Sociology: work and labour Books

Book Synopsis•Addresses a gap in the literature by bringing human resource management into dialogue with public policy •Combines rigorous academic research with practitioner case studiesTable of Contents1 Introduction: Why Is Employer Engagement Important? Jo Ingold and Patrick McGurk PART I The Macro Level: Political Economy and Policies 2 Varieties of Policy Approaches to Employer Engagement in Activation Policies Thomas Bredgaard, Jo Ingold and Rik Van Berkel 3 Political Economy of the Inclusive Labour Market Revisited: Welfare through Work in Denmark David Etherington and Martin Jones 4 Skills, Apprenticeships and Diversity: Employer Engagement With Further and Higher Education Patrick McGurk and Omolola Olaleye 5 Practice Case Study: Programme Commissioning and Co-Opetition in the UK and Australia Orla Baker, Jo Ingold, Emma Crichton and Tony Carr PART II The Meso Level: Programmes and Actors 6 the Weakest Link? Job Quality and Active Labour Market Policy in the UK Anne Green and Paul Sissons 7 Opening the Black Box of Promoting Employer Engagement at the Street Level of Employment Services Tanja Dall, Flemming Larsen and Mikkel Bo Madsen 8 Active Labour Market Programmes and Employer Engagement in the UK and Germany Jay Wiggan and Matthias Knuth 9 Practice Case Study: Reconnecting Employee and Employer Engagement Through Continuous Improvement of Policy Andrew Hamilton PART III The Micro Level: Workplaces and Their Contexts 10 Who Are the Engaged Employers? Strategic Entry-Level Resourcing in Low-Wage Sectors Patrick McGurk and Richard Meredith 11 HRM and Social Security: It Takes Two To Create a Transitional Labour Market Irmgard Borghouts and Charissa Freese 12 Conditions, Processes and Pressures Promoting Inclusive Organisations Jeffrey Moore and William Hanson 13 Practice Case Study: Sephora’s Journey to an Inclusive Workplace and the ‘Let Us Belong’ Philosophy William Hanson, Jeffrey Moore and Tom Gustafson 14 Conclusion: Making Active Labour Market Policies Work Patrick McGurk and Jo Ingold

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Book SynopsisWhy does the City of London, despite an apparent commitment to recruitment and progression based on objective merit within its hiring practices, continue to reproduce the status quo? Written by a leading expert on diversity and elite professions, this book examines issues of equality in the City, what its practitioners say in public and what they think behind closed doors. Drawing on research, interviews, practitioner literature and internal reports, it argues that hiring practices in the City are highly discriminating in favour of a narrow pool of affluent applicants, and future progress may only be achieved by the state taking a greater role in organizational life. It calls for a policy shift at both the organizational and governmental level to address the implications of widening inequality in the UK.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Capital and Context Part 1: Why the City Isn't Fair 2. Reputation and Respect 3. Qualifications and Complexity 4. Scarcity and Similarity 5. Status and Stereotypes Part 2: Why Diversity Doesn't Work 6. Diversity and Diffusion 7. Capital and Control 8. Stigma and Shame 9. Ridicule and Resistance 10. Rethinking Respect

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Book SynopsisThe turnover of labour and its significance for workers and employers has usually been considered at the organizational level as individual exit behaviour, and seldom in relation to the cross-border mobility practices of migrant workers within and without the workplace. Drawing from labour process theory, the autonomy of migration, social reproduction, and industrial relations, this book explores the relationship between labour mobility and international migration under a global and historical perspective. Uncovering both the individual and collective actions by migrants inside and outside worker organizations, the authors develop a new understanding of migrants’ everyday mobilities as creative and life-sustaining strategies of social reproduction and labour conflict.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Migration and Labour Turnover 1. Theorizing Labour Mobility Power 2. The Logistics of Living Labour 3. Enclaves of Differentiated Labour 4. The Field of Social Reproduction 5. Migrant Organizing Conclusion: Rethinking Worker Power Through Mobility

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Book SynopsisFrom Deliveroo to Amazon, digital platforms have drastically transformed the way we work. But how are these transformations being received and challenged by workers? This book provides a radical interpretation of the changing nature of worker movements in the digital age, developing an invaluable approach that combines social movement studies and industrial relations. Using case studies taken from Europe and North America, it offers a comparative perspective on the mobilizing trajectories of different platform workers and their distinct organizational forms and action repertoires. This is an innovative book that offers a complete view of the new labour conflicts in the platform economy.Table of Contents1. Class and Contention: Social Movement Studies and Labour Studies 2. The New World of Digital Work: Structural Changes and Labour Recomposition 3. Challenges to Collective Action in Digital Work 4. Organizing the Collective Action of Digital Workers 5. Worker Collective Identity and Solidarity in Action in the Digital Age 6. Labour Conflicts in the Digital Age: Some Conclusions

