Sociology: work and labour Books

Book SynopsisWorkers Without Companies contributes to the debate on the future of work in a productive landscape that is now global, while ways of working diversify at an unprecedented pace.Faced with several decades of mass unemployment in Europe and the activation of self-employment â especially through intermediary platforms â this book examines the transformation of the wage system not only in traditional salaried sectors but also in self-employment, agriculture, and the field of science and knowledge production. The authors identify a common movement: the growing detachment between companies and their employees. This deep-rooted and enduring trend is reshaping the wage relationship at the core of modern societies, continuously altering and destabilizing workersâ lives. Recognizing this shift is essential to interrogating what work â and our lives â will become in the years ahead. The book therefore concludes with a proposed research agenda structured around five key axes.As such, Workers Without Companies will appeal to sociologists with interests in work and industry, employment and unemployment, organisation studies and labour relations.

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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 SynopsisForeword.- The Organization—What Is It, and How Can It Be Understood?—Introduction.- Beyond an Instrumental-Rational Narrowing in the Design of Organizations.- How Can Organizational Structures Be Designed?.- On Working with Latencies—Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisA hard-hitting exposé of the overwork culture and modern management techniques that seduce millions of people to hand over the best part of their lives to their employer.Trade Review‘Brilliantly thorough and thoroughly brilliant attack on the contemporary work ethic.’ Guardian ‘Excellent.’ Suzanne Moore, Mail on Sunday ‘Highly readable and informative. ’ TLS

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Book SynopsisDrawing on newly-opened Soviet archives, especially the letters of complaint and petition with which peasants deluged the Soviet authorities in the 1930s, Stalin''s Peasants analyses peasants'' strategies of resistance and survival in the new world of the collectivized village. Stalin''s Peasants is a story of struggle between transformationally-minded Communists and traditionally-minded peasants over the terms of collectivization: a struggle of opposing practices, not a struggle in which either side clearly articulated its position. But it is also a story about the impact of collectivization on the internal social relations and culture of the village, exploring questions of authority and leadership, feuds, denunciations, rumors, and changes in religious observance. For the first time, it is possible to see the real people behind the facade of the Potemkin village created by Soviet propagandists. In the Potemkin village, happy peasants clustered around a kolkhoz (collective farm) tractTrade Reviewwell-researched and richly detailed ... It adds a great deal of new information on rural conditions and attitudes in the 1930s. No other work comes close to it in recounting the tragedy of collectivization from the peasant's point of view. * Times Literary Supplement *

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Book SynopsisIn Unbending Gender, Joan Williams takes a hard look at the state of feminism in America. Concerned by what she finds--young women who flatly refuse to identify themselves as feminists and working-class and minority women who feel the movement hasn''t addressed the issues that dominate their daily lives--she outlines a new vision of feminism that calls for workplaces focused on the needs of families and, in divorce cases, recognition of the value of family work and its impact on women''s earning power. Williams notes that good jobs in America are designed for the ideal employee, who works full-time and often overtime, with no career interruptions. Even today, most American mothers do not meet this ideal: a majority do not work full-time, and only a small fraction work overtime. Williams points out that women will never achieve equality until mothers do: she argues that employers need to implement parent-supportive policies--or face liability for sex discrimination. She also maintains Trade Review"This book makes a notable contribution to the feminist literature for its eminently sensible, readable, and thoughtful look into the roots of women's disadvantage in market work...Highly recommended to readers who seek real explanations and solutions to labor market gender discrimination."--Choice"In her thoughtful and thought-provoking book, Williams shows how the cult of domesticity limits both women and men--and how we can restructure the marketplace and the law to reintegrate work and family. Her model of reconstructive feminism promises to end the divisive gender wars between different brands of feminism, between tomboys and femmes, restructuring market work and family work."--Deborah Tannen, author of You Just Don't Understand, Talking from 9 to 5, and The Argument Culture"The only way we Americans can see ourselves plainly in the coming debates over child care and pay equity, private need and public obligation, is with a clear and unsentimental road map. Joan Williams' Unbending Gender is it."--Ray Suarez, host of NPR's "Talk of the Nation""At a time when we are searching for a way to restore meaning and cohesion to family life, Joan Williams has given us all--family workers, market workers, feminists, policy makers, and courts--a beacon on that way."--Zipporah Batshaw Wiseman, University of Texas Law School"In this theoretically sophisticated and thoroughly accessible treatise on gender, work and domesticity, Williams offers a new vision of 'family-friendly' feminism that would support women in all the various roles on the worker-caregiver continuum.... This groundbreaking study presents an important new perspective on this evolving discourse."--Publishers Weekly

