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Book SynopsisThis innovative book explores the different ways in which dual-earner couples in contemporary welfare states plan for, realize and justify their divisions of work and care during the transition to parenthood. Providing a unique comparative, longitudinal and qualitative analysis of new parents in eight European countries, this timely book explicitly locates couples' beliefs and negotiations in the wider context of national institutional structures. Compelling evidence is provided, demonstrating that the ways and degrees to which new parents can realize their work-care plans and ideals systematically relate to the support structures and resources available from employers, families and the state. A key focus is on couples that act in a non-normative way compared to their national, gender cultural context. New Parents in Europe will be of great value to sociology, political science and economics scholars alike and, with its use of cutting-edge methodology, will prove to be a valuable resource for policy makers.Contributors include: J. Alsarve, S. Bertolini, K. Boye, S. Buchler, A. Dechant, M. Evertsson, N. Girardin, D. Grunow, D. Hanappi, M.J. González, T. Jurado-Guerrero, I. Lapuerta, J.-M. Le Goff, T. Martín-García, R. Musumeci, M. Naldini, O. Nesporová, M. Reimann, A. Rinklake, C. Roman, E.-M. Schmidt, M, Seiz, P.M. Torrioni, S. Vogl, U. ZartlerTrade ReviewNew Parents in Europe is a long-desired book for everyone who wants to understand how today's work-care practices, parenting norms, and the impact of social policies are changing the lives of new parents in Europe today. The book is a masterpiece of cross-national research with longitudinal data that is sensitive to different gender ideologies of parents in various countries, their equity patterns in the division of paid and unpaid work, the gender norms over the adult life course, and the creation and maintenance of gender identities.' --Hans-Peter Blossfeld, University of Bamberg, Germany'Transition to parenthood can be imagined, but it is only following the arrival of a baby that the impact it will have dawns. It is these early years of parenthood, which are addressed in this excellent, comparative collection. Across the eight countries included, the ways in which caring and paid work are managed is explored. This includes considering non-normative care and paid work arrangements at the individual/couple level, set against national comparisons of cultural commitments to gender equality and structural features such as welfare regimes. Across the chapters, possibilities of undoing gender are glimpsed, but so too is a continued conflation at various levels, of mothers and primary caring 'obligations'. The sensitive analysis reveals how gendered 'choices' and individual practices, related to caring and paid work, come to be organised. This collection makes a timely and significant contribution to the parenthood literature and is highly recommended.' --Tina Miller, Oxford Brookes University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK AND COMPARATIVE OVERVIEW 1. Resisting or embracing institutional models of parenthood: an analytical framework Daniela Grunow 2. Comparing couples’ narratives over time: Data and methods Daniela Grunow 3. Couples in their national context: Gender ideology and maternal labour force attachment Sandra Buchler PART II THE SCANDINAVIAN MODEL OF DUAL-EARNING AND DUAL-CARING 4. Realized plans or revised dreams? Swedish parents’ experiences of care, parental leave and paid work after childbirth Jenny Alsarve, Katarina Boye and Christine Roman PART III VARIETIES OF EARNING AND CARING IN CONSERVATIVE WELFARE STATES 5. Working and caring: German couples’ realizations of non-normative work-care plans Anna Dechant and Annika Rinklake 6. Swimming against the tide? Austrian couples’ non-normative work-care arrangements in a traditional environment Eva-Maria Schmidt, Ulrike Zartler and Susanne Vogl 7. Couples’ alignment of pre-birth plans and post-birth realities in Switzerland: Non-normative adaptation to the one and a half earner model Nadia Girardin, Doris Hanappi and Jean-Marie Le Goff PART IV EARNING AND CARING UNDER CONDITIONS OF UNSUPPORTIVE FAMILIALISM 8. Transition to parenthood in Italy: the reasons for non-normativity Sonia Bertolini, Rosy Musumeci, Manuela Naldini and Paola Maria Torrioni 9. Non-normative couples in Spain: Mothers’ career commitment, fathers’ work arrangements, and egalitarian ideology Marta Seiz, María José González, Teresa Jurado-Guerrero, Irene Lapuerta and Teresa Martín-García PART V NEW WELFARE STATES’ RESPONSES TO DUAL EARNING AND CARING 10. ‘It is not something we consciously do’: Polish couples’ struggles to maintain gender equality after the birth of their first child Maria Reimann 11. Non-normative parents in the gender traditional Czech Republic Olga Nešporová PART VI DRAWING CONCLUSIONS: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE ON NEW PARENTHOOD IN EUROPE 12. Swimming against the tide or going with the flow? Stories on work-care practices, parenting norms and the importance of policies in a changing Europe Marie Evertsson and Daniela Grunow Index

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Book SynopsisPrecarious work is a current concern throughout Europe as a result of the proliferation of new types of employment related to the gig economy. This timely book, positioned at the intersection between European and national labour law, provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal and social policy challenges arising from this phenomenon. Since the 2008 financial crisis, there has been an increasing need to respond to the rise of precarious work and the risk it poses to the European model of secure employment and social protection, which this book thoroughly explores. Chapters first consider the theoretical foundations of the issue, before examining the key characteristics and dynamics of employment regulation in Europe related to precarious work, as well as surveying recent judicial decisions. The book demonstrates the potential for improved labour regulation and case law to address the situation both at EU and national level. Precarious Work will prove invaluable to law, politics, sociology and anthropology scholars with an interest in the phenomenon of precarious labour. Lawyers, policymakers and other practitioners working in this area will also find this book a useful resource.Trade Review'This book offers timely commentary on the rise of precarious employment in Europe following the global financial crisis, sovereign debt crises and the rise of ''gig economy'' work. Covering developments in a diverse range of States, this book offers cutting-edge analysis from leading scholars regarding the causes of contemporary precarity and the challenges posed to regulation of labour markets.' --Tonia Novitz, University of Bristol, UK'The fragmentation and segmentation of the workforce has led to a multitude of forms of precarious work, now with a new face in the digital economy. It is a big challenge for labour law and industrial relations worldwide. This book focuses on Europe, tries to develop a theoretical framework for this very complex phenomenon, analyses brilliantly the development in different EU Member States and confronts it with the patterns of European and international law, thereby showing the burning need for further regulatory concepts: A must for everybody interested in this topic.' --Manfred Weiss, University of Frankfurt, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: INTRODUCTION Jeff Kenner, Marta Otto, Izabela Florczak Part I Precarious work: towards a new theoretical foundation 1. Precarious Work and Labour Regulation in the EU: Current Reality and Perspectives Izabela Florczak and Marta Otto 2. Precariat – Next Stage of Development or Economic Predominance in a New Scene? Barbara Godlewska-Bujok and Andrzej Patulski 3. Precarious Work and Social Protection: Between Flexicurity and Social Pollution Calogero Massimo Cammalleri Part II The Legal Contours of Precarious Work in Europe 4. Deepening Precarity in the United Kingdom David Mangan 5. The Rise of Precarious Work in Spain. The Effects of the Increase in Labour Market Flexibility Anna Ginès I Fabrellas 6. Precarity of New Forms of Employment Under Swedish Labour Law Annamaria Westregård 7. From Student Work to False Self-Employment: How to Combat Precarious Work in Slovenia? Darja Senčur Peček and Valentina Franca 8. Precarious Work in Poland. How to Tackle the Abuse of Atypical Forms of Employment? Łukasz Pisarczyk and Urszula Torbus 9. On the Balance Between Flexibility and Precarity: Atypical Forms of Employment Under The Laws of the Czech Republic Jakub Tomšej Part III The Challenge Of The ‘Gig Economy’ 10. “Digital Work” in the “Platform Economy”. The Last (But Not Least) Stage of Precariousness in Labour Relationships Gionata Cavallini and Matteo Avogaro 11. Uber Drivers Are ‘Workers’ – The Expanding Scope of the ‘Worker’ Concept in the UK’s Gig Economy Jeff Kenner 12. Digital Work - Real Bargaining. How to Ensure Sustainability of Social Dialogue in Digital Era? Joanna Unterschütz Index

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Book SynopsisProviding an insightful analysis of the key issues and significant trends relating to labour within the platform economy, this Modern Guide considers the existing comparative evidence covering all world regions. It also provides an in-depth look at digital labour platforms in their historical, economic and geographical contexts. Highlighting the diversity of experience of platform work, case studies illustrate how general trends play out, both in online and location-based labour platforms, across the globe. Chapters illustrate a need for a post-pandemic regulatory requirement of digital labour platforms at different policy levels, whilst providing a general overview of key topics. Interlinking contributions with a global scope and coverage identify the challenges faced and offer thoughtful regulatory solutions. This engaging book will be an invaluable resource for academics of labour economics, legal and business studies and sociology. It will also benefit policy makers in social and political geography and political science looking for a deeper understanding of the topic.Trade Review‘This collected volume on the world of work produced by platform companies should be required reading for anyone interested in the modern politics of labor. Drahokoupil and Vandaele have brought together cutting-edge scholars and scholarship to historicize the emergence of the platform economy and to understand its complex, transnational implications for work and workers. Together, the chapters help to contextualize both the challenges and opportunities posed by digital labor and should be required reading for regulators, policymakers, and academics alike.’ -- Veena Dubal, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, US‘Here’s everything you need to know about the platform economy and workers—and perhaps hadn’t even thought of asking—in this comprehensive Modern Guide. It covers emerging trends, particular cases, regulatory issues and much else, and is likely to become an essential guide for researchers and policy makers.’ -- Jayati Ghosh, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: Janus meets Proteus in the platform economy 1 Jan Drahokoupil and Kurt Vandaele PART I CONTEXT AND ISSUES 2 The business models of labour platforms: Creating an uncertain future 33 Jan Drahokoupil 3 Moving on, out or up: The externalization of work to B2B platforms 49 Pamela Meil and Mehtap Akgü. 4 Measuring the platform economy: Different approaches to estimating the size of the online platform workforce 66 Agnieszka Piasna 5 A historical perspective on the drivers of digital labour platforms 81 Gérard Valenduc 6 The platform economy at the forefront of a changing world of work: Implications for occupational health and safety 96 Pierre Bérastégui and Sacha Garben 7 How place and space matter to union organizing in the platform economy 112 Benjamin Herr, Philip Schörpf and Jörg Flecker PART II REGULATING PLATFORM WORK 8 Embedding platforms in contemporary labour law 129 Valerio De Stefano and Mathias Wouters 9 The regulation of platform work in the European Union: Mapping the challenges 145 Sacha Garben 10 Workers, platforms and the state: The struggle over digital labour platform regulation 162 Sai Englert, Mark Graham, Sandra Fredman, Darcy du Toit, Adam Badger, Richard Heeks and Jean-Paul Van Belle 11 Trade union responses to platform work: An evolving tension between mainstream and grassroots approaches 177 Simon Joyce and Mark Stuart PART III CASE STUDIES ACROSS THE GLOBE: ONLINE LABOUR PLATFORMS 12 The uneven potential of online platform work for human development at the global margins 194 Mark Graham, Vili Lehdonvirta, Alex J. Wood, Helena Barnard, Isis Hjorth and David Peter Simon 13 From outsourcing to crowdsourcing: Assessing the implications for Indian workers of different outsourcing strategies 209 Janine Berg, Uma Rani and Nora Gobel 14 The geographic and linguistic variety of online labour markets: The cases of Russia and Ukraine 225 Mariya Aleksynska, Andrey Shevchuk and Denis Strebkov PART IV CASE STUDIES ACROSS THE GLOBE: LOCATION-BASED LABOUR PLATFORMS 15 Aliada and Alia: Contrasting for-profit and non-profit platforms for domestic work in Mexico and the United States 242 Andrea Santiago Páramo and Carlos Piñeyro Nelson 16 The role of worker collectives among app-based food delivery couriers in France, Germany and Norway: All the same or different? 258 Kristin Jesnes, Denis Neumann, Vera Trappmann and Pauline de Becdelièvre 17 The pitfalls and promises of successfully organizing Foodora couriers in Toronto 274 Raoul Gebert 18 Labour management and resistance among platform-based food delivery couriers in Beijing 290 Jack Linchuan Qiu, Ping Sun and Julie Chen 19 Struggles over the power and meaning of digital labour platforms: A comparison of the Vienna, Berlin, New York and Los Angeles taxi markets 308 Hannah Johnston and Susanne Pernicka 20 Passenger transport in Australia: Injury compensation, public policy and the health pandemic 323 David Peetz PART V CLOSING THOUGHTS 21 Institutional experimentation and the challenges of platform labour 339 Maria Figueroa Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative and thought-provoking Research Handbook explores the theoretical debate surrounding work-life balance, and provides a reflection on the opportunity to adopt multilevel research approaches and perspectives, along gender and temporal axes. The Research Handbook is an international overview of current research on work-life balance, considered in macro, meso and micro perspectives. Offering both theoretical reflections and empirical research examples illustrating the multiple strategies through which the different articulations that characterize the work-life intersection can be analysed, this Research Handbook includes analyses of gendered labour, generational assets and technological changes. Contributors provide translation and actualization of specific research practices and methodological choices, focused on different national contexts. The empirical analysis ranges from comparative research based on quantitative methods, to qualitative approaches centered on longitudinal, discursive and narrative perspectives, and mixed-method studies. Further contributions adopt innovative research methods based on the use of digital and visual technologies. This Research Handbook will be an inspiring read for both undergraduate and postgraduate sociology and social policy students. The book is also addressed to researchers, consultants and policy makers interested in work-life balance issues.Trade Review‘This wonderful Research Handbook introduces scholarly debates on work-life balance, provides new theoretical approaches and insights, proposes innovative qualitative and quantitative research methods, and uses longitudinal and cross-national research examples in the analysis of how people define and reconcile family and work relationships.’ -- Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Emeritus of Excellence, TRAc, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany‘This excellent collection enriches substantially the work-life balance literature both at the theoretical and empirical level. Focusing on the changing and diversified contexts in which work-life tensions are experienced and balances negotiated across gender and employment relations, the authors shed new light on the different micro and macro dimensions involved, as well as on the importance of a life course perspective. Using a variety of research methods, they look at different kinds of workers and working conditions, highlighting also the ongoing redefinition of the boundaries between (paid) work and other life spheres.’ -- Chiara Saraceno, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Work–Life Balance 1 Sonia Bertolini and Barbara Poggio PART I THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK 2 Work–life balance and beyond: premises and challenges 8 Anna Carreri, Annalisa Dordoni, and Barbara Poggio 3 Doing research on work–life balance 27 Sonia Bertolini and Rosy Musumeci PART II MULTILEVEL PERSPECTIVES ALONG GENDER AND TEMPORAL AXES 4 Research on work–life balance: a gender structure analysis 50 Emily Hallgren and Barbara J. Risman 5 Work–life balance through the life course 72 Jeanne Ganault and Ariane Pailhé 6 Work-(later) life balance: shifting the temporal frame 90 Anne E. Barrett, Rachel Douglas and Jessica Noblitt PART III COMPARATIVE RESEARCH (APPROACHES AND STUDIES) 7 The household division of labour in Europe: a multilevel perspective 102 Dirk Hofäcker and Simone Braun 8 Subjective work–family conflicts: the challenge of studying self-employed workers 118 Rossella Bozzon and Annalisa Murgia PART IV LONGITUDINAL, DISCURSIVE AND NARRATIVE ANALYSIS 9 Qualitative longitudinal research for studying work–family balance (before and after childbirth) 142 Manuela Naldini 10 Fathers in focus: two discursive analyses on addressing men, work and care 160 Suvi Heikkinen, Marjut Jyrkinen and Emilia Kangas 11 Work–life balance for fathers during paternal leave in Norway: a narrative approach 176 Kristine Warhuus Smeby and Ulla Forseth PART V MIXED AND MULTIMETHOD RESEARCH 12 Beyond the lines: gender, work, and care in the new economy – a view from the U.S. 194 Kathleen Gerson and Mauro Migliavacca 13 The effect of childcare facilities on labour market participation among young adults in Estonia: a mixed-methods study 217 Kadri Täht, Marge Unt and Epp Reiska 14 Flexible work arrangements and diversity through a comparative and multilevel lens 237 Eleni Stavrou and Myrto Anastassiadou PART VI DIGITAL AND VISUAL METHODS 15 The gendered labour of work–life balance: using a new method to understand an enduring dilemma 258 Julia Cook and Dan Woodman 16 ‘My work is full of gossipers so I tried to keep my pregnancy secret’: ‘distant’ netnography as a qualitative method for exploring work–life balance among pregnant and breastfeeding employees 274 Caroline Gatrell 17 The performance of oneself through visuals in interviews: queering the work–life binary 293 Marjan De Coster and Patrizia Zanoni Index

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Book SynopsisHistorical Studies in Industrial Relations was established in 1996 by the Centre for Industrial Relations, Keele University, to provide an outlet for, and to stimulate an interest in, historical work in the field of industrial relations and the history of industrial relations thought. Content broadly covers the employment relationship and economic, social and political factors surrounding it – such as labour markets, union and employer policies and organization, the law, and gender and ethnicity. Articles with an explicit political dimension, particularly recognising divisions within the working class and within workers’ organizations, will be encouraged, as will historical work on labour law.

