Sociology: work and labour Books
Springer Verlag, Singapore Changes in Work and Family Life in Japan Under
Book SynopsisThis book describes how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the way of work, the division of household labor, and family formation in Japan. One of the characteristics of Japanese employment practices is a stable employer–employment relationship and seniority-based wage system. In return, long working hours, especially for men who are called “salarymen” (salaried workers, or “company men”), are required. The pandemic has led to an expansion of telework and has reduced their working hours, which has made them return to their homes to work. In contrast, non-regular employees, who are mostly women, has become more unstable in employment and their incomes fell. This tendency has become even stronger under the pandemic.Compared with conditions in Western countries, in Japan wives have a greater responsibility for domestic chores. In the pandemic, as children's classes shifted to online and childcare support facilities were temporarily closed, the burden of housework and child-rearing increased for wives. However, husbands who worked from home shared a part of the housework, and popular home delivery services helped to reduce the burdens on wives. Japan is one of the developed countries with low fertility rates. Under the pandemic, many Japanese postponed starting a family, which further shrank the country’s birthrate. There was a remarkably significant tendency to postpone having children among economically disadvantaged and socially isolated families. This book provides a portrait of Japan’s experience regarding the notable impacts of the pandemic on work and family life.Table of Contents1．Introduction (Shigeki Matsuda).- -2. Who can become a teleworker during the COVID-19 pandemic? The inequality structure and access to telework in Japan (Jae-Youl Shin, Hirohisa Takenoshita).- 3. The Division of Domestic Labor During the Early Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan (Junko Nishimura, Jihey Bae, Kota Toma).- 4. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on family formation in Japan (Ling Sze Nancy Leung, Takayuki Sasaki, Shigeki Matsuda).- 5. Conclusion (Hirohisa Takenoshita).
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Taylor & Francis The Structure of British Industry
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Oxford University Press Inc The Stigma Trap
Book SynopsisAn eye-opening look at how all American workers, even the highly educated and experienced, are vulnerable to the stigma of unemployment. After receiving a PhD in mathematics from MIT, Larry spent three decades working at prestigious companies in the tech industry. Initially he was not worried when he lost his job as part of a large layoff, but the prolonged unemployment that followed decimated his finances and nearly ended his marriage. Larry''s story is not an anomaly. The majority of American workers experience unemployment, and millions get trapped in devastating long-term unemployment, including experienced workers with advanced degrees from top universities. How is it possible for even highly successful careers to suddenly go off the rails? In The Stigma Trap, Ofer Sharone explains how the stigma of unemployment can render past educational and professional achievements irrelevant, and how it leaves all American workers vulnerable to becoming trapped in unemployment. Drawing on in
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Oxford University Press Temporary and Gig Economy Workers in China and
Book SynopsisBy bridging culture and institutions, this book aims to bring a more integrated and nuanced understanding of unequal work, with a view to casting fresh light on social change in China, Japan, and beyond.Trade ReviewThose of us interested in the direction that labor is heading in China and Japan have long awaited a volume like this. Brimming with historical as well as up to date insights on the nature of precarious work in these two economies, this multidisciplinary book is a must-read to gain a comprehensive understanding of the challenges faced by a significant portion of the labor force today. * Professor Glenda S. Roberts, GSAPS, Waseda University, Japan *Temporary and Gig Economy Workers in China and Japan tackles a timely topic with big ambitions. From its panoramic view of China and Japan to more intimate portraits of precarious workers, the book glimpses the future of work in the 21st Century. This outstanding collection will transform how we think about temps and giggers in two of the most influential countries in the world economy. * Professor Heidi Gottfried, Department of Sociology, Wayne State University, US *This is an important comparative book. It explores the origins and persistence of insecure work and brings a focus on culture in a search for underlying values within different conditions. Crucially these values are not transhistorical, but remade in different situations and therefore historically conditioned. Both China and Japan have moved away from secure employment in different ways, but with overlaps as well. The book has important chapters on tele-working, gig work, gender, migration, union organising, and forces both producing and challenging insecure work. It is a key reading for comparative understanding of precarious work. * Chris Smith, Emeritus Professor of Organisation Studies and Comparative Management, Royal Holloway University of London *Table of ContentsHuiyan Fu: Introduction: The culture of unequal work: Temps and giggers in China and Japan 1: Huiyan Fu: Old and new inequalities: Citizenly discounting and precarious work in a changing China 2: Saori Shibata: Gender, precarious labour and neoliberalism in Japan 3: Machiko Osawa and Jeff Kingston: Teleworking in pandemic Japan 4: Jude Howell: Organising around precarity in China 5: Arjan Keizer: Precarious work and challenges facing Japanese unionism 6: Akira Suzuki: Organising temporary agency workers in Japan: Two types of inclusive union responses 7: Nana Zhang: Negotiating gender, citizenship and precarity: Migrant women in contemporary China 8: Elaine Jing Zhao: Hierarchies, shadows and precarity: Cultural production on online literature platforms in China 9: Shinji Kojima: Making sense of inequalities at work: The micropolitics of everyday negotiation among non-regular workers in Japan 10: Emma E. Cook: 'I'm not a real freeter': Aspiration and non-regular labour in Japan