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Trade Review"Can reading Self-Help, Inc. make you rich, successful and perpetually happy? No, but it'll entertain you and make you a whole lot smarter about American popular culture and the economic forces that shape it."--Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Bait and Switch and Nickel and Dimed"Elegantly written, brilliantly argued, and very important--a must read."--Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of The Time Bind and The Commercialization of Intimate Life"McGee writes clearly and thoughtfully.... She moves seamlessly from high theory to pop psychobabble, using the former to illustrate the powers of the latter. Overall, she offers a compelling argument for resisting the self-improvement genre's worldview. what comes through most clearly to me is a Marxist critique of consumer capitalism--like Raymond Williams for the 21st century."--Wendy Simonds, American Journal of Sociology"McGee has revealed the self-help industry as an obsessional treadmill far more than a path to a better life....Self-Help, Inc. offers a revealing look at the profound dissatisfactions that loiter beneath the topography of our consumer culture."--Stuart Ewen, author of PR!: A Social History of SpinTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; PROLOGUE COVEYS DAUGHTER AND HER DILEMMA ; INTRODUCTION FROM SELF-MADE TO BELABORED ; APPENDIX SOME NOTES ON METHOD ; NOTES ; BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1961, The Management of Innovation is one of the most influential books of organization theory and industrial sociology ever written. The central theme of the book is the relationship between an organization and its environment - particularly technological and market innovations.Based on first-class scholarship and engagingly written, the book presents the authors'' now famous and ubiquitous classicifications of mechanistic and organic systems. For this it has become justly famous, but the book is also a penetrating study of social systems within organizations and organizational dynamics.Trade Review`Tom Burns' book was a minor classic when it was first published; one of the most sensible and profound critiques of bureaucracy in print. It was way ahead of its time, perhaps "prematurely right". I congratulate Oxford University Press for this re-issue, the third edition, with a new and extraordinary Preface to a book that is now a major classic.' Warren Bennis, University of Southern California, Author of An Invented Life: Reflections on Leadership and Change, Addison Wesley, `93`one of the most influential books of organisation theory and industrial sociology ever written' ESRC News`A fine classic.' Richard C. Warren, Manchester Metropolitan University`Excellent for higher undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Business and Management.' David Nicoll, University of Central Lancashire`a `classic'' Professor A.W.M. Teulings, The Netherlands`Written in refreshingly plain English, it is a riveting read and brims with insight after insight.' Financial TimesThis new edition of a celebrated work first published in 1961 is very welcome ... Grab the chance to replace tattered library copies of this classic. If you have never read it, read it now - preferably, in its entirety, but at least chapters one, four, five and six together with the new Preface. * Work, Employment & Society Vol 9, No 2 *A new edition of Burns and Stalker's scholarly text on organisation theory and industrial sociology is indeed welcome and should provide stimulating reflection for those who work in dynamic industries and professions ... For over thirty years, this book has taken a leading role in encouraging creative behaviour in industry and commerce; its message remains relevant in today's harsh economic environment ... Those who offer professional services - including market and social research - will find that this pioneering text inspires them to reflect imaginatively on their present activities as practitioners and managers. * Journa of the Market Research Society *Table of ContentsPREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION 1. INTRODUCTION; PART ONE: THE EXTERNAL CIRCUMSTANCES; 2. THE ORGANIZATION OF INNOVATION; 3. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, AND THE SCOTTISH COUNCIL'S SCHEME; 4. THE MARKET CONTEXT; PART TWO: ORGANIZATION AND CHANGE 5. MANAGEMENT STRUCTURES AND SYSTEMS; 6. MECHANISITIC AND ORGANIC SYSTEMS OF MANAGEMENT; 7. WORKING ORGANIZATION, POLITICAL SYSTEM, AND AND STATUS STRUCTURE WITHIN THE CONCERN; 8. THE LABORATORY AND THE WORKSHOP; 9. INDUSTRIAL SCIENTISTS AND MANAGERS: PROBLEMS OF POWER AND STATUS PART THREE: DIRECTION AND THE SHAPING OF MANAGEMENT CONDUCT: 10. THE MEN AT THE TOP; 11. THE SHAPING OF WORK RELATIONSHIPS; 12. THE CODES OF PRACTICE IN MANAGEMENT CONDUCT; REFERENCES; INDEX

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Book SynopsisGender and Welfare State Regimes focuses on the interrelationships between aspects of the welfare state and labour market policies in structuring and transforming gender relations across a broad spectrum of countries. The book examines the construction of gender in various government welfare policies and illustrates how the specific qualities of the welfare state reinforce or counteract gender inequalities. The book argues that policy variation across the countries surveyed can be attributed to a variety of factors, including differing strategies and demands of the women''s movements, the organisational strength of labour movements and industrial relations frameworks, the constellation of parties supporting equality measure, traditional values and state structures. Series Gender and Politics edited by Professor Karen Beckwith at the Department of Political Science, College of Wooster and Professor Joni Lovenduski, Department of Politics, University of Southampton.Table of ContentsPART I. GENDER INEQUALITY AND WELFARE STATE REGIMES ; PART II. THE GENDERED IMPACT OF POLICIES ACROSS WELFARE STATES ; PART III. GENDER REGIMES AND WELFARE STATE REGIMES

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Book SynopsisHistorians have traditionally seen domestic service as an obsolete or redundant sector from the middle of the twentieth century. Knowing Their Place challenges this by linking the early twentieth-century employment of maids and cooks to later practices of employing au pairs, mothers'' helps, and cleaners. Lucy Delap tells the story of lives and labour within British homes, from great houses to suburbs and slums, and charts the interactions of servants and employers along with the intense controversies and emotions they inspired.Knowing Their Place also examines the employment of men and migrant workers, as well as the role of laughter and erotic desire in shaping domestic service. The memory of domestic service and the role of the past in shaping and mediating the present is examined through heritage and televisual sources, from Upstairs, Downstairs to The 1900 House. Drawing from advice manuals, magazines, novels, cinema, memoirs, feminist tracts, and photographs, this fascinating booTrade ReviewAn ambitious study, which corrects a number of easy assumptions... contains wonderful material and much insight. * Alison Light, Times Literary Supplement *Knowing Their Place is that rare historical monograph that is a pleasure to read from beginning to end. It has the potential to be valuable in different ways at many levels of scholarship: to researchers in the fields of labor history and of womens history, in graduate seminars, and in the undergraduate classroom. * Jamie Bronstein, Journal of British Studies *[a] richly nuanced account ... excellent * Laura Schwartz, History Workshop Journal *Delap's book, dense with image and insight, helps us to think about these questions - who cleans, cooks, does the washing and childcare, how much are they paid and valued without turning away. * Sally Alexander, Twentieth Century British History *this is a marvellous book â deftly researched and adroitly argued â that offers a new image of the relationship between domestic service and British culture in the twentieth century. It shows the richness and depth that cultural history can achieve if written with an eye to emotional experience as well as popular representation. Its particular triumph lies in the way that it successfully thinks through the relationship between experience and culture â showing the connections between the real and imagined worlds â and how these are inextricably interlinked. * Jane Hamlett, Labour History Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Twentieth Century Servants ; 2. Servant-Keepers and the Management of Servants ; 3. 'Doing for Oneself': the Evolving Servantless Home ; 4. Kitchen-Sink Laughter: Domestic Service Humour ; 5. 'The Good, the Bad, and the Spicy': Servants in Pornography and Erotica ; 6. Heritage Nostalgia: Domestic Service Remembered and Performed ; Conclusion ; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisProcess approaches to organization studies focus on flow, activities, and evolution, understanding organizations and organizing as processes in the making. They stand in contrast to positivist approaches that see organizations and phenomena as fixed, static, and measurable. Process approaches draw on a range of ideas and philosophies. The Handbook examines 34 philosophers and social theorists, both those commonly linked to process thinking, such as Whitehead, Bergson and James, and those that are not as often addressed from a process perspective such as Dilthey and Tarde. Each chapter addresses the background and context of this thinker, their work (with a focus on the processual elements), and the potential contribution to organization and management research. For students and scholars in the field of Organization Studies this book is an entry point into the work of philosophical thinkers and social theorists for whom the world is far from being a solid place.Table of Contents1. Process is how process does ; 2. Laozi's Daodejing (6th century BC) ; 3. Heraclitus (540-480 BC) ; 4. Confucius (551-479 BC) ; 5. Zhuang Zi ; 6. Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) ; 7. Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716) ; 8. Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) ; 9. Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) ; 10. Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) ; 11. William James (1842- 1910) ; 12. Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904) ; 13. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) ; 14. Henri Bergson (1859-1941) ; 15. John Dewey (1859-1952) ; 16. Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) ; 17. George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) ; 18. Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945) ; 19. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1952) ; 20. Martin Heidegger (1889 - 1976) ; 21. Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) ; 22. Jacques-Marie-Emile Lacan (1901-1981) ; 23. Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) ; 24. Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) ; 25. Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) ; 26. Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908 - 1961) ; 27. Arne Naess (1912 2009) ; 28. Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) ; 29. Harold Garfinkel (1917-2011) ; 30. George Spencer Brown (1923b) ; 31. Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) ; 32. Michel Foucault (1926-1984) ; 33. Luce Irigaray (1930b) ; 34. Michel Serres (1930b) ; 35. Peter Sloterdijk (1947b) ; 36. Process and Reality