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Book SynopsisThis timely book introduces a fresh perspective on youth unemployment by analysing it as a global phenomenon. Continuously-escalating rates of youth unemployment have become endemic, normalised features of contemporary society. Ross Fergusson and Nicola Yeates argue that only by incorporating analysis of the dynamics of the global economy and global governance can we make convincing, comprehensive sense of these developments. The authors present new substantial evidence spanning a century pointing to the strong relationships between youth unemployment, globalisation, economic crises and consequent harms to young people's social and economic welfare worldwide. The book notably encompasses data and analysis spanning the Global South as well as the Global North.The authors' innovative exploration is holistic in approach and committed to analyses that span histories, territories, academic disciplines and policy contexts. Providing new statistical examination of the incidence, distribution, impacts and putative causes, this book presents a highly original interpretation of youth unemployment and its global governance. It calls for urgently-needed robust responses on a global scale.Global Youth Unemployment is essential reading for students and academics within the fields of social, labour, public and economic policy as well as policy makers within the youth employment and unemployment sectors.Trade Review‘The two authors are very dear and consistent with respect to their purpose, which is a merit to them. In turn, it makes it easier to understand and discuss their viewpoint. For practitioners, the main interest may be to learn how public support and public governance is creat­ing youth unemployment too. This is neither a novelty - except for a truism: it offers another oppor­tunity to consider what professionals are accepting, and what they should not accept.’ -- Niels Rosendal, European Journal of Social Work‘This book is a manifesto of global social policy. ...Global Youth Unemployment features a strong empirical analysis underpinning its major arguments. With an extensive collection of the worldwide employment data from various sources, Fergusson and Yeates convincingly portrait the characteristics of the youth labor forces and the profiles of endemic YU. The extent of data compilation across the regions and over time is remarkable, illustrating the steady rise of YU globally. ...Fergusson and Yeates also demonstrate their excellent expertise in the historical development of global policies toward YU. ...For social policy scholarship, this book sheds new light on a centuries-old social question by linking (un-)employment with the structural transformations of the global economy, and how the latter adversely impact on the youth cohorts of the Global North and South alike.’ -- Shih-Jiunn Shi, The Developing Economies‘Recommended. The text will serve as a valuable reference, providing extensive data sets while offering an important read for anyone interested in social welfare and contemporary public policy.’ -- S.R. Kahn, CHOICE‘Global Youth Unemployment: History, Governance and Policy by Ross Fergusson and Nicola Yeates is a remarkable book: conceptually rich and empirically epic, it deserves to have a major impact on the study of social policy, and indeed across the social sciences more generally . . . There have been few, if any, books which detail so convincingly and originally the cross-border determinants of youth unemployment. The data presented in the book’s empirical chapter[s] is comprehensive, indeed, almost exhaustive … from a vast array of sources . . . The authors fit the pieces of the puzzle together masterfully . . . Global Youth Unemployment is full of rich and innovative argumentation.’ -- Craig Berry, British Journal of Industrial Relations'Rarely has a study of global youth unemployment so adeptly combined an empirically-grounded scrutiny of its levels and trends, with a conceptually nuanced analysis of its political economy drivers at multiple scales. Fergusson and Yeates make a compelling case for seeing endemic youth unemployment as an issue of grave social injustice-one that supply-side palliative approaches have patently failed to address, and which is in urgent need of integrated employment, social protection and macroeconomic policies backed by a more cohesive system of social and economic governance at the global level.' -- Shahra Razavi, Director of the Social Protection Department, International Labour Organization, Switzerland'This is a timely assessment of a global crisis that has been greatly worsened by the Covid pandemic slump. Youth make up a large percentage of the global precariat, and as the authors convincingly demonstrate, their unemployment has long been huge, with enormous global social and economic consequences. Unless income security can be provided on a worldwide basis there will be justified social unrest.' -- Guy Standing, Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London, UK'Youth unemployment, as a social policy and social movement issue, now has its definitive treatment in this magnificent book by Ross Fergusson and Nicola Yeates. Going beyond methodological nationalism it outlines lucidly the causes of endemic youth unemployment on a global scale. It calls for a Global Compact for Youth Employment to address the scandalous fact that nearly half of the world’s unemployed are between 15 and 24 years of age. This is historically grounded, policy relevant, critical analysis at its best.' -- Ronaldo Munck, Professor of Political Sociology, Dublin City University, IrelandTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: globalising endemic youth unemployment 2. Endemic youth unemployment:a social policy issue 3. The global youth labour force 4. Global economic restructuring and youth labour markets 5. Financial crises and endemic youth unemployment 6. Youth unemployment economic crises and human development, 1991–2018 (with Sarah Tipping) 7. Historical origins and early development of global youth unemployment policy, 1919–1979 8. The neo-liberalisation of global youth unemployment policy, 1980–2021 9. Conclusion: towards a global compact for youth employment References Index

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Book SynopsisCareer Dynamics in a Global World takes on a major question in the global research and practice of career development and adopts a distinctive approach in response. The authors address the question of how and to what extent a predominant influence of Western thinking about careers interferes with our understanding of careers in other parts of the world. The approach involves identifying career topics for further exploration, recruiting teams of Indian and Western scholars on each topic to share their insights, and laying out those insights to help both careers researchers and practitioners see their significance. As a result, in this remarkable collaboration the reader is invited to compare views on self-awareness and careers from traditional Indian Ayurvedic and alternative Western perspectives, alongside contrasting Indian and Western reports on women stepping off their career ladders, the motivation of social entrepreneurs, the careers of IT workers, MBA holders and management scholars and other topics. Career and cross-cultural researchers and career and HR practitioners will be fascinated by the comparative analysis of career dynamics.Trade Review'Career Dynamics in a Global World takes on the difficult, but invaluable, task of unpacking the complex topic of career development from both Western and South Asian perspectives. For anyone who is passionate about building a more human-centred future world of work, this book is a vital must-read in helping to understand individual and cultural-drivers with regards to career development in a connected and globalised world.' --Leena Nair, Chief HR Officer, Unilever, UK'Insight into contemporary careers in a global world is likely to take a giant leap forward with the publication of this timely book. The editors have done a masterful job assembling pairs of fascinating chapters that peer deeply into critical topics from Western and Indian perspectives.' --Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, Drexel University, US'This book fills an important gap in our cross-cultural understanding of the psychology of careers. The interesting pairing of chapters from Western and South Asian (Indian) cultural perspectives, and mix of etic and emic studies of careers in the 21st century is a timely reminder that careers are constantly being constructed by individuals, societies and the times we live in!' --Kim Yin Chan, Nanyang Business School, SingaporeTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to Career Dynamics in a Global World 1 Premarajan Raman Kadiyil, Anneleen Forrier and Michael B. Arthur PART I SELF AND CAREER 2 An incongruence-driven approach to careers: insights from Ayurveda 13 Anupama Kondayya and Srinivas Ekkirala 3 Self-awareness in career development: meaning, importance and malleability 24 Marijke Verbruggen PART II SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS A CAREER CHOICE 4 A field research of nascent social entrepreneurs’ intention formation 37 Preeti Tiwari, Anil K. Bhat and Jyoti Tikoria 5 Individual factors in predicting and encouraging social entrepreneurship as a career choice 51 Mary Conway Dato-on, Sharmistha Banerjee and Yasmin Mesbah PART III STEPPING OFF THE CAREER LADDER 6 Satisficing career choices of Indian women managers 66 Sumita Datta and Snehal Shah 7 Stepping off the career ladder: exploring the impact of career shocks on women’s career decisions in the UK 80 Angela Stephanie Mazzetti PART IV MBA CAREERS ACROSS THE GLOBE 8 Economic structural changes and subjective career success of MBAs in India 96 Vivek G. Nair and Leena Chatterjee 9 How an MBA contributes to the unfolding of careers: a comparative analysis 110 Elizabeth Houldsworth, Chris Brewster and Richard McBain PART V BREAKING AND RE-ENTRY 10 Women’s careers: starting a new chapter post career break 124 Pavni Kaushiva and Chetan Joshi 11 Can we release the brake on the career re-entry of mothers? A UK perspective 136 Anna Katharina Bader and John Blenkinsopp PART VI ACADEMIC CAREERS 12 The changing nature of academic careers in management education in India 150 Ravishankar Venkata Kommu and Amit Dhiman 13 The changing nature of academic careers in management education in Western societies 162 Yehuda Baruch PART VII CAREERS IN IT 14 Flying high in the turbulent skies: managing careers in the Indian IT industry 177 Gunjan Tomer and Pawan Budhwar 15 Risk allocation, employer dependence and the welfare state: an investigation of IT workers in the US and Canada 191 Sara Haviland and Jennifer Craft Morgan PART VIII OPTING OUT OR STAYING IN 16 Integrating care work for sustainable careers of women: an Indian perspective 207 Tania Saritova Rath and Mousumi Padhi 17 Leaning in: why some women are challenging the opt-out model 220 Margie J. Elley-Brown Index 233

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Book SynopsisNew information and communications technologies have revolutionized daily life and work in the 21st century. This insightful book demonstrates how telework has evolved in the last four decades, as technological developments have improved our capacity to work remotely. Based on a new conceptual framework, this book explores the global variations in telework, examining the effects on working conditions and individual and organizational performance. Breaking the traditional intellectual conception that telework is performed only in the home, this book surveys the full breadth of working environments, as technology allows employees increased working mobility. Contributors expose a profound ambiguity surrounding the effects of 21st-century telework, revealing that its advantages and disadvantages may simply be two sides of the same coin. This timely book is crucial reading for researchers of labour and employment interested in the evolution of contemporary telework and the influence of modern technologies in the workplace. Policy-makers will also benefit from this book's concrete policy recommendations to improve the practice of telework. Contributors include: S. Boiarov, P. D'Cruz, A. Dal Colletto, L. Gschwind, T. Harnish, K. Lister, A. Mello, J.C. Messenger, E. Noronha, A. Sato, O. VargasTrade Review'This volume explores the development, forms, and effects of telework in countries from different regions around the world, including Argentina, Brazil, ten Member States of the European Union (EU), India, Japan, and the United States. A must read for everyone who wants to understand the different ''generations'' of telework and its impact on working life, health and safety and productivity.' --Gerhard Bosch, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany'A valuable, long-term and comparative perspective on the continuously developing interface between work and the gradual advance in telecommunications technology that facilitates it to be done anytime, anywhere - in-home, off-site or around the globe. This carefully curated compilation will be useful to researchers, policy-makers, organizations, and anyone trying to keep up the pace of their own knowledge of the various effects of this transformation on well-being and organizations - good, evil or a bit of both - for workers, employers and countries.' --Lonnie Golden, Pennsylvania State University, Abington, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Telework in the 21st century – an evolutionary perspective 1 Jon C. Messenger PART I ADVANCED ECONOMIES 1. Telework and its effects in Europe 36 Lutz Gschwind and Oscar Vargas 2. Telework and its effects in Japan 76 Akio Sato 3. Telework and its effects in the United States 128 Kate Lister and Tom Harnish PART II EMERGING ECONOMIES 4. Telework and its effects in Argentina 172 Sonia Boiarov 5. Telework and its effects in Brazil 211 Alvaro Mello and Armando Dal Colletto 6. Organization advantage: Experience of telework in India 255 Ernesto Noronha and Premilla D’Cruz 7. Conclusions and recommendations for policy and practice 286 Jon C. Messenger Index 317

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Book SynopsisOrganizing is made possible by sense-making. This book represents a narrative quest for a symbolic grounding to help leaders in times when stable social structures and institutions dissolve and disappear. Monika Kostera approaches this sense-making process through innovative and exciting research methods, collecting stories from participants and exploring plots and outcomes of an imagined meeting between two symbolic worlds: one of the internal and imaginative and the other of the external and corporate. Investigating the spatiality and temporality of these stories, the author offers critical implications for educational practice, arguing that teachers should engage and develop students' imaginations and creativity to question the hidden rules of social settings and interactions in organizational and business situations. Innovative and visionary in scope, this book will be critical for researchers of organization theory at all levels, particularly those looking for new research methods and applications. Students of business and organizational studies will also benefit from its unique insights into business-related settings, as well as leaders and practitioners searching for innovative directions in business environments.Trade Review'Fresh and provoking, Monika Kostera's book challenges managerial and organizational literature through an evocative process of imagining novel forms of management of organizational life in contemporary societies. This book resonates as a poetic performance that invites students and organizational scholars to symbolically interrogate their research and teaching practices.' --Antonio Strati, University of Trento, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction In Search Of A Third Lens 1. Why Organize? 2. Space, Our Friend 3. Imagination 4. The Meeting Of Two Organizational Worlds 5. Reverse Journey 6. And Then There Was Silence 7. In Search Of Freedom In The Corporation 8. In Transition Coda: Being There Appendix: A Note On Narrative Collage For Ethnographers Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIncisive and forward-thinking in its approach, this prescient book investigates the conditions of the often unstable school-to-work transition (SWT) period, calling for an improvement in labour market entry processes in order to facilitate the smooth integration of school leavers into employment.School-to-Work Transition in Comparative Perspective captures the complex nature of SWTs by proposing and evaluating a new set of metrics which can act as a composite indicator of early employment security. Case studies in the form of biographies from individuals who have experienced turbulent transitions are then analysed in order to outline potential lessons from these lived experiences. Through detailed multi-disciplinary study, the book delivers a cross-country comparative assessment of the SWT period, providing new insights into the complex and dynamic nature of this transition process. It further examines what models of SWT are present in post-socialist countries, with a specific focus on Central and Eastern European states.This compelling book will be an important read for students, academics and researchers in the fields of sociology and social policy, labour policy, welfare states, education and economics. Its presentation of new measures through which to evaluate the SWT period will also greatly benefit professionals and practitioners working in education, labour policy and welfare states.Trade Review‘This highly original and innovative book covers issues and groups of countries that have rarely been dealt with in cross-national research. The editors and contributors combine quantitative and qualitative data in a way that enriches our understanding of young peoples’ trajectories, employment quality, job insecurity, job entry and the role of welfare systems. This book is a significant contribution to the field.’ -- Bjørn Hvinden, Norwegian Social Research, NorwayTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to School-to-Work Transition in Comparative Perspective 1 Dominik Buttler, Maciej Ławrynowicz, Piotr Michoń PART I NEW INDICES IN SCHOOL-TO-WORK TRANSITION RESEARCH 2 Constructing a composite indicator of early employment security 9 Maria Symeonaki, Glykeria Stamatopoulou and Dimitris Parsanoglou 3 Employment quality of young workers in Europe and its determinants 38 Dominik Buttler PART II DETERMINANTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF TURBULENT TRANSITIONS 4 Learning from precarious trajectories: portraits of young adults in four European countries 65 Margherita Bussi, Ondřej Hora, Maciej Ławrynowicz and Mi Ah Schoyen 5 Recruiters’ valuation of young people’s employment insecurities in Bulgaria and Switzerland: making sense of job-hopping and unemployment in the hiring process 89 Christian Imdorf, Matthias Pohlig, Lysann Zander 6 Do the interactions with employment services and other institutions facilitate school-to-work transitions? Experiences of young people in Bulgaria, Czechia and Poland 122 Tom‡š Sirov‡tka, Ondřej Hora, Veneta Krasteva and Maciej Ławrynowicz PART III TOWARDS A NEW TYPOLOGY OF TRANSITION REGIMES. THE CASE OF POST-SOCIALIST COUNTRIES 7 School-to-work transition regimes in post-socialist countries: an introduction 157 Irene Dingeldey and Dominik Buttler 8 School-to-work transition in Czechia: integration of a majority, marginalization of some 175 Ondřej Hora, MarkŽta Hor‡kov‡ and Tom‡š Sirov‡tka 9 School-to-work transition in Bulgaria: smooth for some, precarious for many 202 Veneta Krasteva 10 School-to-work transition in Latvia: Many paths, few pathbreakers 228 Olga Rajevska, Anna Broka, Ilona Gehtmane-Hofmane 11 School-to-work transition in Poland: a false reality of numbers 260 Piotr Michoń 12 Transition from education to work in Bulgaria, Czechia, Latvia and Poland: a comparative summary 289 Piotr Michoń 13 Conclusions on school-to-work transition in comparative perspective 304 Dominik Buttler, Maciej Ławrynowicz, Piotr Michoń Index

