Sociology: work and labour Books

Book SynopsisMarx argued that capitalist society acts against the core capacities, skills and talents of human beings, and that it also limits their realisation or channels them into activities related to profit rather than need. Bringing Marx’s theory of alienation forward to the present day, this book uniquely links it to health and well-being. Using case studies and vignettes of workers across different industries, it reveals their lived experiences, offering crucial insights into the insidious ways in which capitalism continues to damage human well-being. This is a resounding call for how society can change for the better.Table of ContentsPreface 1. What is Alienation? 2. Responding to Criticisms of Alienation Theory 3. Alienation and Wellbeing 4. Case Study: Social workers, the Compassionate Self, and Disappointed Jugglers 5. Is Alienation Theory Still Relevant? 6. Beyond Alienation?

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Book SynopsisThe words ‘precarity’ and ‘precariousness’ are widely used when discussing work, social conditions and experiences. However, there is no consensus on their meaning or how best to use them to explore social changes. This book shows how scholars have mapped out these notions, offering substantive analyses of issues such as the relationships between precariousness, debt, migration, health and workers’ mobilizations, and how these relationships have changed in the context of COVID-19. Bringing together an international group of authors from diverse fields, this book offers a distinctive critical perspective on the processes of precarization, focusing in particular on the European context. The Introduction, Chapters 3 and 8, and the Afterword are available Open Access via OAPEN under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Precarity and Precariousness ~ Joseph Choonara, Annalisa Murgia and Renato Miguel Carmo Part I: Conceptualisations, Subjectivities and Etymologies 2. Précarité and Precarity: The Amazing Transnational Journey of Two Notions Unable to Form a Proper Concept in English ~ Jean-Claude Barbier 3. Conceptualising Precariousness: A Subject-oriented Approach ~ Emiliana Armano, Cristina Morini and Annalisa Murgia 4. The Experience of Precariousness as Vulnerable Time ~ André Barata and Renato Miguel Carmo Part II: Class, Work and Employment 5. Above-Below, Inside-Outside: Precarity, Underclass and Social Exclusion in Demobilised Class Societies ~ Klaus Dörre 6. Class, Classification and Conjunctures: The Use of ‘Precarity’ in Social Research ~ Charles Umney 7. The Problem with Precarity: Precarious Employment and Labour Markets ~ Joseph Choonara 8. The Social Foundations of Precarious Work: The Role of Unpaid Labour in the Family ~ Valeria Pulignano and Glenn Morgan 9. Precariousness in the Platform Economy ~ Agnieszka Piasna 10. An Epidemic-Related Turning Point: Precarious Work, Platforms and Utopian Energies ~ Patrick Cingolani Part III: Experiences, Concretisations and Struggles 11. The Embodiment of Insecurity: How Precarious Labour Market Trajectories Affect Young Workers’ Health and Wellbeing in Catalonia (Spain) ~ Mireia Bolíbar, Francesc X. Belvis and Mariana Gutiérrez-Zamora 12. Precarity and Migration: Thai Wild Berry Pickers in Sweden ~ Charlotta Hedberg 13. Revisiting the Concept of Precarious Work in Times of Covid-19 ~ Barbora Holubová and Marta Kahancová 14. Precarious Workers and Precarity Through the Lenses of Social Movement Studies ~ Alice Mattoni 15. Organising and Self-organised Precarious Workers: The Experience of Britain ~ Jane Hardy 16. Afterword: A Pandemic of Precarity ~ Joseph Choonara, Annalisa Murgia and Renato Miguel Carmo

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Book SynopsisIn Marx at the Arcade, acclaimed researcher Jamie Woodcock delves into the hidden abode of the gaming industry. In an account that will appeal to hardcore gamers, digital skeptics, and the joystick-curious, Woodcock unravels the vast networks of artists, software developers, and factory and logistics workers whose seen and unseen labor flows into the products we consume on a gargantuan scale. Along the way, he analyzes the increasingly important role the gaming industry plays in contemporary capitalism and the broader transformations of work and the economy that it embodies.Trade Review"Rejecting both fanboy boosterism and moralistic denunciations, Marx at the Arcade offers a refreshing approach to video games analysis. Woodcock never loses sight of the fact that the material conditions behind game production shapes the stories games tell and how they tell them, but does not reduce its analysis of the medium to these material conditions. The book highlights how it feels to actually play a game, what makes it fun, and why that participatory aspect matters when discussing what a game communicates as a cultural product." —Jacobin "Marx at the Arcade. Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle by Jamie Woodcock is a seminal text if you want to understand the power dynamics behind the production, distribution and consumption of video games, seen as cultural products through a Marxist lens." —Il Manifesto "Jamie Woodcock has written a book as fun and engrossing as any game. Not only does he bring a sharp Marxist analysis to the videogames industry--in turn, he uses games to further our understanding of Marx. Whether you game or not, an indispensable book." —Sarah Jaffe, author of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt "In his delightful Marx at the Arcade, Jamie Woodcock launches an urgently-needed workers’ inquiry into video and computer games—investigating both the work that goes into producing such games and the play in which so many of us seek relief from constant work. Lucid, scholarly, energetic and itself playful, Marx at the Arcade sets a new frontier for radical political understanding of the digital game." —Nick Dyer-Witheford "Marx at the Arcade is an important, brilliant and timely read that reveals the oft-ignored lives of overworked and exploited game workers, as well as the rise of the global Game Workers Unite movement that is fighting for change. Placing games within the context of a wider cultural and political struggle, Woodcock makes a compelling case for combating the toxic and reactionary elements of games culture, and pushing games towards a more positive, radical role in the world." —Karn Bianco, Games Workers Unite "Combining the unalloyed enthusiasm of the gamer with the critical gaze of the historical materialist, Jamie Woodcock's book cracks open the console to reveal the struggles over value, labour and the meaning of play that haunt the world of videogames. Even readers who last played a videogame in an arcade will gain much from this lucid and combative exploration of the industry that organizes the "free time" of countless millions."—Alberto Toscano, Reader in Critical Theory, Goldsmiths, University of London, author of Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea “In this highly readable, up-to-the-minute counter-guide to videogame work and play, Jamie Woodcock skillfully breaks play out of the “magic circle,” not only revealing capitalism’s shaping influence on digital game culture but also restoring a political perspective on games as a site of struggle. Whether revisiting game history, analyzing individual games, unpacking the distinctiveness of the game commodity, or reporting on the increasingly contested working conditions of game developers, Woodcock richly illustrates the use value of Marxian concepts to the critical study of game media.” —Greig de Peuter, co-author of Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games “We, as people broadly on the left, have neglected gaming at our peril. Jamie Woodcock’s Marx at the Arcade represents an important step into that fray—theorizing play, games, and their labour from the left.” –Manchester Gaming Studies Network “On the face of it, Marxists might not seem to have all that much to say about video games and gamers might not necessarily have all that much interest in Marx. But Jamie Woodcock’s brilliant book explains why they both should.” –Morning Star “Jamie Woodcock is perhaps one of England's most interesting researchers right now . . . Marx that the Arcade should . . . be read by anyone who ever controlled a bunch of pixels over a screen.” –Flammen

