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Author: Cameron Lynne Macdonald
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9781566394802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays and case studies on "the problems of organizing and new models of unionism ... in the context of women's work culture, multiracial workplaces, contingent and part-time work, and participatory innovations to improve service and experience of work simultaneously."--Back cover.
Author: Cameron MacDonald
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-08-20
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1135926603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEveryday, we are bombarded with advertising images of the smiling service worker. The book is written with the aim of focusing beneath the surface of these fairy tale images, to seek out and understand the reality of service workers experience. Within the sociology of work and related literatures, there are an increasing number of empirical studie
Author: Gerhard Bosch
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-06-01
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 1134456433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe rise to prominence of the service sector - heralded over half a century ago as the great hope for the twenty-first century - has come to fruition. In many cases, employment in the service sector now outnumbers that in manufacturing sectors, and it is accepted that in all developed countries, the service sector is the only one in which employment will grow in future. The reasons for this is the subject of much controversy and debate, the outcomes of which are not merely of academic interest but of decisive importance for economic policy and the quality of working and living conditions in future. In order to examine these various arguments, research teams from eight European countries worked together for three years on a comparative study of the evolution of service sector employment in EU member states. They also investigated working and employment conditions in five very different service industries (banking, retailing, hospitals, IT services and care of the elderly) in a number of countries, and the results of their research are presented in this informative new collection, of interest to students academics and researchers involved in all aspects of industrial economics.
Author: Tim Strangleman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-04-10
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1134327781
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWork and Society provides a comprehensive investigation of the major trends in work and employment. The changing social order and its impact upon the labour market in recent years, alongside the huge changes brought about by new technology and globalization are considered.
Author: Catherine McKercher
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780739117811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKnowledge Workers in the Information Society addresses the changing nature of work, workers, and their organizations in the media, information, and knowledge industries. These knowledge workers include journalists, broadcasters, librarians, filmmakers and animators, government workers, and employees in the telecommunications and high tech sectors. Technological change has become relentless. Corporate concentration has created new pressures to rationalize work and eliminate stages in the labor process. Globalization and advances in telecommunications have made real the prospect that knowledge work will follow manufacturing labor to parts of the world with low wages, poor working conditions, and little unionization. McKercher and Mosco bring together scholars from numerous disciplines to examine knowledge workers from a genuinely global perspective.
Author: Gregor Gall
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 1784715697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProviding a thorough overview of the political nature and dynamics of the world of work, labour and employment, this timely Handbook draws together an interdisciplinary range of top contributors to explore the interdependent relationship between politics and labour, work and employment. The Handbook explores the purpose, roles, rights and powers of employers and management, workers and unions, states and governments in the age of globalised neo-liberalism.
Author: Daniel J. Walkowitz
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780807847589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolls tell us that most Americans_whether they earn $20,000 or $200,000 a year_think of themselves as middle class. As this phenomenon suggests, "middle class" is a category whose definition is not necessarily self-evident. In this book, historian Daniel
Author: Irena Grugulis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-03-15
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0230344887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInternationally renowned experts assess the role of retail work in modern industrial economies in Retail Work. Chapters are arranged thematically to capture four aspects of retail work: the nature of work and the shop floor; work across the supply chain and the wider productive system; the skills used in retailing; and workers as a collectivity.
Author: Hugh Mackay
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-11
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1136452974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis lively and engaging text introduces students to the major debates and data on the information society, and at the same time teaches them how to research it. It gives an overview of: * theorists of the information society, particularly Manuel Castells and Daniel Bell * social research methodologies, including positivist, interpretivist, critical and cultural * qualitative and quantitative research methods and criteria for social science evaluation. Drawing on a rich body of empirical work, it explores three core themes of information society debates: the transformation of culture through the information revolution, changing patterns of work and employment and the reconfiguration of time and space in everyday life. In exploring these, the reader is introduced through case-studies, activities, and questions for discussion, to the practicalities of doing social research and the nature of social science argument and understanding.
Author: Stephen Bach
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-01-22
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 1119991536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis revised edition is a comprehensive, authoritative set of essays. It is more detailed and analytical than the mainstream treatments of HRM. As in previous editions, Managing Human Resources analyses HRM, the study of work and employment, using an integrated multi-disciplinary approach. The starting point is a recognition that HRM practice and firm performance are influenced by a variety of institutional arrangements that extend beyond the firm. The consequences of HRM need to incorporate analysis of employees and other stakeholders as well as the implications for organizational performance.
