Sociology: work and labour Books

Book SynopsisExamines the interaction between labour markets and the welfare state at the institutional level. Topics discussed include the legislative structuring of programmes, how the characteristics of programmes have changed over time, and the private and public mix of programmes.Table of ContentsFigures, Tables, Preface, 1 Welfare States and Employment Regimes, 2 Social Expenditure: A Decompositional Approach, 3 Income Distribution and Redistribution in the Nordic Welfare States, 4 The Three Political Economies of the Welfare State, 5 The Interaction of Welfare States and Labor Markets: The Institutionai Level, 6 Sick-Leave Regimes: The Private-Public Mix in Sickness Provision, 7 The Private-Public Mix in Pension Policy, Index, Contributors

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Book SynopsisAccounting education ought to prepare future professionals to enter a principles-based, rules-oriented field of activity wherein technical knowledge of accounting standards (principles, rules and decision procedures) and ethical awareness (the capacity to discern moral issues and resolve ethical dilemmas) are crucial. Accounting education is best performed by the accountant's adherence to the principles of the accounting profession and by individuals and firms following the appropriate rules, act according to the codes of conduct adopted by their profession, exercise clear judgment whenever they address financial transactions and consider/assess the state of a given business.Accounting Ethics Education: Making Ethics Real gathers a diversity of contributions from invited well-known experts and other specialists. It promotes comprehensive reflection around key trends, discussing and highlighting the most updated research on accounting ethics education, being aTable of ContentsPart 1 Ethical training: preparing from the inside 1. Decreasing cheating and increasing whistle-blowing in the classroom: a replication study Richard A. Bernardi, Samantha A. Bilinsky, Callie H. Chase, Lisa D. Giannini & Samantha A. MacWhinnie 2. Barriers to teaching accounting ethics: accounting faculty qualifications and students’ ability to learn James E. Rebele & Kent St. Pierre 3. Audit education: toward virtue and duty Bruce Wayne Stuart, Iris Caroline Stuart & Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen 4. Accounting ethics in the undergraduate curriculum and the impact of professional accreditation Christopher J. Cowton 5. Corporate sustainability and social responsibility in the accounting profession: educational tools to advance accounting ethics education Michael Kraten & Martin T. Stuebs, Jr. 6. The case for ethics instruction in the age of analytics Margaret N. Boldt & Robert L. Braun Part 2 Giving voice to values: making ethics real 7. Giving voice to values – operationalizing ethical decision making in accounting William F. Miller & Tara J. Shawver 8. Incorporating behavioral ethics and organizational culture into accounting ethics Steven M. Mintz & William F. Miller 9. Putting ethical dilemmas on students' 'RADAR' Joan Lee & Dawn W. Massey

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Book SynopsisThis book combines academic research with practical guidelines in methods and techniques to supplement existing knowledge relating to organizational management in the era of digital acceleration. It offers a simple layout with concise but rich content presented in an engaging, accessible style and the authors' holistic approach is unique in the field.From a universalist perspective, the book examines and analyzes the development of, among others, Industry 4.0, artificial intelligence (AI), AI 2.0, AI systems and platforms, algorithmics, new paradigms of organization management, business ecosystems, data processing models in AI-based organizations and AI strategies in the global perspective. An additional strength of the book is its relevance and contemporary nature, featuring information, data, forecasts or scenarios reaching up to 2030. How does one build, step by step, an organization that will be based on artificial intelligence technology and gain measurable benefits fromTable of ContentsChapter OneIndustrial revolution – from Industry 1.0 to Industry 4.01.1. Genesis and development of Industry 4.01.2. Industry 4.0 – definition-based perspective1.3. Industry 4.0 – economic potential of the Fourth Industrial Revolution 1.4. Industry 4.0 – implementation barriers versus support conditions1.5. Industry 4.0 – challenges and opportunities for the organization and the global economyChapter TwoArtificial intelligence (AI) – a new technology in the postmodern era 2.1. Artificial intelligence – an explanation-based perspective 2.2. Basic elements of artificial intelligence – a classification 2.3. Impact of artificial intelligence on business and economy2.4. Artificial intelligence 2.0 – evolutionary development path 2.5. Artificial intelligence development prospects in the economyChapter ThreeOrganizations in the artificial intelligence era 3.1. Impact of artificial intelligence on the organization 3.2. Artificial intelligence – changing managerial paradigms 3.3. Artificial intelligence in the organization – stages of implementation, assessment of resources, challenges3.4. AI organizations – a new type of organization in the world of management3.5. Data as the strategic resource of the organization in the AI eraChapter FourArtificial intelligence development strategies on the global arena 4.1. United States 4.2. China 4.3. European Union 4.4. Brazil 4.5. Africa

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Book SynopsisIncluding the category of proximity in theoretical considerations and empirical analyzes in cluster organizations is an attempt to integrate existing approaches to understand and explain the specificity of inter-organizational cooperation developed in geographical proximity. The importance of geographical proximity to create a competitive advantage is emphasized in all theories on the establishment and development of industrial clusters.However, proximity should not be perceived only in the geographical dimension. The similarity of knowledge systems (cognitive proximity), relationships based on trust (social proximity), organizational links (organizational proximity), and finally the similarity of institutional operating conditions (institutional proximity) enable and facilitate the development of cooperation relationships between business entities. Each of the above-mentioned threads deals separately with issues that have much in common, namely they can be treated as differe

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of Leadership Development in Practice: A Complexity Approach, draws on auto-ethnographic accounts of experience from practitioners across three continents to explore the leadership development approaches that best support managers to work with uncertainty by taking their experience seriously.Trade ReviewPraise for the first editionKevin Flinn’s book on Leadership Development is an important antidote to the usual literature on leadership and leadership development. Instead of simply reinforcing largely mythical accounts of some idealised story about what leadership should be, Flinn’s book insightfully reflects on the actual experience of leading and proposes useful approaches to developing that experience. Ralph Stacey, Professor of Management, Hertfordshire Business School, UKA timely insight into the theory and practice of leadership and leadership development in a world characterised by complexity and uncertainty. In this book Kevin Flinn provides a refreshingly frank take on the limitations of traditional approaches and a thorough and illuminating exploration of an alternative, rooted in the insights of over a decade’s experience working with students and practising managers to understand how things really get done in groups and organisations.Richard Bolden, Director of Bristol Leadership and Change Centre, University of the West of England, UKIn this gem of a book, you will find no best practices and no short cuts but a spirited writer reflecting upon his extensive practice of leadership development. If you are sceptical of prescriptions, but want to be introduced to tools and techniques for reflexivity, this book is for you. In addition, you will get a comprehensive overview of current management literature. I can highly recommend it. Henry Larsen, Professor of Participatory Innovation, University of Southern DenmarkKevin Flinn’s book is a welcomed addition to the still very small number of books written on the topic of Complexity and Management. Kevin builds on the tremendously important work of Ralph Stacey and his colleagues and adds his own story creating an important contribution to the study of management both in theory and in practice. Esko Kilpi, Founder, Esko Kilpi Company, FinlandTable of ContentsList of Illustrations viForeword to the First Edition viiPreface to the Second Edition ixAcknowledgements to the First Edition xiiList of Abbreviations xivIntroduction to the First Edition 11 Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship 152 Rethinking Leadership 293 Rethinking Leadership Development 534 Coaching, Psychometrics, and 360° Feedback 795 Forum Theatre 1066 Experiential Exercises 1287 Action Learning Sets 1528 Creating Large Group Dialogue 1779 No Recipes, Just Rules of Thumb 204Index 209

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Book SynopsisThis book illustrates two approaches for firms to shape successful circular strategies, namely, the Circular Economy and Circular Districts.