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Book SynopsisLonglisted for the Orwell Prize for Books 2016 Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015 When Anne-Marie Slaughter's Atlantic article, "Why Women Still Can't Have it All" first appeared, it immediately went viral, sparking a firestorm of debate across countries and continents. Within four days, it had become the most-read article in the history of the magazine. In the following months, Slaughter became a leading voice in the discussion on work-life balance and on women's changing role in the workplace. Now, Slaughter is here with her eagerly anticipated take on the problems we still face, and how we can finally get past them. In her pragmatic, down-to-earth style, Slaughter bursts the bubble on all the "half-truths" we tell young women about "having it all", and explains what is really necessary to get true gender equality, both in the workplace and at home. Deeply researched, and filled with all the warm, wise and funny anecdotes that first made her the most trusted and admired voice on the issue, Anne-Marie Slaughter's book is sure to change minds, ignite debate and be the topic of conversation. Trade Review‘An incredibly thought-provoking read and a helpful guide to setting yourself up for success at work and at home.’ * Independent *‘A fearlessly honest and brilliant analysis of “having it all”... Slaughter understands the huge pressures women today are under.’ * Telegraph *'Ms Slaughter should be applauded for devising a "new vocabulary" to identify a broad, misclassified social phenomenon'. * The Economist *'[Slaughter] marshals an impressive array of evidence...she has read every study going - and despite the US focus, there is plenty here for a British reader to chew over'. * Guardian *'[A] deft handling of this important and complex topic...Slaughter's analysis is acute, and the book...contains useful information and advice'. * Observer *'Slaughter's refreshing self-awareness differentiates her...an...engrossing, timely call for change for both women and men'. * Independent on Sunday *'A rallying cry for all women - and men'. * Red *'An important addition to the feminist debate'. * Glamour *'Unfinished Business poses crucial questions about what success really looks like.' * Sunday Times Culture *'A compelling and lively read...a brilliant summary of the problem with work, told well and with a quiet, righteous anger'. * Financial Times *‘Anne-Marie Slaughter insists that we ask ourselves hard questions. After reading Unfinished Business, I’m confident that you will be left with Anne-Marie’s hope and optimism that we can change our points of view and policies so that both men and women can fully participate in their families and use their full talents on the job.’ -- Hillary Clinton‘Anne-Marie Slaughter’s gift for illuminating large issues through everyday human stories is what makes this book so necessary for anyone who wants to be both a leader at work and a fully engaged parent at home.’ -- Arianna Huffington‘Unfinished Business is an important read for women and men alike. Slaughter shows us that when people share equally the responsibility of caring for others, they are healthier, economies prosper and both women and men are freer to lead the lives they want.’ -- Melinda Gates, co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation'With breathtaking honesty Anne-Marie Slaughter tackles the challenges of often conflicted working mothers and working fathers and shows how we can craft the lives we want for our families. Her book will spark a national conversation about what we need to do to live saner, more satisfying lives.' -- Katie Couric

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Book SynopsisWritten by Lesley Parkinson,Restorative Practice at Work: Six habits for improving relationships in healthcaresettingsdemonstrates how anyone working in healthcare can draw on restorative practice to develop six habits that improve relationships and help to foster compassionate and inclusive workplace culturesTrade ReviewThis book is a refreshing and important addition to the field of restorative practice because it has been written with a clear understanding that restorative practice does not exist on the page or in a training room but in the real-life context of professionals, practitioners, young people and families. Many books do not make that transition possible and the result is individuals, having been inspired by what they have read, cannot then put the theory into practice. The metaphor of habits (here, six restorative habits) offers a scaffolding to explore theory and, more importantly, apply it to the individual's context. Alongside the theoretical inputs, there are activities within each section of the book that will enable the reader to not only self-reflect, but also reflect about self within the organisation in which they might work. The use of supportive anecdotes, provided by a wide range of health staff, will also enable readers to get a feel for what developing and living with these habits is like.Parkinson says, 'I want this book to make a notable, positive difference to your daily workplace experience ... [regardless of your] role in healthcare.' I think this book can and will do that for those who read and apply its six restorative habits to their daily personal and professional lives.Chris StrakerThose who work in the broad fields of restorative practice know that its applicability is limited only by our imaginations and opportunities. Lesley Parkinson has written a compelling, practical, easily digestible book about the application of restorative practice in healthcare. This book reflects her deep understanding of issues like voice, psychological safety and trust in workplace relationships, and implementation and support of this philosophy across teams. She has done the careful research needed to support her arguments, and offers the gift of naming, describing and using the six restorative habits (with examples from the field) so they can be embedded into unconscious competence, used daily in both professional and personal settings - moving the explicit into the implicit - to become 'how we do things around here'. The themes in this book have much greater application and would be helpful for anyone in any workplace.Margaret ThorsborneI was delighted to read this book. I think it is particularly apt that this practice has been shared within our trust, and especially now, when we have all recently had the most isolation, mentally and physically, from family and colleagues that many of us have ever experienced, due to the pandemic. The six habits are set out succinctly and clearly, and compassionately assess situations that may occur - with a clear aim for supportive resolution and improved healthcare.The circle meetings are a very welcome initiative after the necessity of endless TEAM meetings - a very practical way to break down barriers and work towards a psychologically safe and good culture.Here is a reference guide that any team member, whatever their role, would be glad to have nearby, and one that they can dip into for reminders and guidance.I think this publication is particularly relevant to the work we do as Freedom to Speak Up Guardians, where we can be faced with difficult and highly emotionally charged conversations that will benefit from a measured structure of restorative enquiry to ensure the psychological safety that is needed to make speaking up everyday practice.Heather BruceI applaud Lesley Parkinson for wanting to help teams and individuals find a positive way to face the future. It can sometimes be a difficult task to inspire a jaded and overworked team to try something different. Working in a team, there is nothing more dispiriting or disheartening than when presenting an idea or concern, it is not then followed up or is treated with distain. The book provides great background research which proves that putting the work into providing the tools to restorative practice is worth the effort. Once a team has gelled together, sharing the same motivations and responsibilities, they will work better and look out for each other more. l like the moments set aside to think and add personal insights into the narrative. The mountain illustration gives a helpful insight, cleverly highlighting that if you are feeling good or bad, you act differently towards the people you are in contact with at any time - and them with you. This in turn defines how your interactions and relationships can be good or bad. The relational window makes each person think about the way they deal with everyday things with a better perspective, which helps managers work with the team better and makes the team members more amenable to assisting each other with any issues.In my opinion, the improvements that could be made by following these six habits - in a workplace setting and taken outside work into a personal setting - mean that this book is well worth your time.Janet YeadonAs always, and as I have found out over many years of local government work, building and nurturing meaningful and sound relationships is the key to success and productivity - breaking down those behavioural barriers that colleagues build up at all levels of the organisation, through knowledge and the skilful application of sound restorative approaches. Sounds easy, but it takes some time to understand your own barriers, impact upon self of the work you undertake and how that impacts on others. This book, written in simple plain language for what is a vast psychological and behavioural minefield at times, helps the reader understand what a restorative approach is and how it can be applied to everyday occurrences and events, including in the workplace. Lesley deals mainly with NHS scenarios in this book, but this approach can be used in all workplace settings, at all levels, including working with children. When used and applied, the restorative principles (or habits) do change mindsets, reduce stressful and potentially harmful situations, and make working in a team or organisation happier and healthier for all - as well as ensure the best outcomes for a child and their family. It's seeing the behaviour or response and not applying it to the person as being wrong or deceitful, and always looking for the solution, that really counts - and works, as time has shown us! In local authorities, most will have a practice model that is strengths-based and family focused, as well as using a trauma-informed approach when working with children and their families - a restorative practice approach fits well with these models and applying the restorative principles creatively only enhances what are already tried, tested and research-rich ways of working.Irene LivingstoneA much-needed insight into restorative practice in the world of healthcare, and how interactions in our teams every day make a tangible difference to the care and safety of patients. The tried-and-tested practical focus of this workbook will give readers the power to enact change themselves, and start to create real, lasting psychological safety with diverse teams, in every sense of the word. In a post-COVID-19 world where healthcare staff are experiencing high pressure and chronic burnout, Lesley's people-centred approach could revolutionise the way that we approach patient safety in the NHS. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and have no doubt that it will deliver huge impact to teams across the healthcare sector.Hannah ChandisinghRestorative Practice at Work is a thoughtful, reflective and highly practical guide to facilitating contentedness and effectiveness in the workplace. Drawing on insights from a range of theories and ideas, Lesley Parkinson provides an evidence-based set of six practices to be explored by individuals and teams. Complete with tools and real-life examples, the practices facilitate working through the nature of problems at work (for example, exploring thoughts, feelings and relationships), and finding solutions of benefit all round. The book will be of particular interest to those working in health and social care, but the foundations apply to all workplace settings.Anthony KesselThis is an excellent read. It documents really well the improvement journeys and real experiences of the colleagues who have taken part and benefitted from the restorative practice pathway.Sarah JonesOrganisational leaders seeking better performance outcomes are increasingly paying attention to the social and relational aspects of change. Put simply, relationships matter. Lesley Parkinson's Restorative Practice at Work offers a timely and accessible guide to the why and how of developing better work-based relationships via six habits of restorative practice that ultimately foster better performance outcomes. Essential reading for anyone interested in leadership, culture, innovation and improvement.Nicola Burgess

