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As hybrid and remote work reshapes the modern workplace, Hybrid Work and Organisational Transformation offers a timely and research-based exploration of how organisations are redefining identity, trust, and communication in digitally mediated environments. This interdisciplinary monograph examines the cultural, psychological, and linguistic dynamics of hybrid work, providing a conceptual and practical framework for understanding and managing these transformations. Drawing on qualitative case studies from diverse sectors and regions, this book bridges theory and practice to deliver actionable insights for navigating the complexities of hybrid work cultures. Key features include a diagnostic framework for evaluating organisational readiness, trust-building strategies for virtual teams, and tools for fostering inclusion and collaboration in distributed environments. Grounded in social identity theory, trust theory, and digital affordance frameworks, it integrates empirical evidence with foresight scenarios and strategic recommendations. Readers will gain valuable perspectives on team cohesion, leadership ethics, and digital communication technologies, ensuring their organisations thrive in the post-pandemic era. Designed for advanced students, academic researchers, and practitioners, this volume is ideal for those in organisational behaviour, human resource management, digital communication, and leadership studies. Public sector organisations, multinational enterprises, and educators will also benefit from its insights into building resilient, high-trust hybrid workplaces.

The Research Handbook explores how emotional intelligence interacts with current social, political, and technological challenges. Authors examine the dramatic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the relationship between individual workers and their organizations, alongside additional dynamics such as developments in AI and social media, climate change, and mental health challenges. This Research Handbook presents both quantitative analysis and qualitative case studies, providing in-depth insights, new ideas, and avenues for further research in this field.

The Research Handbook on Emotional Intelligence at Work is a valuable resource for scholars and students of business and management, entrepreneurship, sociology, and psychology, particularly helping those focusing on organization studies. Psychologists and other practitioners interested in human dynamics and improving organizations will benefit from the application of emotional intelligence for effective interventions discussed in this Research Handbook.

Worker organizing has long been a cornerstone of efforts to secure fair pay, decent working conditions, and protection against the insecurities of market economies. By acting collectively, workers have historically been able to counterbalance employer power and win improvements to work and life. Yet such gains have always been partial and contested, and the settlements between labour and capital remain under constant pressure. In the wake of rapid social, political, technological, and environmental change which is reshaping work and challenging the institutions and practices that have underpinned worker collective action, this edited volume explores the evolving landscape and practices of worker organizing in the twenty-first century.

In the context of developments that have exposed the limits of existing models of worker representation and protection - from the erosion of union density in many countries, to the rise of precarious and platform-based work, to climate crisis and pandemic fallout - the chapters in this volume examine the innovative strategies, organizational forms, and solidarities that workers are forging in response to intensified inequalities and new modes of exploitation. The contributions draw on diverse theoretical perspectives and examine a range of empirical settings to shed light on the forms, dynamics, and outcomes of worker collective action in contemporary contexts.

Recentring worker organizing as a vital force in shaping a more equitable, sustainable, and democratic world of work, Worker Organizing is a timely and compelling volume for scholars of the sociology of work and labour, organizational studies, social movements, and beyond.

Based on years of ethnographic research in rural Kansas, Crafting Dignity is an eye-opening look at why Latin American immigrants came to work on dairy farms in the Heartland and how their presence is transforming both the industry and their local communities.

Immigrants in the United States are overrepresented among essential workers in agro-food production. In the dairy industry alone, immigrants constitute 51 percent of the labor force and produce 80 percent of the country's milk. Whereas most food production in the United States today is controlled by large corporations, at least 97 percent of US dairy farms are family owned and operated. Based on five years of ethnographic research in "Dairy City," Kansas, Alisa Garni tells the story of people who traded suits and office jobs abroad for dangerous work on US dairy farms, the white dairy farmers who rely on them to keep their family-owned operations afloat, and the rural communities that were dying before recent immigrants arrived.

Crafting Dignity follows immigrant employees from three competing family dairy farms in rural Kansas and examines how labor relations on each farm affect people's settlement experiences in Dairy City, as well as their impact on the local community. In detailing how people's work lives are woven into the broader social fabric of rural America, Crafting Dignity sheds fresh light on how managers' labor practices interact with social, political, and historical forces to impact the viability of farms and communities.