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OUP Oxford Youth and Employment in Modern Britain
Book SynopsisThis book provides the student with a comprehensive and accessible overview of the role and importance of youth and employment in Britain.Trade Review`Particularly useful for a detailed study of youth training - an in-depth guide, but easy to read.' Alan Robertshaw, University of Lancaster`This book is an excellent expose of issues.' Cyprian Lunga, University of NottinghamA much needed update on the rapidly changing situation of youth and employment ... A highly readable and even-handed assessment of the topic. * NEWI *Useful little book ... this book provides an up-to-date, thorough and accessible overview of empirical evidence on youth and employmeny and an account of the main areas of debate. * Work, Employment and Society *
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Oxford University Press Capitalisms and Capitalism in the TwentyFirst Century
Book SynopsisThe early twenty-first century is witnessing both an increasing internationalization of many markets, firms, and regulatory institutions, and a reinforcement of the key role of nation states in managing economic development, financial crises, and market upheavals in many OECD and developing economies. Drawing on a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives from leading US and European scholars, this book analyses how capitalism and national capitalisms are changing in this context. It focuses on the economic rise of new countries such as the BRICs, the increasing influence of regional organizations such as the EU and NAFTA, and new forms of private and public international regulation. It also considers how states are adapting their economic policies and processes in this new environment, and the consequences of these adaptations for inequality and risk within different societies. These changes are linked to how firms are developing new strategies for organizing global value chains and tTable of ContentsSECTION 1: POLITICAL AUTHORITY AND THE NATION STATE IN TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CAPITALISM; SECTION 2: THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT OF ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION; SECTION 3: THE ORGANIZATION OF FIRMS AND MARKETS IN TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CAPITALISM
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Oxford University Press Worklife Balance
Book SynopsisAcross welfare societies we have seen the emergence of policies and norms for work-life balance alongside rising expectations among working parents to be able to participate in employment and caregiving, and to have more time for family life and leisure. Yet despite this value placed upon work-life balance, working parents face increasing work demands, as well as rising numbers of insecure and precarious jobs, both of which produce a deepening sense of economic uncertainty in everyday life, which has been intensified in the current period of financial crises. The agency and capabilities gap addresses these tensions in work-life balance within families, workplace organizations, and policy frameworks. Inspired by Amartya Sen''s capabilities approach, this volume considers not just what individuals do, but also their scope of alternatives to make other choices. It includes rich contextualized studies across Western and Eastern European countries and Japan, with a focus on gendered agency Table of ContentsPART I. THE INDIVIDUAL/HOUSEHOLD AND THE AGENCY AND CAPABILITIES GAP: POLICY FRAMEWORKS, NORMS, AND WORK ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURES ; PART II: THE FIRM LEVEL AND THE AGENCY AND CAPABILITIES GAP: POLICIES, MANAGERS, AND WORK ORGANIZATION
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Oxford University Press The Emergence of Novelty in Organizations
Book SynopsisCreativity, innovation and change are vital to the development and sustainability of all organizations. Yet, questions remain about exactly how novelty comes about, and what dynamic processes are involved in its emergence? Ideas of emergence and process, drawn from a variety of different philosophic traditions, have been the focus of increasing attention in management and organization studies. These issues are brought to bear on novelty and innovation in this volume by examining new organizational and product development processes, whether planned or unplanned. The contributions in this volume offer both theoretical insights and empirical studies on, inter alia, innovation, music technology, haute cuisine, pharmaceuticals and theatre improvisation. In doing so, they throw light on the importance of emergence, improvisation and learning in organizations, and how both practitioners and scholars alike can best understand their own assumptions about process. In addition, the volume includeTable of Contents1: Raghu Garud, Barbara Simpson, Ann Langley, and Haridimos Tsoukas: Introduction: How does Novelty Emerge? 