Sociology: work and labour Books

Book SynopsisThe state of Kerala in southern India is notable for the ways in which lower-class mobilization and state intervention have combined to create one of the most successful cases of social and redistributive development in the Third World. In contrast to...Trade ReviewThis is a well-written book that will be of interest to South Asia specialists as well as students of development studies, economic sociology, political economy, industrial relations, and democratization. -- Rudra Sil, University of Pennsylvania * American Journal of Sociology *This book is an engaging and insightful account of social development.... I recommend The Labor of Development without reservation. -- Adam Lee * Industrial and Labor Relations Review. October, 2000. *Heller's work challenges both mainstream and some Marxist analyses of capitalist development.... The Labor of Development should be required reading for all World Bank and International Monetary Fund apologists and mandarins who sing the praises of neoliberal structural adjustment and ignore the rich development potential of worker and peasant agitation within the capitalist world order. -- John Willoughby * Review of Radical Politic Economics *This is the first and most up-to-date scholarly contribution towards understanding of the macro-economic parameters affecting socio-economic formations of Kerala. The book goes beyond economic history and examines contemporary development problems that affect conditions of the working class in India's most successful state in a human development index. -- Vibhuti Patel * Pacific Affairs *Patrick Heller offers an important and compelling account of how powerful social movements articulated to a democratic state can drive a mode of economic development that is certainly more equitable, and perhaps more effective, than the reigning neoliberal prescriptions.... His book should be read by those interested in comparative political sociology, social movements, development, and political economy. -- Archon Fung, Harvard University * Contemporary Sociology *

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Book SynopsisForty years of rapid industrialization have transformed millions of South Korean peasants and their sons and daughters into urban factory workers. Hagen Koo explores the experiences of this first generation of industrial workers and describes its struggles to improve working conditions in the factory and to search for justice in society. The working class in South Korea was born in a cultural and political environment extremely hostile to its development, Koo says. Korean workers forged their collective identity much more rapidly, however, than did their counterparts in other newly industrialized countries in East Asia. This book investigates how South Korea''s once-docile and submissive workers reinvented themselves so quickly into a class with a distinct identity and consciousness. Based on sources ranging from workers'' personal writings to union reports to in-depth interviews, this book is a penetrating analysis of the South Korean working-class experience. Koo reveals how cultuTrade ReviewThe influence of cultural and political forces on the construction of a working-class identity in mid- and late-20th-century South Korea is investigated.... Although the future of the South Korean working class remains undetermined, it is concluded that previous generations of workers made substantial gains in improving working conditions and achieving social justice. * Sociological Abstracts *This book examines how Korean workers have interpreted their experiences, recognized their common interest, and achieved class consciousness and a collective identity in an environment undergoing rapid social and economic change. The author draws on broad statistical evidence and research data, which he analyzed over a period of ten years. He collected statistical data covering thirty years of industrialization, and also examined interview transcripts, first-generation workers' essays and diaries, union newspapers, and other materials. The resulting detailed analysis offers several rich insights.... Informed by the author's unique perspective and the variety of sources on which he ably draws, Korean Workers brings important theoretical and methodological insights to the field of Korean working-class studies. * Industrial and Labor Relations Review *With Korean Workers, sociologist Hagen Koo turns to the growth of class consciousness among female and male workers from the 1970s to the 1990s, in the process providing a useful overview of an exceptional period in Korean history from the ground up. * Anthropology of Work Review *This book is highly recommended. It is the overdue, first serious, comprehensive, and well-researched study on South Korean working-class formation available to English readers. For those who are interested in Korean political economy, I believe that this book will provide a story that is overlooked by the developmental state literature. For those who are interested in labor studies and industrial sociology, this book shows how theories on class formation can be wonderfully combined to illustrate a particular case. * Labour/Le Travail *This book represents a fascinating history of the growth of class consciousness in one of the developing world's most militant labor movements as it overcame an inhospitable culture and despotic work conditions. Well informed by social science theory, Hagen Koo has written an analytically astute, yet unusually sensitive and sympathetic, account of working-class formation in modem Korea. * Korea Journal *This is a well-written cogently argued alternative picture of Korean society from the perspective of workers who have won little attention thus far. Scholars, students of Korean society, and, indeed, students of comparative labor movements will learn much of Korea in the volume. * Work and Occupations *

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Book SynopsisExploring recent changes in employment practices in seven industrialized countries (Australia, Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the United States) and in two essential industries (automobile and telecommunications), Harry C. Katz and Owen...Trade ReviewConverging Divergences is an important addition to the growing literature on comparative industrial relations.... Katz and Darbishire are to be congratulated on their meticulous and wide-ranging study.... This is a carefully researched and well-argued book. * Industrial and Labor Relations Review *Examines the increasing diversity of employment systems... with a special focus on the automobile and the telecommunications industries. * Future Survey *Katz and Darbishire write about convergence with a decided twist. Not only has the monistic version of convergence towards the 'one best way' been replaced with 'four best ways', but the authors also discover three other kinds of variation.... In sum... this study will be a valuable addition to the comparativist's bookshelf. It successfully charts a number of key common trends that are evident across most advanced capitalist societies and it provides us with much insight into developments within two key industries.... Its larger message about patterns of commonality intersecting with national and local institutions and strategies deserves a wide audience. -- Anthony Giles, Universite Laval * The Journal of Industrial Relations *This important book examines changing employment relations in a global context. The dominant theme is the erosion of collective bargaining as a means of managing employment. Recommended for labor studies collections, upper-division undergraduate through faculty. * Choice *This comparative study will be of use to educators and activists alike. The prior claims of convergence-thesis advocates, of societies characterized by strong trade-union representation and institutionalization, did not envisage the deregulated product and labor markets and the declining union representation of the present global economy. For activists, the book clearly outlines the challenges presented to unions by the decentralization of collective bargaining and global economic integration. * Labor Studies Journal *

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Book SynopsisThe 1990s were years of turmoil and transformation in American work experiences and employment relationships. Trends including the growth of contingent labor, the erosion of the stable employment contract, the restructuring of jobs and companies, and...Trade ReviewCrossing the Great Divide is an expos' of the downside of the risk in the new economy. Vicki Smith argues that 'temporariness and risk' have become intertwined with workers' expectations of opportunity and advancement, which were understood in the days of the old economy as the rewards for hard work or even dedication. -- Gina Neff, Columbia University * Dissent *Providing a welcome change of direction... Vicki Smith's book argues convincingly that we should not take a romantic view of work in the age of mass production.... Her research has thrown up a plausible conclusion that today's booming US employment market with its 'turbulence, decentral-isation, variation, and unpredictability' offers many workers what they see as an opportunity... 'to invest themselves in their work.'. -- Robert Taylor * Financial Times *There is a growing literature on globalization, employment restructuring, and the postindustrial workplace. Much of that work may already be obsolete, however, as recent evidence suggests that both the cynics and the optimists are wrong—or, at least, only partly right. Crossing the Great Divide is among the first books that tackle this complexity head on and, in the process, provides students and researchers with new ways to think about employment in the 21st century. -- Amy S. Wharton, Washington State University * American Journal of Sociology *Each of the participants in Smith's four studies must cope with the contradictions faced by those whose jobs may be at risk but who also face new opportunities at the same time, and she explores how workers attempt to cross 'the great divide' and take advantage of the 'new economy.'. -- David Rouse * Booklist *Smith examines how different groups of workers acquire the skills, know-how, cultural and human capital, and mental aptitudes that might help them reap the benefits of the new economy. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisHow do two-career couples manage in a one-career world? It's about Time examines this mismatch between outdated scripts and the experiences of dual-earner couples. It broadens our understanding of occupational and family career strategies couples...Trade ReviewChapters cover such topics as work-hour strategies..., competing clocks, timing parenthood, journey to work, managing households, turning points in work careers, factors that predict success, prioritizing careers, the new technology climate and the rise of telecommuting, alternative employment arrangements, moving toward retirement..., the case of same-sex couples, work-life integration, and family-friendly policies. * Future Policy *Moen and other authors in the volume assert that families have changed extensively while work settings have changed little, resulting in a 'cultural lag' or 'mismatch' between what working families need to meet their care-giving responsibilities and what work organizations demand of workers.... A strength of the volume is its comprehensive set of topics. The chapters cover not only standard topics in the field, such as work hours, work preferences, and parenting, but also commuting, technology, and the 'spillover' of work to family life and vice versa, topics much less often included in work and family volumes. -- Suzanne M. Bianchi * Industrial and Labor Relations Review *This volume presents findings from the Cornell Couples and Careers Study, a study of dual career, middle class couples in upstate New York, directed by Phyllis Moen. The book stands out in the work-family research field for several reasons. These include the comprehensive look at couples' linked work and family careers and the inclusions of understudied topics such as same-sex couples, spouses' relocation decisions, and religious participation. The book contributes to the areas of careers, labor markets, organizations, gender, family, the life course, and work-family policy. -- Mary Blair-Loy * Contemporary Sociology *This impressive and well-edited volume presents findings and implications of a major study on work-family interface by the Cornell University Careers Institute. The study, which was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, focuses on middle-class, dual earner households and how they manage their two work lives and their combined family life.... Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisWorked Over is a book about large-scale social change seen at close range, through the lives of generations of working people in a small manufacturing center along New York State's old Erie Canal. Their compelling stories add a new dimension to...Trade ReviewDoukas argues that the culture of the villagers of central New York is based on the gospel of work and the egalitarianism, mutual aid, and respect for labor that it entails. That culture is directly opposed to leaders' gospel of wealth and the political and institutional structures it demands. How can there be such massive contradictions' Doukas documents how corporations imposed the cultural revolution with threats and the practices of economic violence and created local, regional, state, and national political structures to aid them. The author tells how a corporate conspiracy rewrote the American dream to create our current nightmare of unemployment, job insecurity, undercompensation, unavailability of health care, lack of control of our governments, death of democracy, and lack of space to even grow our own food and livestock.... She shows just how far we can go using our American language without making up words. That's one reason this is a good book. Consciousness of her use of the language, experience, and data are others. This is a book all of our students need to read and understand in order to know about their own lives and about the power of ethnography as well as the power of corporations. This is a book we all need to understand and discuss. -- Paul Durrenberger, Penn State University * Journal of Anthropological Research *Doukas tells the fascinating history of the Remingtons and their enterprises and how they were taken over by corporate trusts around 1886. That takeover, she argues, began an era of social distress and declining political autonomy that continues to the present day. -- Mat Rapacz * Evening Times *Dimitra Doukas's Worked Over is a good example of the innovative work from the emerging field called New Working-Class Studies.... The book begins by viewing the Mohawk Valley as, in a sense, a geographic stronghold for a social class. Valley residents disassociate themselves from nearby communities by rejecting values based on consumption and hierarchy.... Worked Over uses ethnography, history, and geography to study working-class life and culture. -- John Russo, Youngstown State University * Industrial and Labor Relations Review *Doukas's depiction of an economic worldview opposed to unrestrained, aggressive corporate capitalism is familiar to many sociologists and labor historians, but her effort to document it today and draw links to the past is instructive and meaningful.... Worked Over is eloquently written and cogently argued, and Doukas's measured passion and sprinkling of sardonic humor in the historical chapters bring a refreshing tone to her insightful book. * Contemporary Sociology *Global capitalism being what it is, there is no research topic more important to humankind than the study of the relationship between corporations and the communities that sustain them and are sustained by them. -- James P. Walsh, University of Michigan * Administrative Science Quarterly *Too often the social implications of the transformation from proprietary to managerial capitalism are overlooked, despite the dramatic impact that this development can have on the structure and well-being of a community.... Doukas draws on ethnographic and historical sources to paint her picture of the plight of the people in the Mohawk River Valley. Her book provides an excellent historical account of the development of the Remington works from its founding until the time of its sale to Hartley and Graham in 1886. -- Daniel Friel, New York University * Enterprise and Society *

