Sociology of Work & Industry Products

By Verity Burgmann

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.Globalization has adversely affected working-class organization and mobilization, increasing inequality by…

Paperback – 2018-03-21
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Routledge Advances in International Political Economy

Edited by Zahra Meghani

This volume makes the case for the fair treatment of female migrant workers from the global South who are employed in wealthy liberal democracies as care workers, domestic workers, home health workers, and farm workers. An international panel of contributors provide analyses of the ethical,…

Paperback – 2018-02-12
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Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

By Lucien Lombardo

First published in 1989, Guards Imprisoned provides an in-depth look into the work and working life of prison guards as they perceive and experience it. The author, who was a teacher at Auburn Prison, New York, discovered that little was known about the guard’s perceptions of his "place" in…

Paperback – 2018-02-08
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By Michael Kull

To understand fully the process of European integration, it is necessary to consider developments at the sub-national and local level. EU integration scholars have been examining the local level using the concept of multi-level governance (MLG) since the 1990s. While MLG was the first concept to…

Paperback – 2018-02-05
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Edited by Mathias Broth, Eric Laurier, Lorenza Mondada

The last two decades have seen a rapid increase in the production and consumption of video by both professionals and amateurs. The near ubiquity of devices with video cameras and the rise of sites like YouTube have lead to the growth and transformation of the practices of producing, circulating,…

Paperback – 2018-02-05
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Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

Edited by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg

The Routledge History of Rural America charts the course of rural life in the United States, raising questions about what makes a place rural and how rural places have shaped the history of the nation. Bringing together leading scholars to analyze a wide array of themes in rural history and culture…

Paperback – 2018-01-24
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Routledge Histories

By Tom Barnes

During the last two decades, rapid economic growth and development in India has been based upon the mass employment of informal labour. Using case studies from three urban regions, this book examines this growth in modern India’s cities and towns. It argues that India has undergone a process of…

Paperback – 2018-01-22
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Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

Edited by Martin Bulmer

First published in 1975. How do men come to perceive and evaluate a world in which marked inequalities of class and status exist? This book considers the nature of class images and their underlying work and community structures. Beginning with the argument that the perception of society varies…

Paperback – 2018-01-18
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Routledge Revivals

Edited by J.J. Boddewyn

First published in 1971, this collection of fourteen contemporaneous European research studies on managerial backgrounds and on the patterns, roles, and evolution of managerial careers examine managerial motivations in a broader context than the traditional analysis of psychological qualities. Most…

Paperback – 2018-01-18
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Edited by Philip Cooke

First published in 1989, this book examines seven different localities, ranging from the outer suburbs of large northern cities to small freestanding town, which were prospering in the 1980s or struggling against the negative employment effects of restructuring. Within the theoretical frame of ‘…

Paperback – 2018-01-18
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By Yarin Eski

Ports are the vital hubs of the maritime transport industry, and crucial to the flow of global trade. The protection of this global supply chain from crime and terrorism is a fundamental objective of port security, and is a landscape beset by new challenges and changes post 9/11. Building on…

Paperback – 2018-01-15
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Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

Edited by R Paul Maiden, David A. Sharar

Global Perspectives of Employee Assistance Programs is the first book of its kind to empirically address the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) concept and model in a diverse, global context. This book features a variety of studies which deal with the design, delivery, cultural adaptability,…

Paperback – 2018-01-12
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