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Book SynopsisProfessions have long provided a dependable body of expertise that organisations have relied upon to fulfil goals. Issues around equality and diversity alongside challenges to expert knowledge in the neo-liberal era have created profound challenges for this type of worker, even while creating opportunities for newer varieties of expert labour to establish themselves as professionals.This shortform book provides a critical synthesis of the current state of the field from an international perspective. It highlights the key opportunities and challenges for the professions and professionalism within both the public and private sectors as a field of research, practice and policy. The first half of the book deals with the comparative history, theories and inequalities of the professions. This provides a basis for our understanding of how the professions have had to adapt and how governance, management and leadership have come to shape the emerging and evolving models of professions and professionalism. The book draws on case studies and through its analysis illustrates the organisational and sociological dimensions of the field.This book will be of interest to scholars, academics and students in the fields of business, management and sociology, especially those conducting research and studies around the professions and professionalism.

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Book SynopsisAlthough gender challenges in accounting are widely acknowledged, research often addresses the relational position of men and women in relation to various issues, without necessarily challenging the underlying structures and social constructions of gender. In contrast, this book takes a much more overtly feminist position, informed by feminist theory, feminist methodology and feminist activism, to challenge these constructs and resulting inequalities. The book addresses contemporary global feminisms and their potential emancipatory implications for accounting, as a profession and as a tool or technology.It explores feminist theorisations of accounting, offering new insights into their relevance and provides a rich theoretical and practical resource to advance knowledge in the discipline and stimulate further interdisciplinary research. Rather than being issue driven with chapters organised to address particular concerns that relate to gender and accounting, such as parenthood

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction; Jörg Flecker.- Part 1. Delocalisation of digital work.- 1. The production of ‘placelessness’: digital service work in global value chains; Jörg Flecker and Annika Schönauer.- 2. New topologies of engineering work: informatisation, virtualisation and globalisation in the automotive industry; Mascha Will-Zocholl.- 3. Algorithms that divide and unite: Delocalisation, identity, and collective action in ‘microwork’; Vili Lehdonvirta.- Part 2. The changing international division of labour and regional development.- 4. ‘Clouds’ in the desert? Central and Eastern Europe in the new division of labour for business services and software development; Graham Hollinshead and Jane Hardy.- 5. Missing Links in Service Value Chain Analysis – The Case of Call Centers in the Brazilian Banking Sector; Martina Sproll.- 6. Local development policies and labour market in the dynamics of virtual value chains: the case of IT Sector in the municipality of Londrina (Paraná, Brazil); Simone Wolff.- 7. Creating space: The role of the State in the Indian IT related offshoring sector; Ernesto Noronha and Premilla D’Cruz.- Part 3. Dynamics of virtual organisations and mediatised work.- 8. ‘My company’s invisible’ – Creating trust and belonging amongst the transient places and spaces of virtual work; Nora Koslowski.- 9. Towards a model of collective competencies for global and virtual collaboration; Thomas Ryser, Elisabeth Angerer and Hartmut Schulze.- 10. Spatial phenomena of mediatised work; Caroline Roth-Ebner.

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Book SynopsisForesight for Organizations will acquaint the reader with various foresight methods and tools, to show the reader how these methods are used, what the pitfalls are and how the methods relate to each other. This innovative volume offers the reader the ability to carry out a study of the future by him- or herself and apply the results in a decision-making strategy process. The author addresses the following methods: scenarios, trend analysis, the Delphi method, quantitative trend extrapolation, technology assessment, backcasting and roadmapping; the most relevant and popular methods that also cover the range of approaches from predictive, via normative to explorative. Every chapter also contains references to additional literature about the methods being discussed.This book is essential reading for researchers, academics and students in the areas of Community Development, Sociology of organizations, Change management, Social entrepreneurship, Sustainable deTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Developing Scenarios 3. Trend Analysis 4. The Delphi Method 5. Technological Forecasting 6. Technology Assessment 7. Backcasting 8. Roadmapping 9. Interviews 10. Workshops 11. The Future Recycled: Meta-analysis for foresight 12. The Acceleration Method 13. Creativity in Foresight. Seven exercises 14. Foresight and Creativity 15. Stakeholder Analysis 16. Causal Loop Diagramming 17. Beyond Visualization: Experiencing the future

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Book SynopsisPrivate Equity in Poland focuses on the private equity industry and emerging markets in Poland. Poland represents the most developed private equity industry in Central and Eastern Europe and is one of the most developed emerging markets worldwideTrade Review"This book provides an authoritative and comprehensive account of private equity activity in Poland. It should be essential reading for anyone interested in emerging economies and economic transition in Central and Eastern Europe." - COLIN MASON, Professor and Director of Research, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow, Scotland; Founding Editor: Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance "Private equity financing has been one of the key building blocks of economic growth in emerging markets. Professor Klonowski s comprehensive analysis of private equity in Poland is a case in point." - ULI W. FRICKE, Chairwoman, European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA), Belgium; Founding Managing General Partner, Triangle Venture Capital Group Management GmbH, Germany "Academic rigor and practical experience make this book an invaluable reading for anyone interested in private equity in Central and Eastern Europe." - ELI TALMOR, Founding Chairman, Coller Institute of Private Equity; Professor, London Business School, London, UKTable of ContentsPreface Foreword An Overview of Private Equity Economic Development in Poland Systemic Competitiveness in Poland Nurturing Entrepreneurship in Poland The Exit Environment for Private Equity Firms in Poland The Evolution of Private Equity in Poland Fundraising in Poland and the CEE region Fund Operations in Poland Comparative Perspectives on Private Equity in Emerging Markets The Future Development of Private Equity in Poland

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Trade Review'This is a concise, well-written and researched book, which clearly outlines the importance of cash-in-hand work and paid mutual favours in contemporary society. Williams effectively addresses knowledge gaps in existing literature and the book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of cash-in-hand work in a range of different contexts and in the lives of different individuals.' - Madeleine Leonard, Queen's University of Belfast, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction PART I: EXAMINING CASH-IN-HAND WORK: THEORY AND METHODS Theorising Cash-in-Hand Work Methodologies for Measuring Cash-in-Hand Work PART II: SOCIO-SPATIAL VARIATIONS IN THE NATURE OF CASH-IN-HAND WORK Employment Status and Cash-in-Hand Work Gender and Cash-in-Hand Work Geographical Variations in Cash-in-Hand Work PART III: EVALUATING THE IMPLICATIONS OFTHE POLICY OPTIONS Deterring Cash-in-Hand Work A Laissez-Faire Approach Harnessing Cash-in-Hand Work Conclusions

