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A Gedenkschrift To Randy Hodson
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Book Synopsis A Gedenkschrift to Randy Hodson by : Lisa A. Keister
Download or read book A Gedenkschrift to Randy Hodson written by Lisa A. Keister and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randy Hodson was one of contemporary sociology's central figures in the study of work, occupations, and inequality. This volume pays tribute to his important scholarly contributions. Chapters by other important scholars in these fields reflect and build on his research in work conditions, worker resistance, and social stratification.
Book Synopsis Sociology, Work and Organisation by : Tony Watson
Download or read book Sociology, Work and Organisation written by Tony Watson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh edition of Sociology, Work and Organisation is outstandingly effective in explaining how we can use the sociological imagination to understand the nature of institutions of work, organisations, occupations, management and employment and how they are changing in the twenty-first century. Intellectual and accessible, it is unrivalled in the breadth of its coverage and its authoritative overview of both traditional and emergent themes in the sociological study of work and organisation. The direction and implications of trends in technological change are fully considered and the book recognises the extent to which these trends are intimately related to changing patterns of inequality in modern societies and to the changing experiences of individuals and families. Key features of the text are: clear structure; ‘key issue’ guides and summaries with each chapter; identification of key concepts throughout the book; unrivalled glossary and concept guide; rich illustrative snapshots or ‘mini cases’ throughout the book. This text engages with cutting-edge debates and makes conceptual innovations without any sacrifice to clarity or accessibility of style. It will appeal to a wide audience, including undergraduates, postgraduates and academics working or studying in the area of work and the organisation of work, as well as practitioners working in the area of human resources and management generally.
Book Synopsis Holding It Together by : Jessica Calarco
Download or read book Holding It Together written by Jessica Calarco and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding society together at the seams and fixing it when things fall apart. In this tour de force, acclaimed Sociologist Jessica Calarco lays bare the devastating consequences of our status quo. Holding It Together draws on five years of research in which Calarco surveyed over 4000 parents and conducted more than 400 hours of interviews with women who bear the brunt of our broken system. A widowed single mother struggles to patch together meager public benefits while working three jobs; an aunt is pushed into caring for her niece and nephew at age fifteen once their family is shattered by the opioid epidemic; a daughter becomes the backstop caregiver for her mother, her husband, and her child because of the perceived flexibility of her job; a well-to-do couple grapples with the moral dilemma of leaning on overworked, underpaid childcare providers to achieve their egalitarian ideals. Stories of grief and guilt abound. Yet, they are more than individual tragedies. Tracing present-day policies back to their roots, Calarco reveals a systematic agreement to dismantle our country’s social safety net and persuade citizens to accept precarity while women bear the brunt. She leads us to see women's labor as the reason we've gone so long without the support systems that our peer nations take for granted, and how women’s work maintains the illusion that we don't need a net. Weaving eye-opening original research with revelatory sociological narrative, Holding It Together is a bold call to demand the institutional change that each of us deserves, and a warning about the perils of living without it.
Book Synopsis Organisational Misbehaviour by : Stephen Ackroyd
Download or read book Organisational Misbehaviour written by Stephen Ackroyd and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Misbehaviour at work has traditionally focused on work limitation, pilferage, absenteeism and sabotage. These remain important, but the organisational landscape is changing. From new forms of satirical humour and use of social media, workplace bullying and sexual misconduct, to managerial misbehaviour and its consequences, the second edition of Organisational Misbehaviour explores the latest forms of organisational subversion and offers fresh insights into the underlying dynamics of management and organisational processes. Drawing from contemporary research, this authoritative text is suitable for anyone interested in the study of management, work and organisations. Stephen Ackroyd is Emeritus Professor at the Management School of Lancaster University, UK. Paul Thompson is Emeritus Professor of Employment Studies at the University of Stirling, UK.
Book Synopsis Inside the Invisible Cage by : Hatim Rahman
Download or read book Inside the Invisible Cage written by Hatim Rahman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines how organizations' use of algorithms is reconfiguring our understanding of control for millions of high-skilled workers who use online labor market platforms (e.g., Upwork, TopCoder, Gigster) to find their work. The book investigates how algorithms enable platforms to control workers within an environment in which organizations embed the rules and guidelines for how workers should behave in opaque algorithms that shift without providing notice, explanation, or recourse for workers"--
Book Synopsis Work and Labor in the Digital Age by : Steven P. Vallas
Download or read book Work and Labor in the Digital Age written by Steven P. Vallas and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the most recent studies of work and labor in the digital age as it unfolds in both Europe and the United States.
Book Synopsis Emerging Conceptions of Work, Management and the Labor Market by : Steven P. Vallas
Download or read book Emerging Conceptions of Work, Management and the Labor Market written by Steven P. Vallas and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic institutions are undergoing radical transformations, and with these has come a reconfiguration of labor market institutions, managerial conceptions of work, and the nature of authority and control over employees as well. This volume addresses a wide array of questions to better understand these dramatic changes.