2: Suzanne Guerlac: Time of Emergence/ Emergence of Time: Life in the Age of Mechanical (re)Production 3: John Shotter: On "Relational Things:" a New Realm of Inquiry - Pre-Understandings and Performative Understandings of People's Meanings 4: Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and Marianna Fotaki: Imagination in Organizational Creativity: Insights from the Radical Ontology of Cornelius Castoriadis 5: Jaan Valsiner: Negotiating Novelty: How Cultural Psychology Looks at Organizational Dynamics 6: Trevor Pinch: Between Technology and Music: Distributed Creativity and Liminal Spaces in the Early History of Electronic Music Synthesizers 7: Deborah Dougherty: Taking Advantage of Emergence 8: R. Keith Sawyer: How Organizational Innovation Emerges Through Improvisational Processes 9: Isabelle Bouty and Marie-Léandre Gomez: Creativity at Work: Generating Useful Novelty in Haute Cuisine Restaurants 10: Chris Mowles: The Paradox of Stability and Change: Elias' Processual Sociology 11: Dvora Yanow: After Mastery: Insights from Practice Theorizing 12: Jorgen Sandberg, Bernadette Loacker and Mats Alvesson: Process Here, There and Everywhere: Entangle the Multiple Meanings of 'Process' in Identity Studies
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Oxford University Press Inside the Firm Contributions To Personnel Economics Iza Prize In Labor Economics
Book SynopsisHow should firms select their employees? How should they design their compensation schemes such that employees are motivated to work hard? How do the performance and compensation of teammates influence workers'' motivation and productivity? Personnel economics examines human resource practices and answers questions that are of paramount importance for business leaders around the globe. In this volume, Edward P. Lazear, a founding father of personnel economics and winner of the IZA Prize in Labor Economics 2004, takes stock of the economic analysis of personnel management, and the advancements and achievements that have been made in this field over the past 30 years. The book contains an impressive selection of Lazear''s most important papers. It provides a unifying approach to human resource practices and a useful reference on personnel strategies such as hiring, motivating, and training an effective work force.Table of ContentsI: INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITORS: EDWARD P. LAZEAR: A FOUNDING FATHER OF PERSONNEL ECONOMICS; II: WHAT IS PERSONNEL ECONOMICS?; III: EXPLAINING LABOR INSTITUTIONS IN BUSINESS; IV COMPENSATION STRUCTURES; V SOCIAL INTERACTIONS AND PERSONNEL ECONOMICS; VI: SKILL ACQUISITION AND PERSONNEL ECONOMICS; VII: PERSONNEL ECONOMICS - THE PAST AND FUTURE
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Oxford University Press Organization Theories in the Making Exploring the
Book SynopsisThis book aims to demonstrate how, over the last 25 years, the field of organization theories (OTs) has been providing stimulating, thoughtful, and innovative perspectives. It also invites graduate students and early career researchers to learn how recent theories view and portray the organization.
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Oxford University Press Work and Technological Change
Book SynopsisIn recent years a growing number of commentators have declared that we are at the beginning of a technical revolution that will see profound changes in the way we live and work. Yet what constitutes a technological revolution, and what logic supports how successive technological revolutions have unfolded in Western societies? How do technologies change organizations and what are the implications of intelligent technologies for work and employment?Here, Stephen R. Barley reflects on over three decades of research to explore both the history of technological change and the approaches used to investigate how technologies are shaping our work and organizations. He begins by placing current developments in artificial intelligence into the historical context of previous technological revolutions, drawing on William Faunce''s argument that the history of technology is one of progressive automation of the four components of any production system: energy, transformation, transfer, and control technologies. He then considers how technologies change work, and when those changes will and will not result in organizational change. In doing so he lays out a role-based theory of how technologies produce changes in organizations. He then tackles the issue, alongside Matt Beane, of how to conceptualize a more thorough approach to assessing how intelligent technologies, such as artificial intelligence, can shape work and employment. They identify the main reasons why the current state of research on intelligent technologies in the workplace is inadequate, and provide pointers on how empirical studies in this area may, and must, be improved. He concludes with a discussion with his long-time colleague Diane Bailey about the fears that arise when one sets out to study technical work and technical workers, and the methods that they, and future ethnographers, can use for controlling those fears.Trade ReviewBarley and his co-authors have managed to write a short book that covers a breathtaking range of topics. It does so in a clear and concise manner, accessible to non experts and people like me, who are not too familiar with industrial sociology...The book is thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in work and technological change, and it will be useful for students and researchers alike. * Henrik Skaug Sætra, Prometheus *The book is both important and timely. Barley addresses the possible impact of intelligent technologies, an issue of great significance. As we are witnessing a dramatic change in work patterns for some sectors of the workforce due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a large natural experiment underway on the effects of technology on work, and Barley's ideas and framework are salient. * Kim B. Clark, Brigham Young University, Administrative Science Quarterly *Table of Contents1: What is a Technological Revolution? 2: How Do Technologies Change Organizations? 3: Stephen R. Barley and Matt Beane: How Should We Study Intelligent Technologies' Implications for Work and Employment? 4: Stephen R. Barley and Diane Bailey: Managing the Fears of Studying Technical Work