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Book SynopsisOn the 80th anniversary of Beveridge’s report on the ‘Five Giants’ confronting societal progress in the 1940s, this innovative book examines the ‘New Giants’ confronting us today: inequality, preventable mortality, the crisis of democracy, job quality, and environmental degradation. Ian Greener uses Qualitative Comparative Analysis and cluster analysis across 24 countries to analyse which countries are the highest performing in relation to each of the New Giants, and what they have in common.The book indicates that confronting the New Giants requires more participative modes of governance, as well as a greater commitment to redistributing wealth and achieving higher levels of education. Greener also highlights how higher levels of globalization, so long as they are combined with these factors, can be compatible with confronting the New Giants. The book further considers how these factors combined in countries with lower levels of mortality in the first six months of the Covid-19 pandemic.This will be critical reading for social policy and politics scholars and policy makers interested in comparative analysis. The clear explanation of the research methods used in the book will be useful to advanced level students and researchers in the field.Trade Review‘Greener, in his great book, is actually saying that we live in a completely new age, but its pains and joys are very closely related to historical experience and the achievements that humanity has realised. As a response to a new situation and to a turning point in history, there is no need to look for completely new tools. It is only necessary to identify precisely the giants to which we must respond and, at the same time, examine what tools to use to respond to these giants as they are, which to modify and which to use in a completely new way. The book and its presence in libraries will certainly be appreciated not only by students and researchers, but also by anyone who is concerned with the conception or use of any sociopolitical tool - in short, all those who come into contact with social protection in the broadest sense of the word, whether as providers or recipients.’ -- European Journal of Social Security‘There is much in this book that will be of interest to social policy scholars who will commend the au­thor's attempt to examine current social challenges in the historical context of the Beveridge Report. The book is well-written, and its methodology and statistical analysis are clearly explained. In addi­tion, the author raises a number of critically important issues which have not been adequately addressed by social policy writers. ... an ambitious and welcome addition to the literature which deserves to be widely read.’BR> -- Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare‘How can Beveridge’s “Five Giants” be rearticulated as key social problems in contemporary society? Which countries do better than others in responding to these problems and why? These are important questions, and Ian Greener’s book addresses them with a fascinating and original analysis, making use of a combination of comparative methods which help to illustrate the different ways in which countries deal with societal challenges. This book is a “must read” for all those interested in the role of social policies and institutions in modern welfare states.’ -- Jochen Clasen, The University of Edinburgh, UK‘This text is essential reading for the study of comparative social policy. It explores and accounts for the five “New Giants” for 24 developed nations using the relatively novel approach of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). It is the right book at the right time by the right person.’ -- Martin Powell, University of Birmingham, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Beveridge Report today 2. The New Giants 3. The method in Welfare States in the 21st Century 4. Inequality 5. Preventable mortality 6. The crisis of democracy 7. Job quality 8. Environmental degradation Conclusion to Welfare States in the 21st Century Epilogue: the New Giants and COVID-19 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis Elgar Introduction provides an overview of some of the key theories that inform human resource management and employment relations as a field of study. Leading scholars in the field explore theories in the context of contemporary debates concerning policies that affect and regulate work and the management of employment, as well as the activities and experiences of actors within the employment relationship. The book is divided into three sections to capture different theoretical lenses used to reflect on HRM and ER concerns about work: systems and historical development; institutions; and people and processes. Expert contributors have drawn on extensive research experience to present a contemporary understanding of a range of theories, how they evolved, and how they might be used in the future. Essential reading for HRM, ER and management scholars and research students, this book challenges readers to reassess their thinking about the significance of theory in research and practice.Trade Review‘Bringing together a diverse set of authors of distinguished pedigree, this collection provides an authoritative survey of theories of the employment relationship. Classical theories of work and employment are fully represented, with excellent chapters on Marxism, pluralism, feminism, human relations, labour process and systems theory, but so too are newer theoretical currents, many of which have their point of origin in the broader field of management studies. There are strong chapters on trust, role theory, evolution, paradox, social exchange, RBV and AMO: bodies of thought that are generating fresh understandings of employment and how it is managed. The collection as a whole is an invaluable resource for students, teachers and researchers; a broad-ranging and imaginative survey of how we think about work.’ -- Edmund Heery, Cardiff University, UK‘What is wonderful about this book is that in one place you can find all the prominent theories of HR and employment relations. The individual chapters are outstanding, which is what I would have expected from a stellar editorial team and first-rate contributors. A must-read for anybody interested in human resource management.’ -- Sir Cary Cooper, CBE, University of Manchester, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Theories used in Employment Relations and Human Resource Management Keith Townsend, Aoife M. McDermott, Kenneth Cafferkey and Tony Dundon 2. Marxism at Work Roger Seifert 3. Neo-Pluralism in contemporary employment relations and HRM: the case for workplace and academic dialogue Peter Ackers 4. Applying Scientific Management to Modern HRM and ER Niall Cullinane and Jean Cushen 5. Cracking Labour Process theory in employment relations and HRM Shiona Chillas and Alina Baluch 6. The legacy of the Human Relations School: Looking back and moving forward Sarah Jenkins 7. The theory of high-performance work systems Peter Boxall and Meng-Long Huo 8. Systems Theory: Forgotten Legacy and Future Prospects Brian Harney 9. Evolutionary psychological theory and human resource management Andrew Timming 10. Personnel Economics: Managing Human Resources through Performance-related Pay Victoria Wass 11. Advances in Labour Regulation Theory Peter Waring and Mark Bray 12. Institutional Theory, Business Systems and Employment Relations Geoffrey Wood and Matthew Allen 13. Varieties of Capitalism Glenn Morgan and Heike Doering 14. Human Resource Management and Paradox Theory Anne Keegan, Julia Brandl and Ina Aust 15. Revisiting Human Capital Theory: Progress and Prospects Jonathan Winterton and Kenneth Cafferkey 16. Feminist Theory and Employment Relations Anne-Marie Greene 17. Trust, Distrust And Human Resource Management Neve Iseava, Colin Hughes and Mark Saunders 18. Social Exchange Theory, Employment Relations and Human Resource Management Christine Cross and Tony Dundon 19. Using Role Theory to Understand and Solve Employment Relations and Human Resources Problems Qian Yi Lee, Keith Townsend, Ashlea Troth and Rebecca Loudoun 20. Fairness in the workplace: Organisational justice and the employment relationship Melinda Laundon, Paula McDonald and Abby Cathcart 21. Ability, Motivation, and Opportunity Theory: A formula for employee performance? Ashlea Kellner, Kenneth Cafferkey and Keith Townsend 22. The Resource-Based View Approach and HRM Keith Whitfield 23. LMX and HRM: A multi-level review of how LMX is used to explain employment relationships Anna Bos-Nehles and Mieke Audenaert 24. Social Mobilisation Theory in HR and employment relations Lorraine Ryan, Caroline Murphy and Daniel Troy Index

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Book SynopsisWhile many books provide guidance to the construction of theory, the process of theorizing itself has been addressed far less. The aim of this book is to encourage researchers to reflect upon their subjective theorizing practices and to engage in dialogue about theorizing in organization studies. Drawing on interviews with eight key figures in the field, this book provides guidance for how to theorize, and how to do so well, using the key tools of the theorizers. Providing rich insights, these interviews with Professors David Boje, Barbara Czarniawska, Kenneth Gergen, Tor Hernes, Geert Hofstede, Edgar Schein, Andrew Van de Ven and Karl Weick give an opportunity to learn from some of the most successful theorists in the field of organization studies. By addressing aspects of theorizing which seek to make it a personal and meaningful endeavour, this book goes beyond the sole aim of getting published and encourages the reader to develop their own unique way of theorizing. This book will be an invaluable tool for graduate researchers and scholars looking to refine their theorizing practices in order to produce outstanding theoretical work. Its insights will also be of use for anyone seeking to breathe new life into their work, with its insightful commentary on the practices of successful theorists.Trade Review'This book is short, fun to read, and full of good ideas. It also works well as an introduction to how to theorize in organization studies, for students as well as professors.' --From the foreword by Richard Swedberg'I found the book witty, clear, passionate and well written. For me, it was an opportunity to reflect on my own academic life, my practice of theorizing and my contribution to the field while reading the book and mirroring myself through the thoughts of the ''key'' thinkers that I know personally or through their writing. ' --Silvia Gherardi, University of Trento, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Richard Swedberg 1. Presentation and premises 2. Engaging in theorizing 3. Looking at something. Behind the scenes – interviewing Karl Weick 4. Finding your academic family 5. Making a contribution 6. Key points and practices References Index

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Book SynopsisAs our digital economy continues to expand, gig work becomes increasingly significant. This incisive book investigates the ways in which social dialogue can reinforce decent working practices and create inclusive workplaces in the growing gig economy, putting forward a framework for structured dialogue and collective bargaining among social partners, platforms, and workers.Centred on four major case studies – Germany, Greece, Switzerland, and the UK – the book analyses the key challenges that characterise the varied European landscape of gig economies and workforces. With a particular focus on the hospitality, driving, and food delivery sectors, chapters explore the intersection of social partners’ responses and gig workers’ capacity to organise and build collective voice. Examining the complicated and overlapping linkages between workers’ rights, social protection, social dialogue, and decent work, the book aims to expose, and ultimately put an end to, precariousness and exploitation in the context of gig labour.Integrating critical theoretical perspectives and methodologies with context-sensitive evidence, this book will be an essential resource for students and scholars of sociology, social policy, labour policy, employment relations, and human resource management. Its examination of timely questions of collective action and social dialogue in the gig economy will also appeal to activists, journalists, social partners, and policymakers.Trade Review‘This is an excellent collection of research on the gig economy, providing much-needed comparative analysis that is too often missing from the literature. Throughout the collection, there are chapters that will appeal to students, academics, and practitioners who are interested in understanding the gig economy today.’ -- Jamie Woodcock, The Open University, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 1 Jean-Michel Bonvin, Nicola Cianferoni and Maria Mexi 2. The gig economy and social partnership in Germany: towards a German Model 4.0? 18 Johannes Kiess 3. Social partnership and the rise of the gig economy in Greece: continuity or discontinuity? 42 Maria Mexi 4. Regulating the gig economy: promises and limits of social dialogue in Switzerland 67 Jean-Michel Bonvin, Nicola Cianferoni and Luca Perrig 5. Weakening worker protections? Uncovering the gig economy and the future of work in the UK 90 Tom Montgomery and Simone Baglioni 6. Regulating digital crowdwork and the need for global responses 117 Maria Mexi and Konstantinos Papadakis 7. Conclusion: The rise and growth of the gig economy. Challenges and opportunities for social dialogue and decent work 144 Jean-Michel Bonvin, Nicola Cianferoni and Maria Mexi Index 159

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Book SynopsisThis timely book explores new social justice challenges in the workplace. Adopting a long-term perspective, it focuses on value conflicts, or ethical dilemmas, in contemporary organisations. Matthieu de Nanteuil holds a strong and original position in this regard. The problem is not so much the existence of value conflicts: it is more the fact that the actors do not have a frame of justice that allows them to overcome these conflicts without renouncing their deeply held values.However - and this is crucial - these frames of justice are plural. The book proposes tangible solutions, based around four frames of justice: ethics of discussion, negotiation, development and recognition. It offers a systematic review of their strengths and weaknesses as applied to the workplace. The author translates them to real life situations through a range of case studies, demonstrating practical outcomes applicable to the day-to-day working environment and highlighting that there is no one universal approach. Original and engaging, this book will be of interest to scholars of workplace ethics, labour policy, sociology of work and social theory. It will also be a key resource for HRM policy makers, trade unionists and managers dealing with human issues in the organisation.Trade Review‘In this valuable work, Matthieu de Nanteuil critically reflects on the ethical problems and challenges that arise in the workplace, within societies where cost-benefit calculations and power relationships prevail. The author very convincingly considers that workers deeply aspire, not only to meaning, but to social justice in their working environment - yet, that ways towards a more just working environment are plural. A very appropriate book in our turbulent era!’Table of ContentsContents: Introduction – Social justice in the workplace: New challenges, new perspectives 2. The spirit of the Enlightenment 3. Work and values: A critical genealogy 4. Social justice in the workplace: Four frames of justice to overcome ethical dilemmas 5. Social justice in the workplace: Three recent case studies 6. What is a more just workplace? Prospects for the future Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis unique book offers an in-depth examination of the changing nature of work and the production of waste in a crisis-ridden era dominated by climate change and worker precarity.