Book Synopsis Precarious Work by : Arne L. Kalleberg
Download or read book Precarious Work written by Arne L. Kalleberg and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political and economic origins, its manifestations in the USA, Europe, Asia, and the Global South, and its consequences for personal and family life.
Book Synopsis Ethnographies of Work by : Rick Delbridge
Download or read book Ethnographies of Work written by Rick Delbridge and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting cutting-edge ethnographic research on contemporary worlds of work and the experiences of workers from a range of contexts, this volume offers fine-grained, exploratory ethnographic data to provide insights unmatched by other research methods.
Book Synopsis Race, Identity and Work by : Ethel L. Mickey
Download or read book Race, Identity and Work written by Ethel L. Mickey and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the connections between race and work, focusing how racial minorities deal with identity in the workplace; how workers of color encounter exclusion, marginalization and sidelining; and strategies minority workers use to combat and change patterns of workplace inequality.
Book Synopsis Professional Work by : Elizabeth Gorman
Download or read book Professional Work written by Elizabeth Gorman and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current challenges to the legitimacy of expert knowledge has caused professional control over knowledge, autonomy at work, orientation toward public service, and social status to have declined. In this collection, scholars examine the nature of these changes and how they have altered the experience of professional workers.
Book Synopsis Essentiality of Work by : Markus Helfen
Download or read book Essentiality of Work written by Markus Helfen and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-03 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raising pressing questions about the essence of work and its place in contemporary society, this volume inspires new debates about the centrality of the work experience in modern life for those working as well as those who benefit from that work.
Book Synopsis Research in the Sociology of Work by : Steven P. Vallas
Download or read book Research in the Sociology of Work written by Steven P. Vallas and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes contributions which discuss: work and identity, including the experiences of actors and teachers; authority and control at work, including insights from the hospitality and publishing industries; and issues of gender and sexuality in the workplace, including insights on sexual harassment in the workplace.
Book Synopsis Gender and Sexuality in Male-Dominated Occupations by : Tessa Wright
Download or read book Gender and Sexuality in Male-Dominated Occupations written by Tessa Wright and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining women’s diverse experiences of male-dominated work, this ground-breaking book explores what sexuality and gender means to women working in the construction and transport industries. Using accounts from heterosexual women and lesbians working in professional, manual and operational roles, Gender and Sexuality in Male-Dominated Occupations adopts an intersectional approach to examine advantage and disadvantage on the basis of gender, sexuality and occupational class in these sectors. Drawing on interviews and focus groups, the author examines why women choose to enter male-dominated industries, their experiences of workplace relations, their use of women’s support networks and trade unions, and the interface between home and work lives. Presenting international and UK-based examples of effective interventions to increase women’s participation in male-dominated work, this important book highlights the need for political will to tackle women’s underrepresentation, and suggests directions for the future.
Download or read book Terrified written by Chris Bail and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 2010, Terry Jones, the pastor of a small fundamentalist church in Florida, announced plans to burn two hundred Qur'ans on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Though he ended up canceling the stunt in the face of widespread public backlash, his threat sparked violent protests across the Muslim world that left at least twenty people dead. In Terrified, Christopher Bail demonstrates how the beliefs of fanatics like Jones are inspired by a rapidly expanding network of anti-Muslim organizations that exert profound influence on American understanding of Islam. Bail traces how the anti-Muslim narrative of the political fringe has captivated large segments of the American media, government, and general public, validating the views of extremists who argue that the United States is at war with Islam and marginalizing mainstream Muslim-Americans who are uniquely positioned to discredit such claims. Drawing on cultural sociology, social network theory, and social psychology, he shows how anti-Muslim organizations gained visibility in the public sphere, commandeered a sense of legitimacy, and redefined the contours of contemporary debate, shifting it ever outward toward the fringe. Bail illustrates his pioneering theoretical argument through a big-data analysis of more than one hundred organizations struggling to shape public discourse about Islam, tracing their impact on hundreds of thousands of newspaper articles, television transcripts, legislative debates, and social media messages produced since the September 11 attacks. The book also features in-depth interviews with the leaders of these organizations, providing a rare look at how anti-Muslim organizations entered the American mainstream.
Download or read book Privilege Lost written by Jessi Streib and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two narratives of the American class structure: one of a country with boundless opportunities for upward mobility and one of a rigid class system in which the rich stay rich while the poor stay poor. Each of these narratives holds some truth, but each overlooks another. In Privilege Lost, Jessi Streib traces the lives of over 100 youth born into the upper-middle-class. Following them for over ten years as they transition from teens to young adults, Streib examines who falls from the upper-middle-class, how, and why don't they see it coming. In doing so, she reveals the patterned ways that individuals' resources and identities push them onto mobility paths--and the complicated choices youth make between staying true to themselves and staying in their class position. Engaging and eye-opening, Privilege Lost brings to life the stories of the downwardly mobile and highlights what they reveal about class, privilege, and American family life.
Book Synopsis The Power of the Past by : Jessi Streib
Download or read book The Power of the Past written by Jessi Streib and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon interviews with adults married to a partner of a different class background, The Power of the Past reveals the intimate connections between love and class and how enduring class attributes shape who they love and how their marriage unfolds.