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Oxford University Press Research Methods for Digital Work and
Book SynopsisDigital work has become increasingly common, taking a variety of forms including working from home, mobile work, and gig work. Here, real-world research projects bring together innovative methodologies to capture its organizational, interpretive, spatial, and temporal complexity in an accessible sourcebook for organizational and work researchers.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Challenge of Digital Work and Organization for Research MethodsSection 1. Working With Screens 2. Wrestling with Digital Objects and Technologies in Studies of Work 3. Screen Mediated Work in an Ethnography of Statistical Practices: Screen Theories and Methodological Positions 4. 'Me, Myself, and iPhone': Sociomaterial Reflections on the Phone as Methodological Instrument in London's Gig-Economy 5. The Heartbeat of Fieldwork: On Doing Ethnography in Traffic Control RoomsSection 2. Digital Working Practices 6. Digital Diaries as a Research Method for Capturing Practices In Situ 7. Using Netnography to Investigate Travel Blogging as Digital Work 8. Autoethnography and the Digital Volunteer 9. Research Methods to Study and Empower Crowd WorkersSection 3. Distributed Work and Organizing 10. Exploring Organisation Through Contributions: Using Activity Theory for the Study of Contemporary Digital Labour Practices 11. Thick Big Data: Development of Mixed Methods for Study of Wikipedia Working Practices 12. Images, Text, and Emotions: Multimodality Research on Emotion-Symbolic Work 13. Structuring the Haystack: Studying Online Communities with Dictionary-Based Supervised Text Analysis and Network VisualizationSection 4. Digital Traces of Work 14. After Vanity Metrics: Critical Analytics for Social Media Analysis 15. Investigating Online Unmanaged Organization: Antenarrative as a Methodological Approach 16. Tinkering with Method as we Go: An Account of Capturing Digital Traces of Work on Social Media 17. Organizational Culture in Tracked Changes: Format and Affordance in Consequential Workplace Documents 18. Conclusion: Reflections on Ethics, Skills, and Future Challenges in Research Methods for Digital Work and Organizations
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Oxford University Press Towards a Flexible Labour Market Labour Legislation and Regulation since the 1990s Oxford Labour Law
Book SynopsisTaking as its starting point the authors'' earlier work on Labour Legislation and Public Policy, this book provides a detailed account and critical analysis of British labour legislation and labour market regulation since the early 1990s. Referring back to the earlier history, and filling in the gaps in the early and mid-1990s, the work concentrates mainly on the legislation and policy measures in the employment sphere of the New Labour governments which have been in power since 1997, placing those developments in the context of the relevant aspects of European Community law. The work argues for an understanding of this body of legislation and regulatory activity as being directed towards the realisation of a flexible labour market, and shows how this objective has been pursued in three intersecting areas, those of regulating personal or individual employment relations, regulating collective representation, and promoting work. It explores the methods of regulation which have been used,Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. Personal Work Relations and Managerial Adaptability ; 3. Collective Labour Law ; 4. Promoting Work ; 5. Conclusion - A New Way Found?
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Oxford University Press Why We Need a New Welfare State
Book SynopsisLeading scholars in the field examine the highly topical issue of the future of the welfare state in Europe. They argue that welfare states need to adjust, and examine which kind of welfare architecture will further Europe''s stated goal of maximum social inclusion and justice. The volume concentrates on four principal social policy domains; the aged and transition to retirement; the welfare issues related to profound changes in working life; the new risks and needs that arise in households and, especially, in child families; and the challenges of creating gender equality. The volume aims to promote a better understanding of the key welfare issues that will have to be faced in the coming decades. It also warns against the all-too-frequent recourse to patent policy solutions that have all to often characterized contemporary debate. It intends to move the policy debate from it often frustrating vague and generic level towards greater specificity and nuance.Trade ReviewWritten by some of the leading writers in the field ... presents the thoughts of those at the heart of European policy ... required reading for anyone interested in the politics of welfare among advanced industrial countries. * Work, employment and society *... offers an extremely sophisticated comparative analysis, well grounded in data ... an important addition to the literature for teachers and postgraduate students of social policy. * Journal of Social Policy *Table of ContentsForeword ; 1. Towards the Good Society, Once Again? ; 2. A Child Centred Social Investment Strategy ; 3. A New Gender Contract ; 4. The Quality of Working Life in Welfare Strategy ; 5. A New Social Contract for the Elderly ; 6. The Self-Transformation of the European Social Models
