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Contributing authors build on insights from the capabilities approach, multiple deprivation and precarity to explore how gender, class, and migration status shape access to good-quality jobs, and how experiences of work differ according to socio-economic background and work arrangements. The book also expands the notion of job quality beyond individual well-being to include broader goals such as fairness, sustainability and social inclusion. Bridging disciplines and regions, it integrates theoretical and empirical insights with practical guidance to help improve job quality in an era of profound and ongoing transformation.

Job Quality in a Turbulent Era is an essential read for scholars and students of sociology, political science, employment relations, labour law and business. Offering conceptual and empirical insights this book is also an important resource for policymakers and practitioners concerned with labour market issues.

Chapters assess the key thematic areas of interest that technology presents from a labour process perspective. They explore technological determinism, labour control, the consequences for skill, the response of labour unions and the alternative technological designs that can support worker interests. By embedding the analysis in an awareness of how capitalist political economy shapes the labour process, Cullinane facilitates critique of the assumptions behind the Future of Work discourse that prevail under the so-called 'Fourth Industrial Revolution'.

Scholars of business, management, employment relations, innovation and technology will greatly benefit from this consolidation of key intellectual discussions on technological change within the labour process tradition. It is also an excellent entry point for students in providing an understanding of how technology has been interpreted in the labour process tradition.

As racial boundaries are constantly negotiated in Europe and across the globe, this book explores how Russian migrant workers navigate racial capitalism in the Nordic region.

Challenging the idea of a 'race-neutral' Eastern Europe, the book reveals how Russian migrants actively claim whiteness, often finding themselves on the margins of acceptability. Uniquely combining postsocialist and postcolonial perspectives, the author examines how these migrants, seeking recognition as European, reinforce economic and racial divides shaped by global capitalism.

This timely work offers fresh insights into race, migration and the boundaries of whiteness across Europe's borders.

Volume 23 of Research in Occupational Stress and Well-Being explores the intricate relationship between stress, well-being, and the evolving nature of work in the 21st century. In light of profound global disruptions-including the COVID-19 pandemic-and the rapid acceleration of technology, the workplace has undergone fundamental transformation. This volume critically examines how these shifts have reshaped the meaning, structure, and experience of work, often resulting in greater precarity, alienation, and psychological strain for workers. Through empirical studies and theoretical commentaries, contributors investigate the psychosocial impact of these changes on individuals and organisations alike.

Topics addressed in this volume span a wide range of contemporary issues, including the rise of remote work and its implications for employee identity and teamwork, the growth of precarious and gig employment, and the resurgence of labour movements and worker activism. Additional chapters examine the role of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics in both alleviating and exacerbating workplace stress, as well as organisational responses to crisis and the integration of immigrant and refugee populations into the workforce. Together, these contributions provide a timely and comprehensive analysis of how stress and well-being are being redefined in a world of work that is increasingly fluid, digital, and uncertain.

In social science research, scholars can be challenged when those involved are vested in keeping their activities, experiences, or realities hidden. In the case of prostitution, while well-designed quantitative studies adopting encompassing data are scarce, recent scholarship has made great strides. Addressing the need to inform the predominant value debates with evidence-based analyses, Sex Work by Numbers provides an overview of knowns and unknowns of sex for sale based on cutting-edge science with an economic approach.

Offering an insight into a hotly debated topic where preconceived ideas dominate the public discussion, author Stef Adriaenssens cuts through the academic contributions on sex markets across several disciplines, including economics, public health and epidemiology, criminology, and sociology. Starting a conversation between different disciplinary contributions from the perspective of the economic contribution - often isolated from mainstream social science approaches - Adriaenssens discusses the econometric and economic scholarship applied to this pressing social issue. Harnessing the power of quantifying research for scientific progress, this important study provides a review of the state-of-the-art research for addressing the challenges that sex work may pose for participants, public health, and social life.

Delivering a much-needed view on how to escape the factors that prevent us from tackling problems with the necessary evidence available from the economics discipline and connected contributions, this is an evidence-based approach to advancing our understanding of the (dis)functioning of prostitution markets and the important role of quantitative analysis.