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of central concepts in labour studies, and how they can be used to analyse labour markets. Examining regional and sectoral labour markets alongside the internal labour markets of firms, it clearly lays out the current state of social scientific knowledge on labour.Combining theoretical and empirical insights, leading scholars map the latest developments in labour economics, focusing on micro-level data and applied studies. Entries explore the definition, background, and history of key concepts in labour studies, including regional and sectoral labour markets, labour policy, different forms of labour, labour market discrimination, and the decisions facing firms concerning labour. Highlighting the most important aspects of the topics covered, this Encyclopedia gives expert insight into the steadily growing research and public policy debate on labour issues. The Encyclopedia of Labour Studies will be an invaluable resource for academics and students of labour economics and policy, employment relations, social policy, business, and management. It will also be a useful guide for policy practitioners seeking to deepen their understanding of how labour markets function. Key Features: 58 extensive entries Accessible explanations of key social scientific terms Provides clear thematic grouping of entries using Journal of Economic Literature classification codes Trade Review‘This Encyclopedia will be very useful for all those who want to understand the key issues, findings, and gaps in virtually all major topics in labour economics and related areas. Each one of its nearly 60 entries, all written by international experts in the subjects, provide succinct and focused presentations and thus very useful stepping stones into a particular theme in labour studies.’ -- Pedro Martins, Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal‘This Encyclopedia presents a broad selection of what labor studies has to offer, combining basic theory, empirical evidence, and policy implications of more than 50 topics. Entries are presented in an accessible manner, making this suitable for ambitious students and others who want to catch up on topics in the field.’ -- Maria Stanfors, Lund University, Sweden'This brand new Encyclopedia edited by Tor Eriksson offers tremendous insights into labor economics, as well as essential issues of employment relations and human resource management.’ -- Christian Grund, RWTH Aachen University, Germany‘This book includes a set of thorough surveys by leading researchers in each field. The reader can catch up to the frontier of the topic in the quickest way possible. As a researcher studying the labor market of Japan, I found the chapter on this issue particularly useful.’ -- Daiji Kawaguchi, University of Tokyo, JapanTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Elgar Encyclopedia of Labour Studies x Tor Eriksson 1 Active Labour Market Policies 1 Anders Forslund 2 African Labor Markets 5 Niels-Hugo Blunch 3 Agricultural Labor Markets 9 Diane Charlton 4 Apprenticeships 14 Uschi Backes-Gellner and Patrick Lehnert 5 Beveridge Curve, Matching Functions 19 Juuso Vanhala 6 Dynamic Employment Adjustment of Firms 24 Gerard A. Pfann 7 Early Retirement 27 René Böheim 8 Employee ownership 30 Takao Kato 9 Employer and employee learning 35 Jaime Ortega 10 Employer Search 38 Jan C. van Ours 11 Employment Protection Legislation Impacts 42 Paulino Maria Freitas Teixeira 12 Executive Compensation 46 Martin J. Conyon 13 Firms and Wages 52 István Boza 14 Footballers’ Labour Market 57 Robert Simmons 15 Global Value Chains and Employment Relations 61 Sarosh C. Kuruvilla 16 HRM Practices and Productivity 66 Kathryn L. Shaw 17 Intergenerational Income Mobility 71 Jo Blanden 18 International Migration 75 Mariola Pytlikova and Davit Adunts 19 Japanese Labor Market 81 Ryo Kambayashi 20 Job Design 84 Michael J. Gibbs 21 Job Insecurity 89 Francis Green 22 Job Satisfaction 93 John S. Heywood 23 Jobs, Tasks, Authority 97 Alexandra Spitz-Oener 24 Labor Income Share 101 Saumik Paul 25 Labour Market Discrimination: Ethnicity and Race 104 Mats Hammarstedt and Ali Ahmed 26 Labour Market Discrimination: Gender 107 Dominique Meurs 27 Labor Market Discrimination: Method and Measurement 111 Ali Ahmed and Mats Hammarstedt 28 Labor Market Discrimination: Sexual Orientation 115 Nick Drydakis 29 Labour Market Integration of Immigrants 120 Pieter Bevelander 30 Labour Supply and Taxes 123 Monica Costa Dias 31 Monopsonistic Labour Markets 129 Boris Hirsch and Elke J. Jahn 32 Non-Financial Motivation in the Workplace 133 Gary Charness, Michael Cooper and J. Lucas Reddinger 33 Non-Wage Labour Costs 140 Robert A. Hart 34 Occupational Licensing 144 Morris Kleiner 35 Outsourcing, Consequences for Employees 148 Holger Görg 36 Payroll Taxes: Incidence and Employment Effects 153 Roope Uusitalo 37 Performance Evaluations 157 Anders Frederiksen 38 Performance Feedback: Cognitive and Motivational Effects 160 Marie Claire Villeval 39 Performance Pay: Consequences on Workers’ Health 164 Ioannis Theodissou 40 Performance Related Pay and Performance 171 Tor Eriksson 41 Promotion Tournaments 176 Michael Bognanno 42 Public Sector Labor Markets 180 Claudio Lucifora 43 Recruitment: Internal or External? 185 Jed DeVaro 44 Regional Labour Markets 189 Uwe Blien 45 Returns to Education 194 Franz Buscha and Matthew Dickson 46 Shadow Economy Labour Markets 199 Dominik H. Enste 47 Skill-Biased Technological Change 203 Pekka Ilmakunnas 48 Skills acquisition: workplace learning and workers’ productivity 206 Andries de Grip 49 Strikes and Conflict Mediation 210 John Kennan 50 Team Productivity 213 Hideo Owan 51 Temporary Jobs 218 Lia Pacelli 52 Unemployment: Duration, Incidence 222 Tor Eriksson 53 Unpaid Work 226 Leslie S. Stratton 54 Wage Bargaining Institutions 231 Erling Barth 55 Worker Representation 235 Alex Bryson and John Forth 56 Working Hours 240 Peter Dolton 57 Workplace Sickness Absence 245 Wolter Hassink 58 Works Councils 249 Uwe Jirjahn Index 255

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Book SynopsisSkills and inequality have long been a central theme in analyses of social structure and economic development. A Research Agenda for Skills and Inequality offers an insightful cross-disciplinary framework for research on how unequal living conditions form, persist and change in interplay with human skill formation and development.Drawing on prominent new advances in the field, this incisive Research Agenda builds a forward-thinking framework for research. Spanning an extensive eighteen chapters, each examining a specific but major aspect of the general theme of skills and inequality, the book provides a comprehensive overview of links between the two. Against the backdrop of established insights from related but separate fields of inquiry, including economics, sociology, demography, human resource management, political science, philosophy and psychology, the Research Agenda presents an exciting overview of recent advances in analyses of skills and inequality.Opening vistas for future research based on extensive literature reviews and new findings, this Research Agenda offers compact, ground-breaking essays for students, policy makers, and advanced researchers in many disciplines including social policy, business management, and employment relations.Trade Review‘While the concept of skill is central to explanations of inequality, disciplinary boundaries have hampered a full understanding of this relationship. This timely volume fills the gap by bringing together insights from experts in diverse disciplines that together provide the basis for an exciting research framework on this vital topic.’ -- Arne L. Kalleberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US‘If you want to understand how differences in skills and power jointly create social inequality, this is the book for you. Leading international scholars present the new synthesis on how education, skills, jobs and earnings are linked.’ -- Daniel Oesch, University of Lausanne, Switzerland‘This book offers original, multidisciplinary insights on the conceptualisation of skill and robust empirical evidence on how skills are formed, developed, utilised, rewarded and maintained across countries with diverse institutional arrangements. It will enrich our understanding of skills and inequality for decades to come.’ -- Ying Zhou, Surrey Business School, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Skills and inequality – Introduction and overview 1 Michael Tåhlin 2 Skills, class and gender 19 Charlotta Magnusson and Michael Tåhlin 3 Culture, skills, job tasks and inequality 37 George Farkas 4 Skills and structural change 51 Johan Westerman and Edvin Syk 5 Skills and occupational sex segregation in Europe 65 Amanda Almstedt Valldor and Karin Halldén 6 Skills and adult educational choice: Gender (in) equality in a new form of Swedish vocational education 85 Margarita Chudnovskaya, Erik Nylander, and Rebecca Ye 7 Occupational skills and subjective social status 103 Anton B. Andersson and Arvid Lindh 8 Skill and job quality: Polarisation in a ‘liberal’ economy? 121 Duncan Gallie 9 Occupational skills, ethnic stratification, and labor market assimilation across immigrant generations 145 Are Skeie Hermansen, Jon Horgen Friberg, and Arnfinn H. Midtbøen 10 Can work protect against age-related decline of cognitive skills?: An empirical test of the use-it-or-lose-it hypothesis 161 Mark Levels and Rolf van der Velden 11 Reconceptualizing human capital 177 Paula England and Nancy Folbre 12 Parental education–occupation matching and offspring earnings 195 Dirk Witteveen 13 Skill and power at work: A Relational Inequality perspective 215 Dustin Avent-Holt and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey 14 The meaning of job-required education 231 Michael J. Handel 12 Skills and educational systems 255 Heike Solga and Herman G. van de Werfhorst 16 Skills and collective wage bargaining 271 Christian Kjellström and Irene Wennemo 17 Skills and macro-level economic inequality 287 Tomas Korpi, Michael Tåhlin and Johan Westerman 18 Skilled work and ethics: How can we expand opportunities for meaningful work? 303 Andrea Veltman Index 317

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book provides the first in-depth analysis of participatory income and its potential role in countering endemic poverty and unemployment in high-income countries. Heikki Hiilamo reviews the concept of basic income and specific basic income experiments before presenting participatory income as a viable alternative in the fight against poverty.Highly topical, chapters explore pressing issues such as the effects of automation on the future of work and the links between social protection and eco-social transition. Putting forward the argument that any reform of social assistance should continue to enforce reciprocity with reduced means-testing, Hiilamo explores the practical advantages of the participation income model in reducing poverty and developing an eco-social welfare model.Tackling one of the most heated current debates in social policy, this book will be a key resource for scholars and students in this field, particularly those with a focus on welfare and labour economics, labour policy and the sociology of work. Its use of examples and case studies will also benefit practitioners and policy makers.Trade Review‘As Research Professor at the National Institute for Health and Welfare and Professor of Social Policy at the University of Helsinki, Heikki Hiilamo has an extensive research background on subjects related to health and social security as well as basic income, illustrated by a wide range of academic contributions. Hiilamo’s interdisciplinary approach, comprehensive analysis, and forward-looking perspectives make this work a signi?cant contribution to the ?eld. Researchers and academics interested in these subjects will ?nd this book bene?cial in shaping new perspectives not only on basic income but also on more radical social protection reforms.’ -- Alger Kurti, European Journal of Social Security‘A quarter of a century ago Tony Atkinson suggested participation income as a key policy instrument for recalibrating struggling European welfare states. It has taken 25 years for a leading policy scholar to produce the first book-length discussion of the proposal, its merits and how to make it work in contemporary welfare systems. Building on both theoretical and empirical insights — and many years of experience as one of Europe’s leading policy scholars — Heikki Hiilamo has written a book that is as astute as it is topical. At a time when welfare states are figuring out how to deal with the societal ravages of a pandemic crisis, participation income is an idea that needs to be given due attention — and Heikki Hiilamo has written the book that tells us how and why.’ -- Jurgen De Wispelaere, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, LatviaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction to digital transformation and social policy 2. Machine beats man – prospects of paid work 3. Other existing challenges 4. Conditionality and unconditionality as strategies to prevent labour market exclusion 5. Lessons from basic income experiments 6. Definition of participation income 7. Criticisms of participation income 8. New models for participation income 9. Practical applications of participation income 10. Conclusions: social policies for sustainable societies References Index

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Book SynopsisBringing together contributions from leading labour market policy scholars from across the globe, this state-of-the-art Handbook offers extensive and compelling analyses of labour market policy in advanced democracies.Drawing on the lively debates on labour market policy that have characterised comparative social policy and comparative political economy scholarship in recent years, the Handbook provides theoretical insights into the core concepts, changing contexts and main actors that shape contemporary labour market policy. Using macro-regional case studies spanning Asia, Australasia, Europe and North America, it offers detailed empirical illustrations of how major labour market policies and institutions have evolved over time and across countries. Chapters further examine the diversity of policy options and their various political implications, assessing the relationship between labour market policy and major socio-economic outcomes, such as inequality, well being and political participation.Integrating cutting-edge theory with rich empirical insights, this incisive Handbook will be an invaluable reference for students and scholars of comparative social policy and comparative political economy. Its comprehensive coverage will also allow policy-makers and practitioners to reflect critically on the role of labour market policy in today’s complex societies.Trade Review‘This new Handbook is an impressive volume that brings together leading scholars in labour market policy research. It not only provides a fresh view on long-debated topics in labour market policy design and implementation, but it also widens the perspective to include new topics, updated comparative evidence and political economy issues. Everyone interested in learning about contemporary labour market policies from different angles should have a look at this book.’ -- Werner Eichhorst, Institute of Labour Economics, Germany‘Deindustrialisation, globalisation and automation all contribute to the tremendous complexity of labour markets in the 21st century, even as countries struggle to provide jobs for all or most citizens. This superb and comprehensive collection of essays sheds light on the many ways that capitalist democracies struggle to sustain growth and solidarity in our age of underemployment.’ -- Cathie Jo Martin, Boston University, US‘This is an extraordinary collection. The editors and their collaborators have managed to produce not just a survey of labour market policy, but a comparative political economic study of developed nations that is empirically rich, thematically exhaustive and theoretically sophisticated. The value of this volume cannot be overstated.’ -- Martin Rhodes, University of Denver, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: labour market policy as a field of government action and an object of research 1 Daniel Clegg and Niccolo Durazzi PART I CORE CONCEPTS 2 The rise and demise of unemployment 14 Jérôme Gautié 3 Insider-outsider divides in rich democracies: labour market policies, new inequalities and attitudes 27 Hanna Schwander 4 Activation: a research topic in its own right? 44 Jochen Clasen and Clara Mascarò 5 The academic and policy roots of flexicurity and its pathways 54 Sonja Bekker and Janine Leschke 6 Assessing labour market policy change 68 Emanuele Ferragina, Federico Danilo Filetti and Alessandro Arrigoni PART II CHANGING CONTEXTS 7 Macroeconomic regimes and labour market policies 88 Bob Hancké and Toon Van Overbeke 8 Women, work, and labour market policy 103 Sonja Avlijaš 9 Labour market policy in the era of mass migration: perspectives on Europe 116 Gemma Scalise 10 Technological change and labour market policy preferences 132 David Weisstanner 11 Putting the platform economy in its place: contested regulatory terrains 148 Alessio Bertolini, Matt Cole and Shelly Steward PART III ACTORS 12 Political parties and labour market policies 161 Reimut Zohlnhöfer and Linda Voigt 13 Trade unions and the evolution of labour market policy 177 Joshua Gordon and Dennie Oude Nijhuis 14 Employers and labour market policy 193 Sabrina Colombo, David Natali and Emmanuele Pavolini 15 International organisations: policy agendas and transfer mechanisms in global labour governance 206 Vicente Silva 16 The European Union: a significant player in labour policymaking 219 Vincenzo Maccarrone, Roland Erne and Darragh Golden PART IV JOB AND INCOME SECURITY 17 Minimum wages: by collective bargaining and by law 235 Georg Picot 18 Employment protection legislation: towards more inclusive or segmented labour markets? 249 Agnieszka Piasna 19 The parabola of unemployment insurance in advanced democracies 264 Daniel Clegg and Larissa Nenning 20 The rise of in-work benefits: policy, politics and evaluation 280 Joan Abbas and Ewan Robertson 21 From early retirement to later exit from work: shifting towards active ageing 295 Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Kun Lee 22 Universal basic income: the new political economy of an old idea 309 Leire Rincon and Tim Vlandas PART V EMPLOYMENT PROMOTION AND SUPPORT 23 Skill formation: part of and complement to the labour market policy mix? 327 Donato Di Carlo and Niccolo Durazzi 24 Effects and explanations of active labour market policy: theoretical and empirical challenges for cross-national research 343 Axel Cronert 25 Public employment services: mapping reform trends in advanced democracies 360 Timo Weishaupt 26 The changing role of frontline employment advisors 374 Rik van Berkel 27 Predictive algorithms in the delivery of public employment services 387 John Körtner and Giuliano Bonoli PART VI REGIONAL EXPERIENCES 28 Liberal labour markets at the crossroads: the cases of Australia and New Zealand 400 Shaun Wilson 29 Labour market policy reform in East Asia: from economic crises to welfare politics 417 Ijin Hong, Chung-Yang Yeh and Jaewook Nahm 30 Canada and the United States: labour market policies and varieties of federalism in two liberal welfare states 435 Daniel Béland, Shannon Dinan, and Alex Waddan 31 Labour market policy in the Visegrad countries 449 Michał Polakowski 32 Labour market policy reforms in Southern Europe: too much of the wrong medicine? 463 Arianna Tassinari, Fabio Bulfone and Angie Gago PART VII IMPACTS 33 Labour market policies and social inequality in labour market outcomes 479 Thomas Biegert 34 Poor workers in advanced democracies: on the nature of in-work poverty and its relationship to labour market policies 495 Rod Hick and Ive Marx 35 Labour market policies as a social determinant of wellbeing 508 Elke Heins 36 Labour market problems and political integration 523 Paul Marx Index 536

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Book SynopsisAdopting an interdisciplinary approach, this Research Handbook examines the shifting global landscape of self-employment. It provides an authoritative overview of key theoretical perspectives and empirical findings in the field, and presents evidence-based policy responses to the multifaceted nature of modern self-employment.