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Book SynopsisThe living wage movement is considered by many to be the most interesting grassroots enterprise to emerge since the civil rights movement. Ten years after the first ordinance was passed in Baltimore, there are more than one hundred living wage...Trade ReviewDespite surprising successes in the passage of living-wage ordinances around the country, implementation often has been lackadaisical. The experiences of the living wage movement described in this work will interest those concerned with promoting or analyzing social movements. Individuals interested in studying administrative practices also will profit from this book. Clear, jargon-free writing makes it accessible to undergraduates while still offering important lessons to advanced scholars. Highly recommended. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisResorts have become important to American society and its economy; one in eight Americans is now employed by the tourism industry. Yet despite the ubiquity of hotels, little has been written about those who labor there. Drawing on eight years of...Trade ReviewAdler and Adler's genuine skill as storytellers... really elevates this book to an engaging and compelling read, bringing to life this fascinating milieu. Too often research in the hospitality sector has tended to rely on the managerial voice alone and this book clearly avoids such a trap. Indeed, it takes its place alongside several other crucial works emanating from the United States, where ethnographic study has allowed us a real insight into the working lives of those employed in the hospitality sector. * British Journal of Industrial Relations *The Adlers, highly published... sociologists, examine the work and lifestyle experiences of staff at five luxury resort hotels along a Hawaiian beach. They interviewed staff from four employee categories: new immigrants and locals, labeled trapped workers; and managers and self-supporting 'seekers' driven by leisure interests, labeled transient workers.... The Adlers... view resorts as postmodern global communities that focus on commercialization.... Recommended. Resort industry practitioners; students and researchers of labor, sociology, and ethnography. * Choice *For seven years, ethnographers Patricia and Peter Adler made twice-yearly sojourns to a group of resort hotels located in one of Hawaii's popular tourist destinations, intent on mixing business with pleasure. The product of their effort is Paradise Laborers, an insightful and delightfully readable account of the occupational cultures, worker lifestyles, and career patterns featured in these resorts.... Throughout the book, the authors maintain that resort hotels are distinctly postmodern workplaces whose unconventional nature shapes workers' experiences and identities.... Paradise Laborers is a well-written and wonderfully grounded study rich in descriptive detail. The authors' close, long-standing relationships with informants lend the book a degree of intimacy that is often lacking in ethnographic accounts of work and occupations, while its quasi-longitudinal approach allows the reader to follow the experiences of specific informants over time. Although this book will be most useful to readers with an interest in translent labor, service work, and occupational dynamics in the travel and tourism industry, those with a general interest in work and occupations will also find it to be an engaging read. * Administrative Science Quarterly *The book is a result of a participant/ethnographic study and the research experience unfolds before the reader making the book an appealing read.... The authors were involved in participant observation in five luxury resorts, with over 500 resort workers and they interviewed 90 workers in-depth. The data provides a rich tapestry to draw inferences from and reveals much about workers' experiences and understanding about their working lives behind the glamorous façade of palm trees and golden beaches. * The Journal of Industrial Relations *Paradise Laborers... makes a fine contribution to organizations, occupations, and work studies in this first ethnographic study of work culture among resort employees in Hawaii, where tourism is the leading industry. * Work in Progress *Table of Contents1. Entering Paradise 2. Researching Resorts 3. Trapped Laborers: New Immigrants and Locals 4. Transient Laborers: Seekers and Management 5. Transient Lifestyles 6. Seasonal Laborers 7. Temporal Laborers 8. Stratified Laborers 9. Careers in Paradise: Short-Term and Intermediate 10. Careers in Paradise: Long-Term 11. Understanding Paradise LaborAppendix: The Participants Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe new rural economy involves a fundamental shift in the stability and security of people's lives and ultimately causes wrenching change and an arduous struggle as rural dwellers struggle to rebuild their lives in the new economic terrain.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides the most thorough empirical assessment to date of the impact of international regulation on labor standards and conditions, and critically analyzes the common race-to-the-bottom view that globalization and international competition can only further degrade labor standards.Trade Review"[Flanagan's] essay will become the gold standard in research on labour and trade."—Canadian Journal of Sociology Online"This book deals with a continuing national and global controversy: whether and what kinds of labor ground rules are required for the global economy. It provides a superb roadmap for tackling the workers' rights issues." —Anthony G. Freeman, Director of the International Labor Organization, Washington Office

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Book SynopsisExamines the labor of government workers in North America. Countering conceptions of the government and its employees as remote and inflexible, this work uses the theory of mass intellectuality developed by Italian worker-theorists to illuminate the potential for genuine political progress inherent within state work.Trade Review“Harney gives us a refreshingly new perspective on the contemporary state through the labor of those in government and public administration. His analyses move elegantly from the registers of daily practice and experience to general theoretical discussions to create a sophisticated and accessible argument.”—Michael Hardt, author of Empire (with Antonio Negri)“There is a growing need for a socially critical understanding of corporate management and government. Stefano Harney’s book is a timely contribution in this regard. This is a painstaking analysis of the complexity of political and administrative processes.”—Tony Tinker, Editor, Critical Perspectives on AccountingTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Hands of a Government Man 1. Yes, Minister: The Rise and Fall of the Ontario Antiracism Secretariat 2. Reengineering Immaterial G-Men 3. Reinventing Statolatry: From Nicos Poulantzas to Al Gore 4. Generalizing Social Terror: Public Management and Performance by Objectives 5. The Administration of Motivation: Any Cook Can Network Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn western countries, including the United States, foreign-trained nurses constitute a crucial labor supply. Far and away the largest number of these nurses come from the Philippines. Why is it that a developing nation with a comparatively greater need for trained medical professionals sends so many of its nurses to work in wealthier countries? Catherine Ceniza Choy engages this question through an examination of the unique relationship between the professionalization of nursing and the twentieth-century migration of Filipinos to the United States. The first book-length study of the history of Filipino nurses in the United States, Empire of Care brings to the fore the complicated connections among nursing, American colonialism, and the racialization of Filipinos.Choy conducted extensive interviews with Filipino nurses in New York City and spoke with leading Filipino nurses across the United States. She combines their perspectives with various others—inclTrade Review”Empire of Care is an extremely important work, a milestone in Asian American and American studies, and a singular contribution to the emergent field of Filipino American studies.”—Vicente L. Rafael, author of White Love and Other Events in Filipino History"Empire of Care provides an eloquent analysis and exciting transnational interpretive framework for understanding the political economy of American imperialism and the immigration of Filipino nurses. Catherine Ceniza Choy’s lively and vivid history of women who connected the professional and the home spheres to become architects of their own lives against the backdrop of race, gender, and class constructions is an impressive contribution. Students of nursing, immigration, and social history will benefit enormously from this theoretically insightful and absorbing volume."—Darlene Clark Hine, author of Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890–1950"[An] absolute classic: chances are, if have ever been to a hospital of any kind, you’ve benefited from the care of a Filipinx nurse. . . . Catherine Ceniza Choy traces the long history of that labor back to, you guessed it, the American colonization of the Philippines, which makes this book a vital work of American history as much as it is a cornerstone of Filipinx history, labor history, and feminist history." -- Elaine Castillo * Electric Lit *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Contours of a Filipino American History 1 Part I. Nurturing Empire 1. Nursing Matters: Women and U.S. Colonialism in the Philippines 17 2. “The Usual Subjects": The Preconditions of Professional Migration 41 Part II. Caring Unbound 3. “Your Cap Is a Passport": Filipino Nurses and the U.S. Exchange Visitor Program 61 4. To the Point of No Return: From Exchange Visitor to Permanent ResidentPart III. Still the Golden Door? 94 5. Trial and Error: Crime and Punishment in America's “Wound Culture" 121 6. Conflict and Caring: Filipino Nurses Organize in the United States 166 Epilogue 186 Appendix: On Sources 193 Notes 197 Bibliography 229 Index 245