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Book SynopsisIn recent decades digital devices have reshaped daily life, while tech companies' stock prices have thrust them to the forefront of the business world. In this rapid, global development, the promise of a new machine age has been accompanied by worries about accelerated joblessness thanks to new forms of automation. Jason E. Smith looks behind the techno-hype to lay out the realities of a period of economic slowdown and expanding debt: low growth rates and an increase of labour-intensive jobs at the bottom of the service sector. He shows how increasing inequality and poor working conditions have led to new forms of workers' struggles. Ours is less an age of automation, Smith contends, than one in which stagnation is intertwined with class conflict.Trade Review"One of the very best books on the social consequences of technological change I have read, far more insightful than the technology books that get so much attention in the mainstream press." -- Tony Smith * Brooklyn Rail *"In his book Smart Machines and Service Work, Smith offers a reality check to the effects of automation in an age of stagnated production and wages. . . . Workers usurped from administrative as well as industrial roles have recomposed themselves on behalf of service industries as a massively expanded, desiccated and low-paid servant class, the new 'precariat.' . . . Smith dials up his Marx to probe several fascinating and troubling effects of this current dynamic." * Morning Star *"One thing that has puzzled academic economists is why, given the spread in recent years of IT, AI, and automation generally, productivity has hardly gone up. In Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation, Smith offers an explanation which also challenges those like Paul Mason who see a society of abundance and leisure as in the process of gradually evolving." * Socialist Standard *"[A] vital guide . . . carefully charting how our economic system is unable to deliver further social progress." * Roar *"To understand the future, we must first understand the present. In Smart Machines and Service Work,Smith critically examines the rhetoric on automation, robots taking over jobs and a future without work in the context of a stagnating global economy. . . . Smith combines a detailed theoretical argumentation with rigorous empirical analysis to produce an enlightening explanation of the technological, economic, and social conditions that have shaped and continue to shape the world of work today. Overall, Smart Machines and Service Work is targeted critique of today’s decontextualized automation rhetoric and an impressively broad analysis of the US economy and labor market." -- Sigurd M. N. Oppegaard * Journal of Extreme Anthropology *"A novel and persuasive explanation of why the technological advances of the computer age have been accompanied by a significant slowdown in productivity growth, with an increasing proportion of the labor force in low productivity—and low paid—service industries. This well-written book should be of interest to everyone who wants to understand—and end—the 'near depression' of the US economy." -- Fred Moseley, professor of economics, Mount Holyoke College, author of "Money and Totality""The technological advances of the last four decades have brought only insignificant productivity gains. This 'productivity paradox' remains an abiding mystery in mainstream economics. Smith removes the mystery, explaining how rates of investment, economic growth, and real wage increases have been abysmally low not despite capitalism's technological dynamism, but because of it. This important book should be read by anyone interested in the social consequences of technological change today." -- Tony Smith, professor of philosophy, Iowa State University, author of "Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production"

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Book SynopsisThe ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The higher education and research system faces a constant dilemma. On the one hand, research and higher education are run by autonomous, interrelated academic communities, often described as collegial governance. On the other hand, they are an instrument for the fulfillment of goals that are often external to the academic community. What, then, is the role of academics and academic knowledge in governance of higher education and research, and how does this reflect on and impact their aims and overall place in society? Fostered through joint workshops and an open dialogue, this double volume of Research in the Sociology of Organizations develops a deeper understanding of collegiality, examining through a unique comparative perspective how it is translated and practiced in different settings across the world. Considering ways in which collegiality can be revitalized, this second installment argues for reintroducing collegiality both in analyzing the development of higher education systems and research and in the actual governing of universities. Revealing the globalization, homogenization and variation that have come to characterize the collegiate system, Revitalizing Collegiality critically considers the state of and future of the higher education system, and how we can consciously shape it moving forward.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Revitalizing Collegiality: Restoring Faculty Authority in Universities; Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist and Kerstin Sahlin Section 1. Maintaining Collegiality Chapter 1. How to Remain Collegial When Pressure for Change is High?; Audrey Harroche and Christine Musselin Chapter 2. Sustaining a Collegiate Environment: Colleagueship, Community and Choice at an Anonymous Business School; Jakov Jandrić, Rick Delbridge, and Paolo Quattrone Section 2. Revitalizing Collegiality Chapter 3. An Unsettling Crisis of Collegial Governance: Reality Breakdowns as Antecedents of Institutional Awareness; Logan Crace, Joel Gehman, and Michael Lounsbury Chapter 4. Who’s a Colleague? Professionalizing Academic Leadership as a Platform for Redefining Collegiality; Ravit Mizrahi-Shtelman and Gili S. Drori Chapter 5. Manifestations of Collegiality Within Universities: Delocalisation and Structural Hybridity as Governance Forms and Practices; Jean-Louis Denis, Nancy Côté, and Maggie Hébert Chapter 6. Collegiality Washing? New Translations of Collegial Practices; Kerstin Sahlin and Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist “Outroduction”: A Research Agenda on Collegiality in University Settings; Nico Cloete, Nancy Côté, Logan Crace, Rick Delbridge, Jean-Louis Denis, Gili S. Drori, Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist, Joel Gehman, Lisa-Maria Gerhardt, Jan Goldenstein, Audrey Harroche, Jakov Jandrić, Anna Kosmützky, Georg Krücken, Seungah S. Lee, Michael Lounsbury, Ravit Mizrahi-Shtelman, Christine Musselin, Hampus Östh Gustafsson, Pedro Pineda, Paolo Quattrone, Francisco O. Ramirez, Kerstin Sahlin, Francois van Schalkwyk, and Peter Walgenbach

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Book SynopsisThis volume of Research in Social Science and Disability brings together leading research that examines how systemic policies and practices, pandemic-driven transformations, and strategies for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) continue to shape the employment landscape for workers with disabilities.

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Book SynopsisMedia coverage consistently features examples of organizations engaging in unethical or illegal behavior. Given its potential to impact and even damage established institutions, organizational wrongdoing deserves to be closely monitored and more carefully examined. Drawing attention to the theoretical and empirical relevance of this topic, this first instalment in a double volume of Research in the Sociology of Organizations consolidates and extends knowledge of this important subject and highlights potential directions for future research. Exploring the definitions and antecedents of organizational wrongdoing, chapters in this first volume probe the role of social control agents in drawing the line between rightful and wrongful behavior, examine the mechanisms and processes through which instances of wrongdoing turn into a scandal, and consider the antecedents of organizational wrongdoing which have received increasing attention in academic research in recent years but that still deserve further analysis. Taken individually as well as together, the two volumes that comprise Organizational Wrongdoing as the “Foundational” Grand Challenge provide a major touchstone for scholars interested in understanding recent developments and exciting new directions in the study of organizational wrongdoing.Table of ContentsForeword; Michael Lounsbury Introduction: Organizational Wrongdoing as the “Foundational” Grand Challenge: Definitions and Antecedents; Claudia Gabbioneta, Marco Clemente, and Royston Greenwood Chapter 1. Social Control Agents and the Evolving Definition of Wrongdoing: The Case of the Gray Area around the Mafia; Giulia Cappellaro, Amelia Compagni, and Eero Vaara Chapter 2. A Bailout for the Outlaws: Interactions between Social Control Agents and the Perception of Organizational Misconduct; Rasmus Pichler, Thomas J. Roulet, and Lionel Paolella Chapter 3. The Influence of Critical Events on the Social Control of Misconduct: Regulatory Enforcement in the European Banking Industry; Timo Fiorito, Richard Hoff, and Michel Ehrenhard Chapter 4. Scandal as Moral Interaction: A New Perspective on the Publicization of Organizational Misconduct; Julien Jourdan Chapter 5. Single-Actor Scandal or Multiple-Actor Scandal? A Framework for Studying Scandal Dynamics; Yasir Dewan and Michael Jensen Chapter 6. Media Framing of a Scandal: The Path to Redemption or the Road to Perdition?; Esther R. Maier and Eve Lamargot Chapter 7. Conditioned by Upbringing: Executives’ Childhood Social Class and Corporate Crime; Alexandru V. Roman, Ivana Naumovska, and Jerayr Haleblian Chapter 8. What about my Occupation? A Multidimensional View of Workplace Identification and Unethical Pro-organizational Behaviour; Trevor Coppins and Johanna Weststar Chapter 9. Organizational Wrongdoing, Boundary Work, and Systems of Exclusion: The Case of the Volkswagen Emissions Scandal; Laura Fey and John Amis Chapter 10. How Street-Level Misconduct Happens: Deploying References to Complex Routines as a Coping Strategy with Detrimental Consequences; Przemysław G. Hensel and Piotr T. Makowski Chapter 11. Keeping the “Men” in Longshoremen: The Origins of Lasting Discrimination against Women in the Longshore Occupation; Meena Andiappan and Lucas Dufour Chapter 12. Where was Internal Audit? Professional Misconduct and the Wells Fargo Scandal; Elena Antonacopoulou, Regina F. Bento, and Lourdes F. White