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This cutting-edge Research Agenda takes a hard look at workplace innovation practices that are vital for dealing with the global disruptive changes we currently face. It unpacks the ways in which organisations can become more sustainable, not only for value creation and profitability but also for sustainable employability and employee skill development.Exploring the ways in which workplace innovation provided necessary safeguards to deal with technological and environmental change, chapters provide a state-of-the art discussion of the topic in light of digital disruption and the Green Revolution. These areas of concern do not beg for one overall solution but for more resilient organisations in general. Bringing together the most renowned scholars in the field of workplace innovation from Europe, Australia and Asia, this Research Agenda looks at how we can learn to tackle these issues on an international level.With invaluable insight into workplace innovation spanning companies and individuals, nations and regions this Research Agenda explores the results of workplace innovation practices in very different global contexts. It will be of great value to researchers, policy-makers, practitioners, consultants and students of workplaces, organisations, human behaviour and digital transitions.Trade Review‘Digital disruption is widespread across our economies and societies. Bringing together an array of highly qualified contributors, this timely book contains important theory, research and analysis on this challenging phenomenon. It includes valuable guidance on how to engage with digital transformation through the mutually beneficial process of workplace innovation.’ -- Peter Boxall, University of Auckland, New Zealand‘The organization of work and the workplace is under stress. COVID-19 is one example but the longstanding pressure of technological change is another as are labor supply shocks flowing from demographics. How are organizations adapting? What constitutes best practice? What are the consequences of different strategies for the organization and for the workforce? These are urgent questions and via thoughtful comparative chapters A Research Agenda for Workplace Innovation provides answers. This is a timely and much needed contribution.’ -- Paul Osterman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, US‘An insightful and fascinating book that will reshape the way you approach innovation in this challenging and disruptive era of unprecedented digital transformation. This book will provide you with tools and strategies to successfully navigate workplace innovation transition and manage the impacts of technology to support and empower your future workforce…read this book and learn from the best!’ -- Al Jawhari, Innovate Inn Pty Ltd, Australia‘As the world moves to ever greater integration of technology with economic, social, and environmental issues, this work sets the scene for transitioning the workplace through technology adoption. This is a powerful and timely edition with logically organised parts and international cases. It will prove to be a valuable resource for managers and scholars alike.’ -- Allan O’Connor, University of South Australia‘This book is timely published when digital technologies are transforming work across the globe. It is an invaluable contribution to how inclusively to combine human labour and disruptive technologies by analyzing various country experiences of workplace innovation in the context of new technologies and COVID-19.’ -- Kiu Sik Bae, formerly president of Korea Labour Institute, current standing member of Korean Economic, Social and Labour Council‘As with every previous wave of change, the information revolution and the green transition are bound to transform both consumption and work patterns. This book takes a deep look at the workplace transformation and how to go about doing it well and studying it. Important, useful, and timely for academics, managers, and workers.’ -- Carlota Perez, Author of Technological Revolutions and financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages; University College London, University of Sussex, UK and TalTech, EstoniaTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xix 1 An Introduction to the Research Agenda for Workplace Innovation 1 Steven Dhondt, Adela J. McMurray and Peter R.A. Oeij PART I TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANISATION: NEW TECHNOLOGY AS A DRIVER FOR CHANGE IN THE ORGANISATION, FOR ITS WORK PROCESSES AND THE WORK OF EMPLOYEES 2 Workplace innovation at the digital frontier 15 Steven Dhondt, Peter R.A. Oeij and Gerben Hulsegge 3 Analysing production disturbances for aligning work organisation, human resource management, and digital transformation 35 Ezra Dessers, Monique Ramioul, Yennef Vereycken, Michiel Bal, Ine Smits and Geert Van Hootegem 4 Augmented telework with avatar technology: impact on workplace and required actions 51 Kentaro Watanabe 5 The impact of technology on work: enabling workplace innovation by technological and organisational choice 67 Peter R.A. Oeij, Gerben Hulsegge and Wouter van der Torre 6 Workplace innovation in the digital era: a role for SMART work design 91 Sharon Kaye Parker and Alexandra A. Boeing 7 How can the Korean workplace become conducive to workplace innovation? Learning from a case study of a manufacturing firm 113 Se Ri No and Kyetaik Oh 8 Examining workplace innovation as a driver for innovation in the public sector: evidence from Australia 129 Mahmoud Moussa and Adela McMurray PART II INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOUR CONTRIBUTING TO PERFORMANCE GOALS: WORKPLACE ENGAGEMENT TO IMPROVE THE BUSINESS AND THE QUALITY OF WORK 9 The determination of a psychological workplace innovation construct 147 Adela J. McMurray and Don Scott 10 Job crafting and work engagement among remote workers in Italy: Lessons for workplace innovation 167 Arianna Costantini and Serena Rubini 11 Ethical leadership as workplace innovation and enabler for employee commitment and innovative work behaviours in Vietnam 183 Michael K. Muchiri, Hiep Cong Pham, Mathews Nkhoma and Adela J. McMurray PART III CONVERGENCE, POLICY ABOUT WORKPLACE INNOVATION, AND THE AGENDA FOR THE FUTURE 12 A converging or diverging research field? 201 Peter R.A. Oeij, Steven Dhondt and Adela J. McMurray 13 Towards research-based policy and practice of workplace innovation in Europe 255 Frank D. Pot, Tuomo Alasoini, Peter Totterdill and Claudio Zettel 14 Developing a scientific and policy research agenda for workplace innovation: an invitation for conversation and collaboration 273 Peter R.A. Oeij, Steven Dhondt and Adela J. McMurray Index

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Book SynopsisIn this timely book, Barbara Czarniawska and Bernward Joerges examine the hopes and fears around work and job security inspired by automation, from the original coining of the term 'robot' to the present day media fascination. Have these hopes and fears changed or do they remain the same? This discerning book investigates whether these changes in perception correlate to actual changes taking place in the field of robotics. Exploring several streams of popular culture, including ground-breaking science fiction novels and films, the impact of these globally renowned works on public opinion regarding robotics is assessed. Detailed media analysis identifies the frequency and complexity of common views that stem from the ideas found in both fiction and scientific research results disseminated by the news. Recent social science works dedicated to the study of robotziation are then reviewed, illustrating current and future debates surrounding the phenomenon of the 'robot revolution'. Robotization of Work? will be a key resource for students and scholars studying the organization of work, IT and digitalization, and cultural studies. It will also be of interest to anyone engaged with the concepts of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotization.Trade Review'Within the rapidly proliferating field of social studies of cybernetics this brilliant book stands out in several ways. It revisits the epistemology of autopoiesis by unearthing how popular culture, science fiction and cybernetics co-constitute each other since the 1920's. In doing so this book on imaginaries and technological developments ingeniously translates one of the key problems of knowing the world into a down-to-earth empirical investigation of the various literatures and films on the robotization of work. While most recent publications that similarly aim to address the core issues of cybernetics surrender to the urge of making prophecies, Czarniawska and Joerges consequentially remain astute, sober and razor-sharp and thereby provocatively interrupt a current trend. The elegant precision of the argument and the clarity of the language deployed makes this erudite and yet modest book come as a relief when one feels overwhelmed by the high-flown premonitions surrounding us.' --Richard Rottenburg, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa'There has been a lot of speculation recently about the consequences of robotization. In particular, how artificial intelligence (AI) might automate and replace tasks thought uniquely human. It would be easy to be carried away with the hyperbole. However, to ignore their potential effects would also be remiss. In the Robotization of Work, Czarniawska and Joerges provide the perfect antidote by studying how robotization and automation have been characterised in literature, film, media and the social sciences, and compare predictions from the 'first wave' of AI to those made today. Written with intelligence - and some humour - this book will be required reading for scholars interested in how (and in what form) ideas of automation continue to inhabit our imagination and drive our actions.' --Neil Pollock, University of Edinburgh, UK'In the midst of a full moral panic about robots and artificial intelligence, this wise and engaging book manages to avoid both the hype and hysteria by examining how popular culture - mainly science fiction movies and books - have portrayed robots and their impact on society. Brimming with new insights, the authors show how fiction has addressed many of the themes taken up in later scholarship. We imagine the worst but in the end our societies and institutions shape the actual technology we end up with.' --Trevor J. Pinch, Cornell University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Robot revolution? 2. Robotization and popular culture 3. Robots in popular culture 4. Robots in popular culture: A tentative taxonomy 5. Robotization in the media: 2014-2017 6. Robotization in social sciences 7. (Some) conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.Providing a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of the gig economy from both a labour and employment perspective, this Research Agenda goes beyond the question of the employment status of platform workers. It investigates how the gig economy is changing the way people work, how the platforms’ business models are spreading in our economies, and what labour and social institutions are needed to respond to the challenges that platform work raises.Covering key issues such as algorithmic management, discrimination, occupational health and safety, casual work and collective labour rights, the authors challenge the narrative that the gig economy is a set of work arrangements that cannot be regulated through existing labour legislation and governance forms. The impact of the gig economy in developing countries and the regulation of global supply changes in platform work are also addressed.With contributions from world-leading authors, this Research Agenda will be crucial reading for scholars of labour and employment law, sociologists, economists and industrial relations specialists.Trade Review‘This important volume lays bare the significance of platform work for the wider world of work and for society at large. Through a multidisciplinary perspective it addresses a myriad of issues concerning platform work that have not received their due attention such as occupational safety and health, discrimination, and gaps in cross-border governance. The editors and contributors have done a fantastic job in making clear both the exceptional – and the unexceptional – aspects of platform work and thus provide a useful guide to scholars, social partners and policymakers of how to shape the gig economy so that it can be of benefit to all.’ -- Janine Berg, International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland‘If the last two years have undoubtedly represented a quantum leap in the understanding and regulation of platform work at the European and national level, this volume marks the beginning of a second age of the multidisciplinary research on forms of work organized by technology. Thought-provoking contributions by brilliant authors from various scientific and geographical backgrounds pave the way for a new season of critical thinking, impactful inquiry and regulatory intervention. A much-recommended reading!’ -- Antonio Aloisi, IE University, Madrid, SpainTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for the Gig Economy and Society 1 Valerio De Stefano, Ilda Durri, Charalampos Stylogiannis, Mathias Wouters 2 Exclusion by default: Platform workers’ quest for labour protections 13 Valerio De Stefano, Ilda Durri, Charalampos Stylogiannis, Mathias Wouters 3 The impact of the gig-economy on occupational health and safety: Just an occupation hazard? 33 Aude Cefaliello, Cristina Inversi 4 Algorithmic discrimination, the role of GPS, and the limited scope of EU non-discrimination law 53 Elena Gramano, Miriam Kullmann 5 The law and worker voice in the gig economy 73 Alan Bogg, Ricardo Buendia 6 Platform economy and the risk of in-work poverty: A research agenda for social security lawyers 93 Paul Schoukens, Alberto Barrio, Eleni De Becker 7 Platform work and precariousness: Low earnings and limited control of work 113 Iain Campbell 8 On demand work as a legal framework to understand the gig economy 133 Ruth Dukes 9 Domestic work and the gig economy 149 Natalie Sedacca 10 Is flexibility and autonomy a myth or reality on taxi platforms? Comparison between traditional and app-based taxi drivers in developing countries 167 Uma Rani, Nora Gobel, Rishabh Kumar Dhir 11 The emerging geographies of platform labour: Intensifying trends in global capitalism 193 Kelle Howson, Alessio Bertolini, Srujana Katta, Funda Ustek-Spilda, Mark Graham 12 Crowdwork and global supply chains: Regulating digital piecework 215 Nastazja Potocka-Sionek Index 235

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Book SynopsisActors in the world of work are facing an increasing number of challenges, including automatization and digitalization, new types of jobs and more diverse forms of employment. This timely book examines employer and worker responses, challenges and opportunities for social dialogue, and the role of social partners in the governance of the world of work.Through interviews and surveys, the volume provides direct evidence on three central questions: how can we cultivate autonomous, bipartite social dialogue in order to meet these critical challenges? How can the social partners strengthen their representativeness and membership, and extend their influence? What role can social partners and social dialogue play regarding digitalization, and what best practices can be identified?The volume also addresses significant trends such as demographic changes, migration flows, global supply chain management and environmental objectives. It covers the current EU member states while extending analysis to EU candidate and potential candidate countries, thus enlarging coverage to 34 European nations. The detailed evidence by theme and by individual country will provide a unique source of ideas on social actors’ innovative roles in ensuring sustainable and inclusive practices in the future world of work.This will be an invigorating read for labour economics and labour policy scholars looking for a better understanding of the new world of work. Labour organizations, employers, trade unions and representatives of national and supranational institutions will also benefit from the detailed case studies in the volume.Table of ContentsContents: Foreword by Heinz Koller ix 1. Enhancing social partners’ and social dialogue’s roles and capacity in the new world of work: Overview 1 Youcef Ghellab and Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead 2. Strengthening the representativeness of the social partners and their institutional capacity to shape labour markets through social dialogue 28 Dominique Anxo 3. Supporting the autonomous role of the social partners 69 Bernd Waas 4. Digitalization and social dialogue: Challenges, opportunities and responses 110 Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo Llorente 5. Enhancing the social partners and social dialogue in the new world of work in the Czech Republic 155 Soňa Veverkov. 6. Reforms and new challenges for work and employment in France: Social dialogue under pressure 188 Christine Erhel 7. The German industrial relations system under pressure: Structure, trends and outcomes 216 Ulrich Walwei, Lutz Bellmann and Christoph Bellmann 8. Striking the right balance between autonomy and assumption of responsibility: A way forward for social dialogue in Greece 255 Daphne Nicolitsas 9. Social dialogue and the new world of work in Ireland 285 Philip J. O’Connell 10. Enhancing the social partners and social dialogue in the new world of work: The case of Italy 319 Lorenzo Bordogna 11. Social partners and the world of work in Poland: Between East and West 369 Dominika Polkowska 12. Social dialogue and world of work challenges in Romania 406 Magda Volonciu 13. Enhancing social partners’ capacity and social dialogue in the new world of work: The case of Spain 429 Oscar Molina 14. Industrial relations, social dialogue and the transformation of the world of work: The Swedish experience 465 Dominique Anxo 15. Turkey: Enhancing social partners’ capacity and social dialogue in the new world of work 491 Gaye Burcu Yıldız 16. Social dialogue and the future of work in the Adriatic region 528 Igor Guardiancich 17. Social dialogue and the new world of work: The case of the Baltic states 579 Jaan Masso, Kerly Espenberg and Inta Mierina Index 619