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Book SynopsisThe knowledge economy conjures a world of smart people, in smart jobs, doing smart things, in smart ways, for smart money, a world increasingly open to all rather than a few. Glossy corporate brochures present a future in challenging, exciting and financially rewarding jobs for the winners in the competition for fast track management appointments. They also convey an image of enlightened employers actively seeking to diversify their talent pool, reflected in their approach to identifying, hiring and retaining outstanding talent. We are told that the challenge confronting governments around the world is to enhance the employability of the workforce. Every effort must be made to expand access to higher education, dismantle barriers to talent regardless of social circumstances, gender, or skin colour, and to harness human creativity and enterprise to meet the demands of the new economy.The Mismanagement of Talent comes to a different conclusion. Those leaving the world of mass higher education find themselves in a scramble for jobs with rising stakes for the winners and losers. The Mismanagement of Talent examines what determines the outcome of this race when a degree loses its badge of distinction. It shows how some graduates are playing ''the game'' to win a competitive advantage and what really happens in the selection events of leading-edge employers. It also argues that talent is being mismanaged by employers that have yet to come to terms with the realities and possibilities of mass higher education. The Mismanagement of Talent will be thought-provoking and controversial reading for those involved in the recruitment of graduates, and those concerned with the way knowledge-based firms recruit and the impact of higher education policy: Professionals working in university careers services, HRM, training, or recruitment generally; Researchers, academics, or students of Business and Management, Human Resource Management, Public Policy, Education, or Sociology; and Job candidates themselves - the ''players'' and ''purists'' described in the book.Trade ReviewThe strength of the book is its empirical material in support of insightful critiques of our contemporary economy, job market and recruitment industry.Table of Contents1. The Promise ; 2. The New Competition ; 3. What Knowledge Economy? ; 4. War for Talent ; 5. The Science of Gut Feelings ; 6. Players and Purists ; 7. Picking Winners ; 8. The Mismanagement of Talent ; 9. The Great Training Robbery

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Book SynopsisThe ''personal'' was once something to be put to one side in the work place: a ''professional manner'' entailed the suppression of private life and feelings. Now many large corporations can be found exhorting their employees to simply be themselves. This book critically investigates the increasing popularity of personal authenticity in corporate ideology and practice. Rather than have workers adhere to depersonalising bureaucratic rules or homogenous cultural norms, many large corporations now invite employees to simply be themselves. Alternative lifestyles, consumption, ethics, identity, sexuality, fun, and even dissent are now celebrated since employees are presumed to be more motivated if they can just be themselves. Does this freedom to express one''s authenticity in the workplace finally herald the end of corporate control? To answer this question, the author places this concern with authenticity within a political framework and demonstrates how it might represent an even more insTable of ContentsPreface ; Introduction: Authenticity at Work ; 1. Towards a 'New' Cultural Politics of Work? ; 2. Social Labour and the Haemorrhaging Organization ; 3. Mimesis and the Antinomies of Corporate 'Fun' ; 4. Cobain as Management Consultant? 'Designer Resistance' and the Corporate Subversive ; 5. Authenticating the Corporation: Corporate Social Responsibility as Parasite ; 6. Critique, Co-optation and the Limits of the Corporation ; 7. Authenticity, Solidarity and Freedom ; Conclusion: Authenticity and the Joy of Non-Work

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Book SynopsisHow do institutions influence and shape cognition and action in individuals and organizations, and how are they in turn shaped by them? Various social science disciplines have offered a range of theories and perspectives to provide answers to this question. Within organization studies in recent years, several scholars have developed the institutional logics perspective. An institutional logic is the set of material practices and symbolic systems including assumptions, values, and beliefs by which individuals and organizations provide meaning to their daily activity, organize time and space, and reproduce their lives and experiences. This approach affords significant insights, methodologies, and research tools, to analyze the multiple combinations of factors that may determine cognition, behaviour, and rationalities.In tracing the development of the institutional logics perspective from earlier institutional theory, the book analyzes seminal research, illustrating how and why influentiaTrade ReviewIn The Institutional Logics Perspective, Thornton, Ocasio, and Lounsbury have crafted a foundational treatise that will be a touchstone for future inquiry on logics. As an explanation for how actors, actions, and context come together in organizational and institutional settings, the institutional logics perspective has found a broad and diverse audience; this book will only widen its appeal. The authors break fresh theoretical ground and offer a solid conceptual footing for the study of logics; as such, the book has much to recommend it. * Mary Ann Glynn, Administrative Sciences Quarterly (forthcoming 2013) *This book is a must-read. Thornton, Ocasio and Lounsbury take stock, in a poised and systematic manner, of what has been achieved so far by the Institutional Logics perspective. They also point to what remains to be done. Building on a rich heritage, the Institutional Logics perspective threads the path to new and exciting frontiers a multi-levels theory of institutions, the stabilization of solid micro-foundations, a refreshing return to history and the exploration of the dynamics of identities. The agenda is attractive and this book develops a highly useful road map. * Marie-Laure Djelic, ESSEC Business School *Over the past generation, neoinstitutional theory has become perhaps the dominant perspective in the sociology of organizations. The institutional logics perspective has became an intriguing alternative that seeks to encompass and extend the insights of neoinstitutionalism to both lower and higher units of analysis. This book goes farther than any prior work in advancing the institutional logics perspective. * Gerald F. Davis, University of Michigan *The Institutional Logics Perspective is an essential road map to and program for the future development of theories of institutional logic. Thornton, Ocasio, and Lounsbury offer a host of uncharted, under-theorized, unthought, and unexplored causal mechanisms linking the macro and the micro, practice and interaction, value and identity. The authors lay out the inter-institutional system, the doubleness of rationality, the cultural contingency of interest, the ideality of material practice, and the ways in which we have mistakenly assumed that institution effaces agency and hence politics. We are going to have to think and work this text for a while. * Roger O. Friedland, University College Santa Barbara *No concept in the field of organization studies has been more promising than that of institutional logics and no concept has been more elusive, at times to the point of evanescence. The authors bring institutional logics down to earth, unpacking the concept, tracing its history and exploring its ambiguities, identifying its component parts, and giving each the close attention it deserves. This much-needed and well-conceived volume provides an invaluable service to students of institutions and organizational fields. * Paul DiMaggio, Princeton University *Table of Contents1. Introduction to the Institutional Logics Perspective ; 2. Precursors to the Institutional Logics Perspective ; 3. Defining the Inter-institutional System ; 4. The Emergence, Stability and Change of the Inter-institutional System ; 5. Micro-Foundations of Institutional Logics ; 6. The Dynamics of Organizational Practices and Identities ; 7. The Emergence and Evolution of Field-Level Logics ; 8. Implications for Future Research