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Book SynopsisHaving spent nearly a decade following the lives of formerly trafficked men and women, Denise Brennan recounts in close detail their flight from their abusers and their courageous efforts to rebuild their lives. Life Interrupted is a riveting account of life in and after trafficking and a forceful call for meaningful immigration and labor reform.Trade Review“Steering clear of lurid depictions of sexual slavery, Brennan has written a serious yet readable account of trafficking in the United States.” -- Karunesh Tuli * Foreword Reviews *“Life Interrupted is a must-read for those seeking to understand why immigration policies, US and otherwise, can prolong human misery. Bluntly confronting the risks and dangers all immigrants face when they must leave their homes in search of better lives, this admirable book is a major contribution to productive ways to rethink global immigration.” -- Lee Maril * Times Higher Education *"The very real people portrayed in Life Interrupted do shine brightly; their stories make it personal for us, the readers. We're reminded that these individuals are certainly not forgotten in the eyes of God, as much as we might long to stay unaware of them." -- D.L. Mayfield * Books & Culture *“[A] concise yet comprehensive account of trafficking in the US. . . . Bluntly confronting the risks and dangers all immigrants face when they must leave their homes in search of better lives, this admirable book is a major contribution to productive ways to rethink global immigration. Whether it is Mexican agricultural workers risking their lives by crossing a desert to find work, or Egyptians and Pakistanis crossing the Mediterranean in fragile boats, their lives dependent on rescue at sea by the Italian navy, suffering is omnipresent. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” -- W. T. Howard * Choice *"Whereas the term 'trafficking' is often assumed to mean sex trafficking, Brennan is concerned with the larger picture of trafficking into forced labor of all kinds—e.g., domestic, construction, agriculture or other low-wage jobs. She writes not of headline-making dramatic rescues but of the day-to-day lives of the formerly trafficked, those trying to rebuild their lives in the U.S. and make it their home. . . . A tough-to-read exposé of trafficking and its effects and an urgent call for changes in federal immigration policy and ineffectual labor laws." * Kirkus Reviews *“This book should appeal to anyone who wants to learn more about the devastating and long-lasting impact of human trafficking at both the global and individual/familial level from those who lived it, as well as the effectiveness of current immigration policies. . . . It is particularly valuable to those who (like me) work in service-providing professions that may encounter this vulnerable, yet resilient, population. I recommend it highly.” -- Stacie Dubay * Monthly Labor Review *“One of the most important sections of Brennan's book includes suggestions for action and ways to become involved in improving the lives of trafficked persons. . . . She demonstrates that a commitment to each individual is what it takes to help trafficked persons transcend poverty. These important findings are the result of studying real people who have left extreme situations, and assessing which factors made the difference between moving ahead or struggling forever.” -- Melissa Ditmore * Women's Review of Books *“[B]ringing rich ethnographic detail and compelling stories from survivors of trafficking, case workers, advocates, and others. She eschews any grand theoretical gestures in favor of rigorous but readable prose and has crafted a book that is at once a major academic contribution for specialists and also a text that should be required reading for public health workers, policymakers, NGO administrators, and undergraduate or graduate students interested in the practical applications of anthropology.” -- Gregory Mitchell * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“Life Interrupted is an important book. Intensely researched and accessibly written, this ethnographically rich work is recommended for anyone concerned about human trafficking. Brennan masterfully connects the plight of victims of forced labor to larger questions about U.S. labor practices and immigration policies.” -- Amy Farrell * American Journal of Sociology *"Life interrupted will be of interest to anyone who wants to understand how the dark side of globalization plays out in the United States.... It is a very readable, powerful, and important book that deserves widespread attention." -- Steve Striffler * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Life Interrupted is a highly engaging book that will be of great interest to anyone interested in forced labor and human trafficking." -- Sverre Molland * International Migration Review *"Denise Brennan’s in situ empirical study of a well-defined, accurately counted, richly engaged subset of the principals in the human trafficking drama is a welcome addition to a growing body of knowledge that uses rigorous research to study a population that has been wrongly identified as 'unresearchable.'" -- Anthony Marcus * American Anthropologist *“Human trafficking and immigration scholars will find this well-researched book a useful addition to their libraries. Those interested in the effects of policy on efforts to assist trafficked persons and exploited workers, in post-trafficking experiences, or in post-trafficking service provision will find the book particularly valuable. This rich, compelling account of individuals rebuilding their lives after exploitation is affecting and succeeds in revealing a continuum of labor exploitation along which many workers in the U.S. fall.” -- Sandra C. Arch * Work and Occupations *“Life Interrupted will be of particular interest to those seeking an ethnographic perspective on the nuances and complexities of being officially classified as a victim of trafficking in the United States. ... Denise Brennan stages a powerful ethnographic critique of the idea that the anti-trafficking rubric and legal regime actually protect victims of trafficking.” -- Svati P. Shah * New Labor Forum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Starting Over 1 Part I. The Assault on Workers 35 1. Dangerous Labor: Migrant Workers and Sex Workers 37 2. Chains of Fear: The Subjectivity of Coercion 75 Part II. Life after Forced Labor 113 3. Imagining the Possible: Creating Home 115 4. Living the Possible: Settling into Home 145 5. Laboring after Forced Labor 163 Closing Comments 185 Appendix. Ideas and Resources for Action 193 Notes 199 References 243 Index 273

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Book SynopsisThere is a general consensus that deep-seated changes are reshaping the way production and work are organized, the way employees, employers and their representatives deal with each other, and the way governments seek to shape society. In this work a group of leading scholars take stock of the evidence and implications of the new workplace. Drawing on examples from a variety of national contexts, they seek to characterize the nature of contemporary workplace change, and assess its implications for the organization of work for workers, for employment relations and for public policy.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Assessing the Prospects for the High Performance Workplace, Anthony Giles, Gregor Murray, Jacques Bélanger; Chapter 1 Towards a New Production Model: Potentialities, Tensions and Contradictions, Jacques Bélanger, Anthony Giles, Gregor Murray; Chapter 2 New Forms ff Work Organization in the Workplace: Transformative, Exploitative, or Limited and Controlled?, Paul Edwards, John Geary, Keith Sisson; Chapter 3 The Impact of New Forms of Work Organization on Workers, Eileen Appelbaum; Chapter 4 Workplace Innovation and the Role of Institutions, Paul R. Bélanger, Paul-André Lapointe, Benoît Lévesque; Chapter 5 North American Labour Policy Under a Transformed Economic and Workplace Environment, Richard P. Chaykowski, Morley Gunderson;

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Book SynopsisUsing the cultural history of Oregon's Nestucca Valley as a case study, Taylor illustrates the wisdom of seasonal labour, the complex relationships between work and identity, and the resilience of rural economics across a century of almost continual change.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFor anyone looking for empirical, scholarly evidence of both some of the sources and many of the consequences of so-called job segregation, Tomaskovic-Devey provides it. * Booklist *

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Book SynopsisLeadership, Management, and Organizational Culture explores how leadership styles shape organizational culture in one of the worldâs most dynamic and competitive sectors. This cutting-edge research monograph provides a deep dive into the interplay between leadership and culture, offering a framework to understand how effective management can foster innovation, adaptability, and holistic customer engagement. It examines organizational culture through multiple lensesâeconomic, psychological, social, and symbolicâemphasizing the critical role of leadership in meeting the evolving needs of employees, customers, and stakeholders. Drawing on theoretical insights and empirical research, the authors highlight how leadership styles impact organizational success by influencing employee behavior, shaping workplace dynamics, and building resilience to industry challenges. Focusing on the insurance sector, this volume presents unique findings on the relationship between leadership styles and organizational culture in a rapidly transforming market. With actionable recommendations for managers, it addresses pressing questions about adapting leadership approaches to drive cultural change, boost employee engagement, and enhance stakeholder relationships. Rich with practical insights and academic rigor, this book is an invaluable resource for researchers and scholars, industry professionals, and leaders seeking to navigate the complexities of modern management while fostering sustainable organizational growth.

