construction of the ‘Job Quality’ Agenda as an Illustrative Case Christine Erhel, Jérôme Gautié and Bernard Gazier PART II THE REGULATION OF WORKING TIME IN EUROPE 6. Sustainability and Uncertainty in Governing European Employment Law - The Community Method as Instrument of Governance: The Case of the EU Working Time Directive Ralf Rogowski 7. The EU Working Time Directive in the Czech Republic Tomáš Sirovátka 8. The Unexpected Consequences of the Application of the EU Working Time Directive in France Fabrice Colomb 9. Governance of EU Labour Law: Implementation of the EU’s Working Time Directive in the Netherlands Els Sol and Nuria Ramos Martín 10. Implementation of the EU Working Time Directive in the United Kingdom Ralf Rogowski PART III SOCIAL SERVICES OF GENERAL (ECONOMIC) INTEREST IN EUROPE 11. Legal Uncertainty in Social Services: A Threat to National Social Protection Systems? Jean-Claude Barbier 12. Services of General Interest, State Aid and Social Housing in the Netherlands Els Sol and Mara van der Vos 13. The Impact of EU Regulation on Social Services of General Interest in the United Kingdom Aristea Koukiadaki 14. Social Services of General Interest in the Czech Republic: Towards Poorly Regulated Markets Tomáš Sirovátka 15. Social Services of General Interest in France: The Uncertain Impact of the Increasing Reach of EU Law Jean-Claude Barbier Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on Transnational Labour Law
Book SynopsisThe editors' substantive introduction and the specially commissioned chapters in this Handbook explore the emergence of transnational labour law and its contested contours by juxtaposing the expansion of traditional legal methods with the proliferation of contemporary alternatives such as indicators, framework agreements and consumer-led initiatives. Key international (ILO, IMF, OECD) and regional (EU, IACHR, SADC) institutions are studied for their coverage of such classic topics as freedom of association, equality, and sectoral labour standard-setting, as well as for the space they provide for dialogue. The volume underscores transnational labour law's capacity to build hard and soft law bridges to migration, climate change and development. The volume roots transnational labour law in a counter-hegemonic struggle for social justice.Bringing together the scholarship of 41 experts from around the globe, this book encompasses and goes beyond the role of international and regional organizations in relation to labour standards and their enforcement, providing new insights into debates around freedom of association, equality and the elimination of forced labour and child labour. By including the influence of consumers in supply chains alongside the more traditional actors in this field such as trade unions, it combines a range of perspectives both theoretical and contextual. Several chapters interrogate whether transnational labour law can challenge domestic labour law's traditional exclusions through expansive approaches to equality.The volume moves beyond WTO linkage debates of the past to consider emerging developments toward social regionalism. Several chapters explore and challenge public and private international aspects of transnational labour law, revealing some fragmentation alongside dynamic experimentation and normative settling. The book argues that 'social justice' is at least as important to the project of transnational labour law today as it was to the establishment of international labour law.Academics, students and practitioners in the fields of labour law, international law, human rights, political science, transnational studies, and corporate social responsibility, will benefit from this critical resource, given the book s eye-opening examination of labour governance in the contemporary economy.Contributors: Z. Adams, P.C. Albertson, J. Allain, R.-M.B. Antoine, A. Asante, P.H. Bamu, M. Barenberg, J.R. Bellace, G. Bensusán, A. Blackett, L. Boisson de Chazournes, S. Charnovitz, B. Chigara, K. Claussen, L. Compa, S. Cooney, S. Deakin, J.M. Diller, D.J. Doorey, R.-C. Drouin, P.M. Dumas, F.C. Ebert, C. Estlund, A. van Hoek, J. Hunt, K. Kolben, C. La Hovary, B. Langille, J. López López, I. Martin, F. Maupain, F. Milman-Sivan, R.S. Mudarikwa, A. Nononsi, T. Novitz, C. Sheppard, A.A. Smith, A. Suktahnkar, J.-M.Thouvenin, A. Trebilcock, R.ZimmerTrade Review'The chapters in this thoroughly useful reference book on current developments and challenges in TLL provide very thoughtful, up-to-date and "to the point" commentary and insights.' --Alan Boulton, Monash University and Fair Work Commission, Australia'The list of 41 authors of this Handbook reads like a roll-call of the rising generation of scholars of labour law as well as a number of distinguished old hands. This is not a conventional textbook on transnational labour law but a series of short and stimulating essays on important current issues. It provides an invaluable guide for all those who want to think and write about the transnational influences that shape the modern world of work.' --Sir Bob Hepple QC FBA, University of Cambridge, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I CONCEPTUALIZING TRANSNATIONAL