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of commercial sex work, focusing on the global scenario with a special emphasis on India. It covers the legal status, prevalence, and health challenges faced by sex workers, utilizing primary and secondary research to highlight the stigmatization and criminalization of the profession. It discusses intervention and rehabilitation complexities, the involvement of diverse populations including women, men, and LGBTQIA+ individuals, and the social perceptions and violence experienced by sex workers. It offers practical suggestions for prevention, intervention, and rehabilitation, making it a valuable resource for researchers, mental health professionals, social workers, and anyone interested in the welfare of marginalized groups.

A rich history of the development of American minimum wage policy with lessons for today.

Despite broad popular support for robust minimum wage policy, the federal minimum wage is now worth less-in real, inflation-adjusted terms-than at any time since 1949. While some state and local governments have stepped in to fill this void, others have declined to set any minimum wage standard at all. Traversing more than 100 years of history, Raising the Floor examines how interest groups have navigated the highly decentralized American political system to shape the development of federal, state, and local minimum wage laws.

In her analysis, Shanna Rose highlights the importance of American federalism. She argues that because federalism creates multiple arenas for policy change, interest groups have sought out the sites most conducive to their goals, shifting their lobbying efforts as new obstacles and opportunities emerge. Federalism has facilitated minimum wage policymaking by fostering policy experimentation, learning, and diffusion across states and by allowing state and local governments to overcome gridlock and status-quo biases at the national level. Yet, federalism has also been an instrument for containment, enabling those opposed to minimum wage increases to litigate and preempt local-level laws.

With rich historical chapters that illuminate different phases in the development of today's patchwork of wage standards, Raising the Floor is a deep examination of the past, present, and future of American minimum wage law.

The aviation industry has evolved into a complex global network where diverse cultural backgrounds interact with flight operations, training, and safety management. Cultural Intelligence in Aviation: Bridging Social Attitudes, Culture, and Safety in a Global Environment examines the vital role of cultural intelligence (CQ) in creating safer, more effective aviation operations.

This book addresses the challenges and opportunities that arise when multinational crews, cross-border regulations, and varied workplace cultures come together in aviation environments. Through real-world case studies, empirical research, and theoretical frameworks, this guide explores how cultural intelligence shapes key aviation domains, from flight deck dynamics to accident investigations. It introduces innovative approaches to understanding cultural adaptability, incorporating methodologies from human factors, safety science, and artificial intelligence. Expert contributors bring a wealth of experience from across the industry and from different countries, allowing the reader to have a 360 view of the topic. Readers will gain practical tools and strategies to enhance cross-cultural communication, minimize miscommunication risks, and build a more inclusive aviation culture that prioritizes safety across all operations.

This resource is designed for aviation professionals at every level, including flight crews, safety managers, and training specialists. It will also serve as a valuable reference for academics and researchers in aviation studies, while providing regulatory authorities with evidence-based insights for policy development.

In Unions, Race, and Popular Democracy, Kim Scipes dives deep into the historical intricacies of labor organizing, focusing on the struggles against white supremacy and racism in the workplace, union, and respective communities in and around Chicago, including Northwest Indiana. Comparing unions in the steel and meatpacking industries during the critical decades of the mid-twentieth century, Scipes argues there were two opposing conceptualizations of trade unionism within the Congress of Industrial Organizations and each led to different organizational behaviors: the steelworkers overwhelmingly ignored these issues, while the packinghouse workers directly confronted them. Scipes explores the ramifications of the approaches of steel and meatpacking unionism and illuminates the processes that resulted in the dismantling of progressive unionism in the United States.

By detailing how previous labor activists dealt with these issues, Unions, Race, and Popular Democracy offers valuable insights for labor activism during our contemporary moment and aids efforts to reignite movement determination in times perilous for US labor, works to advance the wellbeing of workers overall, and supports the positive social change efforts of our world.

This book presents a comprehensive examination of employee share ownership, profit sharing, and gain sharing practices in contemporary business environments. Drawing from rigorous academic research presented at the prestigious Oxford University-Rutgers University Conference on Shares, it offers valuable insights into how these ownership structures function across different organizational contexts. The collection analyzes both the contextual factors that influence share plans and their measurable impacts on companies and individuals.

