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  • The New Political Sociology

    A Synthetic Theory of Political Economy and Culture

    by Thomas Janoski ...
    Providing a fresh approach to thinking about the big questions around political economy, culture, and power, this book offers a synthetic view of political economic and cultural explanations of how institutions, organizations, and groups operate, cohere, and influence each other, as well as how power works within and across these networks.The New Political Sociology rethinks the ways societies are ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Cambridge International Handbook of Lean Production

    Diverging Theories and New Industries around the World

    Edited by Thomas Janoski, Darina Lepadatu ...
    This handbook focuses on two sides of the lean production debate that rarely interact. On the one hand, management and industrial engineering scholars have presented a positive view of lean production as the epitome of efficiency and quality. On the other hand, sociology, industrial relations, and labor relations scholars focus on work speedups, management by stress, trade union positions, and ... Read more

    $223.89 USD

  • Framing and Managing Lean Organizations in the New Economy

    by Darina Lepadatu, Thomas Janoski ...
    This book examines the dominance and significance of lean organizing in the international economy. Scholars from each discipline see lean production as positive or negative; the book blends theory with practice by sorting out these different academic views and revealing how lean is implemented in different ways.The first part synthesizes academic research from a range of disciplines—including, ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • The Causes of Structural Unemployment

    Four Factors that Keep People from the Jobs they Deserve

    by Thomas Janoski, David Luke, Christopher Oliver ...
    Series series Work & Society
    There is a specter haunting advanced industrial countries: structural unemployment. Recent years have seen growing concern over declining jobs, and though corporate profits have picked up after the Great Recession of 2008, jobs have not. It is possible that “jobless recoveries” could become a permanent feature of Western economies.This illuminating book focuses on the employment futures of ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Theorizing Chinese Citizenship

    by Zhonghua Guo, Taihui Guo, Thomas Janoski, Kerry Kennedy, Hui Li, Samantha A. Vortherms, Canglong Wang, Ying Xia, Bin Xiao0, Yihan Xiong1, Yi Lin2, Zhenzhou Zhao3, Malgorzata Jakimów4, Bing Guan5 ...
    Series series Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
    This volume theorizes the concept of citizenship in contemporary China by probing into the formation of Chinese citizenship and synthesizing the practices of citizenship by different social groups. The first section, “Imagining Chinese Citizenship,” analyses how Chinese citizenship was first imagined by means of translation and education at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Chinese ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • Strategies for Success among African-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans

    Overachieve, Be Cheerful, or Confront

    by Chrystal Y. Grey, Thomas Janoski ...
    Series series Critical Africana Studies
    How can African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans from the former British colonies be so different in their approaches toward social mobility? Chrystal Y. Grey and Thomas Janoski state that this is because native blacks grow up as “strangers” in their own country and immigrants from the English-speaking Caribbean are conversely part of “the dominant group.” Unlike previous research that compares ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • The New Handbook of Political Sociology

    Edited by Thomas Janoski, Cedric de Leon, Joya Misra, Isaac William Martin ...
    Political sociology is a large and expanding field with many new developments, and The New Handbook of Political Sociology supplies the knowledge necessary to keep up with this exciting field. Written by a distinguished group of leading scholars in sociology, this volume provides a survey of this vibrant and growing field in the new millennium. The Handbook presents the field in six parts: ... Read more

    $240.29 USD

  • The Ironies of Citizenship

    Naturalization and Integration in Industrialized Countries

    by Thomas Janoski ...
    Explanations of naturalization and jus soli citizenship have relied on cultural, convergence, racialization, or capture theories, and they tend to be strongly affected by the literature on immigration. This study of naturalization breaks with the usual immigration theories and proposes an approach over centuries and decades toward explaining naturalization rates. First, it provides consistent ... Read more

    $35.29 USD