Work Books

New and Published Books

1. Employment, Inequality and Globalization

   A Continuous Concern

   Edited by Rolph van der Hoeven

   The nature of globalization and the fallout from the international financial crisis have brought profound changes to societies and economies around the world. This book documents that, over the last two decades, the growth of nonstandard and informal employment has led to greater inequalities. This...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. Police Reform from the Bottom Up

   Officers and their Unions as Agents of Change

   Edited by Monique Marks, David Sklansky

   Series: Police Practice and Research

   What role can and should police unions and rank-and-file officers play in driving and shaping police reform? Police unions and their members are often viewed as obstructionist and conservative, not as change agents. But reform efforts are much more likely to succeed when they are supported by the...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
3. Undocumented Workers' Transitions

   Legal Status, Migration, and Work in Europe

   By Sonia McKay, Eugenia Markova, Anna Paraskevopoulou

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This book explores how immigration laws, while aimed at discouraging undocumented migration, actually sustain it. It documents the circumstances that have caused previously documented migrants to become undocumented and explores the impact of their changing status on their families and on their own...

   Published April 24th 2011 by Routledge
4. Migrant Politics and Mobilisation

   Exclusion, Engagements, Incorporation

   Edited by Davide Pero, John Solomos

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   In recent years immigration and the integration of migrants and minorities have become politicised in public and policy debates in Britain, the rest of Europe and the United States. In such debates, migrants are commonly treated as objects of politics and spoken in terms of management, national...

   Published August 2nd 2010 by Routledge
5. Retirement, Work and Pensions in Ageing Korea

   Edited by Jae-Jin Yang, Thomas Klassen

   Series: Routledge Advances in Korean Studies

   Even among the four Asian tigers, with their economic miracles during the past several decades that allowed them to join the ranks of the developed nations, South Korea is extraordinary. As significant as its economic progress, from a dirt poor and devastated nation in the 1960s, is South Korea’s...

   Published January 31st 2010 by Routledge
6. Economic Justice, Labor and Community Practice

   Edited by Louise Simmons, Scott Harding

   Facing economic upheaval and growing inequality, people in local communities are fighting for economic justice. Coalitions from labor, grassroots community organizations, the faith community, immigrant communities and other progressive forces are emerging across the U.S. and Canada and winning...

   Published September 27th 2009 by Routledge
7. The Handbook of European Welfare Systems

   Edited by Klaus Schubert, Simon Hegelich, Ursula Bazant

   This book provides the first comprehensive information and detailed data on the welfare systems of all twenty-seven EU member states and offers the reader an invaluable introduction and basis for comparative welfare research. The introductory chapter summarizes the actual debate about...

   Published June 18th 2009 by Routledge
8. Women, Employment and Organizations

   By Judith Glover, Gill Kirton

   This book brings together the latest European and North American research on a series of key topics in the field of women's employment. Drawing on published and easily accessible statistics, it sets the topics in the appropriate policy contexts and systematically appraises them from the viewpoint...

   Published September 27th 2006 by Routledge
9. Working in China

   Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation

   Edited by Ching Kwan Lee

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   After a quarter of a century of market reform, China has become the workshop of the world and the leading growth engine of the global economy. Its immense labour force accounts for some twenty-nine per cent of the world's total labour pool but all too little is known about Chinese labour...

   Published August 29th 2006 by Routledge
10. Facing Up to the Constancy of Organizational Change: Further Insights and Approaches to Solutions

    A Special Issue of the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

    Edited by Doris Fay, Harald Lührmann

    Series: Special Issues of the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

    The game goes on. The pressure on organizations for continuous change, in order to adapt to shifts in market structure, to deregulation or legal initiatives and to quickly grasp evolving opportunities has not reduced on the contrary, it has increased with progressing globalization and competition....

    Published June 16th 2004 by Psychology Press