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Care work is essential. And yet, Western capitalist societies are organised in a way as to neglect care work and make it invisible.

Building on feminist critiques of labour law, this book analyses how private care work has been socially constituted as the Other in relation to work on labour markets. By bringing labour law, with its collective structures, into conversation with individual anti-discrimination law, it develops a solidaristic form of labour law that includes unpaid care work.

It shows how the law can be used to challenge collective organisations' understandings of work in order to integrate and accommodate the Other of labour law.

This book compares innovation "clusters" in Japan and France. The "cluster" concept, initially based on the endogenous agglomeration of business and universities as the case of "Silicon Valley," was adopted as a model of competitiveness by practitioners - primarily state officials. In the first decade of this century, many state-led exogenous clusters were established in various countries, including Japan and France. The clusters studied empirically in this book have been the focus of public policies aimed at fostering technological activities and high-tech businesses based on academic-industry collaborations. After approximately 20 years of experimentation, the cluster phenomenon, namely, the interplay between heterogeneous actors, is re-examined, not to assess its performance but to highlight its enduring effect on specific territories in Japan and France. Rather than focusing on performance, this book highlights the influences, both negative and positive, according to the characteristics of the social contexts in Japan and France. The reader can see the effects of those clusters on human, organizational, and cognitive resources, and how their influence ultimately shapes their future territorial development.

Have you ever found yourself considering what your life would be like in the absence of work? Would you feel a sense of loss past the finances? More people than ever before believe that a job is just a way of earning money - nothing more. While the popularity of this transactional mindset is understandable, I Want M.O.R.E. argues that it depletes our vision of our professional lives.

Sociologist Scott Schieman has drawn upon decades of research to investigate what people think and feel about work. He has distilled the essence of that data to create M.O.R.E., which stands for Mooring, Opening, Relating, and Exceeding. Mooring navigates identity, structure, and purpose. Opening explores ability, agency, and creativity. Relating explains connection, support, and respect. And Exceeding focuses on recognition, reputation, and status.
Helping readers harness their sense of self and better their quality of life, the M.O.R.E. framework catalogues each element, along with metrics to assess your current job, what you value in a job, and what you aspire to achieve. The book also features a M.O.R.E. assessment, guidance on maximizing its dimensions, and tips for navigating difficult work situations.

A crucial guide for anyone who wants to get more out of their life and work, I Want M.O.R.E. energizes and empowers readers by encouraging a transformational new mindset about the purpose of work. How you see yourself is at the centre of who you are, and that is too important to leave to chance. And a little M.O.R.E. often produces big results.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence.

This book offers a fresh and critical take on the relationship between disability, work, and capitalism in the UK. Challenging the idea that disabled people are 'non-workers', it shows how society is dependent upon their everyday paid and unpaid activities. Drawing on research with disabled participants, it expands what counts as work: from care, assistance, and work for the state to resistance and rest.

The book centres disabled people's own critiques of precarious work and productivism, highlighting how disability is fundamental to debates on class and exploitation. Insightful and collaborative, it rejects the productivist lens through which disability is often approached, and rethinks possibilities for a non-capitalist organisation of society.

Extraction: The Community Impacts of Mobile Work in Canada's Natural Resources Sector explores how employment-related geographical mobility (E-RGM), including long-distance commuting and fly-in/fly-out (FIFO) work, impacts every aspect of life for workers, their families, and their communities, including the communities where they live, work, and travel through.

Focusing on the oil and gas, mining, and mineral processing sectors (extractive industries), this collection traces the shift from traditional "resource towns" to more mobile, camp-based work since the 1980s. The authors draw on findings from the seven-year, SSHRC-funded project, On the Move Partnership, to examine the socio-economic benefits and costs of mobile work for source, host, and hub communities, as well as its effects on identity, belonging, and place attachment. This volume is organized around three key themes: first, mobile work and economic development, analysing how mobile work impacts local and regional economies; second, mobile work and sense of place, investigating how mobility affects families and community connections; and finally, planning for mobile work, addressing the implications for planning, governance, infrastructure, and service delivery.

By integrating research from geography, sociology, planning, and regional development, this book provides a timely analysis of how Canada's reliance on mobile labour in the natural resources sector is reshaping local economies, social relationships, and community life.

Imagine that you have just lost your job. You wonder: "Who or what can I depend on now?" The answer, it turns out, varies significantly depending on where you live. In Norway, a small European social democracy, you would almost certainly turn to the country's comprehensive public welfare system. With a work history, you could be eligible for two years of unemployment benefits that replace upwards of 62% of your previous salary. Meanwhile, you would not be too worried about covering other major expenses: annual out-of-pocket healthcare costs are capped at a few hundred dollars, parents receive monthly payments per child, public education is tuition-free, and pensions are guaranteed. What would this experience teach you about government, work, taxes, and freedom?

In Down and Out in Utopia, anthropologist Kelly McKowen explains what happens to those without jobs in one of the world's wealthiest and most egalitarian countries. Following the daily lives of a diverse group of unemployed individuals during the "oil crash" of the mid-2010s, he shows that being "down and out" in a social democracy offers people a unique moral education with lessons about the nature and value of the state, labor, welfare, and belonging.

Engaging, timely, and illuminating, Down and Out in Utopia makes the case that through social policy, we shape life's hardships ? and these hardships, in turn, shape us and how we view the world.

Over 80% of practitioners in the UK arts sector work on a freelance basis. While freelancing offers scope for autonomy and creative freedom, it is also characterized by widespread precarity, low pay, long hours and systemic inequalities. Funding cuts and recent challenges have only intensified these conditions.

This book provides an evidence-based account of what it means to work as a freelancer in the UK performing arts sector, drawing on data from the Big Freelancer Survey (2020-2025). It presents a unique insight into arts-based freelance work in the UK, providing workable recommendations for change.

The book offers real-life scenarios and detailed strategies that illustrate how psychological safety ignites creativity, clarifies goals, enhances accountability, and redefines leadership. It shows leaders and teams how to create climates where members feel empowered to express ideas, acknowledge mistakes, and raise concerns, serving as a comprehensive roadmap for thriving organizations.

Readers will also find:

• Real-life scenarios demonstrating how to implement psychological safety in diverse workplace situations
• Detailed strategies for igniting creativity and clarifying team goals through open communication
• Practical tools for creating interpersonal climates where team members feel safe to express ideas and acknowledge mistakes
• Actionable steps for enhancing accountability and redefining leadership in the knowledge economy
• Comprehensive guidance for building fearless organizations that drive engagement and high performance

Perfect for leaders, managers, executives, teams, and organizational development professionals, Building a Fearless Organization transforms the theory of psychological safety into practical action. It provides the essential tools needed to create workplace cultures where learning, innovation, and growth flourish in today's complex and rapidly changing business environment.

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.

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.

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 this 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 this 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 labor 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 13 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.