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Book SynopsisWork-Life Advantage analyses how employer-provision of family-friendly' working arrangements - designed to help workers better reconcile work, home and family - can also enhance firms' capacities for learning and innovation, in pursuit of long-term competitive advantage and socially inclusive growth. Brings together major debates in labour geography, feminist geography, and regional learning in novel ways, through a focus on the shifting boundaries between work, home, and family Addresses a major gap in the scholarly research surrounding the narrow business case' for work-life balance by developing a more socially progressive, workerist dual agenda' Challenges and disrupts masculinist assumptions of the ideal worker and the associated labour market marginalization of workers with significant home and family commitments Based on 10 years of research with over 300 IT workers and 150 IT firms in the UK and Ireland, with important insights Table of ContentsList of Figures viii List of Tables ix Series Editor’s Preface xi Preface and Acknowledgements xii List of Abbreviations xv 1 Inclusive Regional Learning? 1 2 Recentering Regional Learning: Beyond Masculinist Geographies of Regional Advantage 16 3 Work]Life Balance and its Uncertain ‘Business Case’ 38 4 Researching Labour Geographies of Work-Life and Learning in Ireland and the UK 67 5 Juggling Work, Home and Family in the Knowledge Economy 86 6 Overcoming Work-Life Conflict and the Gendered Limits to Learning and Innovation? 117 7 Work-Life Balance, Cross-Firm Worker Mobility and Gendered Knowledge Spillovers 145 8 Conclusions: Gendered Regional Learning and Work-Life Advantage 176 References 197 Index 226

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Book SynopsisMuch has been written about equal opportunity issues but little has been published about how organisations might provide more structure and support to ensure women's progress to the most senior business levels. This book looks at the career experiences of a group of women managers and consider what helps, and what still hinders their progress.Trade Review'...company culture and stereotyping still needs to change significantly in order for women to reach the top. Those who take the time to read Women in Business will find it a useful tool in tackling this issue.' - The Financial TimesTable of ContentsOverview What are the Early Career Issues? Career Promoters - What Will Help Your Career? Career Hindrances - What Will Block Your Career? Women in Leadership - Looking at the Key Issues The Organizational Landscape - What's New and What Needs to Change Advise and What I Wish I'd Known Earlier in My Career Career Plan The Historical Perspective - Women and Their Careers: How Did We Get Here? Appendix - A Timeline of Women's Achievements, 1903 - 2011 Epilogue

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Book SynopsisArtists have worked from home for many reasons, including care duties, financial or political constraints, or availability and proximity to others.From the home studios' of Charles and Ray Eames, to the different photographic representations of Robert Rauschenberg's studio, this book explores the home as a distinct site of artistic practice, and the traditions and developments of the home studio as concept and space throughout the 20th and into the 21st century.Using examples from across Europe and the Anglophone world between the mid-20th century and the present, each chapter considers the different circumstances for working at home, the impact on the creative lives of the artists, their identities as artists and on the work itself, and how, sometimes, these were projected and promoted through photographs and the media. Key themes include the gendered and performative aspects of women practising at home', collaborative studio communities of the 1970s 90s incTrade ReviewThis original and multifaceted book interweaves artists’ interviews with contributions from art historians, design historians and architects. Surveying the domestic and creative functions of the studio alongside its performative role, it makes a compelling case for the enduring cultural significance of these extraordinary places. * Louise Campbell, Emeritus Professor, History of Art, Warwick University, UK *Insightful and timely, with a wealth of fascinating case studies and approaches, this book offers crucial new perspectives on the competing pressures of the domestic and the professional, and the myriad ways in which artists have negotiated, resisted or embraced them. * Clare O’Dowd, Research Curator, the Henry Moore Institute, UK *Demystifies the trope of the artist’s studio as a mythical (and separate) space of creativity, helping to expand and enrich its modern definition. Accessibly written and hugely informative, it will be of interest to researchers, artists, art students, architects, designers and cultural theorists. * Gill Perry, Emeritus Professor of Art History, The Open University, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Imogen Racz (Independent Scholar, UK) and Jill Journeaux (Coventry University, UK) Part One: The Studio at Home: Designing and Projecting the Creative Life 1. Blurring Boundaries between Life and Work: The Home Studios, Homes and Design/Film/ Multi-Media Workshop of Charles and Ray Eames, 1941 to 1978, Pat Kirkham (Kingston University, UK) 2. Interview, Imogen Racz and Liz Harrison 3. An Atomisation of the Home: Towards a Compound Dwelling Interior, Nicholas Lee (The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark) 4. Interview, Paula Chambers and Imogen Racz 5. Interview, Zahrah Al Ghamdi and Imogen Racz 6. Robert Rauschenberg’s Studio through the Lens of Two Photographers, Adi Meyerovitch (Yale University, USA) 7. Interview, Graham Chorlton and Jill Journeaux Part Two: Women, Home, Studio 8. Working from Home: Portuguese women artists during Estado Novo, Maria Luisa Coelho (University of Oxford, UK) 9. Interview, Gerda Roper (Teesside University, UK) and Imogen Racz 10. Making Memory Material: Clutter and the Home Studios of Margaret Olley and Mirka Mora, Cassandra Joore-Short (Melbourne University, Australia) 11. Interview, Carole Griffiths (Bradford College, UK) and Jill Journeaux Part Three: Live-work Communities from the 1970s to 1990s 12. Abandoned and Appropriated Homes: The live-work spaces of artists in East London, Imogen Racz (Independent Scholar, UK) and Heidi Saarinen (Coventry University, UK) 13. Mikey Cuddihy Reflections 14. Housewatch: Cinematic architecture for the Pedestrian, David Martin (Independent Scholar) 15. Interview, George Saxon and Imogen Racz Part Four: Staying Home During COVID-19 16. Sailing to my Nearest Neighbours for Lockdown Cocktails: Reflections on the Politics of Home and Homemaking during a Pandemic, Maria Photiou (University of Derby, UK) and Lia Lapithi (Independent artist) 17. Interview, Fran Cottell (Camberwell College of Arts, UK) and Imogen Racz 18. Artists at Home and Away: Mobile Bodies, Distance and Proximity, Gudrun Filipska (Arts Territory Exchange) 19. Interview, Angie Walton (Liverpool John Moores University, UK), Sarah Black (Liverpool Hope University, UK) and Imogen Racz 20. Studio. Object. Home: Place Setting, Jill Journeaux (Coventry University, UK) 21. Interview, Sreejata Roy and Jill Journeaux 22. Interview, Anastasia Starikova and Jill Journeaux Index

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Book SynopsisCritical and accessible, the new edition of this bestselling textbook offers valuable insight into contemporary management practices and encourages readers to reflect on the realities of the workplace. Work and Organizational Behaviour takes a unique and well-rounded approach, exploring key theories and topics through the lenses of sociology, psychology, ethics and sustainability. Firmly embedded in the latest research and the wider geopolitical environment, this new edition places OB in the context of climate change, the rise of unstable working conditions and the impact of new technologies. A strong suite of pedagogy supports student learning, demonstrating key theories in action and preparing readers for the real world of work. Cases and features illustrate contemporary organizational practices and their impact across the world, in a range of industries. With streamlined content, an improved structure, and an enhanced focus on leadership, Work and Organizational Behaviour<Table of Contents1. Introducing contemporary organizational behaviour 2. Work and the gig economy 3. Studying work and organizations 4. Class, gender, race and equality 5. Personality and self-identity 6. Perception and emotions 7. Motivation 8. Learning 9. Group and team dynamics 10. Communication 11. Structure 12. Technology 13. Culture 14. Human resource management 15. Leadership 16. Decision making, ethics and social responsibility 17. Power, politics and conflict 18. Change.

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Book SynopsisIn the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, women's businesses from small local concerns to financial empires offered women independence, supported their families, and supplied essential goods and services to their communities and the world. They also contributed to much-needed legal and social change and set the stage for the female entrepreneurs who would come later. All this was accomplished despite immense financial barriers, an inequitable legal system, and the widely held belief that women had no business in business. Women's Concerns explores the lives of twelve women who owned and operated businesses in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It focuses on the ways they created personal and public identities and managed the contradictions between their entrepreneurial ambitions and deeply entrenched attitudes about women's roles.