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Book SynopsisConstructing Identity in and around Organizations is the second volume in Perspectives on Process Organization Studies, a series which explores an emerging approach to the study of organizations that focuses on (understanding) activities, interactions, and change as essential properties of organizations rather than structures and state - an approach which prioritizes activity over product, change over persistence, novelty over continuity, and expression over determination. The constructing of identities - those processes through which actors in and around organizations claim, accept, negotiate, affirm, stabilize, maintain, reproduce, challenge, disrupt, destabilize, repair or otherwise relate to their sense of selves and others - has become a critically important topic in the study of organizations. This volume attempts to amplify - and possibly refract - contemporary debates amongst identity scholars that question established notions of identity as essence, entity, or thing. It calls Table of ContentsPART I: IDENTITY AND ORGANIZATIONS; PART II: GENERAL PROCESS PERSPECTIVES

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Book SynopsisWhat types of jobs are growing: well-paid managerial jobs or low-paid auxiliary jobs, high-end professional jobs or bottom-end service jobs? Can occupational change transform affluent countries into enlarged middle-class societies? Or, on the contrary, are we heading towards a future of increasingly divided class societies? Do changes in the employment structure allow forthcoming generations to move towards more rewarding jobs than those held by their parents - or is downward mobility the more likely outcome? This book throws new light on these timely questions by drawing on extensive evidence of employment data on the pattern of occupational change in Britain, Denmark, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland since 1990. It documents the change in the employment structure, and examines the five underlying driving forces: technology, globalization, education, migration, and institutions. The book discusses whether governments really have no other choice than either occupational upgrading with sTrade ReviewThis thoughtful book considers the reasons why the distribution of jobs, from the highest paid to the lowest, changed over the past 20 years in five European countries, including Britain and Germany. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. The Debate in the Literature on Occupational Change ; 2. Occupational Upgrading in Europe since 1990 ; 3. Demand-Side Influences on Occupational Change: Trade and Technology ; 4. Supply-Side Influences on Occupational Change: Education and Migration ; 5. The Role of Institutions: Wage-Setting and Occupational Change ; 6. Upgrading at the Cost of Unemployment? ; Conclusion

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Book SynopsisFor decades, the idea that more education will lead to greater individual and national prosperity has been a cornerstone of developed economies. Indeed, it is almost universally believed that college diplomas give Americans and Europeans a competitive advantage in the global knowledge wars.Challenging this conventional wisdom, The Global Auction forces us to reconsider our deeply held and mistaken views about how the global economy really works and how to thrive in it. Drawing on cutting-edge research based on a major international study, the authors show that the competition for good, middle-class jobs is now a worldwide competition--an auction for cut-priced brainpower--fueled by an explosion of higher education across the world. They highlight a fundamental power shift in favor of corporate bosses and emerging economies such as China and India, a change that is driving the new global high-skill, low-wage workforce. Fighting for a dwindling supply of good jobs will compel the middle Trade Reviewa very important contribution to the debate on skills and inequality. * Marius R. Busemeyer, Socio-Economic Review *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. The Promise ; 3. The Education Explosion ; 4. The Quality Revolution ; 5. Intellectual Arbitrage ; 6. Digital Taylorism ; 7. War for Talent ; 8. High Skills, Low Wages ; 9. The Rat Race ; 10. A New Opportunity ; Notes ; References ; Index

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Book SynopsisIn this potentially controversial book, Berch Berberoglu argues that the internationalization of U.S. capital via worldwide expansion of U.S. transnational monopolies has led to the decline of the U.S. domestic economy--bringing about class polarization between labor and capital.Table of ContentsTheories of the world economy and world empire; the postwar rise of the US economy onto the world scene; the internationalization of US capital and the resurgence of global rivalry; economic decline and increading class polarization in the United States; declining living standards of US workers; the response of the US state to the social and economic crisis; labor's response to economic decline and decay; conclusion - which way out of the crisis?.

