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Work is often seen as either a source of fulfillment or a cause of harm and exhaustion. Stephane Moulin rejects this binary, arguing that well-being at work is fundamentally ambivalent. Placing ambivalence at the centre of his analysis, Moulin calls for a renewed dialogue between psychological and sociological approaches.

Drawing on survey data from 579 workers in Quebec's restaurant and academic sectors, as well as in-depth interviews with restaurant supervisors and academic chairs, Moulin examines work experiences among professors and professional staff, lecturers, support staff, servers, cooks, and kitchen and service helpers. He identifies three ambivalent profiles - the overworked, the disappointed, and the serene - situated between the marginal extremes of the morose and the satisfied. This ambivalence arises from three forces: ongoing psychosocial exposure shaped by the uneven fulfillment of workplace justice needs; ethical dispositions, notably hard work and resilience, sustaining effort while masking harm; and management strategies, including self-management, that privilege short-term coping over structural change and reveal work's insidious colonization of personal life.

With its original, empirically grounded analytical framework, The Ambivalence of Well-Being in the Workplace invites a rethinking of the human relationship to work.

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.

As more and more countries realise that their population and often their workforce includes a large group of healthy and active people over 55 years of age, the interest in understanding this group has increased. Investigating examples from across Europe, this edited collection looks at how older workers tackle the new digital world.

While dated stereotypes of older workers as slower, more stubborn and firmly rooted in the past still exist, this collection takes an updated look at the situation in Europe relating to older workers who are using and developing new technologies. Identifying similarities and differences in competence development, cultures and policies, chapters provide a rich opportunity for learning and comparison. The chapters cover skills and lifelong learning, policy, attitudes, barriers and drivers.

With rich insight and breadth, Older Workers and Digital Literacy provides a much-needed update on our understanding of older workers and how they are adapting to digitalization in their workplaces.

This book is a comprehensive guide to the greening of the economy, detailing the essential skills, jobs, and careers required to develop a thriving sustainable future.

The transition towards net zero is creating a wave of new work requiring the redeployment and repurposing of skills and jobs to decarbonise and adapt the economy. Charting this drive for the greening of skills across all sectors of the economy, each chapter in this book addresses ten key questions, taking the reader through the skills and jobs driving the transition to net zero. This book uses a range of skills frameworks to help readers understand how emerging and new competencies are being integrated into existing jobs, and case studies are drawn from across the world to show how green skills are defined and incorporated into new roles. Presenting best practices and policy insights with a strong emphasis on the strategies to overcome the barriers to the green transition, it equips readers with knowledge of the green economy's opportunities and challenges, and guides individuals in identifying viable career paths in green and non-green sectors.

Written in a highly accessible style, this book will be a key guide for professionals, policymakers, organisations, societies, and individuals looking for clear pathways for education and training, with an emphasis on upskilling and interdisciplinary approaches.

This book addresses the long standing Marxist question about the conditions in which a socially fragmented working class can forge a unified project, using a study of informality, class and union activism in Argentina between 2003 and 2011.

Informality, Class and Union Activism explores the articulations between the structural factors and the political strategies that characterize the formation of a working class in a dual economy. The first part of the book proposes a statistical analysis of survey research that shows that high informality in Argentina does not exclude multiple demographic ties between the different segments of the working class. In the second part of the book, the author proposes a comparative study of three factories in which unions' political strategies become relevant to understand collective actions that aim to unify different segments of the working class. The combination of the statistical analysis with the comparative study of factory politics shows that the distinction between formal and informal workers does not translate into a class cleavage in Argentina. This evidence, as well as the creative methodological approach, stands to make an important contribution to the literature on comparative labour movements in the global south.

Contributing to recent Marxist debates about class formation patterns of socially fragmented working classes, it will appeal to academics and scholars with interests in Marxism, informality, Latin American studies, and inequality.

What are the intimate aspirations and everyday romantic lives of those who sustain China's 'world factory'? This book explores how digital dating platforms are reshaping relationships, partner selection and marriage among rural-to-urban migrant workers - a demographic that is often overlooked in studies of digital life.

