"In Making Freedom Pay, Sharon Ann Holt reconstructs how freed men and women in tobacco-growing central North Carolina worked to secure a place for themselves in this ravaged region and hostile time. Without ignoring the crushing burdens of a system that denied blacks justice an…
Monograph on the evolution of philosophys and ideologies concerning work - reviews the historical background of forced labour, work ethics of the Protestant religion, the international division of labour, the birth of the industrial society, examines theories on industrial worke…
Clarifying the complex social relationship between organisation and its representation, contributors enhance our understanding of work and organisation and question basic, traditionally accepted distinctions between 'fiction' and 'reality'.
Providing an ethnographic account of the everyday life of a household of artisans in the Telangana state of southern India, Chandan Bose engages with craft practice beyond the material (in this case, the region's characteristic murals, narrative cloth scrolls, and ritual masks a…
This book presents scholarly reflections on women's entrepreneurial propensity and on women's entrepreneurship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Contributing to a country's innovativeness and competitiveness, women entrepreneurs also promote hea…