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Book SynopsisBetween August 2022 and July 2024, GMB Union membership at Amazon's BHX4 Coventry warehouse skyrocketed, with 37 days of strike action resulting in a 28.5% pay rise. Yet despite this, the union narrowly lost a ballot that would have forced Amazon to grant formal recognition. Based on ethnographic research and reflective essays from worker-leaders and organizers, this book offers a rich case study of the factors contributing to the union's successes and setbacks. It provides a practical organizing model applicable beyond Amazon, offering strategies to engage the workforce, sustain support and develop leadership. An essential toolkit for those navigating the complexities of evolving labour practices, with particular relevance for precarious workers and workplaces where access is limited.

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Book SynopsisAs remote working becomes the norm rather than the exception for many office workers around the globe, The Nowhere Office proposes a radical new way of thinking about work both now and in the future. Offering a strategic and practical guide to negotiating this pivotal moment in the history of work, The Nowhere Office addresses the problems which beset work - the endemic stagnant productivity and crisis of stress which predate the pandemic - and the new challenges of remote working, repurposing offices for more creative interaction, managing WFH teams and satisfying the demand for more purposeful work with greater work/life balance. Drawing on history, cutting-edge research and extensive interviews Julia Hobsbawm argues persuasively that now is the time to develop something better, more meaningful, and, crucially, more workable.Trade ReviewJulia Hobsbawm is brilliant at seeing tomorrow's ideas today -- Jo Lo Dico, Financial TimesEvery manager or leader who is wondering what to do next about their offices and people needs to read The Nowhere Office -- Ben Page, Global CEO of IpsosWorking or not working defines who we are. Where we work and how we work really matters. Yet there is so little public debate about any of this. That is why Julia Hobsbawm's The Nowhere Office is an important book. If you are one of the millions who can't decide whether working-from-home is a pandemic silver lining or just another disaster, this book is for you. -- Robert PestonWork is being revolutionised before your eyes. Anyone who wants to understand what is going on-workers deciding how much time to spend in the office, managers wondering how to manage a blended workforce, CEOs worrying that their headquarters is becoming a white elephant - could do no better than to read The Nowhere Office, a tour de force of insight, clarity and, something sadly lacking in debates on this subject, common sense -- Adrian Wooldridge, global business columnist, Bloomberg OpinionA masterfully even-handed and sensible appraisal of the future of work . . . a priceless injection of nuanced thinking and practical suggestions -- Rory SutherlandWe need big bold thinkers like Julia Hobsbawm right now more than ever -- Polly Mackenzie, Chief Executive, DemosA masterwork. It describes the changing patterns of work and our ambivalence about losing so many of the old certainties whilst trying to embrace change. Important and enduring -- William Eccleshare, Chairman and CEO, Clear ChannelJulia Hobsbawm brings a unique perspective to the debate about the future world of work - that of someone who is able to look back and look forward at the same time. Her observations and suggestions should be read by everyone who employs, or plans to employ, others -- Professor Heather McGregor, CBE FRSE PFHEA, Executive Dean, Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt UniversityWhere else are you going to find such enlightening insights into the future of work? -- James Bell VP Pew Research CentreHer thinking demands and inspires huge change -- Good BusinessJulia Hobsbawm's book The Nowhere Office brilliantly captures the zeitgeist issue of our times - how and where we work -- Ayesha Hazarika, writer and broadcaster, Times RadioConcise and highly readable -- Forbes