Drawing on thirteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Pearl River Delta factory towns, the study follows 62 migrant workers as they navigate love, desire and social expectations. It reveals how online dating creates new possibilities while also reinforcing existing inequalities. Platform features influence how users present themselves and form connections; however, family expectations, class divisions and gender norms still structure romantic choices. To explain this dynamic, the book introduces the concept of 'digital capital' to illustrate how familiarity with platforms and communication styles can improve relationship prospects, while remaining unevenly distributed. Conducted roughly a decade ago, when platformisation was still in its early stages, the stories in this book now often feel strikingly romantic compared to the increasingly gentrified landscape of contemporary digital dating.

This book will interest scholars and students of sociology, anthropology, digital media studies and gender studies, particularly those examining digital intimacy, social inequality, migration and contemporary Chinese society. It will also speak to readers who enjoy non-fiction love stories.

This book examines the lived experiences of "guest workers" from Turkey in Austria since the 1960s through their own voices and personal archives.

This pioneering study challenges homogenized perceptions by systematically analyzing migrants' biographies alongside their photographs, written correspondence, and audio letters, revealing the complex human stories behind simplified migration narratives. It also offers unique methodological innovations by triangulating interpretative approaches to explore interactions between different modes of expression, time relations, and spatial constellations. Drawing on three in-depth case studies from 50 biographical-narrative interviews, this study illuminates how gender, ethnicity, and religion intersect to shape the diverse experiences of "guest workers", including those of women and minoritized groups, such as Kurds and other religious minorities, while situating these trajectories within broader global labor-migration contexts. As such, it offers unprecedented access to migrants' self-representations and exposes the transformative nature of migration across generations.

It will appeal to postgraduate students, researchers, and policymakers across multiple disciplines, including sociology, migration studies, history, memory studies, and archive studies, as well as to anyone interested in understanding migration beyond stereotypes and official narratives.

Global Labour Migration in Japan: The Everyday Spaces of Invisible Workers investigates the shifts in Japan's immigration regime and their implications for the lived experiences of unskilled migrant workers.Despite Japan's steadily increasing intake of migrant workers, most studies of global labour migration are mainly concerned with Europe, North America, and Australia; the Japanese context has been largely neglected.

This book fills that literary gap. Based on years of ethnographic and archival research, it argues that the structured social practices of global labour migration have facilitated and simultaneously challenged the transformations of social relations of (re)production and the modern nation-sate within the context of neoliberal globalization. The book explores the everyday struggles of unskilled migrant workers, whose existence has been largely "invisible" to the majority of Japanese nationals and, indeed, to many people in the world under the prevailing myth of Japan as a homogeneous society. It provides topical and vital insights about the relationships between globalization and migration, including contemporary migration and refugee crises and the related rise of anti-immigrant sentiment in receiving societies.

Global Labour Migration in Japan will be of interest to students and scholars in International Political Economy, International Relations, Sociology, and Asian Studies.

This open access book explores employers' interests in international labour migration, arguing that employers' interests have consistently been a major force shaping and directing international labour migration in market economies.

Employers' interests have been underestimated in part due to the lack of an appropriate theory. This book offers a comprehensive theoretical framework for studying employers' interests in labour migration. It does this by building on neo-institutionalist concepts, and proposing a framework for classifying institutions relevant to employers' pursuit of their interests in this domain.

Contributors utilise qualitative document analysis, political discourse analysis, and in-depth interviews with representatives of employers' organisations and other actors knowledgeable about employers' interests. By looking at historical events on several continents, and subsequently focusing on four European countries: the UK, Germany, Italy and Poland, this book demonstrates that employers' interests have consistently been the reason behind international labour migration, even if they manifest themselves differently depending on the institutional environment of the particular country. This counters the dominant public narratives of today, which treat migration primarily as a security issue. By putting the spotlight on employers and offering a theoretical framework for analysing their interests and activities, this book hopes to rectify the imbalance in both academic and public discussions concerning labour migration and the forces that shape it.

When walking through Istanbul, one almost inevitably encounters informal waste pickers who clean up the city with their large, heavily loaded hand trucks. Many of them are male undocumented recycling workers from Afghanistan and Pakistan. This book analyzes their living and working conditions. Based on the results of ethnographic field studies, it examines how Afghan*Pakistani recycling workers are disenfranchised by the interaction of different border regimes between Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey and the EU. It scrutinizes how, in this situation, they negotiate the fine line between exploitation and vulnerability on the one hand and agency and solidarity on the other hand in a highly precarious setting. The study highlights how they (re)produce a specific recycling infrastructure of transit through their everyday practices that ensures their survival in the transit space of Istanbul and facilitates their potential onward movement to the EU. The author understands their migrant waste picking practices as part of urban border struggles and illustrates how the infrastructure of transit that they (re)produce contributes to constituting Turkey as a migration society.

