Sociology of Work & Industry Products

Edited by Sanchita Banerjee Saxena

This book argues that larger flaws in the global supply chain must first be addressed to change the way business is conducted to prevent factory owners from taking deadly risks to meet clients’ demands in the garment industry in Bangladesh. Using the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster as a departure point,…

Hardback – 2019-07-16
Routledge
Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

Edited by Rik van Berkel, Dorte Caswell, Peter Kupka, Flemming Larsen

Welfare-to-work or activation policies refer to programmes aimed at promoting the employability, labour-market and social participation of benefit recipients of working age. Frontline workers delivering these policies are conceived of as policy implementers, as policy makers, and as actors…

Paperback – 2019-07-12
Routledge

Edited by Marlene Spanger, May-Len Skilbrei

The starting point for this book is the question of how we research sex for sale and the implications of the choices we make in terms of epistemology and ethics. Which dilemmas and ethical aspects need to be taken into account when producing qualitative data within a highly politicised and…

Paperback – 2019-07-10
Routledge
Interdisciplinary Studies in Sex for Sale

By Nick Rumens

In this modern day and age, it is surprising that managerialist perspectives, practices and ideas are colonising the study of sexualities in organisation. A timely intervention into the contemporary vitality of queer theories, Queer Business is an innovative book length exploration of how queer…

Paperback – 2019-06-21
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Critical Diversities

By Jan Hjarnø

This title was first published in 2003. The problem of illegal labour immigration is one of the most controversial and hotly debated issues to confront the EU. This book examines the Scandinavian model of social partnership by which labour market relations are governed, creating an effective…

Hardback – 2019-06-17
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

Edited by Tanja van der Lippe, Zoltán Lippényi

A sustainable European workforce has become increasingly relevant in our present day and age. Flexibility and job insecurity are omnipresent; organizational workforces are displaying growing diversity with respect to age, gender, ethnicity and family status; and Europe’s welfare states are…

Hardback – 2019-06-14
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Sociology

Edited by Johannes M Kiess, Martin Seeliger

Trade Unions and European Integration brings together pessimists and optimists on trade unionism under the contemporary pressures of European integration. The Great Recession has brought new attention to structural problems of the European integration process, specifically monetary integration…

Hardback – 2019-06-13
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Sociology

By Thorvald Gran

How Speech Acting and the Struggle of Narratives Generate Organization seeks to shed understanding on how speaking or speech-acting affects how we are organized and how we influence each other and wield power. It is suggested that speaking is a major clue to organization and to the creation of new…

Paperback – 2019-06-12
Routledge

Edited by Stewart Clegg, Miguel Pina e Cunha

Social theorists speculate about large-scale social questions, asking of any phenomenon, how is it possible? This book addresses how various social theories contribute key insights into the nature of organizations and management. The cast of characters to be found in this book have had a…

Paperback – 2019-06-12
Routledge

By Tay K. McNamara, John B. Williamson

Ageism: Past, Present, and Future presents perspectives for understanding ageism and puts ageism in the context of specific social institutions. McNamara and Williamson uniquely provide a number of complementary ways to understand ageism, including social and psychological theories of ageism,…

Paperback – 2019-06-10
Routledge

By Liz Yeomans

Inextricably linked to neoliberal market economies, public relations’ influence in our promotional culture is profound. Yet many aspects of the professional role are under-researched and poorly understood, including the impact on workers who construct displays of feeling to elicit a desired…

Hardback – 2019-06-06
Routledge
Routledge New Directions in PR & Communication Research

Edited by Wayne R. Dynes

First published in 1987, this book encompasses a broad range interdisciplinary research into homosexuality — displaying a full spectrum of points of view — and, given that the major traditions of modern homosexual research began in Europe, is not restricted to works in English.. In general topics…

Paperback – 2019-06-06
Routledge