![Chinese Migrant Workers and Employer Domination]( "Chinese Migrant Workers and Employer Domination")
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Siu, K. (2020)
This book explores three major changes in the circumstances of the migrant working class in south China over the past three decades, from historical and comparative perspectives. …
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![Bodies of Work]( "Bodies of Work")
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Saunders, R. (2020)
This book is a timely and innovative exploration of the vital relationship between sex and capitalism in the digital age. It provides a lively, provocative analysis of how …
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![Governing Social Protection in the Long Term]( "Governing Social Protection in the Long Term")
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Ramia, G. (2020)
This open access book examines the comparative evolution of social protection in Australia and New Zealand from 1890 to the present day, focusing on the relationship between …
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![Temporary Agency Workers in Italy and the UK]( "Temporary Agency Workers in Italy and the UK")
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Bertolini, A. (2020)
This book offers a comparative exploration of the various disadvantages experienced by a category of atypical workers compared to standard employees, in the UK and Italy, and …
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![Design Thinking and the New Spirit of Capitalism]( "Design Thinking and the New Spirit of Capitalism")
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Seitz, T. (2020)
An ethnographic study on Design Thinking, this book offers profound insights into the popular innovation method, centrally exploring how design thinking’s practice relates to the …
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![China's White-Collar Wave]( "China's White-Collar Wave")
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Jiang, C., Hong, Q. L., Qiu, L. (2019)
This book explores the move from manufacturing towards service industry jobs in China's economic development during the 12th Five-Year Plan period. The service industry now makes …
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![Insecurity, Precarious Work and Labour Markets]( "Insecurity, Precarious Work and Labour Markets")
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Choonara, J. (2019)
Precarity is a key theme in political discourse, in media and academic discussions of employment, and within the labour movement. Often, the prevailing idea is of an endless march …
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![Collective Mobilization in Changing Conditions]( "Collective Mobilization in Changing Conditions")
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Axelsson, J., Karlsson, J. C., Skorstad, E. J. (2019)
This book presents the first published account in English of Sverre Lysgaard's theory of the ‘worker collectivity’ – a theory of an informal protective organisation among …
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![Labour in Contemporary Capitalism]( "Labour in Contemporary Capitalism")
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Huws, U. (2019)
In this long-awaited book, Ursula Huws brings together the results of decades of prescient research on labour market transformation to provide an authoritative overview of the …
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![Time, Freedom and the Self]( "Time, Freedom and the Self")
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Shir-Wise, M. (2019)
While abundant research has investigated time use, much less attention has been given to the cultural meanings attached to free time and what these may express with regard to …
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![Localized Global Economies on the Northern Borderlands of Mexico and Morocco]( "Localized Global Economies on the Northern Borderlands of Mexico and Morocco")
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Trinidad Requena, A. (Ed), Soriano-Miras, R. M. (Ed), Solís, M. (Ed), Kopinak, K. (Ed) (2019)
This comparative study examines the processes of development and the configurations of export industries in northern Morocco and on the northern border of Mexico. As the …
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![Creating the New Worker]( "Creating the New Worker")
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Durand, J. (2019)
This book explores the relationship between the changing nature of capitalism and the creation of the new worker. In a changing global economy, work - as the activity that …
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![Digital Entrepreneurship, Gender and Intersectionality]( "Digital Entrepreneurship, Gender and Intersectionality")
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Leung, W. (2019)
This book details qualitative research focusing on Internet startups, digital entrepreneurship, race and sex discrimination, and the sharing economy. Addressing the intersections …
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![Crossborder Care]( "Crossborder Care")
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Bahna, M., Sekulová, M. (2019)
This book analyses the circular migration of care workers in Central Europe using the example of Slovak carers in 24-hour care provision for the elderly in Austria. Challenging …
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![Social Inequalities and Occupational Stratification]( "Social Inequalities and Occupational Stratification")
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Lambert, P., Griffiths, D. (2018)
This book explores how structures of social inequality are linked to the social connections that people hold. The authors focus upon occupational inequalities where they see, for …
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![Honneth and Everyday Intercultural (Mis)Recognition]( "Honneth and Everyday Intercultural (Mis)Recognition")
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Anna, B. (2018)
This book conducts a critical investigation into everyday intercultural recognition and misrecognition in the domain of paid work, utilising social philosopher Axel Honneth’s …
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![Everyday Gender at Work in Taiwan]( "Everyday Gender at Work in Taiwan")
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Chin, T. (2018)
This book explores professional women’s experiences of gender in the Taiwanese workplace in the wake of the rapid transformation of the country's economy, identifying attitudes to …
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![Artists’ Voices in Cultural Policy]( "Artists’ Voices in Cultural Policy")
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Wesner, S. (2018)
This volume examines visual artists’ careers in the East German region of Saxony, as seen through the lens of cultural policy studies. The book discusses how myth binaries, memory …
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![Industrial Teesside, Lives and Legacies]( "Industrial Teesside, Lives and Legacies")
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Warren, J. (2018)
This book evaluates the consequences of economic, social, environmental and cultural change on people living and working within Teesside in the North-East of England. It assesses …
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![ComMODify]( "ComMODify")
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van der Graaf, S. (2018)
This book critically analyses user-firm technology relationships and socioeconomic structures at the crossroads of community and commerce. It investigates businesses that let …
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