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Oxford University Press Sources of National Institutional Competitiveness Sensemaking in Institutional Change
Book SynopsisHow do countries create and replicate socio-economic success? This book argues that success comes from how people make sense of their institutions when they are placed under stress. When institutional frameworks are challenged, a range of agents engaged in sensemaking processes that invoke certain identities on ''who we are'', contain normative claims about ''how things should be'', and involve strategies on ''how to get there''. Sensemaking about the future and the past is crucial to institutional competitiveness and includes prospective and retrospective points of departure, as well as focusing on developing abstract causes of change or replicating success from previous experience. This book brings together a range of world-class scholars from Comparative Political Economy, Institutional Theory, and Organizational Sociology to discuss how sensemaking processes create institutional change. The contributors investigate a range of cases that cover different institutions linked to competTable of Contents1. Introduction: Sources of National Institutional Competitiveness. Sense-Making in Institutional Change ; 2. Making Sense of Economic Uncertainty: Knowledge Regimes in the United States and Denmark ; 3. Productive Enterprise In Search Of A Regime - Moving Sensemaking from Past Phantom Communities to "Ends In Sight" ; 4. Reforms of National Innovation Policies in Europe: Coordinating Sensemaking across Countries ; 5. Sensemaking in Public Management Reform in Denmark ; 6. Making Sense of Change and No Change in Employment Policies ; 7. Making Sense of Generational Change and Institutional Competitiveness ; 8. How has Institutional Competitiveness Emerged out of the Complementarity between Nordic Welfare and Innovation Systems? ; 9. Conclusions: Sensemaking and Institutional Change in Comparative Capitalisms
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University of Chicago Press The Black Youth Employment Crisis NBERProject
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The University of Chicago Press Workers At Risk Voices from the Workplace
Book SynopsisWorkers at Risk is a powerful and moving documentary of workers routinely exposed to toxic chemicals. Products and services we all depend onglass bottles, computers, processed foods and fresh flowers, dry cleaning, medicines, even sculpture and silkscreened toysare produced by workers in constant contact with more than 63,000 commercial chemicals. For many of them, the risk of death is a way of life. More than seventy of them speak here of their jobs, their health, and the difficult choices they face in coming to grips with the responsibilities, risks, fears, and satisfactions of their work. Some struggle for information and acknowledgment of their health risks; others struggle to put out of their minds the dangers they know too well. Through extensive interviews, the authors have captured in these voices that double bind of the chemical worker: If I had known that it would be that lethal, that it could give me or one of my children cancer, I would have refused to work. But it's a matt
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The University of Chicago Press The Work and the Gift
Book SynopsisUltimately, Shershow joins other contemporary thinkers in envisioning a community of unworking, grounded neither in ideals of production and progress, nor in an ethic of liberal generosity, but simply in our fundamental being-in-common.
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The University of Chicago Press The Accidental Equalizer
Book SynopsisA startling discoverythat job market success after college is largely randomforces a reappraisal of education, opportunity, and the American dream. As a gateway to economic opportunity, a college degree is viewed by many as America's great equalizer. And it's true: wealthier, more connected, and seemingly better-qualified students earn exactly the same pay as their less privileged peers. Yet, the reasons why may have little to do with bootstraps or self-improvementit might just be dumb luck. That's what sociologist Jessi Streib proposes in The Accidental Equalizer, a conclusion she reaches after interviewing dozens of hiring agents and job-seeking graduates. Streib finds that luck shapes the hiring process from start to finish in a way that limits class privilege in the job market. Employers hide information about how to get ahead and force students to guess which jobs pay the most and how best to obtain them. Without clear routes to success, graduates from all class backgrounds Trade Review"Based on hundreds of interviews with business school graduates and the employers that subsequently hired them, Streib’s book ultimately argues that college is not, in itself, the great equalizer; the impossible-to-navigate job market is." * Inside Higher Education *“[Streib] examines an important segment of the labor market that gets relatively little attention: entry-level positions for midtier jobs . . . Far too much energy and ink are spent on who gets the most elite jobs, who goes to the most elite schools and how terribly unfair the whole process is. Little of that conversation describes the reality for most Americans. The role of the good-but-not-elite college affects far more people and gives us much more insight into the state of economic mobility than Ivy League statistics.” * Wall Street Journal *“One of the biggest myths out there is that the job market, unlike other spheres of life, rewards merit. But it largely rewards luck. Most employers in large mid-tier markets are not seeking