LABOUR LAW 1. Conceptualizing Transnational Labour Law Adelle Blackett and Anne Trebilcock PART II TRANSNATIONAL LABOUR LAW AS LAW A Transnational Labour Law’s Methods 2. Global Organizing and Domestic Constraints Ashwini Sukthankar 3. Corporate Governance Structures and Practices: From Ordeal to Opportunities and Challenges for Transnational Labour Law Isabelle Martin 4. A ‘Dialogic’ Approach In Perspective Laurence Boisson De Chazournes 5. International Labour Indicators: Conceptual and Normative Snares Mark Barenberg 6. Due Diligence on Labour Issues – Opportunities and Limits of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights Anne Trebilcock B Challenging Austerity, Facing Development: The North-South Challenge to Transnational Labour Law 7. Structural Adjustment, Economic Governance and Social Policy in a Regional Context: The Case of the Eurozone Crisis Zoe Adams and Simon Deakin 8. International Financial Institutions’ Approaches to Labour Law: The Case of the International Monetary Fund Franz Christian Ebert 9. Racism and the Regulation of Migrant Labour Adrian A. Smith 10. China’s Challenge to Labour Law in both the Global North and the Global South Sean Cooney 11. Anti-Austerity Activism Strategies: Combining Protest and Litigation in Spain Julia López López PART III TRANSNATIONAL LABOUR LAW AS LABOUR LAW A Freedom of Association in the Specificity of Labour Law 12. Pushback on the Right to Strike: Resisting the Thickening of Soft Law Janice R. Bellace 13. The Right to Take Collective Action: Prospects for Change in European Court of Justice Case Law in Light of European Court of Human Rights Decisions Reingard Zimmer 14. Freedom of Association in Deliberative Spaces: The ILO Credentials Committee Faina Milman-Sivan 15. Freedom Of Association In International Framework Agreements Renée-Claude Drouin 16. Transnational Labour Law and Collective Autonomy for Marginalized Workers: Reflections on Decent Work for Domestic Workers Adelle Blackett B On Human Rights and Equality: Does Transnational Labour Law Provide Spaces and Vehicles to Challenge Domestic Labour Law’s Exclusions? 17. Inclusive Equality and New Approaches to Discrimination in Transnational Labour Law Colleen Sheppard 18. Working Together Transnationally Cynthia Estlund 19. Can Human Rights Based Labour Policy Improve the Labour Rights Situation in Developing Countries? A Look at Mexico and the Countries of Central America Graciela Bensusán 20. Constitutionalising Labour in the Inter-American System on Human Rights Rose-Marie Belle Antoine C Emerging Roles for the ILO as an Actor in Transnational Labour Law 21. ILO Normative Action In Its Second Century: Escaping The Double Bind? Francis Maupain 22. The ILO’s Supervisory Bodies’ ‘Soft Law Jurisprudence’ Claire La Hovary 23. Pluralism and Privatization in Transnational Labour Regulation: Experience of the International Labour Organization Janelle M. Diller 24. Emergent Maritime Labour Law: Possible Implications for other Transnational Labour Fields Aimée Asante and Ben Chigara PART IV TRANSNATIONAL LABOUR LAW AS TRANSNATIONAL A Thickening Soft Law? ‘Privatising’ or Infusing Transnational Labour Law with Public International Law Norms? 25. Transnational Private Labour Regulation, Consumer-Citizenship and the Consumer Imaginary Kevin Kolben 26. Thickening Soft Law Through Consumocratic Law: A Pragmatic Approach P. Martin Dumas 27. Diffusion and Leveraging of Transnational Labour Norms by the OECD Jean-Marc Thouvenin 28. The Use of Arbitration to Decide International Labour Issues Kathleen Claussen B Beyond WTO Linkage: Emerging Directions and Social Regionalism 29. What The World Trade Organization Learned From The International Labour Organization Steve Charnovitz 30. Harnessing the Governance Capacity of the European Union: Transnational Labour Law Responses to the Exploitation of Migrant Agricultural Workers Jo Hunt 31. Private International Law Rules for Transnational Employment: Reflections from the European Union Aukje Van Hoek 32. Social Regionalism in the Southern Africa Development Community: The International, Regional and National Interplay of Labour Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms Pamhidai H. Bamu and Rutendo Mudarikwa 33. Labour Rights and Trade Agreements in the Americas Paula Church Albertson and Lance Compa C The Transnational Challenge to the Regulation of Labour as a Factor of Production: on Commodification 34. Trading in Services – Commodities and Beneficiaries Tonia Novitz 35. The Curious Incident of the ILO, Myanmar and Forced Labour Brian Langille 36. The Implications of Preparatory Works for the Debate Regarding Slavery, Servitude and Forced Labour Jean Allain 37. Child Labour and Fragile States in Sub-Saharan Africa: Reflections on Regional and International Responses Aristide Nononsi 38. A Transnational Law of Just Transitions for Climate Change and Labour David J. Doorey Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Dynamics of Full Employment: Social