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Book SynopsisAs remote working becomes the norm rather than the exception for many office workers around the globe, The Nowhere Office proposes a radical new way of thinking about work both now and in the future. Offering a strategic and practical guide to negotiating this pivotal moment in the history of work, The Nowhere Office addresses the problems which beset work - the endemic stagnant productivity and crisis of stress which predate the pandemic - and the new challenges of remote working, repurposing offices for more creative interaction, managing WFH teams and satisfying the demand for more purposeful work with greater work/life balance. Drawing on history, cutting-edge research and extensive interviews Julia Hobsbawm argues persuasively that now is the time to develop something better, more meaningful, and, crucially, more workable.Trade ReviewJulia Hobsbawm is brilliant at seeing tomorrow's ideas today -- Jo Lo Dico, Financial TimesEvery manager or leader who is wondering what to do next about their offices and people needs to read The Nowhere Office -- Ben Page, Global CEO of IpsosWorking or not working defines who we are. Where we work and how we work really matters. Yet there is so little public debate about any of this. That is why Julia Hobsbawm's The Nowhere Office is an important book. If you are one of the millions who can't decide whether working-from-home is a pandemic silver lining or just another disaster, this book is for you. -- Robert PestonWork is being revolutionised before your eyes. Anyone who wants to understand what is going on-workers deciding how much time to spend in the office, managers wondering how to manage a blended workforce, CEOs worrying that their headquarters is becoming a white elephant - could do no better than to read The Nowhere Office, a tour de force of insight, clarity and, something sadly lacking in debates on this subject, common sense -- Adrian Wooldridge, global business columnist, Bloomberg OpinionA masterfully even-handed and sensible appraisal of the future of work . . . a priceless injection of nuanced thinking and practical suggestions -- Rory SutherlandWe need big bold thinkers like Julia Hobsbawm right now more than ever -- Polly Mackenzie, Chief Executive, DemosA masterwork. It describes the changing patterns of work and our ambivalence about losing so many of the old certainties whilst trying to embrace change. Important and enduring -- William Eccleshare, Chairman and CEO, Clear ChannelJulia Hobsbawm brings a unique perspective to the debate about the future world of work - that of someone who is able to look back and look forward at the same time. Her observations and suggestions should be read by everyone who employs, or plans to employ, others -- Professor Heather McGregor, CBE FRSE PFHEA, Executive Dean, Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt UniversityWhere else are you going to find such enlightening insights into the future of work? -- James Bell VP Pew Research CentreHer thinking demands and inspires huge change -- Good BusinessJulia Hobsbawm's book The Nowhere Office brilliantly captures the zeitgeist issue of our times - how and where we work -- Ayesha Hazarika, writer and broadcaster, Times RadioConcise and highly readable -- Forbes

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Book SynopsisLabor and labor norms orient much of contemporary life, organizing our days and years and driving planetary environmental change. Yet, labor, as a foundational set of values and practices, has not been sufficiently interrogated in the context of the environmental humanities for its profound role in climate change and other crises. This collection of essays demonstrates the urgent need to rethink models and customs of labor and leisure in the Anthropocene. Recognizing the grave traumas and hazards plaguing planet Earth, contributors expose fundamental flaws in ideas of work and search for ways to redirect cultures toward more sustainable modes of life. These essays evaluate Anthropocene frames of interpretation, dramatize problems and potentials in regimes of labor, and explore leisure practices such as walking and storytelling as modes of recasting life, while a coda advocates reviving notions of work as craft.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Denaturalizing the Slow Violence of WorkRyan HedigerSection One: Questioning “Anthropocene” FramesChapter 1: What’s Past is Prologue: The Dragon, the Phoenix, and the Golden SpikeDavid L. RodlandChapter 2: Anthropocene Performance: Work without EndsTed GeierSection Two: Rethinking Work in the AnthropoceneChapter 3: Unfree Labor: Slavery and the Anthropocene in the AmericasRyan HedigerChapter 4: The Rise of the Novel and the Narrative Labor of Horses in the English Novel of the Early AnthropoceneSinan AkıllıChapter 5: Reconstruction Agrarianism in Douglass and Burroughs: Relational Labor Against White Supremacist OwnershipDaniel ClausenChapter 6: The Work of the Globe: How the Unisphere, Icon of the 1964-65 World’s Fair, Illuminates the Nature of Modern WorkJames ArmstrongChapter 7: Leisure and Light Work: Coming of Age in Wendell Berry’s and Thomas Pynchon’s Novels of ExtractionMatt WanatSection Three: Learning from Leisure in the AnthropoceneChapter 8: Walking the Line between Leisure and Labor: Dorothy Wordsworth and Harriet Martineau in the English Lake DistrictAmanda AdamsChapter 9: Labor, Leisure and Love of Country: Rangering in the Age of the Alt-NPSJennifer K. LadinoChapter 10: Learning to Play in the Anthropocene: Winter Recreation and the Politics of Climate ChangeWill Elliot and Kevin MaierChapter 11: Weaving “Lifeworkings”: Goanna Walking between Humanism and Posthumanism, Dharug Women’s WayJo ReyCodaPedagogical Anthropo/Scenes: Reviving Craft in the AcademySharon O'DairAcknowledgementsNotesBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisGirl Friday: A job title used in 1970s workplaces for a junior administration assistant or receptionist. Common synonyms include junior office chick, shit-kicker, donkey worker, general dogsbody or gofer (go for this, go for that). Girl Friday: An Extraordinarily Ordinary Working Life is the hilarious and moving memoir about women at work, pay inequality and the alienating nature of the 21st century workforce. This is a story about resilience and reinvention, and it is also a story about how we are not human resources, we are human beings. Kristine was 15 when she lied to get a junior office job as a Girl Friday in 1975 – she took the job because she thought she only had to go to work on Fridays. She went on to experience the full gamut of working life, from joblessness, self-employment, mind-numbing office roles, toxic workplaces and out-of-control workloads. Miraculously, Kristine clocked up forty years of admin work, and then in her fifties she became unemployable and ready to tell all. Wisecracking, frank and completely relatable, Kristine Philipp’s Girl Fridayoffers stirring insights into the personal and political contexts of working women’s lives, the lengths older women must go to keep a job, the trials of walking the poverty line in later life and the power of friendships and camaraderie in the workplace.

