Monograph on forced labour, expropriation of indigenous landowners and the evolution of the African worker in colonial French-speaking Africa. Covers historical and sociological aspects of colonialism and capitalism in Central Africa, economic and social implications of the Cong…
Women's employment is one of the most widely-discussed and widely-misunderstood issues of modern society. Are women today oppressed, or do they have the best of both worlds? Do women have to go out to work to gain equality with men? Or do they already do more than their share of…
Case studies of four successful leaders who are women. "Diary studies" explore how women leaders make decisions, schedule their days, gather and disperse information, structure their companies, hire, fire. Investigates how their experiences as women contribute to their leadershi…
"A book on why most things are more expensive or lower quality, and why we're all still working long hours for the same or lower wages. Does it ever seem like most things you buy are more expensive or not as good as they once were, or both? Does it ever seem odd that, despite ha…
"A book on why most things are more expensive or lower quality, and why we're all still working long hours for the same or lower wages. Does it ever seem like most things you buy are more expensive or not as good as they once were, or both? Does it ever seem odd that, despite ha…
During the 1930s, 23 million peasants left their villages and moved to Soviet cities, where they accounted for almost half of the urban population and more than half of the nation's industrial workers. Drawing on previously inaccessible archival materials, David L. Hoffmann show…
This book discusses the demand for migrant labour both conceptually and empirically with a focus on the UK. With the number of migrant workers at a record high, the regulation of labour immigration is one of the most controversial public policy issues in high-income countries. …
Shows that current elitist theories are based on an inadequate understanding of the early writings of democratic theory and that much sociological evidence has been ignored.
This volume aims to re-establish labour as the fundamental constitutive principle of the social world, through a reinterpretation of Marx's social theory. Each chapter develops a central Marxist theme, including class and classification; commodity fetishism and primitive accumul…