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Book SynopsisAlthough women have long been members of the labour force, the proportion of domestic, caring, and community work they provide compared to men or the state has yet to decrease substantially. Beyond Caring Labour to Provisioning Work offers a powerful new framework for understanding women's work in a holistic sense, acknowledging both their responsibilities in supporting others as well as their employment duties.Beyond Caring Labour to Provisioning Work is based on a four-year, multi-site study of women who are members of contemporary community organizations. The authors reveal the complex ways in which these women define and value their own work, investigating what supports and constrains their individual and collective efforts. Calling on the state to assist more with citizens' provisioning responsibilities, Beyond Caring Labour to Provisioning Work provides an excellent basis for new discussions on equitable and sustainable public policies.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Preface Chapter 1 An Introduction: Conceptialising the Work of WOmen in the 21st Century Chapter 2 Securing the Future by Positioning the Past in the Present Section A Chapter 3 Provisioning Responsibilities of Women: Relationships Shape the Work Chapter 4 Collective Provisioning: Naming the Work of Vital Spaces Section B Chapter 5 Producing Racial Knowledge in Community Programmes for 'At Risk' Young Women Chapter 6 Provisioning for Children in a Low Income Community Chapter 7 Revealing Older Women's Provisioning Responsibilities Chapter 8 Counting the Costs of Provisioning for Women Living on Low Incomes Section C Chapter 9 Collective Spaces as Incubators of Citizenship Chapter 10 A Sharing of Life's Glories Appendix 1 References Index

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Book SynopsisThroughout the 20th century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home Rule. This book shows that coal miners occupy a central position in Scotland's economic, social and political history.

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Book SynopsisThe first in-depth study of the overlooked yet pivotal role played by maternalism, poor and working-class women's unpaid labor, and unequal gender power relations in propelling and sustaining Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution.Trade Review[A] well executed book…[Elfenbein] makes a strong case for why a gendered lens is indispensable to understanding Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution and politics more generally...Engendering Revolution is an exceptional contribution to our gendered understanding of revolutionary states. * Journal of Women, Politics & Policy *A rich and engaging history...Engendering Revolution adds a critical dimension to existing work on women and the Bolivarian revolution by addressing the burden of popular women’s unpaid work, the ways it buttressed the Bolivarian state, and what Elfenbein would describe as the continued reproduction of hegemonic gender roles in the revolutionary process...Engendering Revolution is revealing in its mapping of the history of women’s organizing and mobilization before and during the time of Chávez. Its thorough treatment of the subject and engagement with the gendered nature of the state, state power, and state-society relations remind the reader that gender relations are indeed power relations, and that women’s visibility and mobilization may not necessitate power. * The Latin Americanist *"[Elfenbein] offers a radical view of the Bolivarian revolution that has been unavailable in the past, as she not only makes women visible within the movement but portrays their socio-political and economic participation as being vital to the continuation of Chávez’s leadership...Engendering Revolution is a must-read for all scholars of gender relations, social reproduction, social movements and the state, as it makes an especially unique and powerful contribution to the discussion of the Bolivarian process in Venezuela. * Mobilization *A pioneering and in-depth study…In addition to being a broad, arduous, and rigorous research from a methodological point of view, Engendering Revolution provides sociological, ethnographic, and political results that, under a gender perspective, reveal in different ways the dynamics between the working class women and their organizations, but also the Bolivarian revolutionary state during the Chávez mandate...Elfenbein conducts a masterful extended case study with a methodology that she adapted in a creative manner to the social reality under study...this overwhelming book offers a new way of approaching the gender role and gender justice in Venezuela, a thorough research that seeks to find the essence of the dynamics of relations between the state and poor women and their organizations in that country. * Journal of Latin American Politics and Society *Table of Contents List of Tables and Images Acknowledgments Glossary of Abbreviations and Terms Introduction. The Unpaid Labor and Suffering of the Women Undergirding the Bolivarian Revolution Chapter 1. Out of the Margins: The Struggle for the Rights to State Recognition of Women’s Unpaid Housework and Social Security for Homemakers Chapter 2. Between Fruitless Legislative Initiatives and Executive Magic: Contestations over the Implementation of Homemakers’ Social Security Chapter 3. State Imaginations of Popular Motherhood within the Revolution: The Institutional Design of Madres del Barrio Mission Chapter 4. Regulating Motherhood in Madres del Barrio: Intensifying yet Disregarding the Unpaid Labor of the Mothers of the Bolivarian Revolution Chapter 5. In the Shadows of the Magical Revolutionary State: Popular Women’s Work Where the State Did Not Reach Chapter 6. Mobilized yet Contained within Chavista Populism: Popular Women’s Organizing around the 2012 Organic Labor Law Conclusion: Imagining a More Dignified Map for Popular Women’s Unpaid Labor and Power Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisAn examination of the vast counterfeit clothing marketplace in Buenos Aires known as La Salada, this book is the first ethnographic study to examine how aspirations shape behaviors of workers in an informal and illegal economy.Trade Review[Making It at Any Cost] is a sophisticated piece of ethnographic work, especially relevant for academic research focused on the study of urban economic structures in Latin American cities. Throughout the book, the well-structured analytical sequence and narrative followed by the author is captivating and manages to engage the reader in the everyday living of the inhabitants of La Salada. * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *[Dewey] demonstrates a clear attachment to both the location and his subjects and provides a rich description of their lives and their struggles...One of the core values of ethnographic research is an immersive and detailed depiction of a setting, and Dewey meets this objective. * American Journal of Sociology *Making It at Any Cost is a fantastic ethnographic work that enters into great detail without boring the reader, and without failing to acknowledge the importance of the broader spatial and historical context...Making It at Any Cost is the best of all existing books on La Salada. Colleagues working on how social relations are governed in illegal marketplaces and on sweatshop economies producing fast fashion will most probably be left with pages of questions, answers, and doubts that will modify their research agendas. * Economic Sociology *[Making It at Any Cost] is an important contribution to the role local economic practices play in organizing commitments, subjectivities, and personal trajectories, and marries European and US economic sociology with Latin American studies of urban and labor informality, aiming to expand some of its lessons beyond the site-specific characteristics of La Salada...The book calls our attention to the creativity, and resilience of subaltern agents in the global economy...This is an excellent book that uses creatively the case of La Salada to elegantly fill gaps in the US and European economic sociology scholarship, expending current understandings of morality in illegal and contested markets. As such, it would be a great addition to courses on informal markets, studies of morality, global chains, and Latin American urban studies. * Social Forces *Making It at Any Cost provides a nuanced account of a counterfeit market that reveals itself to be as rational, hardworking, and creative as any of its 'legal' counterparts in the global supply chain. In doing so, the book shows how actors themselves create order and sustained relationships precisely where the state’s presence is most attenuated and where distrust predominates...Future scholars will do well to return to this book. * Latin American Politics and Society *Table of Contents Maps The Structure of La Salada Marketplace List of La Salada Characters Acknowledgments Introduction: Aspirations amid Distrust Part I: History, Place, and Politics Chapter 1. The Garment Market and the Marketplace Chapter 2. Governing La Salada Chapter 3. With God and the Devil Part II: Prisoners of Aspirations Chapter 4. All I Want Is a Sweatshop Chapter 5. The Garment Entrepreneur at La Salada Chapter 6. Dynamics of Aspirations Part III: Aspirations in Action Chapter 7. Narratives of Sacrifice and Autonomy Chapter 8. Taste, Credit, and Bullets Chapter 9. Squatters, Cart-Pullers, and Demolition Conclusion Epilogue Methodological Appendix Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThe world was shocked in April 2013 when more than 1100 garment workers lost their lives in the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex in Dhaka. It was the worst industrial tragedy in the two-hundred-year history of mass apparel manufacture. This so-called accident was, in fact, just waiting to happen, and not merely because of the corruption and exploitation of workers so common in the garment industry. In Achieving Workers'' Rights in the Global Economy, Richard P. Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein argue that such tragic events, as well as the low wages, poor working conditions, and voicelessness endemic to the vast majority of workers who labor in the export industries of the global South arise from the very nature of world trade and production.Given their enormous power to squeeze prices and wages, northern brands and retailers today occupy the commanding heights of global capitalism. Retail-dominated supply chainssuch as those with Walmart, Apple, and Nike at Trade ReviewAchieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy seeks to understand why sweatshops continue in the apparel industry despite the 20-year-long investment in private regulation (monitoring corporate codes of conduct) by major brands and retailers.... In sum, Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy is an important book that is particularly useful as a textbook for students learning about the barriers to effective improvements in labor standards, as well as for useful pathways to explore for the future. In addition, practitioners will gain from the discussion of potential avenues forward. -- Matthew Fischer-Daly * ILR Review *Fourteen papers analyze the system of world capitalism under which the majority of workers labor, explaining how corporate social responsibility (CSR) has failed to achieve its professed objectives, different approaches to the governance of global suply chains, the prospects for workers' rights in China, and the way forward for labor rights. * JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Achieving Workers' Rights in the Global Economy Richard P. Appelbaum and Nelson LichtensteinPart I SELF-GOVERNANCE: THE CHALLENGES AND LIMITATIONS OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY1. Outsourcing Horror: Why Apparel Workers Are Still Dying, One Hundred Years after Triangle Shirtwaist Scott Nova and Chris Wegemer2. From Public Regulation to Private Enforcement: How CSR Became Managerial OrthodoxyRichard P. Appelbaum3. Corporate Social Responsibility: Moving from Checklist Monitoring to Contractual Obligation? Jill Esbenshade4. The Twilight of CSR: Life and Death Illuminated by Fire Robert J. S. RossPart II GOVERNANCE OF GLOBAL PRODUCTION NETWORKS5. The Demise of Tripartite Governance and the Rise of the Corporate Social Responsibility Regime Nelson Lichtenstein6. Deepening Compliance?: Multistakeholder Communication in Monitoring Labor Standards in the Value Chains of Brazil’s Apparel Industry Anne Caroline Posthuma and Renato Bignami7. Law and the Global Sweatshop Problem Brishen Rogers8. Assessing the Risks of Participation in Global Value Chains Gary Gereffi and Xubei LuoPart III PROSPECTS FOR WORKERS’ RIGHTS IN CHINA9. Apple, Foxconn, and China’s New Working Class Jenny Chan, Ngai Pun, and Mark Selden10. Labor Transformation in China: Voices from the Frontlines Katie Quan11. CSR and Trade Union Elections at Foreign-Owned Chinese Factories Anita ChanPart IV A WAY FORWARD?12. The Sustainable Apparel Coalition and Higg Index: A New Approach for the Apparel and Footwear Industry Jason Kibbey13. Learning from the Past: The Relevance of Twentieth-Century New York Jobbers’ Agreements for Twenty-First-Century Global Supply Chains Mark Anner, Jennifer Bair, and Jeremy Blasi14. Workers of the World Unite!: The Strategy of the International Union League for Brand Responsibility Jeff Hermanson