Book SynopsisPersistent unemployment is recognised as one of the main mechanisms of social and political exclusion. The Dynamics of Full Employment provides a new and fresh approach to the question of full employment in contemporary society. It offers an internationally comparative, interdisciplinary approach to the dynamics of full employment and views the labour market not only as an economic institution, but as a social one. The authors argue that transitional markets - defined as legitimate, negotiated and politically supported sets of mobility options - are becoming essential ingredients of successful employment policies in modern societies. Social integration through participation in the labour market should not exclude productive activity in other spheres of life.The authors attempt to enhance the understanding, through empirical evidence, of the dynamics of modern labour markets and the theoretical foundation of transitional labour markets. They also aim to determine which arrangements (via institutional, legal and social security frameworks) might best be able to prevent or relieve structural unemployment.This innovative and original book will be of interest to both academics and policymakers in the fields of public policy and labour market, and employment policy in particular.Table of ContentsFull Contents: Preface Acknowledgements 1. The Dynamics of Full Employment: An Introductory Overview Part I: Change and Performance of Employment Systems 2. Employment Systems in Transition: Explaining Performance Differentials of Post-industrial Economies 3. Flexibility and Security: Labour Market Policy in Austria, Denmark, Ireland and the Netherlands 4. Employment Systems and Transitional Labour Markets: A Comparison of Youth Labour Markets in Germany, France and the UK Part II: Theoretical and Normative Developments 5. Towards a Theory of Transitional Labour Markets 6. Transitional Labour Markets: From Positive Analysis to Policy Proposals 7. The Legal Regulation of Transitional Labour Markets Part III: Applications and Policy Strategies 8. The Dynamics of Employment in the European Union: An Exploratory Analysis 9. From Salary Workers to Entrepreneurial Workers? 10. Working-time Transitions and Transitional Labour Markets 11. How Can Active Policies Be Made More Effective? 12. Transitional Labour Markets and the European Social Model: Towards a New Employment Compact Index
£146.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Growing the Virtual Workplace: The Integrative
Book SynopsisEmployees, organizations and society alike should grow the virtual workplace, as the multiple, tangible benefits of telework for each of these three stakeholders largely outweigh the costs. To help stakeholders benefit from the virtual workplace, the authors analyze four key issues: telework adoption, implementation, tracking and impacts. They develop the comprehensive EOS framework to examine both the interaction among employees, organizations and society, and the linkages among telework impacts, tracking, implementation and adoption.Unique features of the book include an integrative framework for increasing telework adoption; practical tips - specific to each stakeholder - on how best to implement and measure telework; and an analysis of original survey data exploring the virtual workplace adoption decision.Readership for this book includes academic experts on telecommuting, policymakers involved in transportation, human resource or environmental policies, and managers and employees considering telework.Trade Review'The authors have produced an extraordinarily useful book on the numerous facets of the complex teleworking phenomenon. Although their pro-telework position is clear (and persuasively justified), their discussion of each element is thoughtful, balanced, and carefully referenced. Their conceptual paradigm offers a very helpful way to organize and synthesize the vast and growing literature on teleworking, and they have employed it to masterful effect. They have succeeded in producing a work that is equally valuable and relevant to organizations, individual employees, public planners, and academic scholars - no small feat.' -- Patricia L. Mokhtarian, University of California, Davis, US'At TELUS, teleworking has become an important part of our operating framework. Thousands of our team members telework on a part-time basis and hundreds of our team members telework on a full-time basis. The individual, environmental, social and financial benefits achieved through telework are compelling and real. This book by the Haskayne School of Business offers comprehensive insights that will help TELUS and hopefully many other enterprises to fully realize the great benefits of telework.' -- Josh Blair, TELUS, Canada'The first integrative analysis of the virtual workplace's many contributions to sustainable development: a must read for strategists in firms and governments.' -- Ans Kolk, University of Amsterdam Business School, The Netherlands'This book is a great reference for senior executives looking to implement telework to enhance their business. As the leading provider of managed IP communications services in North America, MegaPath supports the telework programs of hundreds of companies with IT remote access VPN services. This book addresses the many challenges these companies have faced and the benefits they have derived