Download or read book Emerging Conceptions of Work Management and the Labor Market written by Steven P. Vallas and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic institutions are undergoing radical transformations, and with these has come a reconfiguration of labor market institutions, managerial conceptions of work, and the nature of authority and control over employees as well. This volume addresses a wide array of questions to better understand these dramatic changes.
Download or read book New Developments in the Labor Market written by Katharine G. Abraham and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1990 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These original contributions report on new developments taking place in today's labor market and on the role of public policy in shaping that process.
Download or read book Securing Prosperity written by Paul Osterman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-03 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite prospering post-war industries, Americans are still uncertain of their economic future. This book claims the reason for this is the lack of stable, full-time jobs and steadily rising incomes. It outlines plans for new economic institutions to secure a more stable future.
Download or read book Virtual Management and the New Normal written by Svein Bergum and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how Human Resource Management and leadership have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, what organizations can learn from this, and how these new experiences could be applied in the “New Normal”. The editors of this book have compiled the new knowledge that exists around remote leadership and organizational practices, relative to pre-COVID-19 studies, and the experiences learned during the pandemic. Key discussion themes focus on the role of distance in leadership, organizations and HR, the sustainability aspects involved, innovations and knowledge development achieved, the role of digitalization and new requirements and possibilities for management post-COVID-19. The editors conclude by investigating the strategic processes and factors influencing the “New Normal”. This book will be of great importance for academics, students and practitioners in the fields of Management, Leadership, Human Resource Management, Sustainability, Change Management and Crisis Management.
Download or read book Research in the Sociology of Work written by Steven P. Vallas and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes contributions which discuss: work and identity, including the experiences of actors and teachers; authority and control at work, including insights from the hospitality and publishing industries; and issues of gender and sexuality in the workplace, including insights on sexual harassment in the workplace.
Download or read book Work and Labor in the Digital Age written by Steven P. Vallas and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the most recent studies of work and labor in the digital age as it unfolds in both Europe and the United States.
Download or read book Recoding Power written by Sidney A. Rothstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital transformation increasingly drives economic growth in the rich capitalist democracies, but orienting production around digital technologies is associated with rising inequality and spreading precarity. In Recoding Power, Rothstein outlines three tactics that workers can use to build power in the current episode of economic transition, where they otherwise lack access to traditional power-resources like unions and institutions for social protection. Drawing on four in-depth case studies of workers responding to mass layoffs at tech firms in the United States and Germany, Rothstein shows.
Download or read book Professional Work written by Elizabeth Gorman and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current challenges to the legitimacy of expert knowledge has caused professional control over knowledge, autonomy at work, orientation toward public service, and social status to have declined. In this collection, scholars examine the nature of these changes and how they have altered the experience of professional workers.
Download or read book Ethnographies of Work written by Rick Delbridge and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting cutting-edge ethnographic research on contemporary worlds of work and the experiences of workers from a range of contexts, this volume offers fine-grained, exploratory ethnographic data to provide insights unmatched by other research methods.
Download or read book Precarious Work written by Arne L. Kalleberg and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political and economic origins, its manifestations in the USA, Europe, Asia, and the Global South, and its consequences for personal and family life.
Download or read book The Technologisation of the Social written by Paul O'Connor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of digital revolution, artificial intelligence, big data and augmented reality, technology has shifted from being a tool of communication to a primary medium of experience and sociality. Some of the most basic human capacities are increasingly being outsourced to machines and we increasingly experience and interpret the world through digital interfaces, with machines becoming ever more ‘social’ beings. Social interaction and human perception are being reshaped in unprecedented ways. This book explores this technologisation of the social and the attendant penetration of permanent liminality into those aspects of the lifeworld where individuals had previously sought some kind of stability and meaning. Through a historical and anthropological examination of this phenomenon, it problematises the underlying logic of limitless technological expansion and our increasing inability to imagine either ourselves or our world in other than technological terms. Drawing on a variety of concepts from political anthropology, including liminality, the trickster, imitation, schismogenesis, participation, and the void, it interrogates the contemporary technological revolution in a manner that will be of interest to sociologists, social and anthropological theorists and scholars of science and technology studies with interests in the digital transformation of social life.
Download or read book Race Identity and Work written by Ethel L. Mickey and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the connections between race and work, focusing how racial minorities deal with identity in the workplace; how workers of color encounter exclusion, marginalization and sidelining; and strategies minority workers use to combat and change patterns of workplace inequality.