In an era of increased political anxiety about immigration and migrant labor, Crafting Dignity shows what life is really like for these workers and how more just labor practices foster a better life-not only for the laborers but for the community as a whole.

This volume (Parts A and B) contains 16 new studies that shed light on key aspects of immigration: the drivers of immigration, the factors fostering or hindering immigrant integration in the host country, and the impact of immigration in the host countries. The studies span a wide range of countries in Europe, North and South America and use novel administrative, regional and survey data to offer insights into historical and contemporary episodes of migration. Together, they enrich our understanding of the determinants and consequences of migration and provide an evidence base for policy discussions.

The volume covers three broad themes. In both Part A and B are eight papers on the integration of immigrants in the host society, focusing on the acquisition of human capital, labor supply, family formation, and returns to skills. Part B also studies the impact of immigration on outcomes that often dominate the public debate, namely employment, education, and crime. Published twice per year in conjunction with the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Research in Labor Economics contains new cutting edge peer reviewed research applying economic theory and econometrics to policy related topics pertinent to worker well-being often with an international focus.

Expert authors explore labour mobility across the globe, including perspectives from workers, firms and regions in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. They provide insights into how knowledge embodied in labour travels across space as well as the social drivers of labour, highlighting how these trends can inform political action and identifying the consequences of mobility for different groups of workers. This comprehensive overview covers experiences at regional, national and global levels, analysing how technological advances will impact the future of labour mobility.

The Handbook of Labour Mobility is a crucial resource for scholars and students of labour studies, human geography, sociology and economics and finance. Its focus on the social and economic impacts of labour mobility makes this an essential reference for employers and policymakers in regional development.

Contributing authors discuss a range of concepts and provocative ideas, and offer guided career practice and interventions. The chapters demonstrate how individuals, organizations, and other stakeholders, including family and friends, can shape vocational behavior and foster or endanger individual career sustainability. Drawing on diverse epistemologies and methodologies, they investigate contemporary challenges, such as work precarity and global migration, through socio-economic, political, and decolonial lenses. The Handbook proposes new research directions that embrace global disruption and a social justice agenda, acting as a reference point for theoretically diverse, relevant, and socially responsible approaches to vocational behavior.

This Research Handbook is an invaluable reference for students and scholars across the social sciences, particularly those seeking multi- and trans-disciplinary perspectives on vocational behavior. It is a must-have for vocational and career psychologists and counselors, HR professionals, and policymakers who want to increase their knowledge of today's challenges in the world of work and careers.

International scholars and practitioners explore the subject from a multidisciplinary perspective, drawing on research from a variety of sectors and career stages. Chapters evaluate core areas including psychoanalysis, the psychology of workplace inequality, engaging with marginalized research methods and using critical psychology to assess workplace digitization. Adopting a forward-facing approach, this Handbook stimulates wider research, discussion and debate on the future of work and organizational psychology.

The Handbook of Critical Work and Organizational Psychology is a crucial resource for scholars and students of psychology, sociology, organization studies and business and management. Its analysis of current trends and new ideas also makes this a valuable reference point for practitioners in psychology, business and organizational development.

Bridging theory and empirical analysis, this book offers a comprehensive and data-driven exploration of urban-rural labour markets across advanced economies, shedding light on their structure, efficiency, and evolving dynamics.

Through an extensive literature review and comparative statistical analysis, the book examines key indicators such as labour force participation, unemployment, productivity, and wages. It highlights regional disparities and convergence trends in advanced economies, while emphasizing the critical role of entrepreneurship in balancing labour supply and demand-exploring both Schumpeterian innovation and necessity-driven enterprise.

A standout feature is a unique empirical study using Eurofound data, which investigates whether living in rural areas increases the likelihood of becoming an entrepreneur-offering valuable insights into the potential for rural-urban convergence.

Concluding with forward-looking reflections and directions for future research, this volume is essential reading for scholars and students in economics, geography, sociology, and planning. It also serves as a vital resource for policymakers, regional planners, and practitioners engaged in shaping the future of spatial labour markets.