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Book SynopsisThe Care Manifesto puts care at the heart of the debates of our current crisis: from intimate care-childcare, healthcare, elder care-to care for the natural world. We live in a world where carelessness reigns, but it does not have to be this way.The Care Manifesto puts forth a vision for a truly caring world. The authors want to reimagine the role of care in our everyday lives, making it the organising principle in every dimension and at every scale of life. We are all dependent on each other, and only by nurturing these interdependencies can we cultivate a world in which each and every one of us can not only live but thrive.The Care Manifesto demands that we must put care at the heart of the state and the economy. A caring government must promote collective joy, not the satisfaction of individual desire. This means the transformation of how we organise work through co-operatives, localism and nationalisation. It proposes the expansion of our understanding of kinship for a more 'promiscuous care'. It calls for caring places through the reclamation of public space, to make a more convivial city. It sets out an agenda for the environment, most urgent of all, putting care at the centre of our relationship to the natural world.Trade ReviewWhy do we live in a world that rewards the uncaring, the care-free and the care-less? How long can we tolerate such a state? Not long according to this vital, urgent and compelling book about why radical change is needed. The manifesto not only critiques uncaring governments and corporations, but also offers an alternative. There is one and we desperately need it. * Bev Skeggs, Distinguished Professor, Lancaster Univeristy *This manifesto is a call to action for global progressives. The Care Collective shows the "systemic carelessness" of existing political, economic, and kinship orders are broken both for humans and the planet. They demonstrate that capacious care offers a practical and already existing starting point for change on all levels. -- Joan Tronto, author of Caring DemocracyAn inspiring and revolutionary call for an economy and society based on caring for the earth and each other . . .rings with both freshness and familiarity, moral clarity and political necessity. It's wonderful. -- Avi Lewis * The Leap *Rais[es] fundamental questions about care and caring in the contemporary context. * Morning Star *Robustly analytical ... the current crisis has forced the always urgent issue of care into the spotlight. * Observer *The Care Manifesto is a radiant invitation to transform our economy and society, a roadmap for how we can emerge from overlapping crises and weave a new social fabric. The ethic of universal care is an antidote to the spiralling carelessness that our current system shows towards people and the planet. The authors understand that care is not a commodity: it's a practice, a core value, and an organizing principle on which a new politics can and must be built. -- Naomi Klein, author of On FireFinally a 'care manifesto' that shows how powerful caring can and should be in changing global practices and institutions and in transforming our world! No longer a private concern nor the exclusive preoccupation of moralists speculating about the essential feminine, care is given by this text in the form of a bracing critique of neo-liberal profit-making. The Care Manifesto charts a path toward the transformation of kinship, the gendered division of labor, ecological activism, and secures the principles of interdependence that should guide progressive transnational institutions. The Care Collective writes with a compelling clarity, a capacity for reflection in the midst of urgent times, and remind us that care brings with it a complex history and a promising future. As they note, among the meanings of the Old English caru, are care, concern, anxiety, sorrow, grief, trouble - all terms that resonate with our times. Care implicates our lives in each others lives, mapping and animating a politics of promise for our times. -- Judith Butler, author of The Force of NonviolenceThe book of 2020 because not only does it find a way out of the crisis but it lays the basis for something better in its place. * Labour Hub *The ideas in the book are laudable and important -- Emily Kenway * Red Pepper *In showing us the power of mutual aid, coalition-building and solidarity, this book aids us in ensuring our activism is enacted through our daily actions within our communities and that whilst change starts within us, it doesn't end there. -- Adele Walton * gal-dem *

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Book SynopsisTo understand the scale of what faces us and how it ramifies through every corner of our lives is to marvel at our inaction. Why aren't we holding emergency meetings in every city, town and village every week?What is to be done to create a planet where a communist horizon offers a new dawn to replace our planetary twilight? What does it mean to be a communist after we have hit a climate tipping point?The Tragedy of the Worker is a brilliant, stringently argued pamphlet reflecting on capitalism's death drive, the left's complicated entanglements with fossil fuels, and the rising tide of fascism. In response, the authors propose Salvage Communism, a programme of restoration and reparation that must precede any luxury communism. They set out a new way to think about the Anthropocene. The Tragedy of the Worker demands an alternative future - the Proletarocene - one capable of repairing the ravages of capitalism and restoring the world.Trade ReviewSalvage is the most exciting journal to appear on the anglophone left over the past decade: avant-garde Marxism with no illusions, perfectly pitched to our dismal times. Here the formidable Salvage Collective tackles the defining question of those times: the ecological crisis. The result is the most beautiful and urgent essay yet written on what climate catastrophe means for the struggle for communism, in the past, present and future. This is one for the ages. -- Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a PipelineThe kind of realism we need to meet this moment: eyes wide open. Strangely poetic, as befitting a tragedy. I never want to read books about the ecological crisis twice, but this one I will return to many times, because it's layered. Layered but legible; bold and without pretention - this is a book you can't wait to pass along to a friend, because despite its grimness, it evokes that feeling of common cause. -- Holly Jean Buck, author of After GeoengineeringA book that ought to be essential reading for all ... detailed, convincing and critically important. -- Andy Hedgecock * Morning Star *

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Book SynopsisIn photographs, artworks, and words Gloria Wilson celebrates the rugged fishing village where she was brought up, and from which she set her course to a career recording, both visually and verbally, the North Sea fishery she loves. She writes: In this intriguing place I have found a heady mix of seafaring activities, shorelines, inimitable fisher people, stalwart boats, notable marine artists, cats, dark seas and dashing spray, thick sepulchral fogs, the clutter of translucent fishing paraphernalia, folklore and local custom, and many architectural specialities, together with touches of joy, humour, absurdity, and melancholy, all set within a townscape and topography of distinctive and outstanding quality. Staithes has always been a working village, rugged and unpretentious, without attitude. Things have an elegance which results from useful function.

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Book SynopsisThis provocative collection of essays presents a powerful critique of contemporary discourse that portrays work - paid employment - as a moral imperative, essential for our health and well-being. The contributors describe the mental health impact of modern-day workplaces, with their precarity and constant managerial scrutiny. They throw light on the emerging role of the psychologist and psychotherapist as agents of the state within the welfare system. And they question the deployment of mindfulness and other workplace `wellness' initiatives in the place of more genuine and collective attempts to transform work. The Work Cure is an invitation to imagine a different kind of future, where employment no longer represents the chief source of security and meaning, so integral to our well-being. It is also essential reading for anyone who has doubted whether positivity, self-improvement and `resilience' can really be the answer to work's problems.Trade Review'The idea that work, including the enthusiastic search for work, is integral to mental health has become a key ideological tenet of post-industrial capitalism. By re-introducing critical and political perspectives to this agenda, The Work Cure demonstrates that resistance is possible, and in doing so offers hope of a more emancipatory psychology.'; William Davies, author of The Happiness Industry.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Putting therapy to work, David Frayne; Part 1: Mental management. 1 The black dog - Ivor Southwood; 2 No crying in the breakroom - Nic Murray; 3 Understanding affective labour - Jamie Woodcock; 4 Reproducing anxiety - Dave Berrie and Emily McDonagh; 5 Challenging McMindfulness in the corporate university - Steven Stanley. Part 2: The work cure. 6 The employment dogma - David Frayne; 7 Not in my name, not in my profession's name - Jay Watts; 8 The IAPT assembly line - Paul Atkinson; 9 The social and political origins of wellbeing - Psychologists for Social Change; 10 `We rebel because We misfit' - Arianna Introna and Mirella Casagrande; 11 Unrecovery - Recovery in the Bin.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a Marx that is in many ways different from the one popularized by the dominant currents of twentieth-century Marxism. The dual aim of this edited volume is to contribute to a new critical discussion of some of the classical themes of Marx’s thought and to develop a deeper analysis of certain questions to which relatively little attention has been paid until recently.Contributions of globally renowned scholars, from nine countries and multiple academic disciplines, offer diverse and innovative perspectives on Marx’s points of view about ecology, migration, gender, the capitalist mode of production, the labour movement, globalization, social relations, and the contours of a possible socialist alternative. The result is a collection that will prove indispensable for all specialists in the field and which suggests that Marx’s analyses are arguably resonating even more strongly today than they did in his own time.Table of Contents1. The Factory and the Family as Spaces of Capital (Himani Bannerji).- 2. Marx on Gender, Race, and Social Reproduction: A Feminist Perspective (Silvia Federici).- 3. Capital as a Social Relation: Form Analysis and Class Struggle (Bob Jessop).- 4. Commodity and the Postmodern Spectacle (Alfonso Maurizio Iacono).- 5. Primitive Accumulation as the Cause of Economic and Ecological Disaster (Kohei Saito).- 6. Marx and Environmental Catastrophe (Gregory Claeys).- 7. Finding a Way Out of the Anthropocene: The Theory of ‘Radical Needs’ and the Ecological Transition (Razmig Keucheyan).- 8. Accumulation and Its Discontents: Migration and Nativism in Marx’s Capital and Late Manuscripts (David Norman Smith).- 9. Marx on Migration and Industrial Reserve Army: Not to Be Misused! (Pietro Basso).- 10. Globalisation, Migrant Labour, and Capitalism: Past and Present (Ranabir Samaddar).- 11. The Experience of the Paris Commune and Marx’s Reflections on Communism (Marcello Musto).- 12. Communism as Probability and Contingency (Álvaro García Linera).- 13. Uniting Communism and Liberalism: An Unsolvable Task or a Most Urgent Necessity? (Michael Brie).