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Book SynopsisIn High Tech and High Touch, James E. Coverdill and William Finlay invite readers into the dynamic world of headhunters, personnel professionals who acquire talent for businesses and other organizations on a contingent-fee basis. In a high-tech world where social media platforms have simplified direct contact between employers and job seekers, Coverdill and Finlay acknowledge, it is relatively easy to find large numbers of apparently qualified candidates. However, the authors demonstrate that headhunters serve a valuable purpose in bringing high-touch search into the labor market: they help parties on both sides of the transaction to define their needs and articulate what they have to offer.As well as providing valuable information for sociologists and economists, High Tech and High Touch demonstrates how headhunters approach practical issues such as identifying and attracting candidates; how they solicit, secure, and evaluate search assignments from client compTrade ReviewFrom archival and interview data—1,106 industry publications articles and interviews with 33 headhunters, 7 of whom were also informants for the first book—a fascinating case study emerges of an occupation markedly shaped by the evolutions of the last 20 years.... this is a fascinating and consequential look into the behavior of one group who sits on the fault line between the impending forces changing the face of the labor market as we know it. The rich descriptions speak to the evolution of an occupation under the impact of technology. * Work and Occupations *[High Tech and High Touch] provides a fascinating account of an infrequently studied profession at [a] significant moment in time that will deepen your understanding of how labor markets work. * Social Forces *Finlay and Coverdill help shine a light on the social aspects of this market, in which personal characteristics matter more and the actively employed are potentially considered as candidates. Their work highlights that the full implications of the technological and cultural revolution undergirding the "new economy" are only beginning to be understood. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Getting Clients and Job Orders 2. Qualifying Clients and Job Orders 3. Constructing Candidates and Securing Placements 4. Evolution or Revolution? 5. Booms, Busts, and Changing Labor Markets 6. Being a Headhunter Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisIn High Tech and High Touch, James E. Coverdill and William Finlay invite readers into the dynamic world of headhunters, personnel professionals who acquire talent for businesses and other organizations on a contingent-fee basis. In a high-tech world where social media platforms have simplified direct contact between employers and job seekers, Coverdill and Finlay acknowledge, it is relatively easy to find large numbers of apparently qualified candidates. However, the authors demonstrate that headhunters serve a valuable purpose in bringing high-touch search into the labor market: they help parties on both sides of the transaction to define their needs and articulate what they have to offer.As well as providing valuable information for sociologists and economists, High Tech and High Touch demonstrates how headhunters approach practical issues such as identifying and attracting candidates; how they solicit, secure, and evaluate search assignments from client compTrade ReviewFrom archival and interview data—1,106 industry publications articles and interviews with 33 headhunters, 7 of whom were also informants for the first book—a fascinating case study emerges of an occupation markedly shaped by the evolutions of the last 20 years.... this is a fascinating and consequential look into the behavior of one group who sits on the fault line between the impending forces changing the face of the labor market as we know it. The rich descriptions speak to the evolution of an occupation under the impact of technology. * Work and Occupations *[High Tech and High Touch] provides a fascinating account of an infrequently studied profession at [a] significant moment in time that will deepen your understanding of how labor markets work. * Social Forces *Finlay and Coverdill help shine a light on the social aspects of this market, in which personal characteristics matter more and the actively employed are potentially considered as candidates. Their work highlights that the full implications of the technological and cultural revolution undergirding the "new economy" are only beginning to be understood. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Getting Clients and Job Orders 2. Qualifying Clients and Job Orders 3. Constructing Candidates and Securing Placements 4. Evolution or Revolution? 5. Booms, Busts, and Changing Labor Markets 6. Being a Headhunter Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisUrban public spaces, from the streets and squares of Buenos Aires to Zuccotti Park in New York City, have become the emblematic sites of contentious politics in the twenty-first century. As the contributors to The City Is the Factory argue, this resurgent politics of the square is itself part of a broader shift in the primary locations and targets of popular protest from the workplace to the city. This shift is due to an array of intersecting developments: the concentration of people, profit, and social inequality in growing urban areas; the attacks on and precarity faced by unions and workers'' movements; and the sense of possibility and actual leverage afforded by local politics and the tactical use of urban space. Thus, the cityfrom the town square to the banlieuis becoming like the factory of old: a site of production and profit-making as well as new forms of solidarity, resistance, and social reimagining.We see examples of the city as factory in new place-based politicalTrade Review"The City Is the Factory brings together and updates the interdisciplinary scholarly research on urban politics, critical geography, neoliberalism, and social and labor movements. The editors and contributors examine and theorize about how contemporary social and labor activists form alliances that respond to neoliberal urban politics in novel ways and how they relate to urban spaces through collective action." -- Ellen Reese, Professor of Sociology and Chair of Labor Studies, University of California, Riverside, author of They Say Cut Back, We Say Fight Back! Welfare Activism in an Era of Retrenchment"This book makes clear the importance of community- or city-based unionism and social movements. The future of organizing is going to have to take into account the centrality of the urban in capital accumulation processes, because it is through such processes that exploitation and oppression often work. The city is now indeed the factory." -- Don Mitchell, Distinguished Professor of Geography, Syracuse University, author of The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public SpaceTable of ContentsIntroduction: From the Factory to the City and Back Again, Miriam Greenberg and Penny Lewis1. The Street Labor Movement, Kathleen Dunn2. Day Labor Agencies and the Logic and Landscape of Neoliberal Poverty Management, Gretchen Purser3. Economic Development for Whom? Retail, Neoliberal Urbanism, and the "Fight for 15," Stephanie Luce and Penny Lewis4. Context, Coalitions, and Organizing: Immigrant Labor Rights Advocacy in San Francisco and Houston, Els de Graauw and Shannon Gleeson5. A Bridge Too Far: Industrial Gentrification and the Dynamics of Sacrifice in New York City, Melissa Checker6. Radical Ruptures: Crisis Organizing and the Spatial Politics of Uneven Redevelopment, Miriam Greenberg7. The Other Low-Carbon Protagonists: Poor People's Movements and Climate Politics in São Paulo, Daniel Aldana Cohen8. The Space of Speech, Lize Mogel9. Spatial Politics and Urban Borders: A Study of Buenos Aires, Alejandro Grimson10. From Workers in the City to Workers’ Cities?, Andrew Herod