Indian and South African Labor Responses to the International Labor Organization's Green Initiatives: Through the Eyes of the Colonized explores the differences in attitudes of developing states to the International Labor Organization (ILO) green initiatives, such as sustainable development, green jobs, and just transition, through a comparative case study of India and South Africa. As noble and urgent as they seem, not all countries are on board with green initiatives. Some developing states are wary on the grounds that they continue the interventionist legacies of their colonizers. India is one of these countries less open to these initiatives, in contrast to South Africa, which has embedded the initiatives in their green labor programs. This book shows how postcolonial theories such as Said's Orientalism and Bhabha's mimicry can be helpful in making sense of these discrepancies in attitudes. By providing a comparative study of these two powerful BRICS countries, it fills an important gap in our understanding of postcolonial responses of developing states, and expands the fields of comparative politics, history, postcolonial studies, and environmental policies. The book concludes by exploring the distinct ways in which India resists these green initiatives and how South Africa offers resistance by mimicking Western green initiatives in their policy line-up. Indian and South African Labor Responses to the International Labor Organization's Green Initiatives: Through the Eyes Initiatives will be of great interest to students and scholars of Postcolonial Politics and History, and International Relations.

The last two decades have been marked by economic and social turmoil - from the global financial crash and the austerity turn to the Covid-19 pandemic, followed by cost-of-living crises, geopolitical conflicts and heightened political divisions. This succession of crises has destabilised economic and political systems and risks undermining the hard-won, albeit slow, progress towards gender equality in contemporary societies. At the same time, the way we live and work is being challenged by rapidly developing AI and digital technologies, the imperative to accelerate the transition to net zero emissions, and unresolved pressures to transform care systems to support women's sustained participation in waged work. Against this backdrop, this volume offers a long-term perspective on turbulence, grounded on comparative and country evidence from Europe, the USA, Australia, and the Global South. The chapters trace how acute shocks, chronic crises and systemic transformations reverberate through labour markets, households and state policies, reshaping gender inequalities and vulnerabilities and their intersections. The concluding discussion argues that turmoil is evolving into a polycrisis - an entanglement of economic, social, and ecological disruptions - while exposing a critical but neglected dimension of turbulence: the crisis of social reproduction and women's pivotal role in managing the tensions between production and the social reproduction spheres. By introducing a gender perspective into the polycrisis debate, this volume speaks to scholars in socioeconomics and gender studies; policy experts and advisors on gender equality; and activists, educators and the general public seeking to understand and address the challenges to gender equality in turbulent times.

This book examines the long-term dynamics of urban labour market behaviour of women and men over three and a half decades, spanning the period from 1987-88 to 2023-24. It provides a detailed understanding of the topic by incorporating data and information that cover both the supply and demand sides of the labour market. The book distinguishes itself from similar studies by adopting a life-cycle approach for women so as to enable a holistic coverage of various dimensions that hamper or facilitate their economic participation at every stage of life. It examines the gender differences in labour market behaviour and outcomes of young graduate women, married working age women, as well as elderly women. It also undertakes a time-use analysis for understanding the impact of education on gender differences in the distribution of unpaid domestic responsibilities among adolescent girls and boys. Likewise, among the married women fully engaged in household work, the book explores the potential for their integration into the labour force if employment opportunities are accessible at their household. Combining quantitative analysis of secondary datasets with qualitative analysis of primary survey interviews, this study provides an evidence-based depiction of gendered labour market realities and the policy approach to address them. The qualitative approach uses narrative-building to capture the lived experiences of women and men employed in the public transport and sanitation sectors. This book will serve as an important resource for understanding of female labour market by researchers, scholars, policymakers, practitioners, NGOs, and students of gender and labour studies.

This book examines the way that migrant workers' everyday experiences are being shaped by precarious conditions in the receiving countries. Utilising a mixed methods approach, the case studies of migrant workers in Thailand and Thai migrant workers in Taiwan, South Korea and the USA from 2005-2020 are analyzed to compare the strategies used toward justice in various contexts such as labour, permanent residency, and human rights. Revealing the limitations for true economic and social integration, the author argues that precarious conditions and exclusion from legal protections are the forces that limit noncitizens' access to remedies against wage theft, labour trafficking, forced labour and related human rights violations. NGOs advocating alongside Southeast Asian migrant workers therefore exemplify how transnational labour rights are negotiated to increase state social protections for foreign nationals abroad, working in dirty, dangerous, and degrading jobs globally. Advancing the growing literature on labour migration and precarities in South East Asia and the USA, the author combines labour and anti-trafficking theories with practices utilized by NGO and trade unions to participate in setting the agenda of this interdisciplinary field of migrant precarity. The implications are therefore not just of interest to scholars of migration from and in Asia but appeals to international practitioners in trade unions and policy makers.