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

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Book SynopsisContingent Workers’ Voice in Southern Europe investigates the manifold challenges posed by the continued expansion of the platform economy, the rise of non-standard forms of employment, and the diversification of work identities. Leading authors explore the potentialities and barriers for collective protection and representation of contingent workers in the platform economy, based on the experiences, needs, and aspirations of workers in Italy and Spain. Chapters undertake in-depth analyses of a diverse and innovative variety of initiatives for the protection, organization, and representation of contingent workers. The book ultimately constructs a framework to interpret the evolution of contingent workers’ experiences, allowing trade unions, social movements, and cooperatives to develop organizational and representative practices that better respond to their needs. This incisive book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of sociology, international relations, political science, and labour law. Its practical insights will also enable trade unionists, activists, and policymakers in the field of labour relations to make informed decisions and identify possible avenues for development.Trade Review‘Contingent Workers’ Voice in Southern Europe presents new insights into the growing world of contingent work, which is particularly significant in Southern Europe. A must read for everybody looking for inspiring cases of collective representation of platform workers and freelancers as well as conceptual tools for analyzing new forms of representation and social dialogue among contingent workers.’ -- Anna Ilsøe, University of Copenhagen, Denmark‘Extremely impressive and highly recommendable, this book contributes to the understanding of the South-European countries’ model of work and employment, in the context of rising contingent work and problematic collective representation for atypical workers. The new aspirations and needs of Italian and Spanish contingent workers are explored together with the innovative forms of collective action.’ -- Vassil Kirov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, BulgariaTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: what is at stake regarding the collective representation of contingent workers? 1 Sofía Pérez de Guzmán, Marcela Iglesias-Onofrio and Ivana Pais PART I NEW DEMANDS AND ASPIRATIONS FOR EMERGING LABOUR REALITIES AND IDENTITIES 2 Alternative and contingent work in Italy and Spain: a statistical approach 20 Anna Soru 3 Contingent workers’ expectations for a collective voice: between individualism and the need for representation 37 Sofía Pérez de Guzmán PART II ENHANCING SOCIAL PROTECTION FOR INTERMITTENT WORK 4 Doc servizi: how the cooperative model can support the music industry 55 Anna Mori 5 Smart Ibérica business impulse cooperative: ‘not just a means of invoicing for your work’ 75 Marcela Iglesias-Onofrio and Lucía del Moral-Espín 6 Humus Job: a collective voice for ethical work 95 Cecilia Manzo PART III BUILDING SOLIDARITIES AMONG PLATFORM WORKERS 7 Tu respuesta sindical YA: a new tool to meet the demands of workers engaged through digital platforms 111 Ester Ulloa-Unanue 8 Collective strategies of resistance to the precarious labour conditions in the digital platform economy: the case of Riders x Derechos 132 Marcela Iglesias-Onofrio 9 Consegne Etiche: the ethical platform for food delivery 155 Davide Arcidiacono and Ivana Pais PART IV NEW MODELS OF PROTECTION AND REPRESENTATION OF CONTINGENT WORKERS 10 Towards new forms of economic and political action: from voice to entry 177 Ivana Pais and Anna Mori 11 Conclusion: contingent workers’ voice in Southern Europe after Covid-19 197 Ivana Pais, Sofía Pérez de Guzmán and Marcela Iglesias-Onofrio Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely and perceptive book addresses the issues surrounding the adequacy of old-age income for future pensioners worldwide. It highlights how today’s young people are confronted with the simultaneous challenges of increasing employment uncertainty and declining pension generosity – topics which are highly relevant in contemporary welfare states. This pivotal study of the relationship between the current labour market and future pensions explores the ways in which public policies relating to education, employment and welfare work to sustain a decent living standard during retirement. Using a diverse range of comparative studies across a multitude of countries and nation-specific case studies, chapters consider the influence of institutions and social, cultural and economic norms on public pensions and retirement saving behaviours in young adults. Providing a valuable insight into contemporary research findings, this innovative book will be essential reading for students and scholars in the areas of welfare states, labour economics, pensions and the sociology of youth. Policymakers in these fields will also benefit from its analysis of sustainable pension policy development.Trade Review‘Young people face many immediate challenges in today’s labour markets, yet their longer-term prospects for retirement have often been neglected. Importantly, this edited volume addresses the links between disadvantages experienced early in careers and the much later, often substantial, consequences for retirement and old-age income. Going beyond the ordinary, these interdisciplinary studies fill knowledge gaps, especially with respect to social risk groups and geographical spread. They investigate how flexibilization of work and pension reforms challenge youth today and how they will continue to challenge them in the future. Are they aware of their prospects – and can they save adequately for their old age retirement?’ -- Bernhard Ebbinghaus, University of Mannheim, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Preface viii 1 Introduction to Youth Employment Insecurity and Pension Adequacy 1 Dirk Hofäcker and Kati Kuitto PART I LABOUR MARKET RISKS, PENSION SYSTEMS AND OLD AGE SECURITY 2 Youth and pensions in a European comparison – how pension systems consider early adulthood and life course uncertainties 15 Susan Kuivalainen, Antti Mielonen and Niko Väänänen 3 The impact of discontinuity – how unemployment shapes outcomes in voluntary pension schemes 31 Dina Frommert 4 Self-employment and the risk of poverty in old age – what’s the role of pension systems in Europe? 50 Julia Höppner 5 Manifesting future disadvantage – class, gender and pension accrual of the low-educated young in Europe 70 Traute Meyer 6 Employment in youth and pension accumulation in Finland – how recent pension reforms account for early career employment 91 Ilari Ilmakunnas and Kati Kuitto 7 Labour market insecurities of younger couples and homeownership in later adulthood in Germany: how important is couples’ and gendered risk aversion in the decision process? 106 Sophia Fauser and Sonja Scheuring PART II ATTITUDES TOWARDS PRIVATE PENSIONS AND RETIREMENT SAVING BEHAVIOUR 8 The social, cultural and economic influences on retirement saving for young adults in the UK 127 Ellie Suh and Hayley James 9 Attitudes of young workers towards the private pension system in Turkey 146 Müge Gülmez Korkmaz 10 Youth informal employment in Arab States – exclusion and exit 163 Walid Merouani Index

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Book SynopsisThe digitalization of work processes and the generalization of IT are creating unprecedented opportunities. An increasing part of the workforce is experimenting with new forms of work, as freelancers, self-employed or highly skilled employees with greater autonomy. International in scope, this book comprehensively explores these new models of work, mobility and life trajectories, and the increasing role of non-metropolitan coworking spaces.This interdisciplinary book investigates new trends in relationships between work, life plans, work-life balance, and mobility in the context of ongoing societal digitalization. An expert group of contributors adopts a comparative approach in assessing the coworking phenomenon. They examine the social embeddedness of collaborative workspaces and consider topics such as social exchange, cooperation, and collaboration, critically assessing the question of individual and collective mobilities, and exploring the historical roots of coworking and its developing meanings and uses in practice.Gathering a wide variety of studies which investigate the diversity of social trajectories, institutional context, social transition, cooperation, policy measures, and mobility patterns, this book will be an interesting read for academics and students in the fields of organizational behavior, human geography, sociology of work, cities, and regional studies. Politicians interested in territorial development, elected officials, workers of municipalities and regions, and journalists who cover work issues, will similarly find this to be a beneficial read.Trade Review‘An impressive selection of cases that reflects the variety and scope of the coworking phenomenon, setting a milestone for future research on the topic.’ -- Alessandro Gandini, University of Milan, Italy‘Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Gerhard Krauss have brought together an impressive array of scholars from the US, Canada, and Europe in what will certainly become an indispensable handbook for all, teachers and students alike, interested in understanding what coworking is all about.’ -- Mario Polèse, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to The Coworking (R)evolution 1 Gerhard Krauss and Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay PART I CONCEPTUALIZATION AND DEFINITIONS OF THIRD PLACES, COWORKING, AND COWORKING SPACES 1 Third places, coworking, and coworking spaces as concepts responding to current social and economic trends 7 Gerhard Krauss and Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay 2 Collaborative working, coworking spaces, and communities of practice: their origins, definitions, forms, different types, and forms of collaboration 26 Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Arnaud Scaillerez PART II THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF COLLABORATIVE WORKSPACES 3 How coworking spaces have spread beyond larger metro areas: a spatial diffusion analysis in France 42 Christine Liefooghe, Guy Baudelle, Sébastien Le Gall, and Clément Marinos 4 A new mode of reconciliation of professional and personal life: the contribution of coworking space 59 Guy Baudelle, Flavie Ferchaud, Gerhard Krauss, Anne-Laure Peyrou, and Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay 5 Perceived health and well-being of workers: understanding the effects observed in coworking spaces 75 Nathalie Marceau and Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay PART III SOCIAL EXCHANGE, COOPERATION AND COLLABORATION 6 Motivations to collaborate and motivations to work in coworking spaces: a comparative analysis 93 Jennifer Urasadettan, Anne-Laure Le Nadant, Pascal Glémain, and Gerhard Krauss 7 Coworking, legitimate practice, and physical presence in the modern workplace 111 Peter A. Bacevice and Gretchen M. Spreitzer 8 Co-working and entrepreneurship in non-metropolitan Third Working-places: which local transition? A first analysis in the west region of France 125 Pascal Glémain, Jennifer Urasadettan, and Valérie Billaudeau 9 Nuances of working together: the influence of managerial approaches on collaboration within coworking spaces 142 Costantino Romeo, Ignasi Capdevila, Barbara Da Roit, and Maurizio Busacca PART IV THE MOBILITY OF CO-WORKERS 10 Coworking spaces: a way of promoting more sustainable mobility and lifestyles? The example of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France 160 Patricia Lejoux, Aurore Flipo, Nathalie Ortar, Nicolas Ovtracht, and Stéphanie Souche-Lecorvec 11 Daily mobility patterns of coworkers in non-metropolitan areas: a French case study 174 Benoît Feildel PART V THE DIVERSITY OF SOCIAL TRAJECTORIES, INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT, COOPERATION, POLICY MEASURES, AND MOBILITY PATTERNS: LESSONS FROM EMPIRICAL FIELD STUDIES IN FRANCE, ITALY, NORWAY, CANADA, VIETNAM, LEBANON AND POLAND 12 Coworking spaces, digital nomads, and urban development: insights from Beirut, Lebanon 192 Divya Leducq and Étienne Bou Abdo 13 Third places for transitions? The role of an awareness-raising method with the transition-meter 209 Valérie Billaudeau and Pascal Glémain 14 The coworking space: a catalyst for initiatives at the crossroad of mobility and embeddedness. Lessons from peripheral areas of Western France 226 Sébastien Le Gall, Guy Baudelle, Anne-Laure Peyrou, and Clément Marinos 15 Public libraries as new community hubs for remote workers? 244 Mina Di Marino and Ilaria Mariotti 16 The diversity of coworking spaces: case studies from Canada 257 Arnaud Scaillerez and Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay 17 The little-observed spread of coworking spaces in Asia and their potential for urban and economic transition: the case of Vietnam 270 Helga-Jane Scarwell and Divya Leducq 18 Case studies in post-socialist Poland: the development of coworking spaces in small towns and rural areas 284 Barbara Konecka-Szydłowska and Mariusz Czupich Conclusion to the coworking (r)evolution 301 Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Gerhard Krauss Index

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Book SynopsisThis invigorating book approaches social policy as a response to socioeconomic tensions and conflicts brought about by capitalist development, exploring how such policy reflects and shapes the world of work and socioeconomic life. Ayşe Buğra presents a historical overview of the ideas and politics of social policy in a discussion framed around the interrelated questions of poverty, work and inequality. Tracing the origins of modern social policy back from the early capitalist societies of Europe to the present era of global neoliberal capitalism, Buğra explores the debates on social assistance, labour market regulation and social risk protection in different phases of capitalist history. Chapters discuss liberal, conservative and socialist imaginations of society and conceptualisations of social justice, highlighting the complexity of the conflicts and alliances shaping the politics of social policy. The book ultimately draws attention to the contemporary relevance of the history of social policy and politics for the current state of global politics, marked by the rise of authoritarian populist trends. Bringing a unique perspective to critical scholarship on capitalism, Social Policy in Capitalist History will prove indispensable to academics and postgraduate students of economic history and sociology, social policy, industrial and employment relations and political economy.Trade Review‘In a masterful historical sweep, Ayse Bugra presents a political-economic theory of social policy, its doctrine and practice in the critical intersection between capitalism and society, retracing its development from the early modern period to today’s end of globalization as we know it.’ -- Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany‘This insightful book serves as a timely reminder of the profound influence of ideas in shaping the evolution of social policy, especially in an era marked by a dearth of reasoned alternatives to the prevailing global order that is marred by inequality and insecurity. This book offers a unique perspective on the inherently political nature of social policy debates, anchoring them within the historical context of capitalism, including the post-Second World War transformations in peripheral economies.’ -- Volkan Yilmaz, Ulster University, Northern Ireland, UK‘Most social theorists and economists would agree that government programs to help the poor, the sick, the unemployed, and the old are part and parcel of a capitalist economy. Any workable form of capitalism requires society to be sheltered from the extreme risks it would otherwise be exposed to from unregulated markets. But as Ayşe Buğra’s fascinating book shows, the specific form that social policy should take under capitalism is unclear and has long been contested. Buğra provides a thorough and incisive account of the intellectual history of social policy, from the 16th century to our post-pandemic economy.’ -- Dani Rodrik, Harvard University, USTable of ContentsContent: Introduction to Social policy in capitalist history 1 From charity reform to the New Poor Law 2 On equality, class and classical political economy precepts 3 From the post-Second World War ‘restoration of habitation’ to the crisis of the restoration 4 Social policy in a globalized economy: neoliberalsim, crisis and response Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe first of two volumes bringing together researchers from an array of disciplines including sociology, organization theory, strategy, and organizational behaviour, Entrepreneurialism and Society: New Theoretical Perspectives addresses the question of how entrepreneurship has transformed from an organizing activity into an ideology that is changing society. The authors investigate the transformation of entrepreneurship into a social phenomenon, leading to an understanding of how entrepreneurship is shaping the acceptance of inequality, new employment relationships, changed understandings of social outcomes, altered policies, and social precarity. Examining the role of organizations in society, Entrepreneurialism and Society invigorates academic research by developing new perspectives on how entrepreneurs and their organizations shape our social world.Trade ReviewThe two volumes are a tour de force that serve to crystallize a novel way of conceptualizing the interplay between society and entrepreneurship. They have led to a sea change in scholarship on entrepreneurship and will inspire new and exciting research for years to come. -- Sarah Soule, Ph.D. Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessEntrepreneurship has morphed from “what startups and small businesses do” into a pervasive ideology. From Shark Tank to university curricula, entrepreneurship is everywhere now. How did everyone become an LLC, ready to toss an elevator pitch at a moment’s notice? The articles in these volumes examine the societal impact of entrepreneurialism -- what happens when the process of starting a business becomes a set of values and a how-to guide for appropriate action far beyond the context of startups. They reflect an engaging mix of disciplines and methods taking on a vital problem. -- Gerald Davis, Ph.D., University of MichiganEntrepreneurship has been the rage for several decades, escaping serious scrutiny of its ramifications for those who experience its second and third-order consequences. The authors remedy that omission, deftly revealing the many societal costs and limitations that stem from worshipping at the altar of entrepreneurship. -- Walter Powell, Ph.D., Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsEntrepreneurialism and Society: An Introduction; Robert N. Eberhart, Howard E. Aldrich, and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt Chapter 1. Freedom is Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose: Entrepreneurialism and the Changing Nature of Employment Relations; Robert N. Eberhart, Stephen Barley, and Andrew Nelson Chapter 2. Entrepreneurialism as Discourse: Towards a Critical Research Agenda; Koray Caliskan and Michael Lounsbury Chapter 3. Entrepreneurship as Cultural Theme in Neoliberal Society; Patricia Bromley, John W. Meyer, and Ruo Jia Chapter 4. Neoliberal Ideology and the Myth of the Self-made Entrepreneur; Steven K. Vogel Chapter 5. How to Break Free: An Orders-of-Worth Perspective on Emancipatory Entrepreneurship; Violina P. Rindova, Santosh B. Srinivas, and Luis L. Martins Chapter 6. The Unique Vulnerabilities of Entrepreneurial Ventures to Misconduct; Donald Palmer and Tim Weiss