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Book SynopsisBoth research and policy on balancing work and family life have tended to focus on mothers' lives. This volume examines how fathers fulfill their roles both within the family and at work and what institutional support could be of most benefit to them in combining these roles.Trade Review“Twelve essays explore the changing ideals and experiences for men around fatherhood and employment. The scope is vast, covering the experience of fatherhood in countries around the globe. … Some of the chapters are reviews and assessments of existing research, while others present new analyses and theories. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (S. K. Gallagher, Choice, Vol. 54 (6), February, 2017) Table of ContentsPART I: FATHERHOOD AND MEN'S WORK-LIFE BALANCE. A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK ACROSS CONTINENTS1. Changing Fatherhood and Fathering across Cultures towards Convergence in Work-Family Balance: Divergent Progress or Stalemate?; Michael Rush and Rudy Seward2. 'The Choice was Made for Us': A Genealogical and Relational Approach to the Stay-at-Home Father Concept in North America; Andrea Doucet3. Cultural Values, Family Policies and Fathering Practices in Central-eastern Europe; Piotr TeisseyrePART II: CHANGING FATHERS: WORK, CHILDREN AND RECONCILIATION STRATEGIES4. Changing Family Models: Emerging New Opportunities for Fathers in Catalonia (Spain)?; Lluis Flaquer, Almudena Moreno Minguez and Tomas Cano5. What makes Fathers Involved? An Exploration of the Longitudinal Influence of Fathers' and Mothers' Employment on Father's Involvement in Looking After their Pre-School Children in the UK; Colette Fagan and Helen Norman6. Reconciling Work and Family among Japanese Fathers with Preschool-aged Children; Tomoko Matsuda, Saori Kamano, Mieko Takahashi, Setsuko Onode, Kyoko Yoshizumi7. Work-life Balance and Fathers in Austria? Empirical Evidence at the Company Level; Nadja Bergmann and Helene Schiffbänker8. Between Change and Continuity. Fathers and Work-Life Balance in Italy; Maria Letizia Bosoni, Isabella Crespi and Elisabetta RuspiniPART III: FATHERS' WORK-FAMILY LIFE BALANCE: CONFLICTS AND CHALLENGES9. Involved Fatherhood: Source of New Gender Conflicts?; Diana Lengersdorf and Michael Meuser10. From 'Absent-from-Home Father' to 'Committed Father': Changes in the Model of Fatherhood in Poland and Role of Mothers-'Gatekeepers'; Ma?gorzata Sikorska11. What Work-Family Conflicts do Fathers Experience in Sweden and the US?; Anna-Lena Almqvist and Gayle Kaufman12. 'At the End, the Father Works More and the Mother Stays Home' – Swedish and Polish Fathers and (Un)Achieved Work-Life Balance; Katarzyna Suwada

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Book SynopsisHow is gender signified, produced and reproduced through paid and unpaid labour? In what ways does gender intersect with other kinds of disadvantage? How does power work through interactions, emotions and bodies?In this original synthesis of social theory and its application to gender and work, Kate Huppatz draws from classical theory and principles of the cultural turn' to explore how feminist sociology dismantles dualistic understandings of gender and scrutinizes the workings of power. In a tour de force of exposition and analysis of landmarks in the literature, Huppatz reflects upon continuities and departures in cutting-edge research on gender within organizations, unpaid domestic labour, and paid and unpaid care work. Close attention is paid to pressing issues such as the intersectionality of inequality in the workplace, relations between micro activities and larger social processes, and the impact of Covid-19 on exposing and exacerbating the gendered inequalities oTrade Review‘A comprehensive, lucid and incisive tour de force, highlighting the changing connections between research on gender and work, and the theoretical traditions with which it has been associated.’ -- Miriam Glucksmann, Emeritus Professor of Sociology * University of Essex, UK *Table of Contents1 Introduction: Why Gender, Work and Social Theory? 2. The Beginnings of Gender and Work Scholarship: A Tale of Ambivalence and Revolt 3. Labouring in Gendered Cultures: From Thinking with Sex Roles to Understanding Gender as Practice and Discourse 4. Gendered Organisations: Institutional Cultures, Divisions and Hierarchies 5. Material Yet Invisible: Housework and New Directions in Unpaid Labour 6. Unpaid Family Caring Labour and Work-Family Tensions: Love, Power and Overwork in Domestic Settings 7. Paid Care and Other Service Work: Commercialised Emotional and Embodied Labour in Contexts of Globalisation and Inequality 8. Conclusions: Maintaining Momentum 9. Epilogue: Gender, Work and Covid-19

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Book SynopsisWelfare states are a major feature of many societies. This book draws on qualitative interviews with people receiving various working age welfare payments in Ireland to analyse welfare conditionality and explore stigma, social reciprocity and the notions of the deserving and undeserving poor.Table of ContentsForeword by Fred Powell Introduction 1. Setting the Stage: The Development of the Irish Welfare State and its Place in the World of Welfare 2. Welfare, Marginality and Social Liminality: Life in the Welfare ‘Space’ 3. The Effect of the Work Ethic 4. Welfare Conditionality 5. Maintaining Compliance and Engaging in Impression Management 6. Deservingness: Othering, Self-Justification and the Norm of Reciprocity 7. Welfare is 'Bad' Bringing It All Together 8. COVID-19: Policy Responses and Lived Experiences Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWritten and informed by national experts, this is the first publication to provide a detailed examination of the development, implementation and implications of carer leave policies and policies in 9 countries across Asia, Oceania, Europe and North America.

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses fresh empirical evidence which demonstrates the gendered impacts of the new conditionality regime within Universal Credit. Drawing on in-depth interviews with mothers, it offers a compelling narrative and policy recommendations to make the social citizenship framework in the UK more inclusive of women.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Social Security System and Gender: Unpaid Care, Paid Work and Agency 3. Universal Credit and the New Conditionality Regime for Mothers 4. Universal Credit and Unpaid Care: “We’re Doing a Massive Job Anyway” 5. Universal Credit and Paid Work: “You Can Job Search and Job Search and Not Get Anywhere” 6. Universal Credit and Agency: “There’s No Element of Choice” 7. Conclusion