from telework programs.' -- Greg Davis, MegaPath, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Scott McNealy 1. Introduction Part I: Telework Impacts 2. Telework Impacts: The Employee Perspective 3. Telework Impacts: The Organizational Perspective 4. Telework Impacts: The Societal Perspective Part II: Telework Tracking 5. Telework Tracking: The Employee Perspective 6. Telework Tracking: The Organizational Perspective 7. Telework Tracking: The Societal Perspective Part III: Telework Implementation 8. Telework Implementation: The Employee Perspective 9. Telework Implementation: The Organizational Perspective 10. Telework Implementation: The Societal Perspective Part IV: Telework Adoption 11. Telework Adoption: An Employee Perspective 12. Telework Adoption: An Organizational Perspective 13. Telework Adoption: A Societal Perspective References Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Work–Family Balance, Gender and Policy
Book SynopsisCombining paid work with caring for children has become more difficult for families as women's working hours have increased. Over the past decade the issue of work-family balance has reached a more prominent place on the policy agenda of many Western European countries. However the preoccupations of governments have been largely instrumental, focusing particularly on the goal of increasing female employment rates in order to achieve greater competitiveness and economic growth, and also in many countries on raising fertility rates and promoting children's early learning. This important book looks at the three main components of work-family policy packages - childcare services, flexible working patterns and entitlements to leave from work in order to care - across EU15 Member States, with comparative reference to the US. It also provides an in-depth examination of developments in the UK. Variations in national priorities, policy instruments, established policy orientations and the context for policy making in terms of employment patterns, fertility behaviour and attitudes towards work and care are highlighted. Gender inequalities in the division of paid and unpaid work underpin the whole issue of work-family balance. But what constitutes gender equality in this crucial policy field? Jane Lewis argues that in spite of growing political emphasis on the importance of 'choice', a 'real' choice to engage in either or both the socially necessary activities of paid and unpaid work has remained elusive. Work-Family Balance, Gender and Policy is essential reading for students and scholars who wish to understand the complex challenges facing families and family policy and the opportunities for the future.Trade Review'In this authoritative and beautifully written book, Jane Lewis addresses the vexed question of how societies can ensure that individuals and families are able to both support themselves and to care for their dependants without material disadvantage. . . Lewis combines theoretical and conceptual sophistication with fine-grained empirical description and analysis to compare work and family policies, the way they have evolved and their underlying logic, in the European Union (EU) and the USA. . . This is a nuanced, compassionate and absorbing book. . . It is a unique synthesis of the literature and presents a compelling argument in a new way. It is theoretically sophisticated and full of detailed empirical analysis, yet is highly readable, clear and accessible. It would be very useful in teaching courses on women's studies, public policy and sociology of the family. It would have broad appeal to anyone concerned with work and family issues, and should be essential reading to those with an academic interest in welfare state analysis, social policy and gender.' -- Lyn Craig, Sex Roles'Based on multiple comparative as well as UK sources, this new book by one of the most well-known European social scientists unravels the multiple dimensions and relationships involved in balancing family and paid work demands. Jane Lewis documents persisting, and even increasing cross-country differences. Notwithstanding these, work-family reconciliation policies are more concerned with allowing women to combine paid work and family care than with redistributing care between men and women. This important book should be required reading for everyone interested in social policy and welfare state analysis.' -- Chiara Saraceno, Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB), Germany and University of Turin, Italy'This book provides a brilliant synthesis of comparative research on work-family policies with particular relevance to the emerging policy agenda in the UK. Jane Lewis is a profound thinker and graceful writer who leavens her theoretical sophistication with comprehensive attention to practical details.' -- Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts Amherst, US'Jane Lewis is a brilliant conceptual innovator and gifted empirical analyst in the field of social policy. This book expertly illuminates the dramatically changing terrain of social policy with reference to employment, family and gender relations.' -- Ann Orloff, Northwestern University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Part I 2. The Policymaking Context: Behaviour and Attitudes with Mary Campbell 3. Work–Family Balance Policies: Comparisons and Issues 4. Patterns of Development in Work–Family Balance Policies for Parents in France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK During the 2000s with Trudie Knijn, Claude Martin and Ilona Ostner Part II 5. Policy Development in the UK, 1997–2007 6. Concluding Reflections on Gender Equality and Work–Family Balance Policies Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd MANAGEMENT AND INDUSTRY IN RUSSIA: Formal and
