Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Eifler, Ulrike (Hrsg.), Den Frieden gewinnen, nicht den Krieg: Zur Rolle der Gewerkschaften in der Friedensbewegung. 180 S. 2024:4 (Westfaelisches Dampfboot, GW) <742-159>
ISBN 978-3-89691-095-0 paper ¥5,802.- (税込) EUR 25.00

Seit dem brutalen russischen Angriff auf die Ukraine im Februar 2022 wird auch in den Gewerkschaften die Diskussion ueber Krieg und Frieden intensiv gefuehrt. Dabei ist klar: Um das sinnlose Toeten so schnell wie moeglich zu beenden, muessen Verhandlungsloesungen auf den Weg gebracht werden. Gleichzeitig zeigen die letzten Tarifrunden, wie sehr sich aussenpolitische und verteilungspolitische Fragen ineinander verschraenken. Ist Umverteilung schon zu Friedenszeiten eine Herausforderung - in Zeiten von Krieg und Aufruestung ist sie ungleich groesser. Jeder Euro, der in diesen Krieg gesteckt wird, fehlt fuer eine armutsfeste Sozialpolitik, fuer den Ausbau der oeffentlichen Infrastruktur oder den sozial-oekologischen Umbau. Doch Kriege draengen Gewerkschaften auch in Widerspruchskonstellationen. Und so steht die Gewerkschaftsbewegung wieder einmal vor der Herausforderung, im Spannungsverhaeltnis von betrieblicher Interessenvertretung und sozialer Bewegung ihre Rolle als Friedensorganisation auszubuchstabieren. Eine breite innergewerkschaftliche Debatte ist dazu im Gange, bei der so mancher friedenspolitische Grundsatz auf den Pruefstand gestellt wird. Der vorliegende Band ist ein orientierender Beitrag zu dieser Diskussion, der die Rolle der Gewerkschaften als Friedensorganisation staerken moechte.

Gray, Joanne, Powering Workplace Proactivity: How to Build a Future-Focused, Change-Oriented Culture. 190 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-160>
ISBN 978-1-032-76978-3 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-76735-2 paper ¥10,134.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

Empowering, customizable, and backed by organizational research, this book introduces the PROACTIVE work design model and diagnostic tool to help organizations create optimal conditions for proactivity at work to flourish.The pressures and expectations of 21st-century life have led to short-term, reactive behavior in the workplace, however, long-term business success relies on proactive behavior, which is self-directed, future-focused, and change-orientated. But proactivity does not occur in a vacuum - it is a complex, social process heavily affected by contextual and situational factors. With its distinct and flexible design model, this book solves the problem of 'how' to create the optimal conditions for proactivity at work to flourish, and to drive sustainability and competitive advantage. And its diagnostic feature recognizes that readers are time-pressured and may already be doing some things well within their organizations, so it offers a solution to their problems without having to read the entire book before they can start making a difference. Uniquely, this book recognizes how important it is for leaders to shape the work environment and to be a positive role model to stimulate employee proactive behavior.Intended as a practical resource, this book provides a range of evidence-based tools and techniques and includes insightful case studies that will be useful for leaders, managers, HR professionals, OD practitioners, and consultants who want to drive proactive behaviors within their organizations.

Jacobsson, Kerstin / Johansson, Hakan, Governing Street-Level Bureaucracies: The Organizational Shaping of Caseworkers. (Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Work, Professions and Organisations) 178 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <742-161>
ISBN 978-1-032-33194-2 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book examines how caseworkers are governed in today's street-level bureaucracies. It redefines our understanding of public sector governance by highlighting the subtle, informal, and everyday forms of organizational governance that shape caseworkers' subjectivities beyond formal policies and professional identities. Based on four distinct types of normative governance - 'governance by discourse', 'governance by emotions', 'governance by peers', and 'governance by numbers, colours, and symbols', the book shows how caseworkers are shaped as organizational staff members alongside their roles as welfare professionals and welfare state bureaucrats. Governing Street-level Bureaucracies will be of interest to scholars and students in organizational sociology, street-level bureaucracy research, public administration, and critical management studies. It also provides valuable insights for policymakers and practitioners seeking to understand caseworkers' responses to public governance and public sector reforms.