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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 SynopsisSince its emergence at the end of the seventeenth century, industrial capitalism as a specific form of social organisation has set recurrent challenges to its own persistence, and until today, it has proved to be successful to develop new ways of accumulation based on its capacity of adaptation. Is this process of transition now accelerating or reaching an end point? This book is a critical exploration of capitalism in transition, bringing together cutting edge, world renowned scholars who reflect from different disciplinary points of view. This collection engages with the primarily Western themes of welfare capitalism and social fragmentation. Structured over three parts, the book analyses; the transformations of welfare societies and capitalism with a focus on South European welfare states and their (in)capacity to tackle poverty; the transformation of work and migration with a special attention to informality and the question of social rights; and the transformation of cities.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 1, No poverty.Trade Review'Two aspects constitute the value added by this book. First, it defines a framework for addressing issues related to Western capitalism throughout the various sections. Secondly, and strictly related to the issues being faced, innovative and inclusive initiatives to overcome the pessimistic vision are discussed in this book. [...] Progressive social movements, new political parties and traditional social democratic parties are being challenged to reinvent social contracts.'Federico Camerin, Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, Vol. 13, No. 2, November 2019 -- .Table of ContentsFraming the issues at stake1 Western capitalism in transition: global processes, local challenges – Alberta Andreotti, David Benassi, Yuri Kazepov2 A child of its times: the “new urban sociology” in context and its legacy – Michael HarloePart I: The transformations of global capitalism3 Abstract from the concrete: capitalism spiralling out of control – David Harvey4 Rethinking social reproduction in an era of the dominance of finance capital – Gavin Smith5 On the social (dis)embedding of the economy in a local context: where anthropology and sociology share metaphors as analytical tools – Simone GhezziPart II: Welfare capitalism and rights6 The underclass and international comparison, variety and universalism – Jean-Claude Barbier7 Welfare migration and civic stratification: Britain's emergent rights regime – Lydia Morris8 The Mediterranean welfare states between recalibration and change in the cultural paradigm – Nicola Negri and Chiara SaracenoPart III: Citizenship and migration9 Deconstructing labour demand: implications for low wage employment – Saskia Sassen10 International migrations and the Mediterranean – Enrico Pugliese11 Cities under economic austerity: the return of citizenship claims – Marisol GarcíaPart IV: Cities and urban transformations12 The sense of touch – Richard Sennett13 Urban disorder and the transformation of global governance – Sophie Body-Gendrot14 Urban political economy beyond convergence: robust but differentiated unequal European cities – Patrick Le GalèsPart V: Segregation and the spatial dimension of poverty15 The spatial dimension of poverty – Susan S. Fainstein and Norman Fainstein16 Urban segregation, inequalities and local welfare: the challenges of neoliberalisation – Marco Oberti and Edmond Préteceille17 Urban poverty and social cohesion: lessons from Naples – Enrica MorlicchioPerspectives on the future of western capitalism18 The double movement and the perspectives of contemporary capitalism – Enzo MingioneIndex

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Book SynopsisIn British political discourse the idea that in the 1970s trade unions 'ran the country' has become a truism, a folk mythology invoked against the twin perils of socialism and strikes. But who exactly wielded power in Britain’s workplaces and on what terms?Assembling cultures takes a fine-grained look at factory activism in the motor industry between 1945 and 1982, using car manufacturing as a key case for unpicking important narratives around affluence, declinism and class. It traces the development of the militant car worker stereotype and looks at the real social relations that lay behind car manufacturing’s reputation for conflict. In doing so, this book reveals a changing, complex world of social practices, cultural norms and shared values and expectations.From relatively meagre interwar trade union traditions, during the post-war period car workers developed shop-floor organisations of considerable authority, enabling some to make new demands of their working lives, but constraining others in their more radical political aims. Assembling cultures documents in detail a historic process where, from the 1950s, groups and individuals set about creating and reproducing collective power and asks what that meant for their lives. This is a story of workers and their place in the power relations of post-war Britain.This book will be invaluable to lecturers and students studying the history, sociology and politics of post-war Britain, particularly those with an interest in power, rationality, class, labour, gender and race. The detailed analysis of just how solidarity, organisation and collective action were generated will also prove useful to trade union activists.Trade Review'Much more could be said about a book which combines richness in detail with a compelling central argument. Saunders’ work makes a substantial contribution not just to studies of the labour movement but to contemporary British history more widely, and beyond the discipline on the importance of historicising working-class agency. It is also, ultimately, a hopeful book: it emphasises the possibilities for building new bonds of solidarity, democratic forms of organisation, and power in the workplace. All of which we will be in desperate need of in the coming years.'Contemporary British History'Saunders’ study makes important interventions in several historiographical. His approach suggests the potential of ‘new histories of both labour and political culture, histories that situate subjectivities, behaviours and attitudes within the lived experiences that people shared in the workplace’ (11), and it is very much to be hoped that other scholars take up this call. debates.'Journal of Contemporary History'Assembling Cultures, is a timely intervention. [...] A testament to the success of this book is its applicability to areas beyond industrial relations.'Twentieth Century British History'[…] an interesting account of the emergence and development of workers organisation in car assembly, developing the labour history which had been focused on the emergence of organisation and culture in mining, docks, textile mills, building sites, or other ‘traditional’ work cultures.'Journal of Labor and Society -- .Table of Contents1 Introduction – Agency and subjectivity in post-war labour militancy2 Car workers, trade union militancy and public discourse3 Organising in car factories 1945-604 The social practices and cultural norms of “fragmentation”, 1960-685 Productivity bargaining and re-making workplace trade unionism, 1968-756 Towards “Strike Free”, 1975-827 ConclusionIndex