This book explores the complex nexus of climate change, labour, and migration with a specific focus on women and children, using Indonesia as a case study. It provides a comprehensive analysis of intersecting issues, drawing on transdisciplinary academic knowledge from fields such as law, social work, gender studies, public health, engineering, and urban planning.

The book examines the future of climate change law in Indonesia, gender-based adaptation strategies, and the role of local leaders in managing sea level rise impacts. It investigates the effects of climate change on labour migration, social protection for informal workers, and economic resilience strategies for women and children. Additionally, it analyzes immobility and adaptation strategies, forced migration, and the role of local government in addressing migration and climate change. Special emphasis is placed on the legal frameworks and policies necessary for effective climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as the principles of green criminology in understanding environmental injustices.

This volume offers valuable insights and recommendations for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to develop holistic climate change mitigation strategies that address the needs of vulnerable communities. It is essential reading for those interested in the intersections of climate change, migration, labour, law, and green criminology.

This book explores how educators in Southern Africa can adapt to changing work and life demands in the 21st century. It provides a detailed comparative analysis of curriculum reform in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, and Zambia, moving beyond theory to offer practical ideas for implementing 21st-century learning in the classroom. It focuses on the specific skills, values, attitudes, and knowledge future-ready learners need.

The book explores crucial support systems for this transformation, including effective teacher professional development, creating optimal learning environments, and new methods of assessment. It links the specific experiences of Southern African countries to broader global trends in 21st century skills development. Offering both a global cross-cultural view and a specific focus on the challenges and opportunities in developing countries, this book is an indispensable resource for classroom practitioners. Readers will find actionable strategies for addressing cultural and economic barriers, along with unique insights from both learner and educator perspectives. This is a guide for creating a curriculum that truly prepares students for the world of work and beyond.

This book consisting of 24 chapters provides a comprehensive analysis of the complexities of women's work in India. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary data sources it offers fresh perspectives on long-term patterns and emerging trends. It sheds light on trends in gender equality in employment, the stubbornly low Female Labour Force Participation Rate (FLFPR), the continued invisibility of women's work, and the shortcomings of official labour force surveys in capturing women's economic contributions. It also explores gendered labour market barriers linked to caregiving responsibilities, social group identities, and the high unemployment rates among educated women. Several chapters address persistent issues of discrimination and inequality, including how rising educational attainment among women has shaped labour market outcomes.

It critically assesses the growing sectors of childcare and gig work, often viewed as potential pathways to better-paid employment for women, highlighting both their opportunities and limitations. Further, the book provides the policy measures required to enhance women's labour participation; challenges specific to urban contexts and key policies related to public employment and social protection for women.

This volume is a valuable resource for researchers, civil society organisations, development practitioners, and policymakers working on women's employment. It is equally relevant for educators and students in gender studies, labour economics, employment research, and development studies.

This book examines the Chinese vocational education system-an arena of growing significance in China's economic transformation. Over the past few decades, the central government has moved to decentralize a traditionally school-based skill development system, embracing a more market-oriented model that incorporates substantial employer involvement. This shift has produced a highly decentralized system centered on targeted training partnerships between schools and firms. These collaborations, further institutionalized by a series of reforms associated with the Made in China 2025 initiative, have helped alleviate skilled labor shortages and sustain the competitiveness of China's industrial sector globally. Yet, this book argues that neither a centralized, school-led model nor a decentralized, employer-driven approach has established the ideal institutional foundations necessary for sustainable workforce upskilling. This provocative study explores the future of skills development in China and identifies critical reforms needed to build a labor force capable of sustaining the country's economic trajectory in the decades ahead.

Explaining why social movements and labor activists run into obstacles, and how these can be overcome, this book draws valuable sociological and strategic lessons from the drivers' ten-week wildcat strike that helped lay the basis for organizing Teamsters for a Democratic Union.

