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Berger, S. (Ed), Pries, L. (Ed), Wannöffel, M. (Ed) (2019)
Comprising the study, documentation, and comparison of plant-level workers’ participation around the world, this volume meets the challenge of offering a global perspective on …
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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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Taylor, S. (Ed), Luckman, S. (Ed) (2018)
This critical, international and interdisciplinary edited collection investigates the new normal of work and employment, presenting research on the experience of the workers …
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Moore, P. V. (Ed), Upchurch, M. (Ed), Whittaker, X. (Ed) (2018)
This edited collection provides a series of accounts of workers’ local experiences that reflect the ubiquity of work’s digitalisation. Precarious gig economy workers ride bikes …
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Brophy, E. (2017)
This book examines the striking rise of call centres over the past quarter century through the lens of the resistance and collective organizing generated by workers along the …
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Scillio, M. (2017)
This book is about how people construct career stories: the stories we use to make sense of our work life. Mark Scillio explores the idea of security in the current turbulent …
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Lund, A. (2017)
This book relates Wikipedians’ conceptions of their activities in terms of play, game, work and labour, to their views on Wikipedia and capitalism. The author identifies and …
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Peetz, D. (Ed), Murray, G. (Ed) (2017)
This book re-shapes thinking on ‘gender gaps’—differences between men and women in their incomes, their employment and their conditions of work. It shows how the interaction …
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Méda, D., Vendramin, P. (2017)
This book looks at the history of work and the meanings that are attached to it over time. Taking as its basis a number of international surveys and interviews conducted in …
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Webster, J. (Ed), Randle, K. (Ed) (2016)
The emerging world of virtual work is not tied to physical workplaces or particular locations, but is dispersed and footloose. It is frequently precarious, and blurs the …
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Addison, M. (2016)
We all play games at work – but have you ever wondered how your identity becomes bound up with game playing? This book is about employees in the Higher Education workplace and it …
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Hofäcker, D. (Ed), Roosalu, T. (2016)
Given the growing importance of Eastern European countries in the development of the EU, there is an urgent need to reconstruct the recent dynamic developments in women's work and …
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Triandafyllidou, A. (Ed), Isaakyan, I. (Ed), Schiavone, G. (Ed) (2016)
Women migrants are doubly-disadvantaged by their sex and outsider status when moving to a new country. Highly skilled women are no exception to this rule. This book explores the …
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Gall, G. (2016)
Sex Worker Unionisation examines the challenges and opportunities offered by unionisation for Sex Workers. Exploring unionisation projects undertaken by Sex Workers in most major …
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della Porta, D. (Ed), Silvasti, T. (Ed), Hänninen, S. (Ed), Siisiäinen, M. (Ed) (2015)
This volume addresses issues of precariousness in a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, looking at socio-economic transformations as well as the identity formation and political …
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Kontos, M. (Ed), Bonifacio, G. T. (Ed) (2015)
This timely and innovative book delivers a comprehensive analysis of the non-recognition of the right to a family life of migrant live-in domestic and care workers in Argentina, …
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Panizzon, M. (Ed), Zurcher, G. (Ed), Fornalé, E. (Ed), Zürcher, G. (Ed) (2015)
This Handbook focuses on the complexity surrounding the interaction between trade, labour mobility and development, taking into consideration social, economic and human rights …
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Smith, A. (Ed), Dawson, M. (Ed), Fowler, B. (Ed), Miller, D. (Ed), Rampton, D. (Ed) (2015)
This edited collection calls for renewed attention to the concept of the sociological imagination, allowing social scientists to link private issues to public troubles. Inspired …
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Stebbins, R. A. (2015)
Volunteering and its nonprofit organizations have commonly been analyzed in economic terms, with volunteering being referred to as "unpaid (productive) work". This economic …
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Fuchs, C. (Ed), Fisher, E. (Ed) (2015)
This volume explores current interventions into the digital labour theory of value, proposing theoretical and empirical work that contributes to our understanding of Marx's labour …
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