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Book SynopsisThis timely book provides an innovative study of the profound changes and latest challenges facing the construction sector. It adopts a socio-technical approach to analyse not only the role of technological factors, but also that of actors and their social dialogue and industrial relations. Digital Transitions and Innovation in Construction Value Chains investigates evolution within the construction sector relating to increased digitalization, including the growing use of smart devices and building information modeling (BIM) applications. Drawing on research from across Europe, chapters detail methodologies based on three main data sources: direct observation, documentary analysis and qualitative survey tools. Ultimately, they highlight the advantages and potential disadvantages of the role of social dialogue and collective bargaining for the democratic management of digitalization in the sector. Academics and researchers within the fields of economics, innovation and construction management will find the methodologies and conclusions presented within this book to be of great benefit. Practitioners in the construction sector will also appreciate the insights offered.Trade Review‘At last, a book that carefully considers both the potential dangers of digitalisation as well as the benefits for the construction workforce, including through improved work organisation and qualifications, if social partners - and especially the unions - across Europe, play a key role in its implementation, control and monitoring. This should be essential reading for all those concerned with innovation, industrial relations, and achieving an equitable society.’ -- Linda Clarke, University of Westminster, UK‘The construction sector finds itself at the epicentre of both the digital and the green transition but has been much less researched than the manufacturing sector. Filling this gap, this book provides a comparative analysis across the value chain with a systemic vision of change that lays down a framework for a just socio-technical transition towards digitalisation.’ -- Bela Galgoczi, European Trade Union Institute, BelgiumTable of ContentsContents: 1 The role of industrial relations for equitable socio-technical change in construction value chains: overview 1 Serena Rugiero and Daniele Di Nunzio 2 A quantitative analysis of the European construction sector: productivity, investment, and competitiveness 18 Alessandro Bellocchi and Giuseppe Travaglini 3 The Belgian construction sector: growing practices of digitalization and the challenge of relevant social dialogue practices 50 Marine Franssen and Frédéric Naedenoen 4 Digital transformation in the construction sector in Bulgaria and the role of the social partners 67 Yuliya Simeonova and Svetla Toneva 5 Digital transformation in the French construction sector: articulating technological transformation with a socio-economic transition 80 Christophe Teissier 6 Is construction work becoming more industrial and off-site? Digitalisation in the construction sector in Germany 98 Gernot Mühge and Tim Harbecke 7 Digitisation in the Italian construction sector: the constructive process beyond the productive perimeter 116 Gianluca De Angelis, Daniele Di Nunzio, Serena Rugiero and Nicoletta Brachini 8 Digitisation of construction in Spain: changes in value chains, work organisation and working conditions 134 Jesús Cruces Aguilera and Luis de la Fuente Sanz 9 Comparative analysis of the country case studies 154 Daniele Di Nunzio and Serena Rugiero 10 Final considerations and policy recommendations 193 Daniele Di Nunzio and Serena Rugiero Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book introduces a fresh perspective on youth unemployment by analysing it as a global phenomenon. Continuously-escalating rates of youth unemployment have become endemic, normalised features of contemporary society. Ross Fergusson and Nicola Yeates argue that only by incorporating analysis of the dynamics of the global economy and global governance can we make convincing, comprehensive sense of these developments. The authors present new substantial evidence spanning a century pointing to the strong relationships between youth unemployment, globalisation, economic crises and consequent harms to young people's social and economic welfare worldwide. The book notably encompasses data and analysis spanning the Global South as well as the Global North.The authors' innovative exploration is holistic in approach and committed to analyses that span histories, territories, academic disciplines and policy contexts. Providing new statistical examination of the incidence, distribution, impacts and putative causes, this book presents a highly original interpretation of youth unemployment and its global governance. It calls for urgently-needed robust responses on a global scale.Global Youth Unemployment is essential reading for students and academics within the fields of social, labour, public and economic policy as well as policy makers within the youth employment and unemployment sectors.Trade Review‘The two authors are very dear and consistent with respect to their purpose, which is a merit to them. In turn, it makes it easier to understand and discuss their viewpoint. For practitioners, the main interest may be to learn how public support and public governance is creat­ing youth unemployment too. This is neither a novelty - except for a truism: it offers another oppor­tunity to consider what professionals are accepting, and what they should not accept.’ -- Niels Rosendal, European Journal of Social Work‘This book is a manifesto of global social policy. ...Global Youth Unemployment features a strong empirical analysis underpinning its major arguments. With an extensive collection of the worldwide employment data from various sources, Fergusson and Yeates convincingly portrait the characteristics of the youth labor forces and the profiles of endemic YU. The extent of data compilation across the regions and over time is remarkable, illustrating the steady rise of YU globally. ...Fergusson and Yeates also demonstrate their excellent expertise in the historical development of global policies toward YU. ...For social policy scholarship, this book sheds new light on a centuries-old social question by linking (un-)employment with the structural transformations of the global economy, and how the latter adversely impact on the youth cohorts of the Global North and South alike.’ -- Shih-Jiunn Shi, The Developing Economies‘Recommended. The text will serve as a valuable reference, providing extensive data sets while offering an important read for anyone interested in social welfare and contemporary public policy.’ -- S.R. Kahn, CHOICE‘Global Youth Unemployment: History, Governance and Policy by Ross Fergusson and Nicola Yeates is a remarkable book: conceptually rich and empirically epic, it deserves to have a major impact on the study of social policy, and indeed across the social sciences more generally . . . There have been few, if any, books which detail so convincingly and originally the cross-border determinants of youth unemployment. The data presented in the book’s empirical chapter[s] is comprehensive, indeed, almost exhaustive … from a vast array of sources . . . The authors fit the pieces of the puzzle together masterfully . . . Global Youth Unemployment is full of rich and innovative argumentation.’ -- Craig Berry, British Journal of Industrial Relations'Rarely has a study of global youth unemployment so adeptly combined an empirically-grounded scrutiny of its levels and trends, with a conceptually nuanced analysis of its political economy drivers at multiple scales. Fergusson and Yeates make a compelling case for seeing endemic youth unemployment as an issue of grave social injustice-one that supply-side palliative approaches have patently failed to address, and which is in urgent need of integrated employment, social protection and macroeconomic policies backed by a more cohesive system of social and economic governance at the global level.' -- Shahra Razavi, Director of the Social Protection Department, International Labour Organization, Switzerland'This is a timely assessment of a global crisis that has been greatly worsened by the Covid pandemic slump. Youth make up a large percentage of the global precariat, and as the authors convincingly demonstrate, their unemployment has long been huge, with enormous global social and economic consequences. Unless income security can be provided on a worldwide basis there will be justified social unrest.' -- Guy Standing, Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London, UK'Youth unemployment, as a social policy and social movement issue, now has its definitive treatment in this magnificent book by Ross Fergusson and Nicola Yeates. Going beyond methodological nationalism it outlines lucidly the causes of endemic youth unemployment on a global scale. It calls for a Global Compact for Youth Employment to address the scandalous fact that nearly half of the world’s unemployed are between 15 and 24 years of age. This is historically grounded, policy relevant, critical analysis at its best.' -- Ronaldo Munck, Professor of Political Sociology, Dublin City University, IrelandTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: globalising endemic youth unemployment 2. Endemic youth unemployment:a social policy issue 3. The global youth labour force 4. Global economic restructuring and youth labour markets 5. Financial crises and endemic youth unemployment 6. Youth unemployment economic crises and human development, 1991–2018 (with Sarah Tipping) 7. Historical origins and early development of global youth unemployment policy, 1919–1979 8. The neo-liberalisation of global youth unemployment policy, 1980–2021 9. Conclusion: towards a global compact for youth employment References Index

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Book SynopsisThe ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Societal grand challenges have moved from a marginal concern to a mainstream issue within the field of organization and management studies. Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges unpacks how diverse forms of organizing help tackle - or reinforce - grand challenges, while emphasizing the need for researchers to expand their methodological repertoire and reflect upon scholarly practices. This edited collection offers an organizational perspective on societal grand challenges in three sections: Diverse Forms of Organizing and Societal Grand Challenges; Scholarship and Societal Grand Challenges; Reflections and Outlook. The articles offer empirical and conceptual work that focus on a wide variety of regions including Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America, and engage with multiple grand challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, decent work, hunger, inequality, and poverty. Drawing on varied theoretical lenses, the authors take stock of recent developments in the literature, present an overview of the current thinking, and set a foundation for future research on grand challenges in organization and management studies. The articles provide inspiration, insights, and instruments for developing timely and relevant knowledge to engage with the pressing societal grand challenges of our time.Table of ContentsIntroduction: How Organizing Matters for Societal Grand Challenges; Ali Aslan Gümüsay, Emilio Marti, Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich, and Christopher Wickert Section I. Diverse Forms of Organizing & Societal Grand Challenges Chapter 1. Tackling Grand Challenges Collaboratively: The Role of Value-Driven Sensegiving; Arne Kroeger, Nicole Siebold, Franziska Günzel-Jensen, Fouad Philippe Saade, and Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä Chapter 2. Building Collective Institutional Infrastructures for Decent Platform Work: The Development of a Crowdwork Agreement in Germany; Thomas Gegenhuber, Elke Schuessler, Georg Reischauer, and Laura Thäter Chapter 3. Theorizing the Role of Metaphors in Co-orienting Collective Action Towards Grand Challenges: The Example of the Covid-19 Pandemic; Dennis Schoeneborn, Consuelo Vásquez, and Joep P. Cornelissen Chapter 4. Wicked Problems and New Ways of Organising: How Fe y Alegria Confronted Changing Manifestations of Poverty; Camilo Arciniegas Pradilla, Jose Bento da Silva, and Juliane Reinecke Chapter 5. From a Clash of Social Orders to a Loss of Decidability in Meta-organizations Tackling Grand Challenges: The Case of Japan Leaving the International Whaling Commission; Héloïse Berkowitz and Michael Grothe-Hammer Chapter 6. Commitment to Grand Challenges in Fluid Forms of Organizing: The Role of Narratives’ Temporality; Iben Sandal Stjerne, Matthias Wenzel, and Silviya Svejenova Section II. Scholarship & Societal Grand Challenges Chapter 7. Addressing Grand Challenges Through Different Forms of Organising: A Literature Review; Leo Juri Kaufmann and Anja Danner-Schröder Chapter 8. Scale in Research on Grand Challenges; Katharina Dittrich Chapter 9. Diaries as a Methodological Innovation for Studying Grand Challenges; Madeleine Rauch and Shahzad (Shaz) Ansari Chapter 10. Grand Challenges and Business Education: Dealing with Barriers to Learning and Uncomfortable Knowledge; Marian Konstantin Gatzweiler, Corinna Frey-Heger, and Matteo Ronzani Chapter 11. Striving for Societal Impact as an Early-Career Researcher: Reflections on Five Common Concerns; Sascha Friesike, Leonhard Dobusch, and Maximilian Heimstädt Section III. Reflections & Outlook Chapter 12. Robust Action: Advancing a Distinctive Approach to Grand Challenges; Joel Gehman, Dror Etzion, and Fabrizio Ferraro Chapter 13. Surfing the Grand Challenges Wave in Management Scholarship: How Did We Get Here, Where Are We Now, and What’s Next?; Jennifer Howard-Grenville and Jonas Spengler

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Book SynopsisSearching for paid tasks via digital labour platforms, such as Uber, Deliveroo and Fiverr, has become a global phenomenon and the regular source of income for millions of people. In the advent of digital labour platforms, this insightful book sheds new light on familiar questions about tensions between competition and cooperation, short-term gains and long-term success, and private benefits and public costs. Drawing on a wealth of knowledge from a range of disciplines, including law, management, psychology, economics, sociology and geography, it pieces together a nuanced picture of the societal challenges posed by the platform economy.Chapters present a comprehensive, multidisciplinary overview of the rise of gig work, reflecting on long-term developments in the gig economy and incorporating contemporary developments into the rich theoretical and empirical literature on the topic. Charting new research territory, the book addresses key academic and policy challenges, arming readers with relevant analytical tools and practical solutions to face common problems. This book comprises a key reference for future research on the topic as well as critical policy measures for addressing challenges relating to gig work.Offering an integrated outline of the latest insights, this book is crucial reading for scholars and researchers of the platform economy and gig work, outlining academic insights and empirical research, and illustrating a research agenda for future scholarship. The book’s comprehensive approach will also benefit policy-makers, managers and workers as they confront the platform economy’s wide variety of legal, economic and management challenges.Trade Review‘Only a level playing field will make the platform economy work for everyone. Getting there requires a deep interdisciplinary understanding of the challenges - and potential solutions - involved. In bringing together a diverse group of scholars from a broad range of disciplines Platform Economy Puzzles provides a wide range of excellent perspectives of interest to anyone interested in understanding how we got here – and what should happen next.‘Table of ContentsContents: Preface PART I SETTING THE STAGE – PLATFORM-MEDIATED GIG WORK IN CONTEXT 1 Platform economy puzzles: the need for a multidisciplinary perspective on gig work 2 Jeroen Meijerink, Giedo Jansen and Victoria Daskalova 2 Understanding the prevalence and nature of platform work: the measurement case in the COLLEEM survey study 19 Annarosa Pesole 3 The past, present and future of gig work 46 Jim Stanford 4 Labour protection for non-employees: how the gig economy revives old problems and challenges existing solutions 68 Victoria Daskalova, Shae McCrystal and Masako Wakui PART II UNPACKING PLATFORM ECONOMY PUZZLES – ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EXCHANGES IN PLATFORM-MEDIATED GIG WORK 5 Platform urbanism and infrastructural surplus 101 Aaron Shapiro 6 Dual value production as key to the gig economy puzzle 123 Niels van Doorn and Adam Badger 7 Online labour platforms, human resource management and platform ecosystem tensions: an institutional perspective 140 Anne Keegan and Jeroen Meijerink 8 Multi-party working relationships in gig work: towards a new perspective 162 James Duggan, Ultan Sherman, Ronan Carbery and Anthony McDonnell PART III SOLUTIONS AND CONCLUSIONS 9 Gigs of their own: reinventing worker cooperativism in the platform economy and its implications for collective action 188 Damion Jonathan Bunders 10 The politics of platform work: representation in the age of digital labour 209 Paul Jonker-Hoffrén and Giedo Jansen 11 Conclusion: solutions to platform economy puzzles and avenues for future research 229 Giedo Jansen, Victoria Daskalova and Jeroen Meijerink Index

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Book SynopsisIn this timely book, Barbara Czarniawska and Bernward Joerges examine the hopes and fears around work and job security inspired by automation, from the original coining of the term 'robot' to the present day media fascination. Have these hopes and fears changed or do they remain the same? This discerning book investigates whether these changes in perception correlate to actual changes taking place in the field of robotics. Exploring several streams of popular culture, including ground-breaking science fiction novels and films, the impact of these globally renowned works on public opinion regarding robotics is assessed. Detailed media analysis identifies the frequency and complexity of common views that stem from the ideas found in both fiction and scientific research results disseminated by the news. Recent social science works dedicated to the study of robotziation are then reviewed, illustrating current and future debates surrounding the phenomenon of the 'robot revolution'. Robotization of Work? will be a key resource for students and scholars studying the organization of work, IT and digitalization, and cultural studies. It will also be of interest to anyone engaged with the concepts of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotization.Trade Review'Within the rapidly proliferating field of social studies of cybernetics this brilliant book stands out in several ways. It revisits the epistemology of autopoiesis by unearthing how popular culture, science fiction and cybernetics co-constitute each other since the 1920's. In doing so this book on imaginaries and technological developments ingeniously translates one of the key problems of knowing the world into a down-to-earth empirical investigation of the various literatures and films on the robotization of work. While most recent publications that similarly aim to address the core issues of cybernetics surrender to the urge of making prophecies, Czarniawska and Joerges consequentially remain astute, sober and razor-sharp and thereby provocatively interrupt a current trend. The elegant precision of the argument and the clarity of the language deployed makes this erudite and yet modest book come as a relief when one feels overwhelmed by the high-flown premonitions surrounding us.' --Richard Rottenburg, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa'There has been a lot of speculation recently about the consequences of robotization. In particular, how artificial intelligence (AI) might automate and replace tasks thought uniquely human. It would be easy to be carried away with the hyperbole. However, to ignore their potential effects would also be remiss. In the Robotization of Work, Czarniawska and Joerges provide the perfect antidote by studying how robotization and automation have been characterised in literature, film, media and the social sciences, and compare predictions from the 'first wave' of AI to those made today. Written with intelligence - and some humour - this book will be required reading for scholars interested in how (and in what form) ideas of automation continue to inhabit our imagination and drive our actions.' --Neil Pollock, University of Edinburgh, UK'In the midst of a full moral panic about robots and artificial intelligence, this wise and engaging book manages to avoid both the hype and hysteria by examining how popular culture - mainly science fiction movies and books - have portrayed robots and their impact on society. Brimming with new insights, the authors show how fiction has addressed many of the themes taken up in later scholarship. We imagine the worst but in the end our societies and institutions shape the actual technology we end up with.' --Trevor J. Pinch, Cornell University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Robot revolution? 2. Robotization and popular culture 3. Robots in popular culture 4. Robots in popular culture: A tentative taxonomy 5. Robotization in the media: 2014-2017 6. Robotization in social sciences 7. (Some) conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This Advanced Introduction examines the economic, social, and political conditions that have shaped the 21st century workplace in wealthy democracies, highlighting the changes in work since the 1970s which have produced the ‘new economy’. Amy S. Wharton illuminates important aspects of today’s workplace, including the service economy, customer-facing jobs, the transformative effects of digital platforms, and the ‘opening’ of the employment relationship. Key Features: Analysis of algorithms and the gig economy in the broader context of workplace change Insight into the interconnections between gender, work, and family, as well as the sources of stability and change in these relations over time Understanding changes in the spatial, physical, and temporal aspects of work and their impacts on workers and families Foregrounds inequality, using the intersectional lenses of race, class, gender, and citizenship to explore this issue Revealing the continuities and discontinuities between the workplace of the past and the present, this Advanced Introduction will be a valuable guide for sociology researchers and advanced students. Business scholars, students and leaders will also benefit from its discussion of platform-based service work and the rise of nonstandard, contingent, and temporary jobs.Trade Review‘The prose is pitched perfectly for advanced undergraduates and was highly engaging for me as well. It feels fresh and up to date. Data-rich sections include the precarity of work, the digital economy, gender at work in international context, and the implications of COVID-19. At the same time, the chapters are firmly rooted in the historical development of capitalism and informed by sociological theory.’ -- Mary Blair-Loy, University of California San Diego, US‘Wharton’s Advanced Introduction to the Sociology of Work hits the sweet spot most instructors look for – historically grounded political economic analyses coupled with crystal clear contemporary relevance to our students. While expected topics like emotional labor in service work and work-family conflicts are present, so too are new ones like the impact of financialization on employment and the consequences for workers of algorithmic control over their labor. Students will encounter a broad sociological perspective on the labor process and be enabled and encouraged to visualize and discuss their futures as employees and as members of households.’ -- Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Sociology of Work 1. Placing work at the center of social and economic change 2. The rise of the new economy 3. Inside the frontline service workplace 4. The digital revolution and the growth of the platform economy 5. Gender, work, and family in cross-national perspective 6. Work time, wages, and inequality in the new economy Conclusion to the Sociology of Work Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This Advanced Introduction examines the economic, social, and political conditions that have shaped the 21st century workplace in wealthy democracies, highlighting the changes in work since the 1970s which have produced the ‘new economy’. Amy S. Wharton illuminates important aspects of today’s workplace, including the service economy, customer-facing jobs, the transformative effects of digital platforms, and the ‘opening’ of the employment relationship. Key Features: Analysis of algorithms and the gig economy in the broader context of workplace change Insight into the interconnections between gender, work, and family, as well as the sources of stability and change in these relations over time Understanding changes in the spatial, physical, and temporal aspects of work and their impacts on workers and families Foregrounds inequality, using the intersectional lenses of race, class, gender, and citizenship to explore this issue Revealing the continuities and discontinuities between the workplace of the past and the present, this Advanced Introduction will be a valuable guide for sociology researchers and advanced students. Business scholars, students and leaders will also benefit from its discussion of platform-based service work and the rise of nonstandard, contingent, and temporary jobs.Trade Review‘The prose is pitched perfectly for advanced undergraduates and was highly engaging for me as well. It feels fresh and up to date. Data-rich sections include the precarity of work, the digital economy, gender at work in international context, and the implications of COVID-19. At the same time, the chapters are firmly rooted in the historical development of capitalism and informed by sociological theory.’ -- Mary Blair-Loy, University of California San Diego, US‘Wharton’s Advanced Introduction to the Sociology of Work hits the sweet spot most instructors look for – historically grounded political economic analyses coupled with crystal clear contemporary relevance to our students. While expected topics like emotional labor in service work and work-family conflicts are present, so too are new ones like the impact of financialization on employment and the consequences for workers of algorithmic control over their labor. Students will encounter a broad sociological perspective on the labor process and be enabled and encouraged to visualize and discuss their futures as employees and as members of households.’ -- Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Sociology of Work 1. Placing work at the center of social and economic change 2. The rise of the new economy 3. Inside the frontline service workplace 4. The digital revolution and the growth of the platform economy 5. Gender, work, and family in cross-national perspective 6. Work time, wages, and inequality in the new economy Conclusion to the Sociology of Work Index