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Book SynopsisIn times of globalization, digitalization and demographic change, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us the fragility and complexity of the world of work. It represents the peak of a process of change in the world of work in economic, social, socio-political and individual psychological terms. This book outlines how effective and future-oriented human resource management can look like in times of demographic and technological change on the one hand and the immediate and lasting effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the other hand. It provides the tools for effective human resource management, summarized in the following seven success factors: demographic-oriented recruitment, strength-oriented workforce deployment, age-appropriate HR development, new generation contract, family and gender, the vital employee, management of interests and expectations. The aim of the book is not only to provide solutions to problems caused by the changing world of work and the pandemic, but also to show how success factors can emerge from these inevitable phenomena. It will be of interest to professionals in the field of human resource management.Table of Contents Part I. The Baseline.- Chapter 1. Demographic Developments and Other Social Phenomena.- Chapter 2. Impact on the Labor Market.- Part II. Routes to Effective Human Resource Management.- Chapter 3. Demography-oriented Recruitment.- Chapter 4. Strength-based Deployment.- Chapter 5. Age and a Ging Appropriate Development.- Chapter 6. A New Generational Contract.- Chapter 7. Gender Equality and Family.- Chapter 8. Employee Vitality.- Chapter 9. Managing Interests and Expectations.- Part III. Summary and Outlook.- Chapter 10. Summary and Outlook.

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Book SynopsisThis unique volume uses the innovative methodological approach of dystopian fictocriticism to offer a speculative, critical narrative of parents at work. The author begins with a review of fictocriticism and the blurring of lines between genre and gender scholarship. The book follows a temporally fragmented structure of the past, present and future of parenthood in organisations. Integrating theories of masculinities and gendered hierarchies in organisations, the author uses critical discourse analysis of parental experiences to discuss the reproduction of patriarchal discourse. The dystopian fictocriticism narrative is grounded in empirical research with parents and highlights the structural and cultural barriers they face. The narrative concludes with the subversive potential of caring communities within organisations as a possible future to work towards.This book will be of interest to students and scholars in Gender Studies, Utopia/Dystopia Studies, and Organization Studies.Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Method and Example Analysis3. Dystopian Fictocriticism4. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWhile methodological individualism is a fundamental approach within the social sciences, it is often misunderstood. This highlights the need for a discursive and up-to-date reference work analyzing this approach’s classic arguments and assumptions in the light of contemporary issues in sociology, economics and philosophy. This two-volume handbook presents the first comprehensive overview of methodological individualism. Chapters discuss historical and contemporary debates surrounding this central approach within the social sciences, as well as cutting edge developments related to the individualist tradition with philosophical and scientific implications. Bringing together multiple contributions from the world’s leading experts on this important tradition of theorizing, this collective endeavor provides teachers, researchers and students in sociology, economics, and philosophy with a reliable and critical understanding of the founding principles, key thinkers and intellectual development of MI since the late 19th century. ​ Table of ContentsPart I. The Founding Principles of MI.- 1. The Scottish Enlightenment and MI; Jeremy Shearmur.- 2. Weber /MI and sociological explanation; Wolfgang Schluchter.- 3. MI/ interpretative sociology; Stephen Turner.- 4. MI and the Austrian School of Economics; Peter Boettke.- 5. Actuality of the Weberian paradigm /MI; Thomas Schwinn.- 6. Holism and Individualism; Raymond Boudon.- Part II. MI and the Rationality Principle.- 7. IM, Rationality and Sociological Thought; Hartmut Esser.- 8. MI/Beliefs/rationality; Ian Jarvie.- 9. MI and Psychology (Emotions/Cognitive science); Paul Dumouchel.- 10. Cognitive Economy/Decisional Processes/Nudge Theory/MI; Riccardo Viale.- 11. Reasoning/beliefs/MI; Gérald Bronner.- 12. Axiological Rationality/MI; Sylvie Mesure.- Part III. MI and the Micro-Macro Link.- 13. MI/Micro–Macro Relationship in Social Science; Gustav Ramström.- 14. MI, Interpretivism and Unintended Consequences; Key Yoshida.- 15. MI/social structures; Pierre Demeulenaere.- 16. MI/micro-macro/ontology; Robert Sugden.- 17. MI/Complexity; Jean Petitot.- 18. MI/Stratification; Mohamed Cherkaoui.- Part IV. MI and Some Major Traditions of Social Science Research.- 19. MI/Marx; Jon Elster.- 21. MI/Durkheim; Massimo Borlandi.- 22. MI/ Weber/ Parsons/Schutz; Nasu Hisashi.- 23. MI/Hermeneutics/interpretative sociology; Enzo Di Nuoscio.- 24. Evolutionary Approach/Behavioral Sciences/Non-Atomistic MI; Herbert Gintis.- 25. Analytical Sociology/MI; José Antonio Noguera Ferrer.

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Book SynopsisCHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION.- CHAPTER 2: LOWER GRADES AND SOCIAL RELATIONS.- CHAPTER 3: MIDDLE GRADES: CO-OPERATION AND WORK-LIFE BALANCE.- CHAPTER 4: HIGHER GRADES: ‘YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE IN THE VALUE OF WHAT YOU ARE DOING’.- CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSIONS: RICHER LIVES.

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Book SynopsisThis book, part of the new wave of political sociology in EU studies, examines the dialectics of construction/deconstruction of the European civil service through a succession of empirically grounded case studies. Breaking with the usual representations of ‘Eurocrats’, it sheds light on a hidden aspect of the current European crisis: a crisis of social reproduction which affects the European civil service in a heavy context of management reforms, enlargements, institutional changes and the euro crisis. This in turn has a number of consequences in terms of internal tensions, power, and more broadly, the capacity of EU institutions to create convergence between diverging national and economic interests, and to embody a European future.European Civil Service in (Times of) Crisis will be of interest to students and scholars across a wide range of disciplines, including politics, sociology and public administration, to practitioners working in and with the EU institutions, as well as those wishing to know more about the EU. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Moving pictures.- 1. A contested identity: genesis of the Eurocrat figure: between stigma and affirmation of a differentiated supranational body.- 2. The making of a status group: Reconsidering socialization to the European Institutions .- 3. Genesis and structure of European bureaucratic capital: Senior European Commission officials.- 4. Soft skills versus expertise and knowledge: The changing core competencies of European civil servants.- 5. Reforming EU open competitions or how the ‘Custodians of Europe’ are now imitating undifferentiated international managers.- 6. How domination matters: New internal struggles and integrating European-enlargement newcomers.- 7. Both the pilot and a victim of austerity? How the European Commission’s administration changed under the economic and financial crisis.-Conclusion: Neoliberalized neoliberalists? The weakening sociological foundations of a pivot group and European political order.