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Book SynopsisDiscussions of feminism and gender in organizations and management studies, have, with some notable exceptions, become stuck in something of a time-warp. This lies in stark contrast to the developments in the fields of feminism and gender theory more generally. Management and organization studies needs new applied topical gender theories that challenge the limits on what can be said about working lives in organizations.Gender and the Organization: Women at Work in the 21st Century looks to update management organizational studies with the recent developments in gender theory, including theories of embodiment, affect, materiality, identity, subjectification, recognition, and the intertwining of political, social and the psyche. As well as looking backwards at existing feminist and gender theory, this exciting book also looks forward, developing an organizational feminist theory for the twenty-first century. Exploring what feminist ethics of an organization would Trade Review"This unique volume tackles vital issues often shortchanged in organizational analysis, rendering an especially rich portrait of psychosocial approaches to gender. A bold and useful update to other books on the subject – one that pushes thinking and practice in refreshingly radical directions!"Karen Ashcraft, Professor, Department of Communication, University of Colorado Boulder, USA"An original, thought-provoking and thoroughly enjoyable read, Gender and the Organization blends feminist theories with examples from literature, the arts, film and studies of work organizations to expose and challenge the gendered power relations at the heart of organizing". Robyn Thomas, Professor of Management, Cardiff Business School, Wales, UK. "This important book does not only talk about gender, feminism and organizations, but also live it through every page. I look forward to create reading sessions where I can discuss it with my master students, doctoral students as well as fellow colleagues."Jenny Helin, Associate professor in organization studies, Uppsala University, Sweden."Harding and Fotaki brilliantly demonstrate how uncomfortable it is for both men and women to talk about gender inequality, sexism and discrimination, but also how important it is to engage with feminist theory – uncomfortable or not! In a personal and provocative writing style, the authors ingeniously debate the future of feminism. While mostly critical of current positions, they also propose a way forward, towards an embodied ethics that provides a powerful new way of talking about ourselves (as women)."Sara Louise Muhr, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Organization, Denmark.Gender and the Organization houses a language of women for women. A powerful, interdisciplinary feminist journey through the philosophical and psychoanalytic terrains of the socio-economic inequalities of women, the tensions between feminisms, body-politics, performativity, materiality and discourse, intersectionality and difference this book lingers to enable readers to ask: what kind of political and ethical citizens can we become, especially in our organizational engagements?Alison Pullen, Professor, Department of Marketing and Management, Macquarie University, AustraliaTable of ContentsList of ExhibitsForeword Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Speaking as working women and working as speaking women Chapter 3 Arguing with the phallus – or the materialization of the psyche Chapter 4 Visualities and materialities: The performativity of the female managerial suit or writing about the visual chastity belt Chapter 5 Intersectionality, transnational feminism and the politics of othering in organizations, culture and society Chapter 6 Feminist ethics as nomadic minoritarianism and relational embodiment in organizations Chapter 7 Conclusion. Women writing differently/writing ethically/writing within, through and form the body Postscript Feminist theory isn’t just for women References Footnotes Annex IIndex

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Book SynopsisDiscussions of feminism and gender in organizations and management studies, have, with some notable exceptions, become stuck in something of a time-warp. This lies in stark contrast to the developments in the fields of feminism and gender theory more generally. Management and organization studies needs new applied topical gender theories that challenge the limits on what can be said about working lives in organizations.Gender and the Organization: Women at Work in the 21st Century looks to update management organizational studies with the recent developments in gender theory, including theories of embodiment, affect, materiality, identity, subjectification, recognition, and the intertwining of political, social and the psyche. As well as looking backwards at existing feminist and gender theory, this exciting book also looks forward, developing an organizational feminist theory for the twenty-first century. Exploring what feminist ethics of an organization would Trade Review"This unique volume tackles vital issues often shortchanged in organizational analysis, rendering an especially rich portrait of psychosocial approaches to gender. A bold and useful update to other books on the subject – one that pushes thinking and practice in refreshingly radical directions!"Karen Ashcraft, Professor, Department of Communication, University of Colorado Boulder, USA"An original, thought-provoking and thoroughly enjoyable read, Gender and the Organization blends feminist theories with examples from literature, the arts, film and studies of work organizations to expose and challenge the gendered power relations at the heart of organizing". Robyn Thomas, Professor of Management, Cardiff Business School, Wales, UK. "This important book does not only talk about gender, feminism and organizations, but also live it through every page. I look forward to create reading sessions where I can discuss it with my master students, doctoral students as well as fellow colleagues."Jenny Helin, Associate professor in organization studies, Uppsala University, Sweden."Harding and Fotaki brilliantly demonstrate how uncomfortable it is for both men and women to talk about gender inequality, sexism and discrimination, but also how important it is to engage with feminist theory – uncomfortable or not! In a personal and provocative writing style, the authors ingeniously debate the future of feminism. While mostly critical of current positions, they also propose a way forward, towards an embodied ethics that provides a powerful new way of talking about ourselves (as women)."Sara Louise Muhr, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Organization, Denmark.Gender and the Organization houses a language of women for women. A powerful, interdisciplinary feminist journey through the philosophical and psychoanalytic terrains of the socio-economic inequalities of women, the tensions between feminisms, body-politics, performativity, materiality and discourse, intersectionality and difference this book lingers to enable readers to ask: what kind of political and ethical citizens can we become, especially in our organizational engagements?Alison Pullen, Professor, Department of Marketing and Management, Macquarie University, AustraliaTable of ContentsList of ExhibitsForeword Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Speaking as working women and working as speaking women Chapter 3 Arguing with the phallus – or the materialization of the psyche Chapter 4 Visualities and materialities: The performativity of the female managerial suit or writing about the visual chastity belt Chapter 5 Intersectionality, transnational feminism and the politics of othering in organizations, culture and society Chapter 6 Feminist ethics as nomadic minoritarianism and relational embodiment in organizations Chapter 7 Conclusion. Women writing differently/writing ethically/writing within, through and form the body Postscript Feminist theory isn’t just for women References Footnotes Annex IIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Poetic Logic of Administration is an investigation of the most important organizational forms of our time, theoretically as well as practically. Central to the presentation are four main trends: the rational bureaucracy, the human network, the harmonious system and the strong culture.The book provides a new and challenging picture of these organizational forms. Difficult to capture in common logical terms, they appear to follow a certain pattern: a ''poetic logic''. They are, for example, enacted as various literary dramas: comedy, tragedy etc. They are also marked by different conceptions of the world - such as the metaphorical and the ironic - and by different explanatory ideals.Kaj Skoldberg''s book contains a rhetorical analysis of the styles of modern administration and the changes they have undergone. This is a groundbreaking work, offering new interpretations and critical re-evaluations of the individual approaches to organization, including their ''gurus'' Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Poetics: Styles of Organizing 2. The Tragic Power Machine of the Rational Classics 3. Romance with Human Relations 4. The Comedy of the Self-Regulating Machine 5. Satire: The Culture of Opposition 6. Da Capo: Organizational Culture.