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Book SynopsisFocusing on representations of women’s experiences in contemporary France, ‘Taking Up Space’ examines how women inhabit a variety of work spaces. It also speaks to the importance of cultural productions in calling out labour issues affecting women, as well as in offering a platform that allows us to imagine a future where inclusive and equitable work spaces are the norm. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s phenomenological use of objects, the book explores women’s experiences through different metaphors of the door related to labour. The contributors demonstrate how doors are not only closed or open, but also serve as a threshold. Taken together, the chapters convey how women’s work experiences can range from states of oppression to survival and celebration, and demonstrates how through deliberate stances and actions, various work spaces can become sites of liberation and revolution.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction - Siham Bouamer and Sonja Stojanovic PART I Behind Closed Doors: Work and Intimate Spaces A Transmedial and Transtemporal Reading of Labour on the Run in Albertine - Sarrazin’s L’Astragale Polly Galis Good Housekeeping: Domestic Noir and Domestic Work in Leïla Slimani’s Chanson douce - Ciara GormanA Woman’s Huis clos: Exhausted Feminism in Paule Constant’s Confidence pour confidence - Jennifer Willging A Life’s Work: Accounting for Birth in Naissances - Amaleena Damlé Sexual Identity as Work in Mireille Best’s Il n’y a pas d’hommes au paradis - Blase A. Provitola Psychoanalytical Work in Chahdortt Djavann’s Je ne suis pas celle que je suis - Rebecca Rosenberg PART II Revolving Doors: Liminal and Precarious Spaces ‘Be proud of all the Fatimas’: From Alienated Labour to Poetic Consciousness in Philippe Faucon’s Fatima - Siham Bouamer Chimerical Cashiers: Exposure, Ableism and the Foreign Body in Marie-Hélène Lafon’s Gordana and Nos vies - Sonja Stojanovic Subterranean Space and Subjugation: ‘Being Below’ in Delphine de Vigan’s Les Heures souterraines - Dorthea Fronsman-Cecil In Concrete Terms: Gendering Labour in Anne Garréta’s Dans l’béton - Jennifer Carr Woman at Sea? Space and Work in Catherine Poulain’s Le grand marin - Amy Wigelsworth From Cabaret to the Classroom: Bambi’s Professional Transition - Maxime Foerster PART III From Opening a Few Doors to Blowing Them Off Women’s Bénévolat militant at the Beginning of the MLF - Sandra Daroczi Women Working – Women Rebelling. Female Community and Gender Relations in Ah!Nana - Valentina Denzel ‘Putting Us Back in Our Place’: #MeToo, Women and the Literary/Cultural Establishment - Mercédès Baillargeon Breaking Down Barriers and Advocating for Change in the French Film Industry: The Career and Activism of Actress Aïssa Maïga - Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp Unapologetically Visible? Representing and Reassessing Contemporary French Womanhood in Dix Pour Cent - Loïc Bourdeau Tracées to Black Excellence? Black Women at Work in Mariannes Noires by Mame-Fatou Niang and Kaytie Nielsen - Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel Conclusion - Siham Bouamer and Sonja Stojanovic

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Book SynopsisThough largely invisible in histories of the First World War, over 550,000 men in the ranks of the Indian army were non-combatants. From the porters, stevedores and construction workers in the Coolie Corps to those who maintained supply lines and removed the wounded from the battlefield, Radhika Singha recovers the story of this unacknowledged service. The labour regimes built on the backs of these ‘coolies’ sustained the military infrastructure of empire; their deployment in interregional arenas bent to the demands of global war. Viewed as racially subordinate and subject to 'non-martial' caste designations, they fought back against their status, using the warring powers’ need for manpower as leverage to challenge traditional service hierarchies and wage differentials. 'The Coolie's Great War' views that global conflict through the lens of Indian labour, constructing a distinct geography of the war--from tribal settlements and colonial jails, beyond India's frontiers, to the battlefronts of France and Mesopotamia.Trade Review'The Coolie’s Great War is a tough read; not only because of its subject matter but also because of the extensive research and details pulsating through its pages. Bloated with archival accounts and evidence, the book does a commendable service in honouring the ones whose blood, sweat, and tears slid into the unknown.' -- The Daily Star