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Book SynopsisIn Surrealist sabotage and the war on work, art historian Abigail Susik uncovers the expansive parameters of the international surrealist movement’s ongoing engagement with an aesthetics of sabotage between the 1920s and the 1970s, demonstrating how surrealists unceasingly sought to transform the work of art into a form of unmanageable anti-work. In four case studies devoted to surrealism’s transatlantic war on work, Susik analyses how artworks and texts by Man Ray, André Breton, Simone Breton, André Thirion, Óscar Domínguez, Konrad Klapheck, and the Chicago surrealists, among others, were pivotally impacted by the intransigent surrealist concepts of principled work refusal, permanent strike, and autonomous pleasure. Underscoring surrealism’s profound relevance for readers engaged in ongoing debates about gendered labour and the wage gap, endemic over-work and exploitation, and the vicissitudes of knowledge work and the gig economy, Surrealist sabotage and the war on work reveals that surrealism’s creative work refusal retains immense relevance in our wired world.Trade Review‘Most scholarly works on surrealism tend to ignore or minimize its strong political dimension, its radical anticapitalist attitude, its commitment to revolutionary human emancipation. This is not the case with this brilliant essay, which does not ignore the highly explosive, radical and subversive nature of the movement founded by André Breton in 1924.’Michael Löwy, Modernism/Modernity'Susik succeeds in eliciting tantalizing frictions around the relation of avant-garde movements to leftist politics.'Kaegan Sparks, Artforum'To read Susik here is to enjoy the generosity of her stimulating and seditious theoretical thoughts. Her Surrealist fever-dream history of subversion as sex machine invites you into a contemplation of your intimate erotic life, put in relationship to its oppression — and to find within that oppression not despair, but insinuations of a secret saboteur.'Joseph Nechvatal, The Brooklyn Rail'The text is richly illustrated with examples from a broad range of media, supporting the author’s central focus on the efficacy and enduring relevance of surrealist art practice in critiquing the role of work in art and society.'Sara Schumacher, Choice‘This original and enthralling work is not only indispensable for understanding the political and revolutionary core of surrealism but for rethinking strategies of resistance and creation in the present. With this lucid critical study, Abigail Susik recovers an insurgent surrealism at a moment when global capitalism is escalating the immiseration of human labour and when its productivist imperatives are devastating the planet.’Jonathan Crary, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory, Columbia University‘Abigail Susik’s brilliant account of surrealism’s sustained aesthetic subversion and outright attack on compulsive wage labour and its genealogy in the late-nineteenth century radically reorients our understanding of this influential international movement. With great erudition and conceptual savvy, she places surrealism in the social history of work-place rationalisation, labour struggles and the feminisation of white-collar labour. Surrealist automatism is shown to function like work-to-rule sabotage. Automatic writing emerges as a gendered subversion of the automation of the work place present in surrealist photography and in the eroticised imagery of the typewriter and the sewing machine. Surrealism can still inspire challenges to the nature and organisation of work in the information age.’Andreas A. Huyssen, Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University‘Charting the rejection of the so-called “work ethic” by the surrealists in their theory and art, this groundbreaking study sheds new light on the activities of the surrealist movement in the 1920s, 1930s and 1960s, across two continents. Abigail Susik’s deeply impressive investigative scope, combined with precise attention to historical, social and economic context, yields new interpretations of a wide range of work-resistant, pleasure-principled, anarcho-Freudian forays into poetry, painting, photography and sculpture by surrealists, drawing upon a truly extraordinary range of scholarly sources. Mentored by theorists from Marx to Marcuse, surrealist techniques and imagery are revealed as instruments of the saboteur. Meanwhile, urgent questions that are so rarely broached today with the kind of clarity given them by workshy surrealists and their ultra-left allies – who works, for what, at what cost and why bother? – are raised on every page of this illuminating book, demonstrating that surrealism lives, loves and plays, but does not labour: yesterday, today and tomorrow. Gavin Parkinson, Senior Lecturer in European Modernism at The Courtauld Institute of Art -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Genealogy of the surrealist work refusal2 Surrealist automatism as symbolic sabotageSimone Breton and the gendered labour of the surrealist automatistTracing stenographic surrealism and the dame dactylographePsychic automatism and feminisation3 Óscar Domínguez: autonomy and autoeroticism‘These phosphorescent youths’: Domínguez and surrealism, 1934–35Domínguez’s Machine à coudre électro-sexuelle (1934-35)Operating Maldoror’s vamp machine Dysfunctional tools in Domínguez’s anti-work oeuvre4 Direct action surrealism in ChicagoPrologue: activist avant-garde‘Incendiary time bomb’: The Rebel Worker (1964–66)Robert Green, Gallery Bugs Bunny, and Chicago automatismChicago surrealism and Herbert Marcuse contra the performance principleEpilogue: override dysfunctions and the ‘Klapheck computer’Index

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Book SynopsisEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Millions of children throughout Africa undertake many forms of farm and domestic work. Some of this work is for wages, some is on their family’s own small plots and some is forced and/or harmful. This book examines children’s involvement in such work. It argues that framing all children’s engagement in economic activity as ‘child labour’, with all the associated negative connotations, is problematic. This is particularly the case in Africa where many rural children must work to survive and where, the contributors argue, much of the work undertaken is not harmful. The conceptual and case-based chapters reframe the debate about children’s work and harm in rural Africa with the aim of shifting research, public discourse and policy so that they better serve the interest of rural children and their families.Table of ContentsForeword – Michael Bourdillon 1. Children’s Work in African Agriculture: Introduction – Rachel Sabates-Wheeler and James Sumberg 2. Theorising ‘Harm’ in Relation to Children’s Work – Roy Maconachie, Neil Howard and Rosilin Bock 3. Understanding Children’s Harmful Work: The Methodological Landscape – Keetie Roelen, Inka Barnett, Vicky Johnson, Tessa Lewin, Dorte Thorsen and Giel Ton 4. Education and Work: Children’s Lives in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa – Máiréad Dunne, Sara Humphreys and Carolina Szyp 5. Disabled Children and Work – Mary Wickenden 6. Value Chain Governance and Children’s Work in Agriculture – Giel Ton, Jodie Thorpe, Irene S. Egyir and Carolina Szyp 7. Blurred Definitions and Imprecise Indicators: Rethinking Social Assistance for Children’s Work – Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, Keetie Roelen, Becky Mitchell and Amy Warmington 8. Children’s Work in Ghana: Policies and Politics – Samuel Okyere, Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah, Felix Asante and Thomas Yeboah 9. Children’s Work in Shallot Production on the Keta Peninsula, South-Eastern Ghana – Thomas Yeboah and Irene Egyir 10. Children’s Work in West African Cocoa Production: Drivers, Contestations and Critical Reflections – Dorte Thorsen and Roy Maconachie 11. Children’s Harmful Work in Ghana’s Lake Volta Fisheries: Beyond Discourses of Child Trafficking – Imogen Bellwood-Howard and Abdulai Abubakari 12. Children’s Work in African Agriculture: Ways Forward – James Sumberg and Rachel Sabates-Wheeler

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Book SynopsisAt the heart of capitalism lies the idea of ‘homo economicus’: an ever-rational human being motivated by self-interest which arguably leads societies to economic prosperity. Drawing on French sociologist Marcel Mauss' influential theory of ‘the gift’, Frank Adloff shatters this fallacy to show mutual trust is the only glue that holds societies together; people are giving beings and they can cooperate for the benefit of all when the logic of maximizing personal gain in capitalism is broken. Acknowledging the role of women, nature, and workers in the Global South in transforming society, this book proposes a politics of conviviality, (from the Latin con-vivere: living together) for global and environmental justice as an alternative to the pursuit of profit, growth, and consumption.Table of ContentsIntroduction: From Capitalism’s Crises to a Convivial Society Part 1: An Anthropology of Giving 1. Self-interest, Altruism, and the Gift 2. Mauss’ Gift 3. 'Homo donator': A Different Anthropology Part 2: Society’s Gifts 4. Locating the Gift in Society 5. The Gift between Socialism and Capitalism 6. Commodities, Values, Money, Gifts Part 3: Crossing the Borders 7. Science and Technology, Nature and Conviviality 8. Gifts of Nature 9. Civil Society, Conviviality, Utopia Part 4: Worlds of Conviviality 10. Aesthetic Freedom, or The Gift of Art 11. Pluriversalism: Towards a European and Global Politics of Conviviality Conclusion