Book SynopsisManagement and Industry in Russia is a major examination of production relations in Russian industry during the transition process. Using a series of authoritative and thorough case studies, the authors focus on the gap between formal and informal relations in the work place, a key feature of traditional Soviet industrial production.Focusing on four contrasting regions in Russia - Moscow, Samara, Kuzbass and the Komi Republic - an experienced group of researchers has used a wide range of qualitative and ethnographical research methods to explore production relations in the Soviet enterprise. The research is based on a series of longitudinal case studies of between two and four enterprises in each region. The economic, social and political developments in each region have also been monitored. Each of the papers in this collection focuses on one aspect of life in a post-Soviet enterprise which it places in the context of the interaction of formal and informal relations in production. The areas discussed include the Soviet system of production, attitudes to work, the specificity of Soviet production, paternalism in state management, the role of women, the role of middle management and the continuing importance of the plan and pay systems.Trade Review’. . . a sociological study concerning connections between formal and informal activity, effectively pries open the black boxes, shedding much-welcome light on the monitored enterprises. All in all, Management and Industry in Russia is a stimulating volume that suggests new hypotheses about the nature of Russian transition, while serving as useful reminder that it is often those factors that are absent from official statistics that are decisive for reform.’Table of ContentsFormal and informal relations in Soviet industrial production; informal relations in the Soviet system of production; on a particular kind of love and the specificity of Soviet production; the mechanism of paternalistic management of the enterprise - the limits of paternalism; paternalism in Russian enterprises - our understanding; the position of women in production; middle management in industrial production in the transition to the market; we didn't make the plan; payment systems and the restructuring of production relations in Russia.
£100.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Social Stratification
Book SynopsisThis major new three volume reference collection includes both classic and contemporary papers and covers the main issues of stratification -- status, class, occupation, gender, race and ethnicity. Each article represents a distinctive theoretical contribution which sets research agendas in its area. Together, the volumes offer a comprehensive treatment of issues which lie at the heart of social stratification and the modern discipline of sociology.John Holmwood’s selection includes papers covering over 150 years of research which address the changing character of modern society as well as the relationships between issues of employment, welfare, household and the state.Table of ContentsContents: Volume I: Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Solidarity and Division: Attempts at Foundation Part II: Solidarity and Division: Formulating Principles of Stratification Part III: Elites and Power Part IV: Professions Index • Volume II: Acknowledgement Part I: The Development of Civil Society: Industrialism and Post-Industrialism Part II: Welfare and Social Stratification Part III: Occupations and Social Stratification Index • Volume III: Acknowledgements Part I: Race and Ethnicity Part II: Gender and Stratification Part III: Fragmentation, Division and Beyond Name Index
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Customer Capitalism
Book SynopsisBlending the hot topics of new technology, market spaces, competitive strategy and customer behaviour, Customer Capitalism stands conventional wisdom on its head by introducing a new business model which shows how any business can generate increasing returns and gain a massive competitive advantage. Taking examples from companies as diverse as Amazon.com and Mondex, Microsoft and Monsanto, the author explains how businesses can escape the traps of a traditional mindset and originate for the customer rather than the product. These entreprises transform classic product/service categories, moving them away from market share into new "market spaces" where they find new ways of doing for customers. Customer Capitalism does what old capitalism could never do - it gives corporations a sustainable edge. Sandra Vandermerwe shows how to relate the ten