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Book SynopsisThirteen months after Trump allegedly captured the allegiance of "the white working class," a strike wave-the first in over four decades-rocked the United States. Inspired by the wildcat victory in West Virginia, teachers in Oklahoma, Arizona, and across the country walked off their jobs and shut down their schools to demand better pay for educators, more funding for students, and an end to years of austerity.Confounding all expectations, these working-class rebellions erupted in regions with Republican electorates, weak unions, and bans on public sector strikes. By mobilizing to take their destinies into their own hands, red state school workers posed a clear alternative to politics-as-usual. And with similar actions now gaining steam in Los Angeles, Oakland, Denver, and Virginia, there is no sign that this upsurge will be short-lived. Red State Revolt is a compelling analysis of the emergence and development of this historic strike wave, with an eye to extracting its main strategic lessons for educators, labor organizers, and radicals across the country. A former high school teacher and longtime activist, Eric Blanc embedded himself into the rank-and-file leaderships of the walkouts, where he was given access to internal organizing meetings and secret Facebook groups inaccessible to most journalists. The result is one of the richest portraits of the labor movement to date, a story populated with the voices of school workers who are winning the fight for the soul of public education-and redrawing the political map of the country at large.Trade ReviewComprehensive and excellent -- Diane Ravitch, a historian of education, an education policy analyst, and a research professor at New York University. She is the author of Reign of ErrorIf you've not been reading Eric Blanc's reporting on the teacher strikes, you've been missing out. Far and away the smartest writing out there on the topic. -- Corey Robin, author of the Reactionary Mindhas anyone in American labor history ever covered a strike wave so closely? Has a labor writer ever been on the scene of so many different upsurges in so many geographically far-flight places in such a short amount of time? Has anyone ever covered these conflicts in a way that both captures the incredible sense of possibility that these strikes have put on the table while also remaining sober about what the strikers have achieved and failed to achieve, with both a bird's-eye view as an observer and a commitment to hearing from workers in their own words? Eric's work on these strikes has been superb. -- Micah Uetricht, author of Strike for AmericaBefore 2018, strikes had become so rare in this country that hardly anyone knew what they were. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, they began. Not in left-wing cities but in the reddest of red states. Not of white men in factories but of teachers, many of them women, many of them of color. Eric Blanc spent months with the strikers, talking to them on picket lines, listening to them in meetings, sharing with them on Facebook threads, and more. Like Orwell in Barcelona, he's given us a first-hand report from the front lines, making sense of the most improbable political story of an improbable decade. This is exhilarating reading about a movement that will be shaping politics for decades to come. -- Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald TrumpEric Blanc has written the best on-the-ground description and explanation of the red state teachers' revolt. He was there and he understands that what happened is historic. The brave teachers who walked out in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona, and other red states started a powerful trend. They give hope that the reactionary politics of the past forty years may be reversed by working people who realize that 'enough is enough.' Blanc's enthralling description of their struggles is a chronicle that should be widely read. -- Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School SystemRead this book to understand the many important lessons educators so powerfully taught about what it will take to rebuild a working-class movement, defeat Trumpism, and take on the billionaires. -- Jane McAlevey, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded AgeEric Blanc's compelling new book, "Red State Revolt", is a thoroughly researched and eloquently written story of one of the most powerful social movements of our time. His incisive reporting shows how teachers, through labor organizing and strategic strikes, are protecting and strengthening public education, the great equalizing force of any democratic society. -- Amy Goodman, Host & Executive Producer, Democracy Now!Read Eric Blanc's book! -- Sara Nelson, President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA[T]here could be real potential in a national campaign around basic needs like public education. For thinking through how to go about building that movement-how to connect struggles by the workers who provide such public goods to the communities that depend upon them, and above all how to deploy the power of our best weapon, the strike-Red State Revolt is indispensable. -- Samir Sonti * New Labor Forum 2019, Vol. 28(3) 107–119 *