excellence. They just want reliable people who can do the job. And that is, in many ways, a good thing, argues sociologist Jessi Streib.” * Los Angeles Review of Books *“That working-class students from state universities do just as well in the job market as better-off students is a remarkable outcome. Even more surprising is that the equalization is actually driven by hiring practices that are so opaque that the graduates are basically flipping coins trying to get hired. Streib’s findings are enormously important for the 80% of all college students who attend those universities and the rocky start it gives their career.” -- Peter Cappelli, author of 'Will College Pay Off?: A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You’ll Ever Make'“Do children born into rich families always make more money than their less privileged counterparts? No! Streib shows that the market for college graduates is a booming-buzzing confusion of idiosyncratic standards, misinformation, and rushed decision-making—all of which undermine the iron law that ‘class matters.’ A striking demonstration that illicit advantage can be countered, provided that one’s willing to infuse the market with lots of noise, luck, and chaos.” -- David B. Grusky, coeditor of 'Inequality in the 21st Century: A Reader'“We now know that a college education can limit inequalities related to class origin, but very few scholars have tried to explain why. Streib’s engaging, provocative account seeks to answer this question. Rare is the book that challenges well-established beliefs shared by academics and policymakers. This one delivers.” -- Jake Rosenfeld, author of 'You’re Paid What You’re Worth: And Other Myths of the Modern Economy'Table of ContentsOne: Introducing the Luckocracy Part I: Forming the Luckocracy Two: Hidden Information on Jobs and Pay Three: Hidden Information on Class-Neutral Hiring Criteria Part II: Playing the Game Four: Preparing for the Luckocracy Five: Searching for Jobs Part III: The Consequences and Continuation of the Luckocracy Six: The Consequences of the Luckocracy Seven: The Luckocracy, Redux Eight: Should We Keep America’s Best Equalizing System? Acknowledgments Appendix A: Theoretical Contribution Appendix B: Data and Methods Appendix C: Interview Guides and Questionnaires Notes References Index
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John Wiley & Sons Harvesting Labour
Book SynopsisA growing share of Canada’s agricultural workforce is composed of temporary foreign workers from the Global South who work difficult and dangerous jobs with limited legal protections, but it was not always like this. Dunsworth shows how the restructuring of capitalist agriculture transformed the Ontario tobacco sector and Canada’s farm labour force.Trade Review“This book provides an impressive and detailed historical examination of labour developments in the tobacco sector in Norfolk County, Ontario, from the early 1900s to the present. Clearly argued and written with flair, Harvesting Labour is an outstanding example of how to set Canadian history within transnational contexts. Salient among its many strengths is the way this study sheds light on current debates about the situations faced by those in the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program.” Ruth Frager, McMaster University“Harvesting Labour is a significant and timely contribution to the historiography of modern North American and transnational labor. Future Canadian, European, American, and Caribbean labor historians will use this work as a key piece of their own studies, and the work will also be enjoyed by a general audience as it is captivating and exceptionally readable. It is highly recommended for anyone interested in agricultural and labor history, as well as Canadian history in general.” H-Environment
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McGill-Queen's University Press Conscripted to Care Women on the Frontlines of
Book SynopsisDrawing on interviews and focus groups with nearly 200 women from a range of backgrounds and occupations – including healthcare workers, educators, and parents – Conscripted to Care reveals how structural inequalities put women on the frontlines of the COVID-19 response, yet with inadequate resources and little voice in decision-making.Trade Review“With a thoughtful and intersectional application of feminist political economic theory, Conscripted to Care identifies multiple structures that shifted the responsibility for care onto the women who worked during the COVID-19 response, and informs more equitable pandemic response, recovery, and preparedness. This timely and meaningful analysis of the crisis leaves no excuse for ignoring the unequal effects of the pandemic.” Julia Brassolotto, University of Lethbridge
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Palgrave Macmillan Enduring Military Boredom From 1750 to the Present
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Columbia University Press Employment in Developing Nations
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Columbia University Press Sport and Work
Book SynopsisFaster, higher, stronger, said Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the Modern Olympic Games. And since 1896, whenever each Olympiad has convened, that motto has been realized. This book argues that the pressure exerted upon athletes for faster, higher, stronger performances has dehumanized the athlete.
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Columbia University Press Land Labor and Rural Poverty Essays in
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Columbia University Press Production Power and World Order
Book SynopsisIn this seminal study, Robert Cox offers a new approach to the study of power by identifying the connections between production, the state, and world order.
