This book introduces the difference model of disability. Framed within an affect-based understanding of the relationships between those living with impairments and others, this new model offers a reconsideration of the construct of disability itself...Daugiau...
International Trade, Labor Relations, and Bargaining Power: International Strawberry Commodity Networks examines power in the commercial food system through the history of always available strawberries....Daugiau...
Trade Unions and Regions: Better Work, Experimentation, and Regional Governance is about the place of workers and their unions in the modern world. It addresses current challenges for unions working in regions and the experiments that may take place...Daugiau...
Contesting Inequality and Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1851-1880 provides a new perspective on how and why workers organise, and what shapes that organisation....Daugiau...
This book provides insights into the development in work, organisations and employment relations in the last 50 years. In a semi-autobiographical approach, Lansbury reflects on important contributions by other scholars, practitioners, and policy mak...Daugiau...
This book analyzes wildfire preparedness and policy in Australia. Drawing on data from interviews with residents, volunteers and emergency services professionals living and working in wildfire-prone areas, the authors focus on issues of power and in...Daugiau...
This book is critical of international human resource management as a discipline and practice, and discursively analyses structural and societal issues of control and compliance of the historically gendered and racialised occupation of nursing....Daugiau...
Featuring research from Australia, Europe and North America, this collection of cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research-based chapters on work, workers and the regulation and management of workplace health and safety explores important historical...Daugiau...
This book provides a new perspective on and new insights into how and why workers organise, and what shapes this organisation. The Origins of Worker Mobilisation will be key reading for scholars, academics and policy makers the fields of industrial...Daugiau...
25 years after the collapse of communism, the eastern European workplace is fertile ground for exploring HRM issues. This book, using theoretical and empirical approaches, offers insights into the way employees are managed in emerging economies....Daugiau...
Innovative and offering a sociological analysis of trade unionism in the globalized era, this book provides a robust and coherent comparative analysis of the debate surrounding trade unions and their renewal....Daugiau...
Social Regionalism in the Global Economy collects essays by international specialists attempting to move beyond textual analyses of regional agreements to offer new accounts of regional integration by combing insights from developing countries with...Daugiau...
Drawing from the fields of industrial sociology, management studies and labour process theory, this title attempts to understand the reform agenda in relation to teachers, their professional identities and their experience of work by drawing on crit...Daugiau...
Why is vocational training seen to be an old institution? This book seeks to respond to these important questions. It does so through an in-depth comparative analysis of the vocational training systems in ten different countries....Daugiau...
Innovative and well-written, Sexualities, Work and Organizations brings together and relates stories of minority sexual identity from six organizations drawn from three different industry sectors....Daugiau...
With contributions from leading researchers in the field, this new book incorporates major studies from four countries, to challenge our pre-conceptions about globalization, the state, and the organization of labour....Daugiau...