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Book SynopsisDreamwork is a book about the ideas, dreams, dreads and ideals we have regarding work. Its central argument is that, although we depend on the idea of work for our identity as humans, we feel we must disguise from ourselves the fact that we do not know what work is. There is no example of work that nobody might under some circumstances do for fun. All work is imaginary – which is not to say that it is simply illusory, but rather that, in order to count as work, it must be imagined to be work; so that a large part of what we mean by working is this work of imagining. Work is therefore essentially mystical – just the opposite of what it is taken to be. Dreamwork looks in turn at worries about whether or not work is hard; the importance of places of work; the meanings of hobbies, holidays and sabbaths; and the history of dreams of redeeming work.Trade ReviewIn this book, with his inimitable flair for rooting out the phenomenological intricacies of apparently ordinary things, Steven Connor leads us on a tour of the dream factory of work, labour, toil and occupation. The result is a book of typically considerable – dare I say it – detective work that opens up the quotidian reality and enabling dreamscape of work to new understanding.' – Nathan Waddell, Associate Professor in Twentieth-Century Literature, University of BirminghamTable of Contents1 Dreamworks 2 Hard Work 3 At Work 4 Off Work 5 Working Out References Index

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Book SynopsisInterdisciplinary Dialogues on Organizational Paradox is an innovative two-part volume that enriches our understanding about paradox; both deepening the theory and offering greater insight to address the grand challenges we face in the world today. Authors demonstrate how paradox theory benefits from interdisciplinary theorizing by reaching out to disciplines beyond organizational theory and exploring best practice in undertaking such research. The 13 chapters in this double volume draw from four disciplinary realms: beliefs, physicality, expression, and social structure. Unique commentaries from thought leaders expand and assess the focal pieces of each volume. Part A: Learning from Belief and Science, explores the realms of beliefs - from Ubuntu, Ying-Yang, Christian and Islamic philosophies - and physicality - from quantum mechanics, technology, to ecology - with reflective commentaries from Jean M. Bartunek and Mary Frohlich, and Andrew Van de Ven.Table of ContentsIntroduction A. The Value of Interdisciplinary Research to Advance Paradox in Organization Theory; Rebecca Bednarek, Miguel Pina e Cunha, Jonathan Schad, Wendy K. Smith A1. Realm of Beliefs Chapter 1. Paradox beyond East/West orthodoxy: The case of Ubuntu; Medhanie Gaim and Stewart Clegg Chapter 2. The meta-perspective of Yin-Yang balancing: Salient implications for organizational management; Peter Ping Li. Chapter 3. Where we might least expect to find it: Organizing paradoxes of Christian theology in a society of organizations; Mathew L. Sheep Chapter 4. Crossing boundaries: Connecting religion and paradox for leadership and organization research; Ali Aslan Gümüsay Commentary 1. Paradoxical dimensions of religious experience: a commentary; Jean M. Bartunek and Mary Frohlich A2. Realm of Physical Systems Chapter 5. Paradox and Quantum Mechanics – Implications for the Management of Organizational Paradox from a Quantum Approach; Eric Knight and Tobias Hahn Chapter 6. Planetary Emergency and Paradox; Amanda Williams, Katrin Heucher and Gail Whiteman Chapter 7. Digitally Induced Industry Paradoxes: Disruptive innovations of taxiwork and music streaming beyond organizational boundaries; David Tilson, Carsten Sørensen and Kalle Lyytinen Commentary 2. Commentary: Strategies for Studying How Contradictions Unfold; Andrew Van de Ven