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Book SynopsisCasino Women is a pioneering look at the female face of corporate gaming. Based on extended interviews with maids, cocktail waitresses, cooks, laundry workers, dealers, pit bosses, managers, and vice presidents, the book describes in compelling detail a world whose enormous profitability is dependent on the labor of women assigned stereotypically female occupationsmaking beds and serving food on the one hand and providing sexual allure on the other. But behind the neon lies another world, peopled by thousands of remarkable women who assert their humanity in the face of gaming empires'' relentless quest for profits.The casino women profiled here generally fall into two groups. Geoconda Arguello Kline, typical of the first, arrived in the United States in the 1980s fleeing the war in Nicaragua. Finding work as a Las Vegas hotel maid, she overcame her initial fear of organizing and joined with others to build the preeminent grassroots union in the nationthe 60,000-member Trade ReviewFor all of the popular culture that's been based in and around the casino industry—Casino Royale, 21, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and many others—few have ever taken into account the stories of women working to keep the industry going.... Susan Chandler and Jill B. Jones penned this book with the desire to not only fill the void, but also to provide inspiration for others....The emphasis is most certainly on the harsh working conditions and uncertainty that many of Nevada’s women face. Casino Women unashamedly offers this view in an attempt to make more people aware of the conditions faced, and in the longer term, to improve these women’s’ lives.... Many of the tales included are certainly fascinating and provide an intriguing insight to an area hardly ever spoken about. * CasinoOnline.co.uk *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. "You Have to Do It for the People Coming"Part I: Back of the House, Front of the House2. "They're Treating Us Like Donkeys, Really": Housekeeping and Other Back of the House Work3. "Kiss My Foot": Cocktail WaitressingPart II: Union Women4. "I'll Always Love the Union"5. "Here's My Heart"Part III: Nonunion Women Stand Up6. Darlene Jespersen v. Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc.7. Liberation Theology, Pit Boss StylePart IV: Dealers: The Illusion of Power8. Dealing: The View from Dead Center9. Stuck10. Big Tobacco Rides the StripPart V: Women in Management11. Crossing Over to the Other Side12. Conclusion: "A Marvelous Victory"Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the dawn of the twentieth century to the early 1960s, public-sector unions generally had no legal right to strike, bargain, or arbitrate, and government workers could be fired simply for joining a union. Public Workers is the first book to analyze why public-sector labor law evolved as it did, separate from and much more restrictive than private-sector labor law, and what effect this law had on public-sector unions, organized labor as a whole, and by extension all of American politics. Joseph E. Slater shows how public-sector unions survived, represented their members, and set the stage for the most remarkable growth of worker organization in American history. Slater examines the battles of public-sector unions in the workplace, courts, and political arena, from the infamous Boston police strike of 1919, to teachers in Seattle fighting a yellow-dog rule, to the BSEIU in the 1930s representing public-sector janitors, to the fate of the powerful Transit Workers UnioTrade ReviewSlater analyzes the legal and historical origins of government employee unions and compares them with the private sector experience.... Slater concludes with a comparison of the public and private models. He suggests that employer opposition to workers' organizing activities in the private sector explains much of the divergence in membership levels. Overall, the book is a well-researched contribution to the study of U.S. labor history. * Choice 42:3 *Slater produces a rich examination of five critical episodes in the history of mid-twentieth century public labor relations, and, in doing so, demonstrates the complex intersection of law, work, social movements, and the political process.... Slater successfully bridges the fields of legal and labor history to present a lucid and compelling thesis about the importance of law for union effectiveness, while also paying careful attention to the vital importance of the social movement organizing process itself. -- Jeffrey T. Coster * Maryland Historian *

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Book SynopsisBike messengers are familiar figures in the downtown cores of major cities. Tasked with delivering time-sensitive materials within, at most, a few hoursand sometimes in as little as fifteen minutesthese couriers ride in all types of weather, weave in and out of dense traffic, dodging (or sometimes failing to dodge) taxis and pedestrians alike in order to meet their clients'' tight deadlines. Riding through midtown traffic at breakneck speeds is dangerous work, and most riders do it for very little pay and few benefits. As the courier industry has felt the pressures of first fax machines, then e-mails, and finally increased opportunities for electronic filing of legal paperwork, many of those who remain in the business are devoted to their job. For these couriers, messengering is the foundation for an all-encompassing lifestyle, an essential part of their identity. In Urban Flow, Jeffrey L. Kidder (a sociologist who spent several years working as a bike messenger) introduces rTrade ReviewUrban Flow is a view of the cool urban culture that messengers have grown on the barren soil of the service economy, and reverberates with cycling's visceral pleasure. * American Journal of Sociology *Urban Flow's principle contribution is a call to sociologists of culture to more thoroughly examine emotions, space, and the relationship between the two; emotions are emplaced, and physical structures significantly shape interaction. Through what Kidder calls the 'affective appropriation of space' messengers resist the conformist, rationalized world of the city, affording moments, however small, of creativity and liberation. -- Ross Haenfler * Qualitative Sociology *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Lure of Delivery 1. The Job 2. The Lifestyle 3. Men's Work and Dirty Work 4. Playing in Traffi 5. The Deep Play of Alleycats 6. The Aff ective Appropriation of Space 7. The Meaning of Messenger Style Conclusion: The Politics of Appropriation

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Book SynopsisThis revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism. In Undoing Work, Rethinking Community, James A. Chamberlain argues that paid work and the civic duty to perform it substantially undermines freedom and justice. Chamberlain believes that to seize back our time and transform our society, we must abandon the deep-seated view that community is constructed by work, whether paid or not. Chamberlain focuses on the regimes of flexibility and the unconditional basic income, arguing that while both offer prospects for greater freedom and justice, they also incur the risk of shoring up the work society rather than challenging it. To transform the work society, he shows that we must also reconfigure the place of paid work in our lives and rethink the meaning of community at a deeper level. Throughout, he speaks to a broad readership, and his focus on freedom and social justice will interest scholars and activists alike. ChamberlainTrade ReviewThe book is well worth reading for its clear synthesis of a number of issues and thinkers on topics such as UBI, work, immaterial labour, welfare and flexibility.... In my view, it deserves to be read just for its extended treatment of André Gorz's work, which is undeservedly neglected within our discipline. Scholars of alternative organization, in particular, could usefully harness the utopian variant of UBI and the reduction of work without income to consider how organization could develop in the context of voluntary co-operation and in the service of social justice and human flourishing. * Organization Studies *In his comprehensive analysis and evaluation of the social function of work under capitalism, Chamberlain demonstrates repeatedly that even prominent postwork scholars do not escape the remnants of work. Moreover, he provides a reassessment of neoliberalism's regimes of flexibility. * Perspectives in Politics *Chamberlain has given us something rare: not an easy or a comfortable book, but a genuinely radical one. * Autonomy *Chamberlain places a set of inquiries that will largely enhance the boundaries on debates about work in a post-work era: is it even possible to think about societies in a wider sense that could overcome work as the main knot of relationships, and thus, recognition? * British Journal of Industrial Relations *Table of Contents1. The Ends of Work 2. The Work Society 3. Flexibility 4. Unconditional Basic Income 5. Community beyond Work 6. The Postwork Community

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Book SynopsisIn Confronting Dystopia, a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological revolution for jobs, working conditions, and income. Focusing on the economic and political implications of AI, digital connectivity, and robotics for both the Global North and the Global South, they move beyond diagnostics to seek solutions that offer better lives for all. Their analyses of the challenges of technology are placed against the backdrop of three decades of rapid economic globalization. The two in tandem are producing the daunting challenges that analysts and policymakers must now confront.The conjuncture of recent advances in AI, machine learning, and robotization portends a vast displacement of human labor, argues the editor, Eva Paus. As Confronting Dystopia shows, we are on the eve ofindeed we are already amida technological revolution that will impact profoundly the livelihoods of people everywhere in the world.Across a broadTrade Review"Confronting Dystopia is a well-executed volume on an important topic, with wide-ranging coverage of both the Global North and the Global South. The contributors present original interpretations as well as a range of insightful policy prescriptions. The result is a significant contribution to the literature on our economic future." -- James Boyce, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst"Confronting Dystopia offers a rich, multidimensional analysis of the complex challenges posed by digitization, robots, and AI as they affect different countries and countries at different levels of economic development and per capita GDP." -- Eileen Appelbaum, Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and Visiting Professor of Management, University of Leicester

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Book SynopsisIn Confronting Dystopia, a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological revolution for jobs, working conditions, and income. Focusing on the economic and political implications of AI, digital connectivity, and robotics for both the Global North and the Global South, they move beyond diagnostics to seek solutions that offer better lives for all. Their analyses of the challenges of technology are placed against the backdrop of three decades of rapid economic globalization. The two in tandem are producing the daunting challenges that analysts and policymakers must now confront.The conjuncture of recent advances in AI, machine learning, and robotization portends a vast displacement of human labor, argues the editor, Eva Paus. As Confronting Dystopia shows, we are on the eve ofindeed we are already amida technological revolution that will impact profoundly the livelihoods of people everywhere in the world.Across a broadTrade Review"Confronting Dystopia is a well-executed volume on an important topic, with wide-ranging coverage of both the Global North and the Global South. The contributors present original interpretations as well as a range of insightful policy prescriptions. The result is a significant contribution to the literature on our economic future." -- James Boyce, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst"Confronting Dystopia offers a rich, multidimensional analysis of the complex challenges posed by digitization, robots, and AI as they affect different countries and countries at different levels of economic development and per capita GDP." -- Eileen Appelbaum, Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and Visiting Professor of Management, University of Leicester

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Book SynopsisWhat makes domestic work a bad job, even after efforts to formalize and improve working conditions? Erynn Masi de Casanova''s case study, based partly on collaborative research conducted with Ecuador''s pioneer domestic workers'' organization, examines three reasons for persistent exploitation. First, the tasks of social reproduction are devalued. Second, informal work arrangements escape regulation. And third, unequal class relations are built into this type of employment. Accessible to advocates and policymakers as well as academics, this book provides both theoretical discussions about domestic work and concrete ideas for improving women''s lives.Drawing on workers'' stories of lucha, trabajo, and sacrificiostruggle, work, and sacrificeDust and Dignity offers a new take on an old occupation. From the intimate experience of being a body out of place in an employer''s home, to the common work histories of Ecuadorian women in different cities, to the possTrade ReviewDust and Dignity provides a most useful resource for scholars of gender, politics and the workplace. This book is a promising and unique contribution to the history and experiences of women working in domestic employment in Ecuador. * Gender, Work, and Organization *Table of ContentsForeword, by Maximina Salazar Introduction 1. In Search of the Ideal Worker 2. Embodied Inequality 3. Informed but Insecure: (Written in Collaboration with Leila Rodriguez) 4. Pathways through Poverty 5. Like Any Other Job? Conclusion Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThis account of the formation of United Auto Workers' Union shows how the gains workers made were not easy or inevitable, but required strategic and tactical sophistication as well as concerted action. An oral history is included.Table of ContentsPart 1 Lost history - Sol Dollinger: Toledo Auto-Lite strike of 1934; 1935 Chevrolet transmission strike; Homer Martin elected president; factional warfare in the U.A.W.; U.A.W. Twenty-point program; U.A.W. targets Ford Motor; equality of sacrifice; anti-union forces ambush U.A.W. Local 212; mafia and Briggs linked by Senator Estis Kefauver hearings; Reuther slams door on union democracy, 1947-1948; good housekeeping seal of approval; who led the 1937 sitdown strikes in Flint? Part 2 Striking Flint - an oral history of Genora (Johnson) Dollinger by Susan Rosenthal: conditions before the strike; preparing for battle; sit down! women comer forward; the women's emergency brigade; breaking the stalemate; a blow against racism; the sweet fruit of victory; fighting racism; organizing the unemployed; personality speaking; class struggle during the war; the employers strike back; back to the future.