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Book SynopsisFarewell to Work? presents the large process of capital's productive restructuring, triggered in the 1970s—a process with tendencies to both intellectualize labour power and increase the levels of the working class' precariousness on a global scale.This book hypothesizes that instead of work's loss of centrality in contemporary capitalism, when the world of production is analysed in its global dimension, including countries in the North and South, a substantial process of growing heterogeneity, complexity, and fragmentation is observed. The resulting configuration is a new morphology of the working class. Therefore, as new mechanisms are created to generate surplus labour, there is, simultaneously, an increment in casualisation and unemployment, pushed by the ongoing corrosion of labour rights in countries all across the globe.Table of ContentsForewordPreface to the English editionAcknowledgementsList of TablesIntroductionpart 1Heterogeneity and Fragmentation of the Working Class1  Fordism, Toyotism and Flexible Accumulation2  Metamorphoses in the World of Work3  Dimensions of the Trade Unionism’s Contemporary Crisis Dilemmas and Challenges4  Which Crisis of Labour Society? 1 First Thesis 2 Second Thesis 3 Third Thesis 4 Fourth Thesis 5 Fifth Thesispart 2Labour’s New Morphology5  The Explosion of the New Services Proletariat of the Digital Age 1 The End of the Myth 2 Service Work and Marx’s Fundamental Clues 3 Can Immaterial Labour Generate Surplus Value? 4 Middle Class, Precariat or the New Service Proletariat?6  Freeze-Dried Flexibility A New Morphology of Labour: Casualisation and Value 1 Introduction 2 Brazil in the New International Division of Labour 3 The New Forms of Labour and Value: Tangibility and Intangibility 4 The Design of the New Morphology of Labour7  The Working Class Today The New Form of Being of the Class-that-lives-from-Labour8  The Crisis Seen Globally Robert Kurz and the Collapse of Modernization 1 An Explosive Book 2 And Its Main Gaps9  The International Working Class in 1864 and Today 1 Introduction 2 The New Morphology of Labour: Informality, Casualisation, Infoproletariat, and Value 3 ConclusionMaster ReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisA Times Business Book of the Year 2021 Whether it’s working for free in exchange for ‘experience’, enduring poor treatment in the name of being ‘part of the family’, or clocking serious overtime for a good cause, more and more of us are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do work we enjoy. Work Won’t Love You Back examines how we all bought into this ‘labour of love’ myth: the idea that certain work is not really work, and should be done for the sake of passion rather than pay. Through the lives and experiences of various workers—from the unpaid intern and the overworked teacher, to the nonprofit employee, the domestic worker and even the professional athlete—this compelling book reveals how we’ve all been tricked into a new tyranny of work. Sarah Jaffe argues that understanding the labour of love trap will empower us to work less and demand what our work is worth. Once freed, we can finally figure out what actually gives us joy, pleasure and satisfaction.Trade Review'Sarah Jaffe has been a key influence on the emergence of this post-work politics, her latest book Work Won’t Love You Back is certain to continue that, and deservedly so.' -- Counterfire‘Sarah Jaffe is a rarity in the US. Not only is she one of the few journalists still reporting on the labour movement, but she sits on an even shorter list of writers intent on covering the everyday stories of working people through a lens of dignity and empowerment. […] Work Won’t Love You Back is ambitious in breadth [while] also reach[ing] for impressive theoretical depth.’

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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 SynopsisThis book takes a wide-ranging and non-dogmatic view of SDG12, tackling various approaches as to how production and consumption can provide for human well-being while minimizing destructive effects on the biophysical environment. With chapters focusing on circular economies, product accounting systems, and sustainable procurement, this volume presents technical information in an accessible way and provides a much-needed overview of activity and approaches to achieving the development goal. The authors provide a thorough understanding of the history and effectiveness of SDG 12 by juxtaposing competing theories of sustainable production and consumption, from critics who advocate a “degrowth” agenda to explicitly neo- liberal approaches. They also examine the underlying contradictions in these theories and the degree to which these competing approaches can complement one another.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Neoliberalism and Its Discontents Chapter 2. Critics of Consumption Chapter 3. Green Consumerism Chapter 4. Moving Toward a Circular Economy in Support of SDG 12 Chapter 5. Strengthening Indicators and Targets for SDG 12

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains two Open Access chapters. Digital transformation is permeating all domains of business and society. Digital Transformation and Institutional Theory explores how manifestations of digital transformation requires rethinking of our understanding and theorization of institutional processes. Showcasing a collaborative forum of organization and management theory scholars and information systems researchers, the authors enrich institutional theory approaches in understanding digital transformation. Advancing institutional perspectives with an agenda for future research and methodological reflections, the chapters delve into digital transformations in relation to institutional logics and technological affordances, professional projects and new institutional agents, institutional infrastructure, and field governance. This volume deepens our understanding of the pervasive and increasingly important relationship between technology and institutions and the response of existing professions to the emergence of digital technologies. Moreover, the authors offer a cutting-edge analysis of how new digital organizational forms affect institutional fields, their infrastructure, and thus their governance.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Institutional Perspectives on Digital Transformation; Thomas Gegenhuber, Danielle Logue, C.R. (Bob) Hinings, and Michael Barrett Section A. Empirical Studies Chapter 2. Institutional Logics, Technology Affordances and Hybrid Professionals: Developing a Billing App for Hospital Physicians; Robyn King, April L. Wright, David Smith, Alex Chaudhuri, and Leah Thompson Chapter 3. Digital Technology and Voice: How Platforms Shape Institutional Processes through Visibilization; Ali Aslan Gümüsay, Mia Raynard, Oana Albu, Michael Etter, and Thomas Roulet OPEN ACCESS Chapter 4. Augmenting a Profession: How Data Analytics is Transforming Human Resource Management; Georg Loscher and Verena Bader Chapter 5. From Micro-level to Macro-level Legitimacy: Exploring How Judgments in Social Media Create Thematic Broadness at Meso-level; Laura Illia, Michael Etter, Katia Meggiorin, and Elanor Colleoni Chapter 6. Digitalisation versus Regulation: How Disruptive Digital Communication Technologies Alter Institutional Contexts through Public Interest Framing; Kerem Gurses, Basak Yakis-Douglas, and Pinar Ozcan Chapter 7. Representations of Self in the Digital Public Sphere: The Field of Social Impact Analyzed through Relational and Discursive Moves; Achim Oberg, Walter W. Powell, and Tino Schöllhorn Section B. Conceptual Contributions Chapter 8. Digital Technologies: Carrier or Trigger for Institutional Change in Digital Transformation?; Nicholas Berente and Stefan Seidel Chapter 9. Integrating Information Systems and Institutional Insights: Advancing the Conversation with Examples from Digital Health; Lee C. Jarvis, Rebekah Eden, April L. Wright, and Andrew Burton-Jones Chapter 10. The Institutional Logic of Digitalization; Henri Schildt OPEN ACCESS

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Book SynopsisThe ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The higher education and research system faces a constant dilemma. On the one hand, research and higher education are run by autonomous, interrelated academic communities, often described as collegial governance. On the other hand, they are an instrument for the fulfillment of goals that are often external to the academic community. What, then, is the role of academics and academic knowledge in governance of higher education and research, and how does this reflect on and impact their aims and overall place in society? Fostered through joint workshops and an open dialogue, this double volume of Research in the Sociology of Organizations develops a deeper understanding of collegiality, examining through a unique comparative perspective how it is translated and practiced in different settings across the world. Concentrating on challenges to collegiality and the erosion of faculty governance, this first installment analyzes global waves of reforms, ways in which various kinds of managerial modes of organization and control come to reshape universities, and how this intersects with the evolving missions of universities as institutions. Revealing the globalization, homogenization and variation that have come to characterize the collegiate system, University Collegiality and the Erosion of Faculty Authority critically considers the state of and future of the higher education system, and how we can consciously shape it moving forward.Table of ContentsIntroduction: University Collegiality and the Erosion of Faculty Authority; Kerstin Sahlin and Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist Section 1. Collegiality and the Rise of Organizational Actors Chapter 1. Governing Research. New Forms of Competition and Cooperation in Academia; Anna Kosmützky and Georg Krücken Chapter 2. The Managerialization of Higher Education in Germany and Its Consequences: Changes in Job Advertisements for Professorships in German Universities, 1990 to 2010; Lisa-Maria Gerhardt, Jan Goldenstein, Simon Oertel, Philipp Poschmann, and Peter Walgenbach Chapter 3. Globalization of Universities as Organizational Actors?; Seungah S. Lee and Francisco O. Ramirez Chapter 4. A Slow Form of Governance? Collegial Organization and Temporal Synchronization in the Context of Swedish University Reforms; Hampus Östh Gustafsson Chapter 5. The Construction of the University as an Organizational Actor and Its Consequences for the University as an Institution: Reflections on the Case of Australia; Hokyu Hwang Section 2. Collegiality in a Political Context Chapter 6. Collegiality and Communication: This Time It’s Personal; Francois van Schalkwyk and Nico Cloete Chapter 7. Governance in Chinese Universities; Wen Wen and Simon Marginson Chapter 8. The Social Creation of Temporary Academic Positions in Chile, Colombia, Germany and the US; Pedro Pineda