Lebanon hosts the highest number of refugees per capita in the world, including up to 1.5 million displaced Syrians. Many are Syrian farmworkers, who for decades have sustained Lebanon's agricultural system through their seasonal labor. Debt and Refuge traces how the lives of these farmworkers-turned-refugees were transformed by the war in Syria and Lebanon's devastating financial collapse, revealing the slow economic violence that can push people off their land, into waged work, and into cycles of debt.

Drawing on fieldwork centered in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, China Sajadian documents how Syrian farmworkers' debts - to labor brokers, landlords, and relatives - bound them to networks that exploited their labor and also sustained them in the face of profound uncertainty. In contrast to humanitarian portrayals of refugees as uprooted victims awaiting asylum or return, Sajadian locates their predicaments within a longer history of rural migration and familial division across the Lebanese-Syrian border. Linking together the politics of mass displacement, mass indebtedness, and our global food system, she makes a case for radically rethinking forced migration as an agrarian question of labor and feminist question of social reproduction. Written with both ethnographic intimacy and analytical depth, Debt and Refuge offers a deeply human portrait of the gendered politics of displacement and why they matter to the future of our agricultural systems and human mobility-in Lebanon, Syria, and beyond.

This book offers a comprehensive and pedagogically grounded examination of disability and work in Italy, reframing labour inclusion not only as an employment policy issue but as a matter of social participation, human development, and democratic citizenship. Drawing on special pedagogy, the authors shift attention from individual impairment to the relational dynamics between people, activities, and work environments.

The volume traces the cultural, historical, and legislative evolution of Italian approaches to labour inclusion, highlighting the shift from welfare-oriented models to frameworks centred on recognition, autonomy, and substantive equality. It maps the professional roles that support workplace integration and examines how organisations interpret and enact accessibility across physical-environmental, organisational, and relational dimensions. Building on this foundation, the book presents findings from an inter-university research project that investigates accessibility practices within Italian companies, from onboarding and workplace adjustments to organisational climate and the awareness of employers and internal stakeholders.

By weaving together theoretical reflection, legal analysis, and empirical evidence, the authors argue for a structural and educational approach to inclusion; one that understands accessibility as a design principle shaping policies, organisational cultures, and everyday professional relationships. This concise and action-oriented volume is essential reading for scholars, educators, policymakers, HR professionals, and practitioners committed to building inclusive workplaces and advancing disability rights in Italy and beyond.

This open access book develops a Marxist account of artificial labour. Using Marx's definition of labour from Capital, Kelly proposes three possibilities for the future. The Standard Marxian Line denies that artificial labour is possible and instead predicts that AI will lead to overproduction, unemployment, and the need for capitalism to expand. Artificial Feudalism predicts that AI will generate artificial labour, but that it will remain enmeshed within existing platforms and property relations. Double Freedom for Robots proposes that capitalism will drive the development of bona fide artificial labourers: robots that are legally emancipated but practically dependent on capital.

Free Robot Labour uses Marxist theory to argue for a radical conclusion: AI won't just increase the productivity of human labour, it will lead to the creation of machines capable of labouring.

With perspectives from across EU Member States, the book evaluates initiatives implemented at company, sectoral and institutional levels. Chapters examine the energy transition as a systemic transformation affecting employment, skills, work organisation, regional development and socio-environmental sustainability. The authors emphasise that industrial relations and a structured social dialogue are crucial determinants of both the legitimacy and the societal acceptance of ecological transformation processes.

This book will be of great value to scholars of industrial relations and labour studies, sustainability transitions and environmental governance. Policy makers will also benefit from its actionable recommendations for supporting the design of effective just transition strategies.

Chapters evaluate the impact of inequalities between individuals, in terms of personal abilities and access to productive positions, on labour-market rewards. Contributors also examine the issue on a global scale, demonstrating how skills, institutions and technological change drive economic growth and cross-national variation in inequality. The book reveals how the subject is deeply rooted in historical growth patterns, connecting work-life inequality to broader societal transformations including political shifts, demographic change and global development.