The volume is organized into two main sections. The first explores the financial, corporate cultural, and social contexts that shape employee ownership programs, including groundbreaking research on earnings management in French companies, workplace spillover theory, financial structures in Spanish worker cooperatives, and critical success factors for fostering ownership culture. The second section provides evidence-based analysis of outcomes and impacts, examining whether these organizational forms deliver concrete benefits for firms and workers.

Through careful examination of international case studies and empirical data, the book demonstrates that while employee ownership and profit sharing conceptually align individual rewards with organizational performance, their success depends on appropriate human resource management practices and supportive corporate cultures. The research highlights how these models can address wage stagnation by allowing workers to access returns on capital.

This book is essential reading for students, researchers and scholars in management studies, organizational behavior, and labor economics, as well as corporate executives, HR professionals, and policymakers interested in alternative ownership structures.

The chapters in this book were originally published in International Review of Applied Economics.

This timely book presents a critical exploration of migrant workers in the hospitality industry, focusing on their experiences, challenges and contributions to the sector, as well as presenting recommendations to help shape future policies.

Issues relating to migrant workers in this sector have become increasingly important in the post-pandemic context, particularly skill discounting, migrant worker turnover and retention and the type of work migrants engage in as the industry attempts to appeal to the business and leisure markets. International in scope and appeal, this volume explores the experiences of migrant workers in diverse cultural and economic contexts, with the aim of providing practical advice for policymakers, employers and educators to improve the overall experience of migrant workers in the sector. The book discusses policy and management strategies, with the aim of helping to shape future policies relating to migrant workers in the hospitality sector.

This volume will be of pivotal interest to students and academics of hospitality, tourism, development studies, sociology, hotel management, and food and beverage management. The book will also be useful for professionals within the hospitality industry, as well as policymakers, government agencies, industry associations and unions representing the interests of workers in the sector.

States of Admission presents the first comprehensive, comparative account of how Japan opened to foreign labor - and why this process took such a convoluted path.

Japan's labor migration policy resists easy explanation. Although Japan pioneered foreign labor admission in East Asia in the early 1990s, it relied on side-door channels for select migrants. It was not until 2018 that Japan moved toward the direct admission pathways used in Taiwan and South Korea, even while retaining its original schemes.

Konrad Kalicki argues that shifting perceptions of state security, channeled by executive politics, explain this trajectory. Pulled in opposing directions by security concerns and bureaucratic rivalry, Japan initially embraced a compromise approach. Centralization of policymaking and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's leadership eventually led to reform that brought the country into regional alignment.

Kalicki's findings challenge the conventional assumption that ethnonationalism explains much of Japan's labor migration policy, showing instead that it results from state actors balancing structural constraints, societal demands, and autonomous interests. Eye-opening and persuasive, States of Admission offers new insights into the politics of foreign labor admission in Japan and other industrialized democracies.

This book, with articles by leading experts and researchers, explores the ongoing concerns of labor migration in India in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. It studies various aspects such as:

• impact of COVID-19 pandemic on rural migrants
• gender implications of agrarian change and labor migration in out-migrating states
• geography of out-migrant husbands of women left behind home
• processes of international labor out-migration and remittances
• occupational mobility of migrants
• social exclusion, discrimination, and identity crisis of migrants in urban slums
• vulnerability of low-skilled migrants at the urban destinations and the implications of short-term economic shocks like demonetization and COVID-led lockdown and
• sociological implications of development, distress, and youth migration in India

Drawing on integrative frameworks that combine primary research and secondary sources from a variety of disciplines, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of demography, economics, development studies, public policy, sociology, and geography.

Rethinking Citizenship and Belonging through the Experiences of Migrant Day Laborers: Labor, Limites, y Libertad explores how migrant day laborers navigate precarious work and forge meaningful forms of community and belonging.

This book draws on nearly two years of immersive ethnographic fieldwork at a grassroots day labor center in Southern California, capturing the lived experiences of primarily undocumented workers. Through their own voices, it reveals how laborers resist exploitation, support one another, and cultivate kin-like networks that challenge exclusionary norms. The study highlights how such centers foster local, dynamic forms of citizenship that transcend legal status, offering a powerful reimagining of belonging, solidarity, and resilience in the face of structural marginalization.