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Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking book analyses the process of labour commodification, through which the individual's ability to earn a basic living becomes dependent on the conditions of the market relationship. Building on the premise that the separation of a group of individuals from the means of production is an intrinsic element of capitalism, Fausto Corvino theorises that this implies a form of domination in a neo-republican sense.Proposing an original theory of global justice denoted as a minimum de-commodification of labour power, this book explains the ways in which this cosmopolitan principle resists the criticisms that are commonly advanced against classic theories of global justice and charts a theory falling between the neo-republican and labour republican approaches. It stimulates the debate on, and moral critique of, capitalism and the obstacles it poses to individual freedoms, with a focus on exploitation and domination.Global Justice, Markets and Domination will be a key resource for students and scholars researching capitalism and analytical Marxism, political economics and human rights. It will also be of benefit to those interested in theories of global and distributive justice and the economic implications of the neo-republican theory of freedom as non-domination.Trade Review'Fausto Corvino's book is an original, engaging and enjoyable read. It is also erudite and wide-ranging. By bringing the extensive literatures on domination, distributive justice, and cosmopolitanism to bear on questions of commodification and structural economic deprivation, Corvino's argument complements and advances these debates. Moreover, his openness to disciplines other than philosophy, such as economic sociology, makes this book a valuable addition to contemporary interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of philosophy, economic sociology, and political science.' -- Nicholas Vrousalis, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands'This clear and engaging book advances the debate by masterfully synthesizing several recent accounts of economic justice. Fausto Corvino argues that the world economy should be so organized that all can meet their basic needs without selling their labor power. With minimally adequate non-labor income for all, employment opportunities would be attractive enough to be freely embraced by workers who remain free to be unemployed. The world's elites are harming those who, under the global economic arrangements they uphold and benefit from, are compelled to work.' -- Thomas Pogge, Yale University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Labour commodification 2. Market and domination 3. A minimum de-commodification of labour and global justice 4. Statist objections to a cosmopolitan minimum de-commodification of labour Index

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Book SynopsisWith original contributions from leading experts in the field, this cutting-edge Research Handbook combines theoretical advancement and the newest empirical research to explore the sociology of organizations as mesa-level mediators of individual and societal outcomes.Covering the major theoretical foundations of the topic, this innovative Research Handbook analyses critical and contemporary sociological theory and examines the purposes and goals of a diverse range of organizations in a variety of contexts. Chapters detail original research that investigates labour relations, ethical and sustainable environmental practices, race, gender, class, sexuality, media, religion, politics, and alternative economic models.This Research Handbook will prove an engaging and informative read for students and scholars of organization studies, labour policy, sociology, political science, economics, management, philosophy, and social psychology. With its global, interdisciplinary scope, it will also be invaluable to practitioners and policymakers working within a vast range of organizations.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Research Handbook on the Sociology of Organizations 1 Mary Godwyn PART I SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY OF ORGANIZATIONS 1 The organization of higher education: an overview of sociological research into universities as organizations 13 Klarissa Lueg and Angela Graf 2 Decisional organization theory: towards an integrated framework of organization 30 Michael Grothe-Hammer, Héloïse Berkowitz and Olivier Berthod 3 A critical management studies approach to big data 54 Carl Stefan Roth-Kirkegaard 4 Carceral goals: the role of corrections officers in organizational goal attainment 73 Madeline McPherson and Danielle S. Rudes 5 Do organizations have a purpose? The symbolic constructivism test 87 Jean-Pierre Chanteau 6 Organizational legitimacy and legitimizing myths 107 Martijn Boersma 7 Dialectical network analysis: a critical approach for researching networks in management and organization studies 125 Martha Emilie Ehrich 8 The importance of empathy and compassion in organizations: why there is so little, and why we need more 145 Fiona Meechan, Leo McCann and Sir Cary Cooper 9 Where words speak louder than actions: values, strategy and action in globalizing education – how successful IB schools are made 164 Alexander Gardner-McTaggart and Tony Bush 10 Exploring the connections between critical and contemporary social theory and the sociology of culture 188 Dustin Garlitz 11 Entrepreneurial hybridity: concept and context in creative and cultural organizations 208 Jaleesa Renee Wells 12 Theory, practice and bricolage: recombobulating agencies and reorienting resistance to neoliberalization of the (post-) welfare state 221 Christopher N. Walker 13 A world polity view on reorganization and institutional change in natural resources management 242 Mohammad Al-Saidi 14 The influence of organizational structures on police decision-making on stop, question and frisk 260 Muneeba Azam, Christine Sim and Danielle S. Rudes PART II EMPIRICAL RESEARCH: WORKPLACE EXPERIENCES AND CASE STUDIES 15 Rationalizing work through occupational communities in independent games development 276 Adrian Wright and Dorota Marsh 16 Religion at work: the Quaker paradox 293 Mark Read 17 Charisma and charismatic leadership in organizations 311 Dinara Tokbaeva 18 Organizations and power: a critical evaluation of the rise of performance measurement 329 Guy Redden 19 Autonomist leadership and organizational practice in leaderless street bands 347 Meghan Elizabeth Kallman 20 Contemporizing the social organization of parole: a critical assessment 367 Simon I. Singer and Stuti S. Kokkalera 21 Professionalization and the politicization of civil society organizations in Sierra Leone 384 Michelle Reddy 22 Getting real about research: lessons learned from a worker training evaluation project 399 Deborah B. Smith 23 Career development opportunities: a sociological and practitioner exploration of organizational commitment factors, theories, and outcomes 417 Patricia Sullivan, Andrew Creed, Ambika Zutshi and David C. Lane 24 Resistance and resilience among tattoo workers 434 David C. Lane and Jacob T. Foster PART III ORGANIZATIONS AS MESO-LEVEL MEDIATORS OF INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETAL OUTCOMES 25 Synergies between school leaders and communities in challenging urban schools: a review of organizational dynamics and the urban schools’ continuum 457 Maricela Guzmán and Leonardo Oliver Ortiz 26 Critical realist metatheory and the sociology of organizations: using contrastive explanation to explain personal internet use at work 475 Julie Monroe, Steve Vincent and Ana Lopes 27 Exploring relations of power in Quakers’ alternative forms of organizing 491 Stephen Allen 28 The dialectic of changing corporate masks: from profit maximizers to predators to socially responsible global leaders 509 Yon Jung Choi and Connie L. McNeely 29 Organizing values: the principles of rationalization and individualization 528 Hannah Mormann, Raimund Hasse and Nadine Arnold Index

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Book SynopsisSocial Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South draws on the accounts of informal workers, who represent over 60 per cent of the global workforce, to advocate for radically new conceptualizations of state-society, capital-labour and state-capital-labour relations, illustrating how current social contracts may be considered inadequate, irrelevant or unjust.Bridging social contract theories, both mainstream and critical, and the experiences of informal workers – self-employed, wage employed and sub-contracted – this book sheds light on how many existing social contract models stigmatize informal workers and do not offer legal or social protection. Instead of ideologically driven ‘top-down’ calls to revitalize the social contract, it advocates for ‘bottom-up’ initiatives focused on the demands of the working poor in the informal economy.With a wealth of cross-national evidence, as well as promising case studies, this timely and thought-provoking book will prove vital for scholars and researchers of informal workers and of state-capital-labour relations; and for policy makers negotiating new social contracts.Trade Review‘An original and insightful contribution to rethinking the social contract. Instead of prescribing from above, the authors redirect attention to the perspective of informal workers, to their needs, demands and agency, and to the new realities of informality exposed by COVID-19, digital employment, and new forms of collective action.’ -- Kate Meagher, London School of Economics, UK'Informal work arrangements predominate in developing countries and are increasing in rich nations. How should we deal with this? This book makes a novel case for an approach based on social contracts that recognise informal workers as legitimate economic agents, and therefore include them in social dialogue and policy-making and rule-setting processes. Such imaginative thinking about informality is urgent and necessary.' -- Jayati Ghosh, University of Massachusetts Amherst, US‘Most people work in the informal sector and yet our social contracts often exclude them. This volume provides compelling evidence from around the world as to why a better social contract for all of us would provide great security and opportunity for the world’s informal sector workers. A must read for those who care about creating a fairer world.’ -- Minouche Shafik, London School of Economics, UK and author of What We Owe Each Other: A New Social ContractTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: social contracts and informal workers in the global South 1 Sophie Plagerson, Laura Alfers and Martha Chen 1 Recognition, responsiveness and reciprocity: what informal worker leaders expect from the state, the private sector and themselves 31 Sally Roever and Ana Carolina Ogando 2 Self-employment and social contracts: from the perspective of the informal self-employed 49 Martha Chen 3 “Dependent Contractor”: towards the recognitions of a new labor category 73 Françoise Carré 4 Taxation and the informal sector in the global South: strengthening the social contract without reciprocity? 85 Michael Rogan 5 Towards a more inclusive social protection: informal workers and the struggle for a new social contract 106 Laura Alfers and Rachel Moussié 6 Extended Producer Responsibility: opportunities and challenges for waste pickers 126 Taylor Cass Talbott 7 Human rights and transnational social contracts: the recognition and inclusion of homeworkers? 144 Marlese von Broembsen 8 Informal workers harnessing the power of digital platforms in India 169 Salonie Muralidhara Hiriyur 9 “Essential and disposable? Or just disposable?” Informal workers during COVID-19 189 Sarah Orleans Reed Conclusion: Post-pandemic epilogue – the bad old contract, an even worse contract or a better social contract for informal workers? 216 Laura Alfers, Martha Chen and Sophie Plagerson Index

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Book SynopsisThis selection of John Creedy's essays on labour economics sheds light on the areas of labour mobility, skilled labour markets and trade unions and wages.Among other issues, Professor Creedy discusses: the effects of migration, population ageing and retirement on the labour market the economic analysis of internal labour markets job mobility, earnings and responsibility in skilled labour markets with a particular emphasis on chemists and professional scientists the relationship between trade unions, tax levels and relative wages Labour Mobility, Earnings and Unemployment will be a valuable point of reference for students and scholars of labour economics.Table of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Mobility in Labour Markets Part II: Skilled Labour Markets Part III: Trade Unions and Wages Index

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Book SynopsisPersistent unemployment is recognised as one of the main mechanisms of social and political exclusion. The Dynamics of Full Employment provides a new and fresh approach to the question of full employment in contemporary society. It offers an internationally comparative, interdisciplinary approach to the dynamics of full employment and views the labour market not only as an economic institution, but as a social one. The authors argue that transitional markets - defined as legitimate, negotiated and politically supported sets of mobility options - are becoming essential ingredients of successful employment policies in modern societies. Social integration through participation in the labour market should not exclude productive activity in other spheres of life.The authors attempt to enhance the understanding, through empirical evidence, of the dynamics of modern labour markets and the theoretical foundation of transitional labour markets. They also aim to determine which arrangements (via institutional, legal and social security frameworks) might best be able to prevent or relieve structural unemployment.This innovative and original book will be of interest to both academics and policymakers in the fields of public policy and labour market, and employment policy in particular.Table of ContentsFull Contents: Preface Acknowledgements 1. The Dynamics of Full Employment: An Introductory Overview Part I: Change and Performance of Employment Systems 2. Employment Systems in Transition: Explaining Performance Differentials of Post-industrial Economies 3. Flexibility and Security: Labour Market Policy in Austria, Denmark, Ireland and the Netherlands 4. Employment Systems and Transitional Labour Markets: A Comparison of Youth Labour Markets in Germany, France and the UK Part II: Theoretical and Normative Developments 5. Towards a Theory of Transitional Labour Markets 6. Transitional Labour Markets: From Positive Analysis to Policy Proposals 7. The Legal Regulation of Transitional Labour Markets Part III: Applications and Policy Strategies 8. The Dynamics of Employment in the European Union: An Exploratory Analysis 9. From Salary Workers to Entrepreneurial Workers? 10. Working-time Transitions and Transitional Labour Markets 11. How Can Active Policies Be Made More Effective? 12. Transitional Labour Markets and the European Social Model: Towards a New Employment Compact Index

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

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Book SynopsisThe contributions to this timely volume explore the social implications of labour market reforms, and assess the complex relationship between the economic and non-economic aspects of labour institutions. The authors ascertain that labour market systems have important social dimensions, including social benefits and effects on psychological well-being and on social relationships. They go on to argue that the evaluation of reforms should take into consideration this social impact.The book examines the requirements for increased flexibility in contractual associations whilst maintaining social protection and job security. Using new utility criteria, guidelines for evaluating labour market and social protection system reform policies are recommended.It is argued that policy evaluations should consider whether social benefits are compatible with the increased flexibility demanded by the marketplace, taking into account the complex social and cultural rules which affect human behaviour, and the fact that individuals are concerned with issues such as fairness, status and the well-being of their fellow citizens. Policymakers involved in government, international institutions, professional associations for social work and labour relations, unions and employer federations will find this book to be a useful and fascinating read. It will also be of great interest to academics involved in labour economics, industrial relations and industrial economics.Trade Review'The merit of the book is that in just 150 pages it takes up the fundamental debate on the continued tension between the economic and the social dimension of employment. . . the volume is to be applauded for its achievement in posing the right questions necessary to discuss the social dimension of employment. Rather than providing definite and simplistic answers it guides the reader through the "state-of-the-art" and the relevant academic debates within labour and welfare economics and institutional economics.' -- Klaus Schomann, TransferTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: The Social Dimensions of Employment. Institutional Reforms in the Labour Markets 1. The Welfare State and Employment 2. Can Reform of the Employment Relationship Help Create Jobs? 3. The Social Dimensions of Labour Market Institutions 4. Recent Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender: A Look Across the Atlantic 5. Well-being at Work Index

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