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Book SynopsisThe thirteen critical and well-documented chapters of Women, Work and Activism examine women’s labor struggle from late nineteenth-century Portuguese mutual societies to Yugoslav peasant women’s work in the 1930s, and from the Catalan labor movement under the Franco dictatorship to workplace democracy in the United States. The authors portray women's labor activism in a wide variety of contexts. This includes spontaneous resistance to masculinist trade unionism, the feminist engagement of women workers, the activism of communist wives of workers, and female long-distance migration, among others. The chapters address the gendered involvement of working people in multiple and often precarious and unstable labor relations and in unpaid labor, as well as the role of the state and other institutions in shaping the history of women’s labor. The book is an innovative contribution to both the new labor history and feminist history. It fully integrates the conceptual advances made by gender historians in the study of labor activism, driving home critiques of Eurocentric historiographies of labor to Europe while simultaneously contributing to an inclusive history of women’s labor-related activism wherever to be found. Examining women’s activism in male-dominated movements and institutions, and in women’s networks and organizations, the authors make a case for a new direction in gender history.Trade Review"'Women, Work, and Activism' ist ein einmaliger Sammelband, der das Potenzial des Forschungsfelds Gewerkschaftsgeschichte, Labor History und Geschlecht abwechslungsreich und vielschichtig darstellt. Es ist zu hoffen, dass hier ein erster Impuls gesetzt wurde, der weitere Arbeiten im Themenfeld inspiriert." -- Sophia Kuhnle * Arbeit – Bewegung – Geschichte *Table of ContentsList of Acronyms List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Thinking the History of Women’s Activism into Global Labor History Eloisa Betti, Leda Papastefanaki, Marica Tolomelli, and Susan Zimmermann Part 1 Toward Inclusive Framings: Women’s Labor Activism in Men- and Women-Dominated Contexts Women in the Mutual Societies of Portugal from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the 1930s Virgínia Baptista and Paulo Marques Alves The Female Staff in the PTT International between Trade Unionism and Feminism from the Early Twentieth Century to the Interwar Period Laura Savelli Women and the Labor Movement under a Dictatorship: Comisiones Obreras (Workers’ Commissions) in Greater Barcelona during Franco’s Dictatorship and the Transition to Democracy (1964–1981) Nadia Varo Moral “Traditionally Reserved for Men”: Australian Trade Unions and the 1970s Working Women’s Campaign for Liberation Diane Kirkby, Lee-Ann Monk, and Emma Robertson Part 2 Women in Motion: Rethinking Agency and Activism at the Workplace and Beyond The Strike, the Household, the Gendered Division of Labor, and International Networks: Women Auxiliaries and the Ship Repair Workers’ Strike (Genoa, 1955) Marco Caligari “In Order to Safeguard the Lives of Our Children and Families”: Resistance and Protest of Women Workers in the Greek Tobacco Industry, 1945–1970 Thanasis Betas Inside the Factory, Outside the Party-state: The Agency of Yugoslav Women Workers in Late Socialism (1976–1989) Rory Archer Work and the Politics of the Injured Body: Nurse Activism, Occupational Risk, and the Politics of Care in the United States Elizabeth Faue Part 3 How the Personal Reveals the Political: Women Activists’ Biographies and Beyond Women Activists’ Relationship to Peasant Women’s Work in Yugoslavia in the 1930s Isidora Grubački Women in the Trade Union Movement and Their Biographies: The Camera del Lavoro (Chamber of Labor) in Milan (1945–1965) Debora Migliucci French Trade Unionists Go International: The Circulation of Ideas on the Education and Training of Women Workers in the 1950s and 1960s Françoise F. Laot Trade Union Feminism in Lyon: Commissions-femmes as Sites of Resistance and Well-being in the 1970s Anna Frisone Working Women on the Move: Genealogies of Gendered Migrant Labor Maria Tamboukou List of Contributors Chapter Abstracts Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on affect theory and research on academic capitalism and 11 international case studies, this book examines the contemporary crisis of universities, from the coloniality of academic capitalism to performance management and the experience of being performance-managed.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Academic capitalism and the affective organisation of academic labour - Kristiina Brunila and Daniel Nehring Part I: Structures 2. The Labour Pains of Academic Capitalism in Crisis - Lew Zipin and Marie Brennan 3. Deepened Coloniality, Heightened structuralism: Implications for Intellectual thought and praxis in the Caribbean - Talia Esnard 4. Academic patriarchal (post)liberal capitalism - Demetra Tzanaki Part II: Relationships 5. The storytelling and storyselling of neoliberal academic work - Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen and Paola Valero 6. Exploring the Academic and Affective Leadership in Academia - Kristiina Brunila 7. Friendship in academia: the moral economy of academic work - Erika Andersson Cederholm, Carina Sjöholm and Dianne Dredge 8. What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker: An uncanny story of contemporary academic life - Mark Vicars Part III: Performance 9. Academy in my flesh: Affective athleticism and performative writing - Silvia Gherardi, Michela Cozza and Magnus Hoppe 10. Getting Texts Done: Affective Rhythms of Reading in Quantified Academia - Juhana Venäläinen 11. Performance Management: Western Universities, Chinese Entrepreneurs, and Students on Stage - Amir Hampel 12. What’s the point? A few thoughts instead of a conclusion - Daniel Nehring and Kristiina Brunila

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Book SynopsisBased on in-depth interviews with over 80 precarious workers in Korea, this book introduces the concept of 'melting labour' and provides a real depiction of how workers lose control over their lives and experience precariousness in labour markets.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Melting labour and institutional inconsistency 2. Social protection policies and the South Korean labour market in comparative perspective 3. When insiders are kicked out: layoffs of regular workers in manufacturing 4. Same boat, different destiny: subcontracted workers in the Korean shipbuilding industry 5. Young and old outsourced female workers in call centres and cleaning services 6. Are freelancers really free? The Korean freelance labour market and the precarity of young freelancers 7. The digital precariat: various Korean platform workers and the new work logic 8. Conclusion: Towards universal institutional protection for precarious workers in the era of melting labour

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Book SynopsisSilicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that we are living on the cusp of an era of rapid technological automation, heralding the end of work as we know it. But does the much-discussed "rise of the robots" really explain the worsening jobs crisis? In Automation and the Future of Work, Aaron Benanav uncovers the structural economic trends that will shape our working lives far into the future. What social movements, he asks, are required to propel us into post-scarcity, if technological innovation alone can't deliver it? In response to calls for a universal basic income that would maintain a growing army of redundant workers, he offers a counterproposal.Trade ReviewCompelling reading. A rising star among the intelligentsia of the left * Dublin Review of Books *Aaron Benanav demolishes the popular myths around automation -- Ben Tarnoff, editor of Logic magazineA rare book that manages to soberly assess the contemporary landscape while keeping a clear eye on our utopian horizons. This is a must-read for anyone who believes capitalist decay is not the only future -- Nick Srnicek, author of Platform CapitalismThought-provoking ... packs quite a punch of macroeconomics and practical philosophy * International Policy Digest *A powerful and persuasive explanation of why capitalism can't create jobs or generate incomes for a majority of humanity -- Mike Davis, author of Set the Night on FireThe two parts of Benanav's book - analytic and utopian - correspond to the two halves of the Marxian project: to both interpret the world, and change it -- Lola Seaton * New Statesman *An excellent, insightful account of the contours of our present labor crisis. Benanav articulately makes the case for a post-scarcity future -- Robert Skidelsky, biographer of John Maynard KeynesA highly quantitative analysis of the nature of contemporary unemployment flowers into something quite different and unexpected: a qualitative argument for the invention of new collective capacities in a world where work is no longer central to social life -- Kristin Ross, author of Communal LuxuryBenanav dissects and disproves the idea that automation is eradicating work ... We don't need to wait for robots to do all the work; we can collectively decide what we need, then plan the economy to achieve it -- Paris Marx * Passage *He can write movingly and do so on a global scale -- Patrick McGinty * Pittsburgh Post Gazette *Meticulous...provides crucial insights into the causes of global stagnation and its effects on the kinds of work we do now. -- Clinton Williamson * The Baffler *

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Book SynopsisGlobalisation has created a whole new working class - and they are reliving stories that were first played out a century ago. In Live Working or Die Fighting, Paul Mason tells the story of this new working class alongside the epic history of the global labour movement, from its formation in the factories of the 1800s through its near destruction by fascism in the 1930s and up to today''s anti-globalisation movement.Blending exhilarating historical narrative with reportage from today''s front line, he links the lives of 19th-century factory girls with the lives of teenagers in a giant Chinese mobile phone factory; he tells the story of how mass trade unions were born in London''s Docklands - and how they''re being reinvented by the migrant cleaners in skyscrapers that stand on the very same spot. It is a story of urban slums, self-help co-operatives, choirs and brass bands, free love and self-education by candlelight. And, as the author shows, in the developingTrade ReviewVividly accessible... required reading for the Seattle brigade * Guardian *Mason, using an impressive range of primary sources, recounts nine of the great stories of working-class revolts * Irish Times *This book tells stories of our past that are indispensable to understanding the present. it is a good answer to all who ask where the working class has gone. Brilliant -- Ken Loach'Don't die stupid. If you haven't read Mason's book, you know nothing about how this planet works... breathtaking, fascinating, perceptive... Damn, I wish I'd written this book -- Greg Palast, author of the New York Times bestseller Armed MadhouseThis is micro-historical writing at its best -- Walden Bello, author of Dilemmas of Domination