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Columbia University Press Masters to Managers
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Columbia University Press The Mobility of Workers Under Advanced Capitalism
Book SynopsisUsing Dominicans in New York City as a case study, Ramona Hernandez challenges the old belief that workers necessarily migrate from one region to another because of supply and demand or because of a de facto government policy to make people leave or stay. As a result, she shows that the traditional correlation between migration and economic progress does not always hold true.Trade ReviewA superb economic history... useful... excellent... highly recommended. Choice Hernandez succeeds in bringing to the reader's attention some of the very troubling dimensions of Dominican settlement and incorporation in New York City. This work provides a strong foundation for future research on Dominican immigration. -- Greta Gilbertson American Journal of Sociology Hernandez analyzes the data that document the reality that inspiredNueba Yol, arguing that many Dominicans know the harsh facts but come [to New York] anyway. Her book convincingly describes a troubling new scenario and gives a much-needed reality check. -- Michele Wucker Journal of American Ethnic History With the utmost civility, this volume takes to task truisms concerning immigration theory and Dominicans' purported middle-class status, entrepreneurial bent, and prosperity. -- Glenn Jacobs Latino Studies Hernandez's book is very well documented and returns to a range of structural factors that affect international migration but are commonly ignored in recent studies...This book is an important contribution to the literature on migration. -- Estela Rivero-Fuentes Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies The Strength of Hernandez' book lies in her showing, on the one hand, the structural character of migration and, on the other, the fact that migration is not necessarily functional to the needs of the global economy. -- Jose Itzigsohn Centro Journal Hernandez provides a succinct and interesting overview of how the geopolitics of the Dominican Republic encouraged emigration. -- Gareth A. Jones Latin American Research ReviewTable of ContentsList of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Leaving the Land of the Few 1. The Great Exodus: Its Roots 2. Economic Growth and Surplus Population Part 2. Settling in the Land of Dreams 3. The Perception of a Migratory Movement 4. Dominicans in the Labor Market 5. On the International Mobility of Labor 6. Conclusion: Assessing the Present and Auguring the Future Appendix: Figures Notes Works Cited Index
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Columbia University Press The Capitalist Unconscious
Book SynopsisThe unification of North and South Korea is globally volatile, but Hyun Ok Park argues capital has already unified Korea in a transnational form. The capitalist unconscious drives the current unification, imagining the capitalist integration of the Korean peninsula and the Korean diaspora as a new democratic moment.Trade ReviewA stunningly original and significant contribution to a field that seems mired in a Cold War long passed. Not only does Hyun Ok Park seek to untie the knotted problem of the two Koreas, but she also persuasively provides an exemplary guide to how best unveil the interacting entanglements of history and the contemporary moment. -- Harry Harootunian, Columbia University One of the most provocative works on North Korea to emerge in years, Hyun Ok Park's The Capitalist Unconscious offers a fresh look at the past twenty years of political and socioeconomic changes in Northeast Asia. Her focus is on labor moving across borders-how it moves, generates wealth, and transforms every place it travels. The two Koreas, we learn, might not be so divided after all. -- Andre Schmid, University of Toronto Combining broad theoretical insights into Korea's rapidly changing political economy with vivid ethnographic details of migrant workers' experiences, Hyun Ok Park's The Capitalist Unconscious challenges us to reimagine the region's present, as well as its future. It will provoke lively debates about the construction of 'transnational Korea' in the twenty-first century. -- Gay Seidman, University of Wisconsin-Madison Provocative and engaging. Korean Quarterly A deeply moving, warm personal tale. Korea.net A much-needed examination of North Korea and its relationship to South Korea, China, and global capitalism writ large. -- Patrick Chung Journal of American-East Asian Relations Park's book fundamentally challenges existing understandings of Korean unification and will surely redefine debates about the meaning of a transnational Korea. American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part I: Crisis 1. The Capitalist Unconscious: The Korea Question 2. The Aesthetics of Democratic Politics: Labor, Violence, and Repetition Part II: Reparation 3. Reparation: On Colonial Returnee 4. Socialist Reparation: On Living Labor 5. Chinese Revolution in Repetition: The Minority Question Part III: Peace and Human Rights 6. Korean Unification as Capitalist Hegemony 7. North Korean Revolution in Repetition: Crisis and Value 8. Spectacle of T'albuk: Freedom and Free Labor Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Penguin Books Ltd What We Really Do All Day
Book SynopsisHow has the way we spend our time changed over the last fifty years?Are we really working more, sleeping less and addicted to our phones?What does this mean for our health, wealth and happiness?Everything we do happens in time and it feels like our lives are busier than ever before. Yet a detailed look at our daily activities reveals some surprising truths about the social and economic structure of the world we live in. This book delves into the unrivalled data collection and expertise of the Centre for Time Use Research to explore fifty-five years of change and what it means for us today.Trade ReviewSurprising truths about modern life . . . a fascinating analysis * The Guardian *This book is brilliant at busting myths about how we spend our time . . . its insight into what we do is illuminating . . . it's impossible not to see your life - and those of your parents and children - reflected in the data . . . And that makes reading it an excellent use of time. * Literary Review *Fascinating data, revealing much about our lives in the 21st century * iNews *