Download or read book The Reformation of Welfare written by Tom Boland and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2022-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by ideas from economic theology, this provocative book uncovers deep-rooted religious concepts and shows how they continue to influence contemporary views of work and unemployment.
Download or read book Key Concepts in Work written by Paul Blyton and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007-10-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This excellent book will encourage students to think about the diverse range and broad character of issues encountered at work. It highlights both enduring dilemmas and emerging issues in contemporary employment. Each concept is carefully explained with engaging examples provided throughout. As such it will help prime students to understand key issues at work and make a first-rate addition to any social science reading list." - Nicolas Bacon, Nottingham University Business School "This authoritative, comprehensive, up-to-date, and user-friendly reference book will be appreciated greatly by all social science staff and students of work." - Stephen Edgell, University of Salford and author of The Sociology of Work The SAGE Key Concepts series provides students with accessible and authoritative knowledge of the essential topics in a variety of disciplines. Cross-referenced throughout, the format encourages critical evaluation through understanding. Written by experienced and respected academics, the books are indispensible study aids and guides to comprehension. Key Concepts in Work: Clearly and concisely explains the central ideas, debates and theories of work. Offers a broad overview of the social, political and economic contexts of work illustrated from diverse industrial societies. Begins each entry with a snapshot definition followed by key words and guidance for further reading. Inspires students to engage in further exploration of ideas and debates. Provides an essential reference guide for all students in sociology, business studies, management learning about work, employment, organizations and labour markets.
Download or read book Employment Management Work written by Brian William Halpin and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trying to understand how workers manage the risk associated with the turbulent neoliberal economy is at the core of my dissertation project. Since the 1970’s precarious employment relations have dramatically expanded across the U.S. labor market. This transformation, caused largely by the erosion of labor unions, neoliberal globalization, and changing labor market norms, has had both material (stagnant wages, erosion of benefits, long-term unemployment) and symbolic (increased risk and uncertainty) consequences for U.S. workers. Good jobs, found in the primary labor market, have eroded while bad jobs, located in the secondary labor market have expanded. I ask: Faced with a turbulent economy, how do low-wage workers cope with unpredictability, risk, and precarity and defend themselves against economic insecurity? Using a Polanyian framework and building on the concept of labor as a fictitious commodity, I theorize the concept of employment management work as a fundamental experience of work under capitalism. All workers (that is wage laborers) from those who toiled in 19th century factories, to video game designers in Silicon Valley, to public and state employees must engage in some form of employment management work. People have to decide whether and when they would enter the labor market, identify employment goals, determine what skills or education were required for achieving those goals, interpret hiring processes and opportunity structures, assess whether they would be able to access specific jobs, survive during periods of unemployment, and plan for the futureIn building the significance of this argument, I collect interview and ethnographic data from three theoretically relevant cases (first-generation immigrants; unemployed workers utilizing One-Stop Centers; low-wage unionized public employees – 99 interviews in total) in Northern California. I build a theory of 21st century precariousness, illustrating how workers across three institutional and organizational domains cope and come to grips with an increasingly precarious labor market. Each case study builds a narrative about how 21st century precariousness is underpinned or embedded in three interlocking institutional arrangements the economy, the state, and the politics of production and employment. My findings indicate that these low-wage workers are strategic actors using whatever means are at their disposal to make ends meet. They continually scan their social networks for job opportunities, work overtime without compensation to ensure that management is happy with them on the job, and go to great lengths to maximize their paid hours of employment. They are also very aware of the discourse about the link between human capital acquisition (skills, education, and life experiences) and social and economic mobility. Just as some policy analysts suggest that low-wage workers should “work their way out of poverty,” the workers I interviewed have a similar individualized assessment of their situation. However, my research concretely documents how the very conditions of low-wage work (schedule irregularity, low-pay, the need to hold multiple part-time jobs, lack of access to formal training and being funneled into “bad” jobs for the cases of unemployed workers) trap them, blocking access to social and economic mobility. My dissertation contributions are twofold. First, my three cases add new empirical findings to the literature on how workers manage employment uncertainty and risk in the new economy of precarity. By using a cross-class comparative framework, I extend the literature in new and novel directions. This adds to a critical dialog among social scientists and policy professionals who are interested in improving employment for those at the bottom of the economic hierarchy. Second, I make theoretical contributions to the economic sociology of work by building on a Polanyian framework of ideational embeddedness and the concept of labor as a fictitious commodity by theorizing employment-management as a fundamental set of activities for sustaining markets in human labor.
Download or read book New Developments in the Labor Market written by Katharine G. Abraham and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Working in America written by Paul Osterman and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the changing face of the American labor market.