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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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Book SynopsisThe image of a job captures our imagination from an early age, usually prompted by the question ''What do you want to be when you grow up?''. Work -- paid, unpaid, voluntary, or obligatory -- is woven into the fabric of all human societies. For many of us, it becomes part of our identity. For others it is a tedious necessity. Living is problematic without paid work, and for many it is catastrophic. Steve Fineman tells the fascinating story of work - how we strive for security, reward, and often, meaning. Looking at how we classify ''work''; the cultural and social factors that influence the way we work; the ethics of certain types of work; and the factors that will affect the future of work, from globalization to technology, this Very Short Introduction considers work as a concept and as a practical experience, drawing upon ideas from psychology, sociology, management, and social history.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewSteve Fineman tells the fascinating story of work - how we strive for security, reward, and often, meaning This looks like yet another interesting addition to Oxford's fabulous VSI series * Grrlscientist, the guardian *This book is a great read and has made me think deeper into the values I associate with work and human value. * Arthur Zetes, tiredoframen.wordpress.com *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. Why work? ; 2. A spectrum of jobs ; 3. Working a career ; 4. Men's work, women's work ; 5. Struggling, surviving, thriving ; 6. Emotion at work ; 7. Virtual work ; 8. Changes and transitions ; 9. Where does this leave work? A brief postscript ; References and further reading

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Book SynopsisArtisan has recently become a buzzword in the developed world, used for items like cheese, wine, and baskets, as corporations succeed at branding their cheap, mass-produced products with the popular appeal of small-batch, handmade goods. The unforgiving realities of the artisan economy, however, never left the global south, and anthropologists have worried over the fate of these craftspeople as global capitalism has again remade their cultural and economic territory. Yet artisans are proving to be surprisingly vital players in contemporary capitalism, as they interlock innovation and tradition to create effective new forms of entrepreneurship. Based on seven years of extensive research in Colombia and Ecuador, veteran ethnographers Jason Antrosio and Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld's Fast, Easy, and In Cash explores how small-scale production and global capitalism are not directly opposed, but are rather essential partners in economic development. Antrosio and Colloredo-Mansfeld demonstrate h

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Book SynopsisDon Ross provides a concise and distinct introduction to the philosophy of economics for students in need of a short but engaging study of the main issues in the subject today. Ross offers his own provocative interpretation of the value of economics in science and public policy giving a unique perspective from a world authority.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Acronyms Series Editor's Preface Preface 1. Philosophy of Economics as Philosophy of Science 2. Economics and its Neighbours Before 1980 3. The Expansion of the Economic Toolbox 4. How Economics and Psychology Differ 5. Economics as a Social Science References Index

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of Leadership offers a unique, highly-applied academic treatise on leadership, uniquely blending a chronological analysis of the last 100 years of leadership theory with exclusive CEO interviews. The case studies, expert insights and other teaching aids are timely and hard hitting, making this textbook relevant, insightful and informative, while a research chapter empowers the reader to competently question the leaders that shape our world. The world has turned on its political and corporate axis since the first edition of Leadership was published, and it became necessary to produce a second edition that fully encapsulated, respected and observed these changes. Numerous new case studies, discussion starters and examples subsequently reflect todayâs volatile technological, political, financial and social shifts, while exclusive interviews with successful CEOs powerfully blend theory with practice. Readers will learn the importance of navigating leadership in the most testing of times. A new chapter, âResearching leadershipâ, offers the reader the opportunity to develop significantly as a leadership researcher and to ably question reality in a post-truth world. A self-leadership chapter equips the reader to develop their own leadership capabilities, while retaining the ability to avoid destructive leadership. Ultimately, readers will become empowered to appreciate the complex, intersectional nature of leadership and to learn what it takes to lead in todayâs politically, technologically and socially tumultuous world.This book will be particularly engaging for students and educators at secondary school, college, undergraduate and postgraduate level, and for leadership/management consultants. While the book's primary role remains as a core text for leadership, management and business modules, it will also be of interest to students on many other courses (e.g. psychology, politics, sociology). Packed with teaching resources which educators will find particularly useful, Leadership is the only textbook of its kind to offer such an applied view of this subject via the inclusion of 12 (mostly CEO) expert insights. The first edition was an Amazon Hot New Release, so this second edition might also hold interest for a general readership.Table of Contents1. An Introduction to Leadership 2. Trait Theories 3. Skills Theories 4. Behavioural Theories 5. Situational Theories 6. Charismatic Leadership 7. Transformational Leadership 8. Emotional Intelligence 9. Authentic Leadership 10. Destructive Leadership 11. Self-leadership 12. Researching Leadership

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Book SynopsisThis book interprets insights from the complexity sciences to explore seven types of complexity better to understand the predictable unpredictability of social life. Drawing on the natural and social sciences, it describes how complexity models are helpful but insufficient for our understanding of complex reality. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book develops a complex theory of action more consistent with our experience that our plans inevitably lead to unexpected outcomes, explains why we are both individuals and thoroughly social, and gives an account of why, no matter how clear our message, we may still be misunderstood. The book investigates what forms of knowledge are most helpful for thinking about complex experience, reflects on the way we exercise authority (leadership) and thinks through the ethical implications of trying to co-operate in a complex world. Taking complexity seriously poses a radical challenge to more orthodox theories of managing and leadinTrade Review"That our lives become increasingly complex is part of our common experience. How to navigate complexity, however, is another matter. It is here where we need reliable and insightful guides. Chris Mowles has provided such a brilliant guide. True to form, this is a multi-dimensional guide, ranging from the self, trough organizations, to the world at large. With every chapter, the reader is encouraged to complexify his/her understanding – new ideas and questions crop up, judgment is sharpened and a new sensibility emerges. This is an highly enlightening book fit for our challenging times." Haridimos Tsoukas, University of Cyprus and University of Warwick, UK. "Chris Mowles provides us with a useful antidote to the notion that complexity thinking can solve 'wicked problems'. This book takes seriously the social relations which shape organisations, and people's day to day lived experience. It provides readers with different ways of thinking about continuity and change, and some very practical ways in which managers and leaders can behave differently." Chris Roche, Professor of Development Practice and Director of the Institute for Human Security and Social Change at La Trobe University, Australia."Professor Mowles’ work offers those who care about organizational life the chance to consider the impossibility of controlling outcomes or predicting the future. Within his descriptions and stories of leading and participating, I have found a rewarding and refreshing invitation to pay more attention to the present, to value emotion, confusion or difference and be re-invigorated when collective thought and discovery result in changed minds and renewed agreements for action. " Cathy Risdon, Professor and Vice Chair, Director, Health Services, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada"Over the past few years, there has been a major shift in the research culture of universities. Research fundamentally motivated by innate human curiosity has been subjugated to research driven by strategic objectives chosen by university management. Researchers are fired because they do not align with strategic objectives, because they dare to critique management orthodoxy. Chris Mowles’ book is extremely important because it resists this destructive trend and makes a serious contribution to keeping critical management traditions alive." Ralph Stacey, founder of the Doctor of Management programme at the University of Hertfordshire, UK"Complexity science is often presented as a superficial means of joining up dots. Not here. Complexity contributes to interrogating what is seemingly ‘obvious’ (e.g. individual sovereignty) or ‘normal’ (consumerism). Crucially, Mowles connects awareness of complexity to processes of critical reflection. He shows how, as a ‘key idea’, complexity can contribute to developing forms of action that are less naïve and self-defeating." Hugh Willmott, Professor of Management, City University London, UK"In this timely volume, Chris Mowles distils perhaps the most important lesson of complexity thinking: in an uncontrollable world, success comes less through our attempts to design it than through the quality of our participation in it. This book will lead you through the implications of this insight for many spheres of organizational and social life, from power and communication to self-understanding and judgment." Andrey Pavlov, Professor of Strategy and Performance, Cranfield University, UK"This book poses a radical challenge to more orthodox theories of managing and leading. Mowles takes this further by investigating what forms of knowledge are most helpful consistent with our experience that our plans inevitably lead to unexpected outcomes. Management is seen as an improvisational practice that can influence, but never control an uncontrollable world. There are ethical implications for both too much and too little authority." Peter Karnøe, Professor at the Department of Planning, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark."Why is it that we crave certainty when all around us we see unfathomable complexities? Chris Mowles argues that the models and frameworks that offer us the comforts of certainty can never fully answer this question. We must also develop social practices that guide us in taking resilient actions. He brings his argument vividly to life by drawing on examples from the global COVID-19 pandemic. Lessons learned are every bit as relevant to other crises, whether they are approaching, or indeed are already upon us." Barbara Simpson, Professor of Leadership and Organisational Dynamics, University of Strathclyde, UKTable of Contents1. Introduction: the predictable unpredictability of the world 2. Complex models: radical challenge to management orthodoxy 3. Complex action: the uncertain outcomes of individuals negotiating in groups 4. The complex self: the ‘I’, ‘me’ and ‘we’ 5. Complex communication: persuading and being persuaded 6. Complex knowledge, complex knowing 7. Complex authority: the leader in the group and the group in the leader 8. Complex ethics: widening our circle of concern 9. Conclusions: towards greater humility and humane ways of working