principles of customer capitalism to your business and achieve the multiple and exponential rewards of increasing returns. Customer Capitalism generates growing customer value streams from ever-deepening and expanding relationships with individuals who lock-on to an organisation. These customers become an "installed customer base" who want the organisation as their dominant or sole choice on an ongoing basis. The new enterprise becomes the standard for these new ways of doing things by gathering market momentum. A growing number of individuals see and use the new way of doing things, making the enterprise ever more prevalent, and its brand increasingly infectious to others. Central to the concept of customer capitalism are six positive feedback loops which ensure customer lock-on and accelerating growth. Once the loops go into motion as one interlinking, reiterative system then the real forces of the new market and economic dynamics of customer capitalism come into play. Customers become the competitive barrier. Advantage leads to more advantage, success to more success, accumulating increasing returns in new market spaces.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Prologue: Changing the Business Model. 1. The Ten Principles of Customer Capitalism. Part One: New Ways of Doing Things. 2. Punctuating the Equilibrium. 3. The Power of to Revolutionize. 4. Becoming the Standard for New Ways of Doing Things. Part Two: The Time Value of Customers. 5. Learning to Customer Originate. 6. Customers as Lifelong Investfments. 7. Giving Margins a Break. Part Three: From Market Share to Market Spaces. 8. One More Time: What's Wrong with Market Share? 9. Market Spaces and Customer Capitalism. 10. Converging Industries and New Market Spaces. Part Four: Getting in Sooner, Staying in Longer. 11. Opportunity Managing in the Customer Activity Cycle. 12. On Higher Ground. 13. The New Electronic Go-between Service Proider. Part Five: Customers as Competitive Barriers. 14. Making Intention the Lever. 15. Getting Personal. 16. Moving to the Point of Acceleration. Part Six: New Competitive Wholes. 17. The Art of Connectivity. 18. Leading to Win-Win. 19. Practiving Complementarity. Part Seven: Locking on and Rolling Out. 20. First Prevalence then Profits. 21. Investing Up Front for Increasing Returns. 22. The Critical Value of Critical Mass. Part Eight: It's the Thought that Counts. 23. The Incredible Weight of Intangibles. 24. The Abundance Factor. 25. Mobilizing Mindpower. Part Nine: Economics of Customer Capitalism. 26 . Spreading the Cost of Learning. 27. The 'Falling Cost per Unit' Phenomenon. Part Ten: Scoring to Win. 29. Pricing for Time. 30. Valuing for Increasing Returns. References, Notes and Points of Departure. Index.
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Smithsonian Books Lox, Stocks, and Backstage Broadway: Iconic
Book SynopsisFrom Broadway and Wall Street to the farthest reaches of New York's fabled subway system, and with numerous stops in between, this publication celebrates the occupational skills, crafts, knowledge, and traditions that have made New York legendary. Based on extensive interviews undertaken by Smithsonian Institution folklorists and researchers to document urban culture in the five boroughs at the turn of the millennium, Lox, Stocks, and Backstage Broadway introduces readers to a remarkable cast of artisans, workers, laborers, and artists - talented individuals whose jobs create, maintain, and nurture the very heart of Gotham. The book profiles workers from a wide variety of social and ethnic backgrounds, men and women who are eloquent in recounting their own stories, knowledgeable in relating the history of their beloved city, and avid about explaining the skills and challenges involved in practicing their chosen occupations. Their wisdom, humor, and humanity reflect the best of New York.
£18.99
Brepols N.V. Forms of Servitude in Northern and Central
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De Gruyter Men Do It Too: Opting Out and In
Book SynopsisMen Do It Too: Opting Out and In offers a timely and comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of men leaving mainstream careers models, adding to current debates on opting out. The book investigates how globalization, individualization, and this age of high modernity, in addition to issues of masculinity and what it means to be a man in contemporary society and organizational contexts, affect decisions to opt out. Throughout the book, social theory and relevant debates are interwoven with the narratives of 15 men who have left successful careers and mainstream career models to live and work on their own terms: six from the United States, five from Finland, and four from the UK. The narratives help illustrate the issues presented, as well as providing an insight into the men’s identity work throughout their opting out processes. In addition, Biese explores what organizations can learn from the knowledge gathered in her research on men (and women) opting out. This is important in order to create sustainable work environments that not only attract but also retain employees.
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