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Book SynopsisThe politics of the past must be rethought. They were designed for a world where the U.S. manufactured at home, and where portions of U.S.-based labor had traded social stability for high wages. In this thought-provoking work, David Ranney shows how our world has changed and offers a plan for remaking progressive politics to meet the crises brought about by what George H. W. Bush first termed "the new world order. "Drawing from his experiences in Chicago politics, first as a factory worker and later as an activist and academic, Ranney shows how the increasing mobility of capital, the easy availability of credit, and a changing government policies have reshaped the urban world where U.S. workers live their everyday lives. This is not the story of the interconnectedness of modern business, but rather the need for self-respecting people who bring home a weekly paycheck to see the common, global problems they face, and to work together to bring about meaningful change.Showing how globalization has led to specific local consequences for cities and the workers that inhabit them, David Ranney presents a means for taking stock of the effects of globalization; a look at these changes in labor markets; economic development politics; housing policy; and employment policies; and an organizing strategy for this new economic and social era.Trade Review"Global Decisions, Local Collisions is a solid, well-written, and well-substantiated argument with a number of case studies on topics of major interest. [It] adds new analysis that makes a real and important contribution."—Peter Marcuse, author of Globalizing Cities and Of States and Cities"Ranney's book should be of considerable interest and use to scholars working in the urban political economy and on the local impacts of the processes of global economic reorganization. His descriptions are lucid and well-argued. His most original contribution comes in deepening and advancing a sophisticated theoretical understanding of these processes through examination of the Chicago cases. This he does masterfully, and in doing so, makes what I believe will be a significant contribution to the debate."—Adolph Reed, Jr., Professor of Political Science, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research"This is an important book. The author brings to bear finely honed analytic skills and a command of the secondary literature combined with hands-on research and, crucially, a discussion of his own experiences as a worker in Chicago and as a political activist to understand the nature of the New World Order."—SAGE Race Relations Abastracts"[It] is a timely and important book. It resonates with contemporary debates and discussions in academia and beyond about the effect of global level changes on everyday life....it is an impressive and thoughtful addition to our understanding of the collusion of government policies and capital mobility in transforming people's lives."—Work and Occupations, February 2004"In his valuable recent book... Ranney provides a clear critique of investor-rights globalization, a lucid analysis of how it touches everyday lives, and offers sensible democratic alternatives to the specter of overwhelming corporate domination."—Z Magazine"This book contains some informative case studies."—The Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare"The significance of this book for globalization readers and activists is that the author does a superb job of linking the forces unleashed in a global world to struggles or collisions that one finds locally. The author's career is unique in that his perspective combines the insights of an academic with the instincts of one who has been engaged on the front line as a labor organizer and critic of global economic policy."—Policy Research Action Group (pdf)"...this book is an important study that should be of interest to scholars and professionals such as planners and economists working in the fields of political economy and community development. It makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the impact of globalization on our communities."—Journal of the American Planning AssociationTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsTimeline1. Introduction2. Philosophical Perspectives3. The Evolution of a New World Order4. Manufacturing Collapses in Chicago5. The New World Order and Local Government: Chicago Politics and Economic Development6. Where Will Poor People Live?7. Jobs, Wages, and Trade in the New World Order8. Organizing to Combat the New World Order9. Implications and DirectionsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisAlthough the definition of what constitutes low income varies significantly from one country to the next, it is always below average and people who have it score high on the misery index. This book brings together leading researchers from around the globe on defining it and seeking solutions.

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Book SynopsisIn Working Women into the Borderlands, author Sonia Hernández sheds light on how women’s labor was shaped by US capital in the northeast region of Mexico and how women’s labor activism simultaneously shaped the nature of foreign investment and relations between Mexicans and Americans. As capital investments fueled the growth of heavy industries in cities and ports such as Monterrey and Tampico, women’s work complemented and strengthened their male counterparts’ labor in industries which were historically male-dominated.As Hernández reveals, women laborers were expected to maintain their “proper” place in society, and work environments were in fact gendered and class-based. Yet, these prescribed notions of class and gender were frequently challenged as women sought to improve their livelihoods by using everyday forms of negotiation including collective organizing, labor arbitration boards, letter writing, creating unions, assuming positions of confianza (“trustworthiness”), and by migrating to urban centers and/or crossing into Texas. Drawing extensively on bi-national archival sources, newspapers, and published records, Working Women into the Borderlands demonstrates convincingly how women’s labor contributions shaped the development of one of the most dynamic and contentious borderlands in the globe.

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Book SynopsisThis book contains a unique set of pieces which examine the plight of Hispanics in today''s workforce. A diverse set of scholars share their perspectives and insight on extant research to create the definitive collection of readings on Hispanic Workforce issues. This volume covers issues as diverse as occupations and their propensity toward and interaction with racioethnicity, to specific challenges of the Hispanic Workforce such as work-family balance and the impact of machismo.

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Book SynopsisThe Federal Government operates a merit-based hiring system. The key purpose of the system is to identify, attract, and hire the candidates who can best meet the needs of the organisation and support the public''s interests. Not only is this good public policy, but making good selections can also lead to higher productivity, increased employee morale, improved teamwork, and reduced turnover -- all of which contribute to organisational performance. The purpose of this book is to inform reform efforts by summarising key findings of recent MSPB research on hiring issues; articulating the Board''s perspective regarding the strengths and weaknesses of the Federal hiring system; and identifying and promoting hiring practices that support merit-based selection.

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Book SynopsisThe original essays in this book have been written by a number of leading international experts in the field of labour market studies to honour the intellectual contribution and lifetime achievement of Gunther Schmid.The multidisciplinary contributions, which cover a variety of theoretical approaches, are all concerned with transitional labour markets and labour market policy in the new global economic environment. The authors first address current arguments and controversies regarding appropriate institutions for the formation and implementation of labour market and employment policies. They move on to focus on the policies and problems associated with enhancing gender equality in terms of labour market integration and transitions. Finally, they examine new institutional arrangements that they believe will both enhance the performance of transitional labour markets and improve the management of social risks.Combining a theoretical approach with empirical research and a strong policy emphasis, the scope and diversity of this book will ensure a broad audience amongst economists, political scientists and academics in the fields of labour market theory and policy.Table of ContentsContents Preface 1 Introduction Hugh Mosley, Jacqueline O’Reilly and Klaus Schömann PART I NEW INSTITUTIONS FOR LABOUR MARKET POLICY 2 What can we learn from other countries? Comparative research on the impact of wages on employment performance Ronald Schettkat 3 Can Sweden’s ‘Rehn–Meidner’ model be put back on its feet? Lars Behrenz, Lennart Delander and Harald Niklasson 4 The changing public–private mix of labour market policy in Sweden Eskil Wadensjö 5 Implementation structures for cooperative labour market policy: a bargaining theory approach Birgitta Rabe PART II GENDER EQUALITY IN TRANSITION 6 Gender mainstreaming and European employment policy Jill Rubery 7 Shared work/valued care: new norms for organizing market work and unpaid care work Eileen Appelbaum, Thomas Bailey, Peter Berg and Arne L. Kalleberg 8 The 1996 US welfare reform: objectives, effects and lessons Robert Haveman and Barbara Wolfe 9 The labour force transitions of first-time mothers in Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden Siv Gustafsson, Eiko Kenjoh and Cécile Wetzels 10 Women between labour market integration and segregation: Germany and Sweden compared Hildegard Theobald and Friederike Maier PART III INSTITUTIONAL COORDINATION AND TRANSITIONAL LABOUR MARKETS 11 Transitional labour markets and scarcity: a preliminary analysis Bernard Gazier 12 Managing social risks with transitional labour markets Ton Wilthagen 13 Transitional labour markets: an economist’s view Jaap de Koning 14 Transitional labour markets and employment stability Peter Auer and Sandrine Cazes 15 Self-employment transitions in Germany: the division of knowledge and the future of the self-employed entrepreneur Klaus Semlinger Index

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