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81. Gender and Labour in Korea and Japan

    Sexing Class

    Edited by Ruth Barraclough, Elyssa Faison

    Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series

    Bringing together for the first time sexual and industrial labour as the means to understand gender, work and class in modern Japan and Korea, this book shows that a key feature of the industrialisation of these countries was the associated development of a modern sex labour industry. Tying...

    Published April 10th 2011 by Routledge
82. Values-based Service for Sustainable Business

    Lessons from IKEA

    By Bo Edvardsson, Bo Enquist

    Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

    The role of values in developing and managing service companies has been under researched in the existing literature - until now. This book analyzes a large organization (IKEA) as a basis for values based service for sustainable business. The authors provide an overview of the history of...

    Published March 3rd 2011 by Routledge
83. Social Development (Routledge Revivals)

    Its Nature and Conditions

    By L. T. Hobhouse

    Originally published in 1924, Professor Hobhouse's theories and commentaries upon social development are an important milestone in the history of sociological thought. Of particular interest to the modern sociologist is his delineation of the struggle of the human mind towards...

    Published January 6th 2011 by Routledge
84. Changing Times for Black Professionals

    By Adia Harvey Wingfield

    Series: Framing 21st Century Social Issues

    This book is a study of the challenges, issues, and obstacles facing black professional workers in the United States. Though they have always been a part of the U.S. labor force, black professionals have often been overlooked in media, research, and public opinion. Ironically, however, their...

    Published December 26th 2010 by Routledge
85. Gender, Emotions and Labour Markets - Asian and Western Perspectives

    By Ann Brooks, Theresa Devasahayam

    Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

    Concepts of emotion and emotional labour have largely been defined in European and American terms and according to Euro-American sensibilities with little attention given to the question of whether emotional work or emotional labour is different globally. In particular little has been written about...

    Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge
86. Metaphors We Lead By

    Understanding Leadership in the Real World

    Edited by Mats Alvesson, André Spicer

    We live in a leadership-obsessed society. The result is that we assume nearly any social or economic ill can be mended through better leadership. Sometimes, this commitment to leadership is followed by hero worshipping, wishful thinking and misplaced hope. Seeking to understand the faith we place...

    Published November 11th 2010 by Routledge
87. Learning to Labour in Post-Soviet Russia

    Vocational youth in transition

    By Charles Walker

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    This book explores the changing nature of growing-up working-class in post-Soviet Russia, a country dislocated by the experience of neo-liberal economic reform. Based on extensive ethnographic research in a provincial Russian region, it follows the experiences of vocational education graduates...

    Published November 9th 2010 by Routledge
88. Management and the Dominance of Managers

    By Thomas Diefenbach

    Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

    Managers are powerful. The organizations of our time are in essence managerial organizations, even our societies are managerial societies. This book looks behind the portrait of management as value-free ‘technicality’ and challenges the image of managers as the selfless pursuer of an organization’s...

    Published October 19th 2010 by Routledge
89. Rethinking Labour in Africa, Past and Present

    Edited by Lynn Schler, Louise Bethlehem, Galia Sabar

    This book offers a broad range of perspectives on major transformations in the research of labor in Africa contexts over the last twenty years. This is a groundbreaking work by social scientists and historians; adopting innovative paradigms in the study of African laborers,...

    Published September 22nd 2010 by Routledge
90. Social Capital

    Edited by Nan Lin

    Series: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

    ‘Social capital’ is a major conceptual and theoretical idea that has received in the last three decades much attention across many social-science disciplines. In this relatively short period, it has developed into a major research paradigm guiding voluminous research conducted in North America,...

    Published September 7th 2010 by Routledge