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Book SynopsisInterdisciplinary Dialogues on Organizational Paradox is a two-part volume exploring how paradox theory benefits from interdisciplinary theorizing and how we might go about undertaking such research. The chapters draw from four disciplinary realms: beliefs, physicality, expression, and social structure. Unique commentaries from thought leaders expand and assess the focal pieces of each volume. Part B: Investigating Social Structures and Human Expression continues the exploration of the why, how and where of interdisciplinary research within paradox theory by looking specifically at the realms of social structure - from logic and Luhmann, to historical analysis - and expression - from linguistics, to the maths and poetry of Spencer-Brown, to jazz. The chapters are complemented with reflective commentaries from Charles Hampden-Turner and Ann Langley. The collection ends with an examination of where the interdisciplinary foundations for organizational paradox theory arose via conversations with seminal paradox scholars.Table of ContentsPart B. Introduction B. Implementing Interdisciplinary Paradox Research; Rebecca Bednarek, Miguel Pina e Cunha, Jonathan Schad and Wendy K. Smith B1. Realm of Social Structures Chapter 8. Logic(s) and paradox; Marco Berti Chapter 9. The generative potential of Luhmann’s theorizing for paradox research: Decision paradox and deparadoxization; David Seidl, Jane Lê and Paula Jarzabkowski Chapter 10. The historical embeddedness of organizational paradoxes: Risk-related rituals and realities in emergency management; Dean Pierides, Stewart Clegg and Miguel Pina e Cunha Commentary 3. Paradoxes of social structure: Commentary; Charles Hampden-Turner B2. Realm of Expression Chapter 11. The organizational paradox of language; Joshua Keller and Ping Tian Chapter 12. Trying Not to Try: The Paradox of Intentionality in Jazz Improvisation and its Implications for Organizational Scholarship; Colin M. Fisher, Ozumcan Demir-Caliskan, Mel Yingying Hua and Matthew A. Cronin Chapter 13. Spencer Brown’s paradox; Mike Zundel, Anders La Cour and Ghita Dragsdahl Lauritzen Commentary 4. Paradox as Irony: Inspirations from Jazz, Linguistics, Mathematics, Poetry and Other Stories; Ann Langley Conclusion Conversations and inspirations for organizational paradox scholarship; Rebecca Bednarek, Marianne W. Lewis, and Jonathan Schad

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Book SynopsisUsing the Indian Information Technology (IT) industry as the empirical context, Neoliberal Subjectivities at Work develops a comprehensive conceptual and analytical framework for studying contemporary employment relations governed by techno-neoliberalism.

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Presenting cutting-edge ethnographic research on contemporary worlds of work and the experiences of workers from a range of contexts, Volume 35 of Research in the Sociology of Work offers fine-grained, exploratory ethnographic data to provide insights unmatched by other research methods. Conscious of the social and economic upheaval that continues to transform the contemporary workplace and the wider landscape for workers across the globe, Ethnographies of Work, the first of two parts, features analyses of working from home, the gig economy, the food delivery sector, digital nomadism, workplace inequalities, the hospitality industry, and an alternative community. Rooted in ethnographic research, chapters also include ethnographers’ reflections on their experiences in careers outside of academia, as well as their personal feelings of precarity both within and beyond the field to create an enriched volume that makes the most of ethnographic through its representation in a variety of written forms.

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Book SynopsisOh, Men, with Sisters dear! Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you re wearing out, But human creatures lives! Stitch stitch stitch, In poverty, hunger and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt. --from The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood (1843) Labour in Bangladesh flows like its rivers -- in excess of what is required. Often, both take a huge toll. Labour that costs $1.66 an hour in China and 52 cents in India can be had for a song in Bangladesh -- 18 cents. It is mostly women and children working in fragile, flammable buildings who bring in 70 per cent of the country s foreign exchange. Bangladesh today does not clothe the nakedness of the world, but provides it with limitless cheap garments -- through Primark, Walmart, Benetton, Gap. In elegiac prose, Jeremy Seabrook dwells upon the disproportionate sacrifices demanded by the manufacture of such throwaway items as baseball caps. He shows us how Bengal and Lancashire offer mirror images of impoverishment and affluence. In the eighteenth century, the people of Bengal were dispossessed of ancient skills and the workers of Lancashire forced into labour settlements.In a ghostly replay of traffic in the other direction, the decline of the British textile industry coincided with Bangladesh becoming one of the world s major clothing exporters. With capital becoming more protean than ever, it wouldn t be long before the global imperium readies to shift its sites of exploitation in its nomadic cultivation of profit.Trade Review'Few writers are at once as lyrical or as precise about the living conditions of peasants and indigents. Seabrook's clear-eyed accounts of the immiseration as well as the dreams of young Bangladeshis are informed by extended conversations with scholars and activists, as well as historical research. ... What makes The Song of the Shirt especially important is its historical consciousness. ... Seabrook draws out the social, economic and imaginative parallels that connected, across decades and continents, Europe's and Asia s poor. ... Seabrook has established himself as perhaps Britain's finest anatomist of class, deindustrialisation, migration and the spiritual consequences of neoliberalism. The Song of the Shirt may well be his masterpiece.' * The Guardian *'Stitches together history, folklore and hundreds of encounters with individual Bangladeshis to give a thorough picture of the structural injustices that have led to the present situation.' * The New Statesman *'The sweat and blood of Bangladeshi garment workers is woven into the very fabric of our daily lives. Seabrook, as he always has, delivers a brilliantly written jeremiad with an urgent moral message.' * Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums *'At once illuminating, deeply absorbing, and sobering, this is an ode to the rags of humanity the labourers, young and old who sometimes perish in order to create our fashionably casual clothes. It's written by one who has long been intimate with this part of the world and its anonymous dwellers, and who has responded always with passion and eloquence.' * Amit Chaudhuri, author of Calcutta: Two Years in the City *

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Book SynopsisThrough personal accounts and revelations, this book explores bullying at work and offers solutions to help overcome this stressful, often isolating experience facing many women and men. Based on three years of research, Andrea Adams plots the destructive forces currently eroding the professional lives of many people. By tracing the psychological origins of bullying at work this book investigates the effect of past relationships on the present, providing both individuals and organizations with a deeper understanding of why things can go so badly wrong. Through advice and guidance, it offers a way forward for all those who value the need for psychological well-being at the workplace.