This book is ideal for students and researchers in anthropology, migration studies, labor studies, and political science, particularly those interested in citizenship, globalization, and grassroots organizing.

Women, Work and the Care Economy explores the critical intersection between gender, labor, and caregiving. The book is divided into four sections, encompassing a diverse range of topics. The theoretical section highlights the challenges of integrating intersectionality into feminist economics, emphasizing the sustainability of life as a transformative framework and linking critical feminist economics with common economic practices. Methodologies include qualitative reviews and multiscale analyses of care systems across Europe, Latin America, and the Global South.

The second section focuses on gender inequality and the care economy. It examines the impact of unpaid domestic work on labor market participation in OECD countries, the feminization of caregiving for people with disabilities in Mexico, and spatial disparities in access to care services. Using mixed methods like time-use surveys and spatial analyses, the book underscores systemic inequities.

The third section examines work and entrepreneurship, exploring feminist identity's influence on entrepreneurial intentions, the pandemic's effects on the unpaid labor division in the U.S., and caregiving's impact on academic careers in Uruguay. Data collection methods include surveys, econometric models, and gender-disaggregated analysis.

The final section addresses public policies and proposals. It analyzes shared caregiving responsibilities in Mexico's labor market, the economic effects of caregiving on female-headed households during COVID-19, and the role of agency in reducing gender disparities globally. By highlighting the importance of care work, the central role of women in the economy, and the need for inclusive public policies, the book seeks to sensitize the wider public to persistent inequalities and how these can be challenged and transformed.

In recent years, the discourse on health and well-being has evolved beyond the boundaries of traditional medical and psychological paradigms, embracing a more holistic and context-sensitive understanding. The intersections between mental health, workplace dynamics, and the socio-technological environment have become critical areas of inquiry, particularly in the wake of rapid digital transformation, shifting organizational cultures, and increasing societal focus on inclusivity. This book is a timely contribution to these evolving conversations, offering a multidisciplinary lens on well-being across diverse settings.

This book brings together three distinct yet interconnected perspectives on mental health and well-being in diverse contexts. The first chapter, A Critical Analysis of Mental Well-Being among Vocational Training Students with Intellectual Disabilities having Autism, examines the unique challenges faced by neurodiverse learners, highlighting the need for inclusive training environments and targeted mental health support. The second chapter, Revealing the Unseen Face of Digital Workplaces: How Overload, Anxiety, and Fear of Missing Out Affect Employee Well-being, explores the hidden costs of hyper-connected digital environments, focusing on how technology-driven pressures erode psychological health. The third chapter, Health and Wellness in Modern Workplace: A Bibliometric Perspective on Ostracism and Well-Being, adopts a data-driven lens to map research trends, uncovering how workplace exclusion impacts employee wellness. Together, these chapters underscore that well-being is shaped not only by individual factors but also by educational inclusivity, digital work culture, and organizational dynamics, calling for holistic strategies to foster healthier learning and work environments.

This book is particularly relevant in the present era, where the well-being of individuals is influenced by diverse factors ranging from educational inclusivity and neurodiversity to the pressures of digital work environments and the complexities of organizational relationships. By addressing the unique needs of vocational training students with intellectual disabilities, the psychological challenges of technology-driven workplaces, and the often-overlooked impact of workplace ostracism, it offers a comprehensive perspective on mental health across contexts. Serving as a valuable resource for educators, HR professionals, organizational leaders, and researchers, this book provides insights and evidence-based strategies for fostering inclusive, supportive, and health-focused environments in both learning and professional settings. As societies and workplaces continue to evolve, it acts as a guide for promoting resilience, inclusivity, and sustainable well-being.

Workplace democracy has a long history in scholarship and in practice, taking a wide variety of forms in different settings. It is inspired by the organisations that actually practice democratic governance, the social movements that promote it, and the models, arguments and empirical findings developed across several academic disciplines. Based on new empirical studies and theoretical analyses, this contributed volume seeks to discern the conditions under which, and mechanisms by which, workplace democracy initiatives have and can flourish as well as what has led to the limited spread and development of workplace democracy.

