Sociology of Work & Industry Books

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1. Global Business: Managing Risk and Responsibility Across Borders, 2nd Edition

   By Rob van Tulder

   The global financial crisis of recent years has demonstrated the business as usual approach is no longer acceptable. This change is particularly felt in the world of international business. Rob van Tulder's popular textbook is radically revised to take account of the new business paradigm....

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-60037-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. The Social Construction of the Employee

   By Nancy Harding

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   July 2011 | 978-0-415-57971-1 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Max Weber on Economy and Society (Routledge Revivals)

   By Robert Holton, Bryan Turner

   First published in 1989, this reissue concerns itself with the relevance of Max Weber's sociology for the understanding of modern times. The book outlines key tennets of Weber's sociology and points to the valuable legacy of Weber's thought in contemporary intellectual debate,...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-61127-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Alternative Business: Outlaws, Crime and Culture

   By Martin Parker

   Representations of business, management and organizations in popular culture are overwhelmingly negative. Why does this happen when the representation of economic outlaws in popular culture is almost always romantic? Martin Parker investigates the strange absence of cultural studies from the world...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-58648-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Looking for Work in Post-Socialist China

   By Feng Xu

   Unemployment is one of the most politically explosive issues in China and has gained further prominence as a result of the present global financial crisis. The novelty, urgency, and complexity of Chinese unemployment have compelled the government to experiment with policy initiatives that originate...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-55968-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Against Non-Governmental Organizations?: A Critical Perspective on their Management

   By Nidhi Srinivas

   NGO's (Non-Governmental Organizations) are possibly the most visible arm of policy and practice in development studies, and questions of improving their efficacy, in terms of operational efficiency, goal attainment, and assessing development impact, are paramount. This book illimunates the...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-77761-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Diasporic Journeys, Ritual, and Normativity among Asian Migrant Women

   Edited by Pnina Werbner, Mark Johnson

   The power of embodied ritual performance to constitute agency and transform subjectivity are increasingly the focus of major debates in the anthropology of Christianity and Islam. They are particularly relevant to understanding the way transnational women migrants from South and South East Asia,...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-59201-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Life Course Perspectives on Military Service

   Edited by Janet M. Wilmoth, Andrew S. London

   This edited volume provides a comprehensive and critical review of the literature on specific topics related to military service and its life course consequences. It demonstrates how the military, like higher educational and penal institutions, is a critical social institution that can...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-87941-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. The Culture of Management

   By Stefano Harney

   From filo faxes to palm pilots; from cell phones to laptops; from spreadsheets to online banking, many of us try to make the most of our day, to not waste any time, to maximize our efficiency. These are the hallmarks of time, financial, and information management. More and more we find ourselves...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-93070-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Identity, Feeling and Sociality at Work: Affective Organizing

    By David Grant, Rick Iedema, Carl Rhodes, Hermine Scheeres

    February 2011 | 978-0-415-45194-9 | Hardback (Routledge)