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Book SynopsisNonprofit organizations are conventionally positioned as generators of social and cultural forms of capital for the common good. As such they occupy a different space to other types of organizations such as corporate firms that exist primarily to generate economic capital for private owners/shareholders. Recent years, however, have seen professionalization promoted widely by funders, policy-makers and nonprofit practitioners across the globe. At the same time, there has been an increasing cross-over of employees from private and public bodies into nonprofits. But do such shifts open up space for the wholesale importation of managerialism into and commercialization of the nonprofit sphere? Are nonprofits at risk of being reconstituted as primarily economic entities, serving the interests of a leadership elite? How are such changes in an organization's trajectory brought about? What are the consequences for trustees, staff, members and the nature of managerial work? The authorsTable of Contents1. Introduction. Part I - A tale of Two Rhetorics: Organizational life in the Milieu of Corporate and Community Logics. 2. An Organization in Search of Purpose. 3. Managers in Search of Purpose. 4. Symbols, Rhetoric and Strategizing. Part II - Transforming Organizational Trajectory. 5. Structuring for Purpose. 6. Rewarding Loyality to the (New) Cause. 7. Immobilizing Resistance and Overcoming Dissent. 8. Leading Away from Purspose and Getting Away with It. 9. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThe past decade has seen increasing focus on the importance of information and knowledge in economic and social processes, the so-called ''knowledge economy''. This is reflected in the popularity amongst practicing managers and organizational theorists of notions of learning, sense-making, knowledge creation, knowledge management and intellectual capital in organizations and more recently, of emotional intelligence as an important management skill. This insightful book: argues that the information processing view of knowledge creation held by systems thinkers is no longer tenable develops the alternative perspective of Complex Responsive Processes of relating, drawing on the complexity sciences as a source for analogies with human action places self-organizing interaction at the centre of the knowledge creating process in organizations. Learning and knowledge creation are seen as qualitative processes of power relating that are emotional as welTable of ContentsList of illustrations, Series preface, Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction: can learning and knowledge creation in organizations really be managed?, Part I. The foundations of mainstream views on learning and knowledge creation in organizations: systems thinking, 2. Mainstream thinking about learning and knowledge creation in organizations, 3. Different levels of learning and knowledge creation in organizations: the individual and the social, Part II. Toward a complexity perspective: the emergence of knowledge in complex responsive processes of relating, 4. The emergence of the individual and the social in communicative interaction, 5. Communicative action in the medium of symbols, 6. The organization of communicative action: rule-based or self-organizing knowledge?, 7. The emergence of enabling constraints: power relations and unconscious processes, 8. Organization as communicating in the living present: how knowledge emerges in complex responsive processes of relating, Part III. Systems thinking and the perspective of complex responsive processes: comparisons and implications, 9. Comparing systems thinking and the perspective of complex responsive processes, 10. The organizational implications of complex responsive processes of knowledge creation, Appendix: Autopoiesis: an inappropriate analogy for human action, Bibliography, Index

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Book SynopsisConsidering the recent impact of the capital market on corporate strategy, this text analyzes, through argument and supportive case studies, how pressures from the capital bull market of the 1990s and bear market of the early 2000s, have reshaped management action and calculation in large, publicly quoted US and UK corporations. Beginning with the dissatisfaction with classical strategy and its limited engagement with the processes of financialization, the book moves on to cover three detailed company case studies (General Electric, Ford and GlaxoSmithKline) which use long run financial data and analysis of company and industry narratives to illustrate and explore key themes. The book emphasizes the importance of company and industry narrative, while also analyzing long term financial results, and helps to explain the limits of management action and the burden of expectations placed on corporate governance.Presenting financial and market information on trajectorTrade Review'Financialization and Strategy will be of considerable interest to scholars, managers and policy makers concerned with effects of capital markets on corporate strategy.' -Michael Power,London School of Economics and Political Science, UK'Financialization and Strategy will be of considerable interest to scholars, managers and policy makers concerned with effects of capital markets on corporate strategy.' -Michael Power,London School of Economics and Political Science, UKTable of Contents Part 1: What Corporate Management Has Become 1. Introduction 2. Classical Strategy 3. The Intrusion of the Capital Market 4. Keeping it Going 5. Better Governance? Part 2: Cases 6. Introduction to the Cases 7. General Electric 8. Ford Motor Company 9. GlaxoSmithKline 10. Synthesis

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Book SynopsisOne of the most pressing needs of modern society is to understand and construct organizations that are not only effective in terms of carrying out work but that also allow and encourage people to develop their full human potential. Psychoanalytic theory describes those primary processes that lie at the heart of human activity and provides new insights for understanding group and organizational behaviour. With a new introduction written by Vega Roberts, this Classic Edition of The Psychoanalysis of Organizations presents the theories of Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion, Elizabeth Lewin and Eric Menzies in plain language and shows their relevance to normal working life. First published in 1978, Robert De Board takes a wide-ranging overview of the major psychoanalytic theorists and organizational researchers, and analyses how the two groups can work together. Written in a very accessible style, it makes sophisticated psychoanalytic and management conceptsTable of ContentsVega, Introduction. De Board, Introduction. Early Studies of Group Behaviour. The Leader - The Influence of Sigmund Freud. Transference and Projection - The Influence of Ferenczi. The Child's World of the Adult - The Contribution of Melanie Klein. Groups and Their Basic Assumptions - The Influence of Wilfred Bion. The Life and Work of Kurt Lewin. T-Groups and the Laboratory Method of Learning. Human Behaviour and General Systems Theory. Organizations as a Defence Against Anxiety. Mental Energy, Anxiety, and Effectiveness.

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Book SynopsisHow class is structured in the call-centres, office blocks and fast-food chains of modern Britain.Trade Review'A sophisticated answer to impoverished sociologies and cheap media cliches ... A sharp and deeply necessary book' -- Richard Seymour, author of Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics (Verso, 2017).'Charles Umney presents a powerful and nuanced alternative narrative driven by Marxist political economy. With a keen eye for irony, paradox, and the absurd, he analyses work, politics, and technology in capitalist societies. This is a witty and wise antidote to the mainstream diagnoses of our times' -- Professor Ian Greer, Cornell University'By reinstating the importance of Marxist analysis for understanding the relationship between class and social inequality in 21st century Britain, Charles Umney has written a highly cogent and perspicacious account of the formation of contemporary inequality and exploitation... a vital source' -- Professor Paul Stewart, former editor of Work, Employment and Society'A highly accessible presentation of the transformation of the British economy over the last four decades and the problems facing Britain today. Umney vividly demonstrates the acute relevance of Marxist class analysis for understanding work, government, economics and politics in 21st century capitalism' -- Dr Matt Vidal, Loughborough University LondonTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction The Rest of the Book 1. The ‘Economy that Works for Everyone’ Platitudes Class Since the Financial Crisis Class and Classification in Academia 2. Alien Powers: Class in Marxist Thought Conflict in the Workplace Dependency and Discipline Subordination of the Individual Alien Powers and Loss of Control Beyond Production 3. Changing Class Dynamics in Britain Introduction Inequality and the Balance of Class Power in Britain Financialisation, Capital and Class Discipline Labour Discipline and ‘Precarity’ Conclusion 4. Jobs Workplace Control Conflict, Resistance and Class Power 5. Government Adequate Forms and Alien Powers Public Services and Capital Blood Sacrifices to Alien Powers 6. Class and Equality Class, ‘Identity Politics’ and Cosmopolitans Marxism and Feminism Equality and Capital Capital and Immigration 7. Technology The Means of Evaluation Capitalism and the Wasting of Resources 8. Media and Ideology Common Sense The News Media Marxist Views on Ideology 9. Conclusion Summary Capital and the Future Final Thoughts: Britain after the 2017 General Election Notes Index

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