The various chapters, authored by an interdisciplinary and geographically diverse group of leading academics, offer a range of cases and perspectives through which to explore the factors conducive or detrimental to workplace democracy, as well as the future prospects for workplace democracy in relation to contemporary societal and technological changes. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of work and employment, strategic management, HRM, employee participation and social sustainability in the workplace and the democratic transformation of society.

This book offers a unique exploration of the social and emotional impacts of working in new, flexible ways such as the increasingly popular hybrid work modes. With a specific focus on fun and play, the book is based on recent ethnographic research exploring how hybrid work has changed workplace behaviours and interactions, and how these social aspects of work are increasingly important in hybrid work. Fun and play are still happening but are occurring in new ways and forms as workers navigate fast-changing workscapes while still seeking happiness, frivolity, and laughter in their work relationships. The book presents current debates on these topics along with rich organisational (observed) examples, online chat, and interview excerpts from a variety of workers and managers.

This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of platform-based labor in the Global South, with Indonesia as its primary case study. Moving beyond familiar accounts of precarious work, this book addresses a central paradox: Why do millions continue to aspire to become platform workers, despite low pay, poor protections, and grueling conditions?

Drawing on Michael Burawoy's labor regime theory, the author examines how labor is governed and exploited under platform capitalism. Through a rigorous mixed-methods research design the book identifies five structural pillars of the "cheap labor regime": the persistent oversupply of labor, hyper-competition between platforms, neoliberal state complicity, labor processes engineered for maximum surplus extraction, and the erosion of workers' bargaining power. Indonesia, with an estimated 5 million platform workers, stands as one of the clearest examples of super-exploitation in the digital economy. This book dissects the mechanisms that normalize such conditions, exposing how labor is commodified and discipline enforced not only through economic necessity but also through the architecture of the platforms themselves.

This book is essential reading for scholars, students, policymakers, labor organizers, and readers interested in critical perspectives on the future of work. It delivers fresh insights into how digital capitalism shapes labor relations, particularly in the Global South-offering a powerful framework for understanding resistance, inequality, super-exploitation and the enduring allure of platform work.

A timely and urgent argument for preserving the work that connects us in the age of automation

"A compelling case for valuing care as a societal good and as skilled labor."-The Nation

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories, the future of work has never been more uncertain, and even jobs requiring high levels of human interaction are no longer safe. The Last Human Job explores the human connections that underlie our work, arguing that what people do for each other in these settings is valuable and worth preserving.

Drawing on in-depth interviews and observations with people in a broad range of professions-from physicians, teachers, and coaches to chaplains, therapists, caregivers, and hairdressers-Allison Pugh develops the concept of "connective labor," a kind of work that relies on empathy, the spontaneity of human contact, and a mutual recognition of each other's humanity. The threats to connective labor are not only those posed by advances in AI or apps; Pugh demonstrates how profit-driven campaigns imposing industrial logic shrink the time for workers to connect, enforce new priorities of data and metrics, and introduce standardized practices that hinder our ability to truly see each other. She concludes with profiles of organizations where connective labor thrives, offering practical steps for building a social architecture that works.

Vividly illustrating how connective labor enriches the lives of individuals and binds our communities together, The Last Human Job is a compelling argument for us to recognize, value, and protect humane work in an increasingly automated and disconnected world.

Why does gender inequality persist in tech-even in workplaces that invest in fixing it? In Networking to Nowhere, sociologist Ethel Mickey uncovers the paradox at the heart of modern tech culture: Networking is hailed as the key to opportunity, yet it systematically works against women. Drawing on ethnographic research inside a top tech firm, Mickey reveals how "ideal" networking practices like informal referrals, after-hours schmoozing, and bro-bonding over sports reinforce old boys' clubs that exclude women and people of color. Women, encouraged to lean into formal events, conferences, and diversity programs, often find these efforts go unrewarded, networking them to nowhere.

By exposing how gendered expectations, invisible cultural codes, and even well-meaning corporate DEI programs can deepen inequality, this book offers a powerful new framework for understanding gender and organizations in the contemporary economy-and what it will take to chart a new path forward.