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Book SynopsisA healthy work-life balance has become increasingly important to people trying to cope with the pressures of contemporary society. This trend highlights the fallacy of assessing well-being in terms of finance alone; how much time we have matters just as much as how much money. The authors of this book have developed a novel way to measure 'discretionary time': time which is free to spend as one pleases. Exploring data from the US, Australia, Germany, France, Sweden and Finland, they show that temporal autonomy varies substantially across different countries and under different living conditions. By calibrating how much control people have over their time, and how much they could have under alternative welfare, gender or household arrangements, this book offers a new perspective for comparative cross-national enquiries into the temporal aspects of human welfare.Trade Review'Only a group of scholars led by Bob Goodin could be sufficiently intellectually daring to replace money with leisure time as the metric of welfare achievement. In an era in which 'time to stand and stare' becomes ever scarcer, this is a book on the impacts of public policy which really matters.' Francis G. Castles, University of Edinburgh'Confronting Marx's capitalist 'realm of necessity' head on, Goodin and his co-authors replace money with time as the measure of freedom and ask: 'how much control do citizens of OECD countries have over their allotments of time?' Don't be intimidated by the numbers and tables - the result is a fresh view of cross-national inequities, replete with new recipes for reform.' Stephan Leibfried, University of Bremen and Head of the Research Center for Transformations of the State'The conclusion of Discretionary Time, an academic text based on a wealth of data from OECD countries, is that most of us have no one but ourselves to blame for our time-scarce predicament. Time pressure, they argue, suggests compulsion.' Financial Times'The book articulates its argument over roughly 450 pages … Its substantial length and technicalities go unnoticed, partly for the easily accessible language, partly for the neat and rational organization of the argument's frame … case studies … provide a wide and attractive empirical articulation for [the authors'] theoretical framework.' Journal of Economics and Philosophy'Discretionary Time: A New Measure of Freedom is an interesting work of theory and policy … a notable work.' Political Studies Review'This is a carefully thought-out and crafted book … with strong conceptual and methodological contributions indeed.' Feminist Economics'This book makes fascinating reading and invites further questions.' Managing LeisureTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. Time and money; 2. Discretionary time; 3. The distribution of discretionary time; Part II. Time Pressure: 4. Time pressure: a new problem?; 5. Time pressure: a new measure; 6. Is it really an illusion?; Part III. Welfare Regimes Matter: 7. How welfare regimes differ; 8. A temporal perspective on welfare regimes; 9. Welfare regimes and temporal autonomy; Part IV. Gender Regimes Matter: 10. How gender regimes differ; 11. A temporal perspective on gender regimes; 12. Gender regimes and temporal autonomy; Part V. Household Regimes Matter: 13. How household regimes differ; 14. The difference that household rules make; 15. The difference that states make; 16. Alternative household rules and temporal autonomy; Part VI. Conclusions: 17. Conclusions; Appendix 1. Methodology; Appendix 2. Data.

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Book SynopsisThis text defines the key social conflict within Western societies in terms of the distribution of work and the form and content of non-working time. It challenges the domination of everyday life by economic logic and offers fresh possibilities for human self-fulfilment.

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Book SynopsisIn many countries, the number of people working beyond pension age is increasing. This volume investigates this trend in seven different countries, examining the contexts of this development and the consequences of the shifting relationship between work and retirement.Trade Review “Paid Work Beyond Pension Age – Comparative Perspectives is an important book for all those who are interested in social policy, employment and labour law, old age and ageing and social inequalities. It is not designed for members of the academic community alone, but it reaches a wider circle of readers where it resonates with the search for many answers that come from actual questions about paid work beyond pensionable age.” (Filip Bojic, European Journal of Social Security, Vol. 20 (4), December, 2018)“The authors in Paid Work Beyond Pension Age: Comparative Perspectives make a significant contribution to these ongoing discussions by examining antecedence, context, and outcomes of labor market activity among older adults in England, Germany, United States, Italy, Sweden, Russia, and China. … I highly recommend this book.” (Ernest Gonzales, Gerontologist, Vol. 56 (3), June, 2016)“One of the first books to examine this emerging phenomenon. It outlines the extent and characteristics of work after retirement and it ties the empirical evidence in with established theories.. … I found the book an interesting read which presents new insights. … Readers who are familiar with current arguments in ageing research may therefore, want to read the case studies only, whereas readers who are new to this topic would benefit from reading the entire volume.” (Kathrin Komp, Acta Sociologica, Vol. 59 (3), 2016)Table of Contents1. Introduction: Paid Work Beyond Pension Age - Causes, Contexts, Consequences; Simone Scherger PART I: COUNTRY CASES 2. Work Beyond Age 65 In England And The United States; David Lain 3. The Social Stratification Of Work Beyond Pension Age In Germany And The UK: Quantitative And Qualitative Evidence; Anna Hokema And Thomas Lux 4. Characteristics Of Working Pensioners In Italy: Between Early Retirement Tradition And Reforms To Extend Working Life; Andrea Principi, Pietro Checcucci, Mirko Di Rosa And Giovanni Lamura 5 Work Beyond Pension Age In Sweden: Does A Prolonged Work Life Lead To Increasing Class Inequalities Among Older People?; Bjorn Hallerod 6. Work Beyond Pension Age In Russia: Labour Market Dynamics And Job Stability In A Turbulent Economy; Jonas Radl And Theodore P. Gerber 7. Working Pensioners In China: Financial Necessity Or Luxury Of Choice?; Ge Yu And Klaus Schomann PART II: CONTEXTS 8. Pension Reform In Europe: Context, Drivers, Impact; Karen M. Anderson 9. The Transition To Retirement: The Influence Of Globalization, Public Policy And Company Policies; Victor W. Marshall 10. Companies And Older Workers: Obstacles And Drivers Of Labour Market Participation In Recruitment And At The Workplace; Jutta Schmitz 11. Concepts Of Retirement: Comparing Unions, Employers And Age-Related Non-Profit Organizations In Germany And The UK; Steffen Hagemann And Simone Scherger PART III: CONSEQUENCES 12. Later-Life Work, Health And Wellbeing: Enduring Inequalities; Katey Matthews And James Nazroo 13. The Decline Of 'Late Freedom'? Work, Retirement And Activation - Comparative Insights From Germany And The USA; Silke Van Dyk 14. Open Questions And Future Prospects: Towards New Balances Between Work And Retirement?; Harald Kunemund And Simone Scherger

