Throughout the “New South,” relationships based on race, class, social status, gender, and citizenship are being upended by an influx of Latina/o residents. This book examines these issues as they play out in the microcosm of a community health center in North Carolina that prev…
"This book explores fundamental questions about the very idea of demand: how it is constituted, how it changes and how it might be steered. Conceptualising Demand: A Distinctive Approach to Consumption and Practice explores five core propositions: that demand is derived from soc…
Labour process theory is consolidated in Working Life to develop a credible account of the relationships between capitalist political economy, work systems and the strategies and practices of actors in the employment relationship. Beyond this, the book explores the future of lab…
An essential account of the current employment landscape, Working Life features significant contributions from leading international researchers in the fields of employment, labour relations and organization studies. Following on from the influential Workplaces of the Future an…
Labour process theory is consolidated in 'Working Life' to develop a credible account of the relationships between capitalist political economy, work systems and the strategies and practices of actors in the employment relationship. Beyond this, the book explores the future of l…
Labour process theory is consolidated in 'Working Life' to develop a credible account of the relationships between capitalist political economy, work systems and the strategies and practices of actors in the employment relationship. Beyond this, the book explores the future of l…
Work under capitalism
by Tilly, Charles, Tilly, Chris
fromNew perspectives in sociology (Boulder, Colo.)
Work Under Capitalism synthesizes recent institutionalist and Marxist ideas about the organization of production, situating production within a social context. Starting with the transaction rather than the individual, it builds upon a coherent theory and applies it to a wide ran…
"India initiated liberal economic reforms in 1991 to transform a slow-growing, large, inward-oriented, state-led economy into an open, market-led, export-oriented industrialising economy, seeking to emulate the East Asian success story. After nearly three decades, however, the o…