Juravich, Nick / Striffler, Steve (eds.), The Pandemic and the Working Class: How US Labor Navigated COVID-19. (Working Class in American History) 328 pp. 2025:4 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <742-162>
ISBN 978-0-252-04652-0 hard ¥26,812.- (税込) US$ 125.00
ISBN 978-0-252-08864-3 paper ¥6,864.- (税込) US$ 32.00

During the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of workers lost their jobs in sectors from hospitality to transportation, while healthcare and frontline service workers faced a new world of brutal hours in unsafe and even deadly conditions. Yet, as the US economy reopened, workers experienced a rare moment of leverage as demand for labor and government support powered a surge of collective action that allowed working people to seek rights, respect, and power on the job through resignations, walkouts, strikes, and union organizing. The lessons and legacies of this upsurge in organizing continue to shape work, activism, and politics across the nation today. Nick Juravich and Steve Striffler edit a collection that examines the effects of the pandemic on workers. Sections of the book focus on specific impacts and government efforts to restructure the economy; the dramatic effect of the pandemic on the hospitality industry; educators' response on behalf of themselves and their students; frontline healthcare workers; and the innovative forms of labor organizing that emerged during and after COVID. Contributors: Carlos Aramayo, Kathleen Brown, Sandrine Etienne, Ismael Garcia-Colon, Puya Gerami, Maura Hagan, Connor Harney, Devan Hawkins, Leigh Howard, Marian Moser Jones, Doris Joy, Nick Juravich, Eric Larson, Kathryn M. Meyer, Samir Sonti, Steve Striffler, Lia Warner, Andrew B. Wolf, and Jennifer Zelnick

Lemus, Sergio, Los Yarderos: Mexican Yard Workers in Transborder Chicago. (Latinos in Chicago and Midwest) 216 pp. 2025:5 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <742-163>
ISBN 978-0-252-04655-1 hard ¥23,595.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-252-08866-7 paper ¥5,577.- (税込) US$ 26.00

Liu, Junmin, Heritage, Homemaking, and Identity Formation in Migrant Workers: An Ethnographic Study of Yi Migrants in Shenzhen. (Routledge Contemporary China Series) 176 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-164>
ISBN 978-1-032-99065-1 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Liu explores the experiences of Yi migrant workers in Shenzhen, China, investigating how their cultural heritage influences their search for identity and a sense of belonging. This book uncovers the intricate relationship between heritage and homemaking, examining how Yi migrants engage in their cultural practices within various settings such as families, workplaces, restaurants, tourist sites, and social media platforms.Through thorough fieldwork and interviews, the book demonstrates how ethnic heritage acts as a means for migrants to establish a feeling of connection during their migration journeys. Nevertheless, challenges and tensions emerge in the realm of home, illustrating the dynamic interplay between heritage and the construction of a sense of place. It also enriches our comprehension of the link between cultural heritage and the experiences of migrants, shedding light on the complexities of identity development in a globalised world.A valuable resource for scholars and researchers in disciplines like anthropology, migration studies, cultural studies, and Chinese studies, as well as professionals and policymakers interested in migrant integration, cultural heritage preservation, and urban development.

女性の労働－ウガンダとシエラレオネの戦争被害を受けたコミュニティにおける平和構築
Moore, Jennifer, Women's Work: Building Peace in War-Affected Communities of Uganda and Sierra Leone. (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights) 312 pp. 2025:3 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <742-165>
ISBN 978-1-5128-2726-2 hard ¥25,740.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5128-2727-9 paper ¥8,569.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

