![The Palgrave Handbook of Workers’ Participation at Plant Level]( "The Palgrave Handbook of Workers’ Participation at Plant Level")
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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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![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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![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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![The Palgrave Handbook of the Sociology of Work in Europe]( "The Palgrave Handbook of the Sociology of Work in Europe")
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Stewart, P. (Ed), Durand, J. (Ed), Richea, M. (Ed) (2019)
This book explores the key conceptual features of the development of the Sociology of Work (SoW) in Europe since 1945, using eleven country case studies. An original contribution …
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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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![The Deconstruction of Employment as a Political Question]( "The Deconstruction of Employment as a Political Question")
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Serrano-Pascual, A. (Ed), Jepsen, M. (Ed) (2019)
The wide-ranging European perspectives brought together in this volume aim to analyse, by means of an interdisciplinary approach, the numerous implications of a massive shift in …
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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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![The New Normal of Working Lives]( "The New Normal of Working Lives")
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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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![Humans and Machines at Work]( "Humans and Machines at Work")
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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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![Making Career Stories]( "Making Career Stories")
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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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![Language Put to Work]( "Language Put to Work")
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Brophy, E. (2017)
WINNER of The Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize, awarded by the Canadian Communication Association, and the Canadian Association of Work and Labour Studies, Book of the Year Award. …
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![Wikipedia, Work and Capitalism]( "Wikipedia, Work and Capitalism")
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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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![Reinventing Work in Europe]( "Reinventing Work in Europe")
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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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![Women, Labor Segmentation and Regulation]( "Women, Labor Segmentation and Regulation")
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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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![Virtual Workers and the Global Labour Market]( "Virtual Workers and the Global Labour Market")
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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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![Social Games and Identity in the Higher Education Workplace]( "Social Games and Identity in the Higher Education Workplace")
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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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![Rethinking Gender, Work and Care in a New Europe]( "Rethinking Gender, Work and Care in a New Europe")
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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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![High Skill Migration and Recession]( "High Skill Migration and Recession")
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Triandafyllidou, A. (Ed), Isaakyan, I. (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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![Sex Worker Unionization]( "Sex Worker Unionization")
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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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![The New Social Division]( "The New Social Division")
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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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