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Book SynopsisIntroduction: Introducing Animal Work 1. The Work Done With/For Animals: Daily Work and Labor Processes 2. The Work Done By Animals: Identifying and Understanding Animals' Work 3. The Work Done With/For Animals: Political Labour and the Work of Advocacy Anifesto: The Promise of Interspecies SolidarityReferencesIndexTrade Review"Award-winning Kendra Coulter has done it again! This remarkable and provocative book asks readers to rethink some of the most taken-for-granted ideas about human-animal interactions. To make her compelling argument, Coulter draws widely from the social sciences, feminist political economy, ecology, and animal studies. Her courageous text challenges us to both expand our theoretical analyses, and to practice inclusive, ethical interspecies solidarity." —Meg Luxton, Professor, School of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, York University, Canada"Kendra Coulter deftly uses the central concept of work to examine connections and differences within and across species. After a careful and detailed consideration of how humans and other animals meet, work, and act together, she advances a thesis that is ultimately hopeful - an interspecies solidarity that might just have the potential to bring real change for all. A must-read for scholars of human-animal studies." —Nik Taylor, Associate Professor, School of Social and Policy Studies, Flinders University, Australia"This book is unique, interesting, and important. Laudably, Kendra Coulter helps us to think more deeply and broadly about definitions of work, and about the past, present, and future of all of our working relationships." —Susanna Hedenborg, Professor, Department of Sport Science, Malmö University, SwedenTable of ContentsIntroduction: Introducing Animal Work 1. The Work Done With/For Animals: Daily Work and Labor Processes 2. The Work Done By Animals: Identifying and Understanding Animals' Work 3. The Work Done With/For Animals: Political Labour and the Work of Advocacy Anifesto: The Promise of Interspecies SolidarityReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis unbiased look at the minimum wage debate in America traces the history of minimum wage policy at both the federal and state levels, discusses the controversies swirling around the issue, and examines the veracity of claims made by people on both sides of the debate.Trade ReviewThis reference title provides a very good overview of what even novice readers may need to know surrounding the controversial issue of minimum wages plus help in identifying other resources for further research. This title is easy to read and would be appropriate for students researching the minimum wage issue. * ARBA *In all, a useful book for bringing both students and policy makers up to speed on this important matter. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduate through research and professional collections. * Choice *This informative volume is a worthwhile addition to reference collections of high school, academic, and public libraries. * Booklist *Table of ContentsPreface, 1 Background and History, Introduction, Reasons for a Minimum Wage, First Minimum Wages, The Road to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Expansion of Minimum Wage in the United States, Contraction of Minimum Wage in the United States, Minimum Wages in Europe, The Current Context, Analysis, References, 2 Problems, Controversies, and Solutions, Introduction, Competing Minimum Wage Models, Standard Model, Monopsony Model, Efficiency-Wage Model, Unemployment Consequences, Problem of Data, Measuring the Minimum Wage Population, Politicization of Data, Source of Low Wages, Alternatives to Minimum Wage, Solutions?, Analysis, References, 3 Perspectives, Introduction, The Early Institutionalists and the Positive Case for a Minimum Wage: Bruce Kaufman, Minimum Wages and Living Wages: Stephanie Luce, Minimum Wage: Good Intentions and Bad Results: Antony Davies, Policymakers Should Exercise Maximum Caution on the Minimum Wage: Michael Saltsman, A Strong National Wage Floor Is Essential to Protecting Workers, Fighting Inequality, and Maintaining a Growing U.S. Economy: David Cooper, Raising the Minimum Wage Would Help, Not Hurt, Our Economy: David Madland, Molly Moon's Minimum Wage Perspective: Molly Moon Neitzel, Minimum Wages and Economic Inequality: Thomas Volscho, 4 Profiles, Introduction, The Progressives, Louis Brandeis, John Bates Clark, John R. Commons, Edward Filene, Samuel Gompers, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Richard A. Lester, Sidney Webb, The Legislators, William Connery and Hugo Black, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, The Academicians, Richard V. Burkhauser, David Card, Arindrajit Dube, David Neumark and William Wascher, Michael Reich, Contemporary Activist Organizations and Individuals, AFL-CIO, Economic Policy Institute, Barbara Ehrenreich, Employment Policies Institute, Naquasia LeGrand, National Association of Manufacturers, National Employment Law Project, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, References, 5 Data and Documents, Introduction, Data, Figure 5.1 Percentage of wage workers and percentage of minimum wage workers, Table 5.1 Minimum Wage in Actual and 2015 Adjusted Dollars, 1938–2015, Table 5.2 Minimum Wage Workers by Age and Gender for 2012, Figure 5.2 Minimum wage as percentage of average annual hourly wage and minimum wage as percentage of poverty line, Table 5.3 Labor Force Figures, Table 5.4 Demographics, Table 5.5 Individual Income in the United States by Contour, Table 5.6 Share of Labor Market Earning in Each Contour (Percentage), Table 5.7 Minimum Wages around the World (2013 dollars), Table 5.8. State Minimum Wages as of January 1, 2015, Documents, 1914 Chicago Debate League on the Minimum Wage, Report on Economic Conditions of the South (1937), Franklin Roosevelt's Defense of the FLSA (1938), Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (1968), Excerpts from the 1981 Minimum Wage Study Commission, President Barack Obama's Remarks Advocating for a Minimum Wage, Excerpts from the 2014 Congressional Budget Office Report on the Minimum Wage, Note, 6 Resources for Further Research, Introduction, Books, Articles, Internet, 7 Chronology, Introduction, Glossary, Index, About the Author,

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Book SynopsisWhen contrasted with their dramatic strike victories of 1972 and 1974, the shattering industrial defeat suffered by British miners in 1985 has been seen as evidence of the further weakening of working-class solidarity. Waged with complete unity, the strikes of 1972 and 1974 brought the miners substantial material gains, contributed to the downfall of a government, and reinforced the National Union of Mineworkers' position at the core of the British labour movement. In contrast, 1984-85 saw the miners racked by internal division, and their attempt to resist the pit closure programme of the Thatcher government end in bitter defeat.Trade Review'Andrew Richards tells (the miners') story, often in their own words, with insight and empathy.'TLS'In eight succinct chapters Andrew Richard charts the complexity and resilience of class solidarity in that momentous year. [...] ... the richness of the book is that it really does look at the rank and file miners and how they and their families interpreted the strike and its significance for their lives and those of their friends.'The Lecturer - NAHFE'This is an important book because it analyses conciousness and action during the most significant industrial struggle ever witnessed in the UK, using the participants' words and perspectives.'Labour History Review