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University of Illinois Press Women at Work in TwentyFirstCentury European
Book SynopsisTrade Review"By zooming out to include multiple countries and contexts and by zooming in on individual films about women workers, Mennel makes a strong case that European cinema has something important to say about gender and the economy." --Feminist German Studies"Women at Work offers us a rich archive of cinematic depictions of female labor . . . It is to the credit of Mennel's sweeping cinematic analysis of the present that we now have a better understanding of not only the work women do across the continent but also the variety of new images European cinema has been offering us." --German Studies Review"Highly recommended." --Choice"A beautiful balance between plot analysis and aesthetic evaluation to show how cinematic forms and subjects work together to root women's labor in gendered and economic contexts." --MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture "This book makes an important intervention into both feminist film theory and scholarship on European cinema. Mennel provides a kaleidoscopic overview of the landscape of European filmmaking today, and a key achievement of her study is its truly transnational, comparative framework, which generatively juxtaposes films from a wide range of European countries without losing sight of their cultural specificity."--Hester Baer, author of Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language"A book steeped in cinematic analysis of style and form that is relevant far beyond the field of cinema and European studies. Innovative and unique in the way it brings a very timely topical focus to a large body of contemporary European cinema."--Maria Stehle, author of Ghetto Voices in Contemporary Germany: Textscapes, Filmscapes, and Soundscapes
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MIT Press Inside the FordUAW Transformation
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University of Washington Press Tea and Solidarity
Book SynopsisTrade Review"With clear, heartfelt prose, methodological imaginativeness, and careful attention to intersecting axes of power and distinction, this book not only makes essential contributions to the fields of anthropology and gender studies but also to scholars interested in South Asia, decoloniality, and ethical research methods." * New Books in Anthropology (NBN) *"This vivid ethnography lifts the veil on a community that has been marginalised and invisibilized but whose labor and contributions are central to make sense of SL’s global recognition as a leading tea exporter that has contributed greatly to the country’s economic growth and history as a post-colonial state in SA. " * Lekh *"Tea and Solidarity reinvigorates conversations in feminist political economy and presents an exciting and inspiring example of the richness of the anthropologyof work today." * Anthropology of Work Review *"Tea and Solidarity is an excellent read and provokes an engagement with such issues as positionality, situated knowledge, ethical responsibilities as researchers, and more importantly the transformative potential of transnational rights-based interventions. By focusing on ‘how gender, work and value making shape Hill-Country Tamil Women’s lives’, Jegathesan shifts the terms of feminist engagement to stand in solidarity with them." * Gender, Place & Culture *"[A]n insightful, rich ethnography, which stands as an original contribution to the plantation as an object of anthropological inquiry." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *
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National Academies Press Who Will Do the Science of the Future
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National Academies Press Approaches to Reducing the Use of Forced or Child
Book SynopsisGlobally, child labor and forced labor are widespread and complex problems. They are conceptually different phenomena, requiring different policy responses, though they may also overlap in practice. The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) was designed to reduce the use of child and forced labor in the production of goods consumed in the United States. The Act was reauthorized in 2003, 2005, and 2008. In response to provisions of TVPA, the the Bureau of International Labor Affairs requested that the National Research Council organize a two-day workshop. The workshop, summarized in this volume, discusses methods for identifying and organizing a standard set of practices that will reduce the likelihood that persons will use forced labor or child labor to produce goods, with a focus on business and governmental practices. Table of ContentsFront Matter1 INTRODUCTION2 SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP3 ASSESSING THE CONTEXT OF CHILD AND FORCED LABOR4 ILLUSTRATIVE BUSINESS PRACTICETable of Contents1 Front Matter; 2 1 INTRODUCTION; 3 2 SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP; 4 3 ASSESSING THE CONTEXT OF CHILD AND FORCED LABOR; 5 4 ILLUSTRATIVE BUSINESS PRACTICES; 6 5 CRITERIA FOR ASSESSMENT; 7 6 WRAP-UP; 8 Appendix A Committee Member Biographies; 9 Appendix B Workshop Agenda; 10 Appendix C Speaker Biographies; 11 Appendix D Workshop Participants; 12 Appendix E Definitions of Child and Forced Labor; 13 Appendix F Illustrative Examples of Business Practices; 14 Appendix G Submissions to the Workshop; 15 Appendix H Submissions following the Workshop
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National Academies Press Ocean Acoustics Education and Expertise
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Taylor & Francis Wages and Employment Policy 19361985 12 Routledge Library Editions Labour Economics
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