Understanding Work-Life Inequality is a vital resource for scholars and students of sociology, psychology, economics, political science and philosophy. Policymakers and practitioners in human relations and business management will also benefit from its practical insights.

The chapters explore the impact of stressors, including Artificial Intelligence, on workplace wellbeing, evaluating the concepts, history and advice necessary to comprehend the field. Hesketh and Cooper outline the key HR challenges for organisations globally and discuss how these impact performance, both in terms of productivity and financial prosperity. They provoke thought through engaging with common practices that alter the working environment, and give practical guidance for navigating and tackling change.

The Spotlight on Absenteeism, Presenteeism, and Leaveism is necessary for students and scholars in business management and organisational psychology. HR professionals, operations managers and those interested in organisational behaviour will also benefit from the focus on enriching wellbeing within working cultures.

Worker Voices and Psychological Health brings together research-based evidence with worker testimonies to show how modern working life shapes psychological wellbeing.

The book begins with a selective history of work and a clear explanation of wellbeing that integrates hedonic (feeling good) and eudaimonic (meaning and purpose) perspectives. It goes on to trace how work has changed, clarifying what psychological wellbeing really means, and showing how job demands, autonomy, resources and support shape stress, work life balance and work performance. First-person accounts from a diverse range of job holders, including those in senior management, administrative roles, skilled trades, caring and service work, operatives, and elementary occupations, reveal the everyday pressures and practical conditions that help workers cope, recover and thrive. Looking ahead to a future AI-enabled economy, the book concludes by considering those jobs that may be at risk, and those that are likely to evolve and flourish.

Grounded in the words of real workers and connecting psychosocial factors with the day-to-day realities of working life, the book will appeal to anyone interested in the contemporary workplace, including students of organisational psychology, health psychology, occupational health, mental health, and human resource management, as well as professionals in these fields.

How do working mothers in Japan experience the tension between employment and child-rearing? Drawing on in-depth interviews with 55 working mothers, this book offers a compelling account of women's struggles under "neoliberal motherhood" in contemporary Japan. By comparing university-educated and nonuniversity-educated women, it reveals subtle yet consequential class-based differences in how mothers balance childcare, housework, and paid work.

The book shows how motherhood ideologies, economic constraints, unequal spousal support, workplace norms, and practices intersect to shape women's everyday lives. In particular, it brings into focus the often-overlooked challenges faced by nonuniversity-educated women, and by situating these experiences within Japan's strong child-centered ideology, the book examines how mothers navigate pervasive expectations of intensive mothering and develop strategies to cope with them. In doing so, it reframes what are often seen as individual struggles as structurally produced inequalities.

Explores the decades-long erosion of the American Dream from the author's perspective: a working-class kid who became a celebrated economist dedicated to advancing the interests of struggling workers, while also caught in the same currents of job insecurity and downward mobility as the people he aimed to defend.

Worker insecurity, increasing inequality, and downward mobility in our current era contrast sharply with expanding prosperity and opportunity in the first three decades after World War II. What happened? And what can we do to revitalize the American Dream, reduce worker precarity, and foster broadly shared prosperity?

In this historical account of a protracted and expanding national crisis, intertwined with a personal story about growing up in a work-obsessed family and pursuing a career devoted to addressing that crisis, Charles J. Whalen grapples with the social forces that sever the link between hard work and employment success. He exposes the obstacles that mar the path of many people seeking job opportunities and traces the fading of the American Dream, ultimately encouraging readers to take a fresh look at the current economic situation and championing a more constructive set of public policies to shape the future.

This book analyses the structuring role that gender plays for accessing work, experiencing work, and working conditions in Pakistan.

Considering how these structures have been challenged and changed, the collection provides a fine-grained engagement with the role of gender at work in Pakistan against the backdrop of policy and academic discourses that often invisibilise the work and employment of women and transgender persons while normalising a male breadwinner model and masculine norms in and beyond the workplace. The book engages explicitly with feminist thought from South Asia and informs wider feminist discourses with fresh perspectives from Pakistani thinkers. Chapters straddle the analysis of occupations as diverse as agricultural labour, home-based industrial outwork, and domestic and unpaid care work. In line with transnational feminist thought, this book contextualises gendered labouring practices whilst paying attention to how gendered relations at work are embedded within cross-border dynamics, colonial histories and the global political economy. This wide perspective includes a critical engagement with neoliberal discourses around women's paid employment as empowerment and the celebration of women's entrepreneurship. Taking on board how gender can become a resource for resistance, this book counters and complicates the trope of 'victimised' Southern or Muslim women.