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Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic work in a Moldovan winemaking village, Wine Is Our Bread shows how workers in a prestigious winery have experienced the country's recent entry into the globalized wine market and how their productive activities at home and in the winery contribute to the value of commercial terroir wines. Drawing on theories of globalization, economic anthropology and political economy, the book contributes to understanding how crises and inequalities in capitalism lead to the creative destruction' of local products, their accelerated standardization and the increased exploitation of labour.

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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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Book SynopsisThe African continent is colloquially referred to as the youngest in the world. Seizing on a topic underexplored in African research, Youth Development in South Africa: Harnessing the Demographic Dividend confronts the issues, challenges, and opportunities facing South Africa’s youth, resulting in a rich exploration of the South African corpus on youth development. Bringing together a diverse range of topics and research methodologies, contributors focus on the demographic dividend, South Africa’s relatively large population of young people, and the implications of harnessing this for economic growth and development within this country. Analysing model institutional and policy initiatives for youth development, contributors present a unique translation of ideas into practice, as well as attention to solutions. Highlighting challenges such as health pandemics, social media, and climate change, chapters cover questions surrounding youth aspirations, employment, and inclusivity. Showcasing the voices of researchers from across South Africa and the larger African continent, Youth Development in South Africa: Harnessing the Demographic Dividend is a compelling snapshot of thirty years of South Africa’s democratic dispensation and what it has meant for the youth of the country, as well as how its demographic dividend can be harnessed for a fairer society in the future.Trade ReviewThere are numerous studies by scholars and policy-makers about youth, particularly youth in the developing world. Many of these studies fall under two categories: the youth as a market, or the youth as either a demographic dividend or a demographic time-bomb. The youth tend to be studied out of curiosity – an anthropological subject that is observed but not engaged. This book presents a paradigm shift in how youth is studied. It offers insights into the complex contradictions, geo-histories, ideologies and experiences that shape the present realities and futures of South African youth. It presents youth not only as products of history, but as architects of new thinking and imaginations that are futuristic. -- Malaika Mahlatsi, Bestselling Author of Memoirs of a Born Free: Reflections on the Rainbow Nation and Corridors of Death: The Struggle to Exist in Historically White InstitutionsTable of ContentsIntroduction PART ONE – UNDERSTANDING YOUTH AND THEIR DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND Chapter 1. Demographic dynamics of South Africa’s youth and the implications for harnessing the demographic dividend; Nompumelelo Nzimande PART TWO – PANDEMICS AND YOUTH Chapter 2. Youth and HIV in South Africa: LIVING AND THRIVING WITH HIV; Nompumelelo Zungu, Warren Parker, Inbarani Naidoo, Mokhantšo Makoae, and Salome Sigida Chapter 3. Young People, Social Media and Exposure to STIs: A Semi-Ethnographic Experiment; Busani Ngcaweni PART THREE – YOUTH TRANSITIONS Chapter 4. Building Maps of the Future; Botshabelo Maja Chapter 5. Youth Career Decision Making: The Influence of Horizon for Action and Navigational Capacity; Lucky Maluleke and Lesley Powell Chapter 6. Breaking Barriers, Transforming Lives – Youth Transitions to Work and what it takes: A Case Study of the Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator; Sharmi Surianarain and Rob Urquhart PART FOUR – YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH Chapter 7. Right to Quality Education in Africa: A Critical tool for a sustainable development agenda; Rita Ozoemena Chapter 8. A Holistic Approach to Personal Transformation in the Youth Sector; Lucille Meyer and Rajendra Chetty PART FIVE – YOUTH EMPLOYMENT Chapter 9. A conceptual frame for reviewing Youth Employment Interventions: based on a review of opportunities for youth in South Africa; Carmel Marock, Sindile Moitse, and Josephilda Nhlapo-Hlope PART SIX – YOUTH PARTICIPATION, INCLUSIVITY, AND SOCIAL PROTECTION Conclusion