When women have full socioeconomic citizenship as well as equitable and respectful partnerships with men, transformative justice can be sustained in postconflict societies In Women's Work, Jennifer Moore presents a reimagined theory of peacebuilding and transformative justice based on the experiences and insights of women farmers and microentrepreneurs who lived through protracted civil conflicts, drawing on seven years of interviews with women activists across ten communities-five in the Acholi region of Northern Uganda and five in the Moyamba and Koinadugu Districts of Sierra Leone. Despite the important differences between the preconflict and conflict histories and demographics of the two countries, Moore finds commonalities in the practical, yet visionary, approaches to community life emerging from the core values, daily activities, and long-range goals shared by rural cooperative members in both regions. Collective survival, communal healing, and conflict resolution define the rhythm of these women's daily lives as they go about building peace, piecemeal. They reject punitive retribution models and demand, instead, a peacebuilding model that advocates for advances in material well-being, the acknowledgment of state accountability for community suffering, and reconciliation and restoration of community networks. But most important, Moore amplifies these women's voices when they insist that legal equality for women and healthy partnerships between women and men are also essential components to enduring transformation of their societies. Moore theorizes what peacebuilding look like if it were modeled on these women-led, matriarchically structured communities that proved not only to be effective at holding governments accountable but also to have the capacity to feed their people and revitalize their local economies. Women's Work shows that when women have full socioeconomic citizenship as well as equitable and respectful partnerships with men, transformative justice can be sustained through the arts of collective livelihood, violence-free conflict management, and celebration.

Ortiz, Pilar, Precarious Empowerment: Sexual Labor in the Coffee Shops of Chile's Santiago. (Cultural Spaces) 238 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-166>
ISBN 978-1-032-52681-2 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-53586-9 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Precarious Empowerment: Sexual Labor in the Coffee Shops of Chile's Santiago provides a textured and telling exploration into the lives and experiences of sex workers in Chile, their encounters with discrimination and economic precarity, and their empowered resistance.Set in and around 'tinted cafes' - spaces hidden from public view where women dance for their male clients and perform sexual services - within Chile's capital city of Santiago, author Pilar Ortiz traces connections between sex work in the present day and the lasting legacies of colonialism and gender and sexual norms. Drawing on her careful ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews with the workers and their clients, the book reveals the many challenges women face at the intersection of class, racial, and gender inequalities. It also documents their resistance to stigma and stifling social norms and predetermined gender roles. In their practice of sexual labor, the book argues that women display a considerable degree of agency, mobility, and empowerment. Within this contentious space, the author explores how sex workers negotiate inequalities and exclusion, and how they are poised to do so in a rapidly changing political and social climate.Exploring experiences of sexual exploitation and resistance within Chile, this book speaks to the much larger question of agency versus oppression in conversations about sexual labor worldwide. Its compelling analysis will captivate those interested in scholarly studies of sexual labor and the ways it is performed and shaped across hierarchies of race, class, and gender.

Ramaswami, Shankar, Souls in the Kalyug: The Politics and Cosmologies of Migrant Workers in Contemporary India. 320 pp. 2025:4 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <742-167>
ISBN 978-1-5128-2664-7 hard ¥13,931.- (税込) US$ 64.95

How migrant workers in contemporary India strive toward, and at times realize, elements of a good life The economic development process in India is one that has induced new difficulties and hardships into the lives of poor and working people despite its alleged achievements. In villages, farming families confront an agrarian crisis, with rising costs of seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides; low prices for crops in the face of grave indebtedness; and ecological damage to the soil, water, and forests. Due to the scarcity of jobs, many migrate to cities for work. Once in the city, migrants take on and must contend with low-paid, insecure, and hazardous work. And in urban neighborhoods, they deal with congested living conditions; poor qualities of air, water, and sanitation; and separation from their families in the village. Souls in the Kalyug introduces readers to migrant workers who are confronting myriad hardships and asks how it is that these workers create lives that can become less injurious than their circumstances might suggest. Anthropologist Shankar Ramaswami proposes a three-part answer. In a metal factory in Delhi, migrant workers engage in resistance and collective struggle against perceived oppression and injustice. In the city and village, they weave connections to one another, building friendships in empathetic closeness and fellowship. In the metaphysical realm, they attempt to resist soul-distorting processes in our present, decivilizing times, or the Kalyug. Through these activities, migrant workers strive toward, and at times realize, elements of a good life. Souls in the Kalyug ultimately presents a nuanced and intimate portrait of migrant workers through a complex study of entanglement and noncooperation in workers' worlds, and in its analysis of workers' politics, within and outside of labor unions, interpersonal relationships, and foundational religious and cosmological worldviews.