Informed by disciplines including organisation theory, sociology, economics and social psychology, and including contributions from practitioners, government and NGO workers and academics, this book will be of interest to scholars and professionals concerned with challenging binary notions of gender in the workplace, and how this is complicated through the intersections of gender with ethnic, class, caste, religious, generational and other social divisions and hierarchies in the global South.

Introducing 'cosmopolitans' as a growing group of global citizens, the book examines how this group values openness and cultural diversity and views this identity as a source of empowerment. Contributing authors discuss Finland as an in-depth case study, highlighting the country's acute need for international talent while acknowledging cultural and linguistic barriers to inclusion. The growing complexity of global mobility is also addressed considering technological advances, political tensions, pandemics and shifting legal frameworks. Ultimately, the book emphasises, and argues for, the importance of mobility in today's society.

The Many Faces of Global Mobility is a key resource for scholars and students in international business, management and migration studies, especially those seeking a greater understanding of contemporary mobility and the future of work. Practitioners and policy makers concerned with migration, inclusion and demographic challenges will also find its insights invaluable.

Global experts pair practical examples with theoretical analysis to reflect on contemporary challenges and social issues such as the rise of the gig economy, algorithmic management, climate-related disruptions, poverty and inequality. Chapters engage with diverse case studies from across Africa, Asia and Europe to highlight both universal and regional challenges in achieving sustainable careers and decent work. Contributors also draw from various disciplines to align with broader sustainable development goals and social justice objectives.

The Research Handbook on Decent Work is an essential read for students and academics in sociology, psychology, economics and labour studies. International organisations, NGOs and policymakers in employment relations will equally benefit from the pairing of theoretical frameworks and actionable recommendations.

Family at Work explores how our family experience - its joys, challenges, and difficulties - affects how we take up our roles and how family dynamics can be re-enacted in the workplace.

Our family in the mind is the family we unconsciously project onto colleagues, bosses, and leaders, attributing characteristics and raising expectations from family roles we have experienced in our early life. Developing awareness and an understanding of what we project of our early experience in a work context can help to shift disruptive dynamics and allow us to be more ourselves, without feeling trapped in repeating family patterns. In this book, the author draws upon her extensive professional experience as an organisational coach and consultant to explore the impact such dynamics have on our working environment.

This is key reading for leaders, family business members, psychoanalysts, organizational consultants, psychologists, HR and business managers, and anyone who wants to understand how family dynamics affect the workplace.

Focusing on Australia, Canada and the USA, Edward Mohr analyses 40 recruiter regulations passed by subnational and local governments, finding that the laws predominantly rely, soley, on either migrant workers, labour recruiters or a government agency for enforcement. The book then examines 130 years of history from the industrial revolution to the modern era, analysing how governments in the three federations formed their relationships with the recruiters they depend upon to manage movement. By highlighting the critical role private-sector recruiters play in migrant movement, and spotlighting the challenges for governments in regulating them, this book makes a highly significant and urgently needed contribution to the field of migration governance.

Students and scholars of migration, public policy, international politics and sociology must read this book to enhance their understanding of global migration management. Policymakers, migration regulation experts and labour historians will also benefit from its comprehensive assessment of international recruitment regulation.

With perspectives from experts in the fields of psychology, organisational psychology and occupational health, the book evaluates how diversity within workplaces can be supported and maintained, as well as how individuals' working experience can be enhanced. Contributors examine the effects of tiredness, burnout, compassion-fatigue and depression, drawing upon case studies to exemplify successful interventions within a range of occupational sectors.

Protecting Occupational Wellbeing is a crucial resource for scholars and students of occupational psychology and organisational psychology seeking to better understand the implications of the modern workplace. Its practical insights and suggestions are also highly beneficial to wellbeing advisors, HR practitioners and other professionals interested in the links between work and health.