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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 SynopsisThe proceedings of the 2017 Symposium on Chaos, Complexity and Leadership illuminate current research results and academic work from the fields of physics, mathematics, education, economics, as well as management and social sciences. The text explores chaotic and complex systems, as well as chaos and complexity theory in view of their applicability to management and leadership.This proceedings explores non-linearity as well as data-modelling and simulation in order to uncover new approaches and perspectives. Effort will not be spared in bringing theory into practice while exploring leadership and management-laden concepts. This book will cover the analysis of different chaotic developments from different fields within the concepts of chaos and complexity theory. Researchers and students in the field will find answers to questions surrounding these intertwined and compelling fields.Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThe design process for organizational structures sometimes resembles a random walk, especially when it is embedded in an arena of competing personal interests and power games. Many organizations still lack clear guidance and are therefore seeking a rigorous, nuanced, and impartial methodology for the design and development of their organizational structures, processes and behavioral repertoire. The Viable System Model (VSM) can help: by identifying the essential design principles and parameters that need to be considered, and which can be used to enhance an organization’s effectiveness, adaptability, cohesion and overall viability.This book, the third volume in a set of three, connects the VSM to the world of the standard organizational chart. It offers readers a new perspective on corporate functions and their contributions to the organization as a whole. Further, it shows them how the VSM can be used to develop viable organizational structures, following a detailed step-by-step approach. Lastly, it explains the vital processes, behaviors, and attitudes that need to be developed in order to make organizations truly viable.Readers will find solutions to, and guidelines on, many critical organizational design issues, e.g. designing job profiles; correctly mapping synergistically (“centrally”) operating units in the organizational chart; outsourcing processes; and handling matrix situations; as well as designing and implementing organizational change processes."This compendium is a most welcome contribution to Organizational Cybernetics. Lassl provides a detailed analytical and insightful perspective on the currently most powerful organization theory, which is a key to mastering complexity: the Viable System Model. The author also finds new, creative ways of showing the practitioner how to make the model work. If you apply it properly, you can reap huge benefits: the viability of your organization and a prosperous future."Prof. em. Dr. Markus Schwaninger, University of St. Gallen"There is nothing more practical than a good theory" (K. Lewin). This is exactly what Lassl’s books exemplify and prove. By advancing the VSM-based organizational theory and providing ample application-related examples, these books allow the readers to look at their organizations and management from a new perspective, and provides them with the knowledge to trigger and implement practical organizational changes.I have been able to draw upon many cutting-edge examples from Lassl’s books for my lectures on the VSM, which have repeatedly convinced students of its value and enabled them to gain an in-depth understanding of the VSM. Particularly Lassl’s elaborations on variety management and on the axiom of requisite vertical eigen-variety are cornerstones for every organizational design project, for value-oriented management, and for the overall viability of the organization. I highly recommend the book to all managers looking for ideas for future-oriented design of organizations and of value creation."Prof. Dr. Matthias Müller-Wiegand, Vice President Department Business and Law, Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln/University of Applied Sciences Table of ContentsPart I: Building the Bridge.- Part II: Designing Organizational (Chart) Structures.- Part III: Implementation.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book addresses the current debate on extended working life policy by considering the influence of gender and health on the experiences of older workers. Bringing together an international team of scholars, it tackles issues as gender, health status and job/ occupational characteristics that structure the capacity and outcomes associated with working longer. The volume starts with an overview of the empirical and policy literature; continues with a discussion of the relevant theoretical perspectives; includes a section on available data and indicators; followed by 25 very concise and unique country reports that highlight the main extended working life (EWL) research findings and policy trajectories at the national level. It identifies future directions for research and addresses issues associated with effective policy-making. This volume fills an important gap in the knowledge of the consequences of EWL and it will be an invaluable source for both researchers and policy makers. Table of ContentsPart I. Introductory Section.- Chapter 1. Empirical and Policy Landscape; Jim Ogg and Martina Rasticova.- Chapter 2. Theoretical Perspectives; Clary Krekula, Sarah Vickerstaff.- Chapter 3. Data Sources and Issues; Michaela Gstrein and Tindara Addaboo.- Part II. Country Reports.- Chapter 4. Albania.- Chapter 5. Austria.- Chapter 6. Belgium.- Chapter 7. Bulgaria.- Chapter 8. Chile.- Chapter 9. Croatia.- Chapter 10. Cyprus.- Chapter 11. Czech Republic.- Chapter 12. Finland.-Chapter 13. France.- Chapter 14. Germany.- Chapter 15. Greece.- Chapter 16. Ireland.- Chapter 17. Israel.- Chapter 18. Italy.- Chapter 19. Lithuania.- Chapter 20. Netherlands.- Chapter 21. New Zealand.- Chapter 22. Poland.- Chapter 23. Portugal.- Chapter 24. Romania.- Chapter 25. Serbia.- Chapter 26. Spain.- Chapter 27. Sweden.- Chapter 28. United Kingdom.- Chapter 29. United States.- Part III. Future Directions.- Chapter 30. Policy Tool-Kits; Jonas Radl and Nata Duvvury. - Chapter 31. Conclusion: Future Directions: Debra Street and Aine Ni Leime.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents scholarly reflections on women's entrepreneurial propensity and on women's entrepreneurship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Contributing to a country's innovativeness and competitiveness, women entrepreneurs also promote healthy social and economic growth and act as mentors and role models for younger women. However, the low involvement of women in STEM, which begins at education, affects the share of women entrepreneurs in these fields. The authors address these issues and highlight the output of research studies by bringing together both global and country-specific evidence. Researchers and policymakers interested in advancing women's entrepreneurship, especially in STEM, will particularly benefit from this book.Table of ContentsUnderstanding the entrepreneurial intention of women in STEM fields.- Individual factors explaining women entrepreneurship in STEM fields.- Analysis of the European Women entrepreneurship in STEM fields.- Women High Tech Entrepreneurship in India.- Public policies and private efforts to increase women entrepreneurship in STEM field.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a unified approach to the problem of inequality, combining results from a variety of research fields – the human life cycle, group dynamics, networks, markets, and economic geography. Its main message is that inequality emerges as the natural result of mechanisms operating both in individual human development and in social interaction. It posits that inequality is not an anomalous deviation from a naturally egalitarian social structure; quite to the contrary, inequality is to be expected as part of the human condition. The author states that the growth of inequality, on the other hand, is not a natural law – the level and character of inequality can be affected by collective decisions. This perspective on human inequality has potentially far-reaching consequences both for the political philosophy of inequality and for public policy-making.This book is of interest to a wide interdisciplinary social science readership, including public policy, decision sciences, economic geography, and life course studies. Trade Review“The Origins of Inequality. Mechanisms, Models, Policy is a thoughtful and thought-provoking survey of studies on the causes, conditions and factors associated with inequality. Viewed as a survey it is quite comprehensive and suitable for independent study as well as for classroom use. … Molander aims at — and to a large extent succeeds in — making sense of the processes that result in inequalities. … Molander makes a strong case to the contrary. The case is well worth studying in detail.” (Hannu Nurmi, The Journal of Economic Inequality, Vol. 20, 2022)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.Chapter 2: Preliminaries.Chapter 3: Life-cycle development.Chapter 4: Interaction within and between groups.Chapter 5: Spatial inequality.Chapter 6: Static versus dynamic inequality – mathematical analysis.Chapter 7: Philosophical and political considerations.Chapter 8: Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisAdopting an Evidence-Based Management (EBM) approach, this book provides the best evidence available on a wide range of topics from Industrial and Organizational Psychology to help managers base their decisions on scientific findings. Drawing on principles and methods first developed by Evidence-Based Medicine, EBM aims to promote the use of scientific knowledge in organizational and managerial decision making. Based on this idea, the book seeks to establish a dialogue between researchers and professionals of the Industrial and Organizational Psychology and Management fields, translating scientific knowledge into useful resources that can be used to inform practitioner’s decisions and interventions in topics such as: Creativity in organizations Optimism and hope Engagement at work Life and career planning Entrepreneurship Innovation in organizations Cultural diversity and inclusion in organizations Social networks Ageing at organizational context Work/life balance Positive rule breaking Expatriation Time pressure, Pacing styles and polychronicity Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: The gap between research and professional practice in work and organizational psychology: tensions, beliefs and options.- Chapter 2. Creativity at work: trends and perspectives.- Chapter 3. Optimism and Hope in Work Organizations.- Chapter 4. Work engagement.- Chapter 5.Ageing in Brazil and Portugal and its impact on the organizational context.- Chapter 6. Life and Career Planning: current challenges.- Chapter 7. Work/life balance in a scenario of Brazilian change: Theoretical aspects and possibilities of interventions.- Chapter 8. The Psychology of Entrepreneurship.- Chapter 9. Innovation in organizations: main research results and their practical implications.- Chapter 10. Positive rule breaking and implications for organizations.- Chapter 11. Time Pressure, Pacing Styles and Polychronicity: Implications for Organizational Management.- Chapter 12. Cultural diversity and inclusion in organizations: State-of-the-arts and challenges.- Chapter 13. Social network analysis in organizations as management support tool.- Chapter 14. Expatriates: The multinationality of multinational and national firms.

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