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  • Worker Organizing

    Edited by Andreas Pekarek, Rick Delbridge, Markus Helfen, Gretchen Purser ...
    Series Book 38 - Research in the Sociology of Work
    Worker organizing has long been a cornerstone of efforts to secure fair pay, decent working conditions, and protection against the insecurities of market economies. By acting collectively, workers have historically been able to counterbalance employer power and win improvements to work and life. Yet such gains have always been partial and contested, and the settlements between labour and capital ... Read more

    $114.79 USD

  • Employee Engagement in Theory and Practice

    Edited by Catherine Truss, Kerstin Alfes, Rick Delbridge, Amanda Shantz, Emma Soane ...
    In recent years there has been a weight of evidence suggesting that engagement has a significantly positive impact on productivity, performance and organisational advocacy, as well as individual wellbeing, and a significantly negative impact on intent to quit and absenteeism from the work place.This comprehensive new book is unique as it brings together, for the first time, psychological and ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • Essentiality of Work

    Edited by Markus Helfen, Rick Delbridge, Andreas Pekarek, Gretchen Purser ...
    Series Book 36 - Research in the Sociology of Work
    The Covid-19 pandemic both popularized and politicized the designation of essential work. Interrogating the dialectics of essential work, this volume of Research in the Sociology of Work presents original research that explores the essentiality of work and highlights the experiences of essential workers during the pandemic, drawing on empirical studies in Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and ... Read more

    $108.29 USD

  • Employability

    Ideology, Policy, and Practice

    Edited by Gretchen Purser, Rick Delbridge, Markus Helfen, Andreas Pekarek ...
    Series Book 37 - Research in the Sociology of Work
    Employability has become an increasingly widespread concept both in management and policy, but its meaning remains somewhat enigmatic and ambiguous. This volume offers a much-needed critical analysis of the ideology, practices, and policies of employability, reflecting significant transformations in the world of work and the individualizing experience of contemporary labour markets. This volume ... Read more

    $108.29 USD

  • Ethnographies of Work

    Edited by Rick Delbridge, Markus Helfen, Gretchen Purser, Andreas Pekarek ...
    Series Book 35 - Research in the Sociology of Work
    Presenting cutting-edge ethnographic research on contemporary worlds of work and the experiences of workers from a range of contexts, Volume 35 of Research in the Sociology of Work offers fine-grained, exploratory ethnographic data to provide insights unmatched by other research methods.Conscious of the social and economic upheaval that continues to transform the contemporary workplace and the ... Read more

    $108.29 USD

  • Manufacturing in Transition

    Edited by Rick Delbridge, James Lowe ...
    The future of British manufacturing is of immense importance and topicality. As we slide towards a service sector economy based on finance and tourism, it is worth reflecting on whether this is the most appropriate or inevitable scenario.Manufacturing in Transition makes a genuinely interdisciplinary contribution to the debate over the UK's strategy for industrial renewal. Aimed primarily at ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

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    Institutional pathways to success

    by John K. Hudzik ...
    Series series Internationalization in Higher Education Series
    This book is a timely insight into the internationalization of higher education institutions. The internationalization of higher education is a global phenomenon, but with substantial variation in how it is made operational in individual institutions. Comprehensive Internationalization focuses on desirable practices in institutions and their actual approaches to implement a more integrated, ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Research Management

    Edited by Robert Dingwall, Mary Byrne McDonnell ...
    The Handbook of Research Management is a unique tool for the newly promoted research leader. Larger-scale projects are becoming more common throughout the social sciences and humanities, housed in centres, institutes and programmes. Talented researchers find themselves faced with new challenges to act as managers and leaders rather than as individual scholars. They are responsible for the careers ... Read more

    $118.79 USD

  • Future Alternatives for Educational Leadership

    Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Democracy

    Edited by Deborah M. Netolicky ...
    This book offers provocations for what’s now and what’s next in educational leadership, simultaneously bringing the field both back to its basics—of equity, democracy, humanity, and education for all—and forward to productive, innovative, and necessary possibilities. Written during the pandemic reality of 2020, this collection shares the global voices and expertise of prominent and emerging ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Rethinking Graduate Employability in Context

    Discourse, Policy and Practice

    Edited by Päivi Siivonen, Ulpukka Isopahkala-Bouret, Michael Tomlinson, Maija Korhonen, Nina Haltia ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book offers critical, multidisciplinary analyses on graduate employability. The book examines employability at the macro, meso and micro levels: higher education policy, the labour market, higher education institutions, organisations, individuals and social groups, in European, North American and Australian contexts. The contributors provide social and contextual analysis of ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Policy Design

    Edited by Michael Howlett, Ishani Mukherjee ...
    Uniting theoretical bases and advancements in practice, the Routledge Handbook of Policy Design brings together leading experts in the academic field of policy design in a pioneering effort of scholarship. Each chapter provides a multi-topic overview of the state of knowledge on how, why, where or when policies are designed and how such designs can be improved.These experts address how a new ... Read more

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  • Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society

    Methods and Practices for Investigation and Intervention

    Edited by Mirko Tobias Schäfer, Karin Es, Tracey Lauriault ...
    The influence of austerity measures and neoliberal ideologies has sparked discussions about the relevance and value of academic institutions, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. Universities are redirecting academic focus towards greater societal engagement. This book argues that academia has much to gain by moving beyond its institutional walls, in our case, by doing data work ... Read more

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