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Book SynopsisUnique stories and insights into business, life and culture in modern-day China.

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Book SynopsisDie konkreten gesellschaftlichen Folgen des Klimawandels sind sehr unsicher und nicht vorhersagbar. Die Szenarioanalyse erlaubt es, Vorstellungen möglicher Zukünfte zu entwickeln. Das Buch stellt vier kohärente Zukunftszenarien für die Stadt Bochum im Jahr 2046 vor und zeigt, wie daraus konkrete Maßnahmen für politische Entscheidungsträger*innen hergeleitet werden können. Die Leser*innen dringen in utopische und dystopische Erzählungen ein, die die wissenschaftlich fundierte Entwicklung der Szenarien anschaulich werden lassen. Darüber hinaus bietet das Buch eine Einführung in die Methode der Szenarioanalyse, die für den Aufbau von Aktivitäten der städtischen Vorausschau (Urban Foresight) auch in anderen Kommunen hochgradig relevant ist.Table of Contents1. ​Kommunales Management im 21. Jahrhundert2. Direkte Klimafolgen und Klimaanpassung in Bochum3. Methodik der qualitativen Szenarioanalyse4. Szenariobeschreibung „Waste Land 2046 – We told you so“5. Waste Land 2046: Heute sind wird satt geworden6. Szenarionbeschreibung „Greentopia - Too good to be true“7. Greentopia: Ohne Grün ist alles nichts, aber Grün ist nicht alles8. Szenariobeschreibung „Economy First – Business as usual“9. Economy first: Macht kaputt, was euch kaputt macht10. Szenariobeschreibung „Rotten Oasis – Let’s make things better“11. Rotten Oasis: Woanders is noch mehr schei…12. Handlungsempfehlungen für eine zukunftsorientierte kommunale Politik13. „Wir müssen … sozial gerechten Klimaschutz und Klimafolgenanpassung auf den Weg bringen“ – Ein Interview mit der Leiterin der Stabsstelle Klima und Nachhaltigkeit der Stadt Bochum 14. Bochum: Ausblick auf messbare Indikatoren in der fortschreitenden Klimakatastrophe bis 204615. Zukunftsvorstellungen im Realitätscheck

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Book SynopsisHow is a new intranet involved in an ongoing merger integration process? Katja Schönian analyses internal communication and branding strategies in connection with the implementation of a new company intranet. Based on qualitative data, the study contrasts managerial expectations and everyday usage of the intranet in distinct work settings. Relying on social practice theories and research in Science & Technology Studies, Katja Schönian unpacks the different logics the intranet brings together and, furthermore, interrogates the characteristics that make an (un-)workable technology. The book sheds light on the informal practices and politics surrounding the technology implementation process. It provides readers with new insights into the dynamics of a merger integration process and the increasing digitalization of contemporary knowledge work.

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Book SynopsisHigh-profile events such as the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar have made one thing abundantly clear: Much of today's economic growth would be unthinkable without the low-wage employment of migrant workers. But which cultural, economic, and political infrastructures in the "source" countries make these types of migration possible in the first place? Based on multi-sensory ethnographic research in Nepal, Hannah Uprety retraces the practices of recruitment and instruction that - step by step - transform Nepali labor into an internationally marketable commodity. In doing so, she uncovers a migration regime that effectively turns local men and women into "migrant workers" before they even leave the country.

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Book SynopsisHow have the immediate school-to-work transition and the early career changed in different labour market entry regimes since the early 1980s? How do institutional frameworks differ with regard to insecurity perception? Ellen Ebralidze investigates these topics from a cross-national perspective while focusing on Denmark, the darling of flexicurity literature. The results show that in all the labour market entry regimes, the school-towork transition has become increasingly difficult, and flexible forms of work are more typical in the first job. Furthermore, the liberal institutional framework of the United States seems to produce a similarly low degree of job-loss worry among young people in their early career as the Danish paradigm.

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