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Book SynopsisThis book presents the theory of integrating implification and it provides a profound evidence based study of Buurtzorg Nederland. The case itself, forming the building block of the theory, has received tremendous interest in the Netherlands and abroad. This is the first international book on Buurtzorg Nederland and the first one departing from a management multidisciplinary perspective. The book demonstrates theory building by using the Grounded Theory Methodology as a way to contribute to management theory. Integrating simplification gives room for context specific implementation of organizational innovation to different industries.Table of ContentsTowards a New Way of Organizing.- Buurtzorg Nederland: Start-up Process and Organizational Design.- Theory of Integrating Simplification.- Attuning to Clients.- Subtle Craftsmanship in Communities.- Intrapreneurial Team Freedom.- Pragmatic Will with ICT.- Leading Higher Purpose.- Scientific Contribution of IST in the Domain of Organizational Innovation.- Implications and Discussion.- Reflections and Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisIt is generally known that emigrants from the British West Indies provided much of the labour needed to construct the Panama Railroad during the 1850s and the Panama Canal between 1881 and 1914. However, no comprehensive study of the background against which the movement took place, the numbers involved, the conditions under which the emigrants had to labour under the Isthmus, and the effects of emigration on the West Indian islands and Panama has been published. This study highlights the role of West Indians in building the Panama Railroad and Canal to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It also shows that migration to Panama had more far-reaching demographic and economic consequences on the British West Indies than is generally realised and that the movement contributed to the still popular conception of extra-regional migration as one of the best avenues to economic and social betterment. It also examines the social position of Panamanians of West Indian descent and concludes that their assimilation was still not complete, even up to the end of the 20th century.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1982, this pioneering work traces the transformation of women''s work into wage labor in the United States, identifying the social, economic, and ideological forces that have shaped our expectations of what women do. Basing her observations upon the personal experience of individual American women set against the backdrop of American society, Alice Kessler-Harris examines the effects of class, ethnic and racial patterns, changing perceptions of wage work for women, and the relationship between wage-earning and family roles. In the 20th Anniversary Edition of this landmark book, the author has updated the original and written a new Afterword.Trade ReviewPraise for the Previous Edition:Impressive and deftly written....An example or two cannot do justice to the variety of materials and ideas the author draws together to explain how women workers have functioned as a low-paid reserve force, and why, as wage work became the rule rather than the exception in the 20th century, they found themselves in marginal jobs stereotyped as feminine. * The New York Times Book Review *Comprehensive and packed with information. * St. Louis Post-Dispatch *Without a doubt the single best survey of transformation of women's paid and unpaid work from the colonial period to the present. * American Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisThis book is about women's careers, how they think about and enact their working lives, and how these patterns change or stay the same over time. Cohen develops the concept of career imagination which shows how women define and delimit what is possible, legitimate and appropriate in career terms.Trade ReviewThis is an authoritative and thought-provoking book, which makes maximum use of the methodology of semi-structured in-depth interviews to reconsider many assumptions about the apparently straightforward notion of the career. It left me thinking about what the implications of this research might be for the two domains largely left out of this particular story: how men see their careers in our increasingly fragmented work environment, and where the myths of motherhood fit into womens career imaginations. * Ruth Garland, LSE Blog *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; 1. Women's career lives: 1993-2010 ; 2. Telling career stories ; 3. The cast ; 4. The transition from employment to self-employment ; 5. Changing contexts ; 6. Developing careers through time ; 7. As in work, so too in retirement ; 8. The importance of others ; 9. The career imagination ; References

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Book Synopsis'Powerful and poignant.... Newman's message is clear and timely.' --The Philadelphia InquirerIn No Shame in My Game, Harvard anthropologist Katherine Newman gives voice to a population for whom work, family, and self-esteem are top priorities despite all the factors that make earning a living next to impossible--minimum wage, lack of child care and health care, and a desperate shortage of even low-paying jobs. By intimately following the lives of nearly 300 inner-city workers and job seekers for two yearsin Harlem, Newman explores a side of poverty often ignored by media and politicians--the working poor.The working poor find dignity in earning a paycheck and shunning the welfare system, arguing that even low-paying jobs give order to their lives. No Shame in My Game gives voice to a misrepresented segment of today's society, and is sure to spark dialogue over the issues surrounding poverty, working and welfare.

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Book SynopsisThis text explores the successes and failures of the shrimpers who prowl remote bays, rivers and estuaries for their livelihoods. Through random sample surveys and historical analysis it examines the political, economic and social realities confronting the shrimpers and their families.

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Book SynopsisAcross a range of industrial, domestic, and agricultural sites, Greer shows how repetitive discursive performances served as rhetorical tools as women workers sought to rescript power relations in their workplaces and to resist narratives about their laboring lives.

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Book SynopsisIn Community Development in an Uncertain World, Jim Ife draws on the principles of social justice, ecological responsibility and post-Enlightenment and Indigenous perspectives to advance new holistic approaches to community development. The book explores the concept of community development on a local and international scale in the context of globalisation and postcolonial theory. Students will gain the essential skills and practical understanding required to navigate the existing managerial environment and cultivate new community practices. This new edition incorporates current research into community development and includes important new work on ''alternative visions'' for a sustainable and just future. It introduces the foundational theories of community development and explains their importance in shaping solutions to uniquely modern issues. Readers are encouraged to critically engage with the material through the accompanying discussion questions. Written in an accessible, engaging style, this text is an essential resource for students and professionals in the human services.Table of Contents1. Crisis, transition and community; 2. Alternatives and transitions; 3. Foundations of community development: ecological and social justice perspectives; 4. Foundations of community development: post-Enlightenment and Indigenous perspectives; 5. A vision for community development; 6. Change from below; 7. The process of community development; 8. The global and the local; 9. Colonialism, colonialist practice and working internationally; 10. Community development: social, economic and political; 11. Community development: cultural, environmental, spiritual, personal and survival; 12. Principles of community development and their application to practice; 13. Roles and skills 1: facilitative and educational; 14. Roles and skills 2: representational and technical; 15. The organisational context; 16. Practice issues.

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