Teamster Rank and File presents a detailed case study of how Los Angeles truck drivers organized victorious campaigns to improve workplaces and reform an ineffective union, and how the employers and a corrupt international union leadership eroded the power the workers had built. In this new edition, Samuel R. Friedman provides insights and evidence about past and current efforts to improve working conditions and create a political movement to challenge the rule of billionaires, highlighting the need for a socialist analysis and politics to develop strategies such as "Bargaining for the Common Good" to meet the overlapping economic, political, and environmental crises of our era.

This book will be useful for courses on social movements, work and industry, labor sociology, labor history, labor studies, the sociology of organizations, and graduate courses in capitalism and socialism, while also being a good case study for courses in qualitative research methods. In addition, many union, workplace, and socialist activists will find this book useful.

Job Satisfaction and Sustainable Employee Development aims to present knowledge about job satisfaction from the perspective of employee well- being. The book provides new theoretical and practical insights into job satisfaction in relation to employee well-being, passion for work, and engagement. An in- depth analysis of global literature clearly shows that job satisfaction in terms of employee sustainability - especially in terms of well- being, employee engagement, and passion for work - is a relatively new concept that encompasses many different practices and approaches. Most research on job satisfaction focusses on the organisational sphere and other factors influencing job satisfaction in terms of sustainable human resource management (SHRM). This book fills an identified research and practical gap by providing a wealth of important information on how to increase employee job satisfaction by caring for their well- being, their engagement in the workplace, and shaping their passion for work in the context of sustainable employee development.

The practical conclusions drawn from the book on shaping job satisfaction are useful for decision- makers and researchers, research on employee management development, psychology, especially work and organisational psychology, business psychology, sociology, and personnel policy in various types of organisations and industries. Lecturers, trainers, and specialists in leadership and management education may also be interested.

The book is both scientific and practical in nature. It can therefore be used in all management courses and serve as required or supplementary reading for postgraduate students, MBAs in HRM, organizational management, and leadership. It will be a source of valuable

Across Western Europe, the rise of atypical employment has deepened insider-outsider divides. This book asks why two structurally similar countries - Portugal and Spain - pursued different routes to reduce labour market segmentation following the conclusion of the sovereign debt crisis. It argues that the composition of the governing social bloc drives the orientation of reform, while the choice of decision-making arena (parliamentary law-making versus tripartite social concertation) and the EU's evolving social governance shape the breadth and depth of reform.

Building on the distinction between competitive and inclusive solidarity, the book compares four domains: employment protection and collective bargaining; statutory minimum wages; regulation of ride-hailing platforms in passenger transport; and the regularisation of precarious public sector work. The analysis covers Portugal's progressive cycle (2015-2021) and Spain's coalition years (2019-2025), drawing on elite interviews, content analysis of parliamentary debates and media coverage, and official documents. The findings reveal a targeted, outsider-focused strategy in Portugal and a more universal re-regulation in Spain.

Governing Solidarity offers a fresh framework and rich evidence for scholars of political economy and industrial relations, as well as advanced students and policymakers confronting labour market segmentation.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Health care workers are burned out. Health care leaders know that workers are burned out but do not yet have the right tools to fix the problem. Called to Care? argues that we can mitigate burnout by examining what is most meaningful about health care work. Using interviews and observation of a wide range of health care workers, Cain shows that workers who care for our most vulnerable adults find their work to be meaningful when they are able to connect to the work and make progress on something that matters. In most cases, these meaningful experiences are also consistent with better care for patients. And yet organizational practices, policy environments, and cultural meanings get in the way of meaningful work, creating burnout. But it doesn't have to be this way. Called to Care? illustrates that workplaces can and should align meaningful work experiences with quality care for patients.

This book sets out a new approach to the global flow of skilled migration, one based on ethical, fair, balanced and sustainable frameworks. Instead of focusing on human capital loss and 'brain drain', the book argues that we should look towards mutually beneficial outcomes.

In a world where demographic shifts, rapid technological advancements connected to automation and AI-enhancement, and evolving economic landscapes are reshaping labour markets, this book serves as a guide for 'doing' skilled migration, highlighting shared development, social inclusion and economic resilience opportunities. Seeking to provoke and inspire policymakers, researchers and practitioners, the book sets out a manifesto for transparent, fair and sustainable migration skill infrastructure, based on 13 theses. Based on extensive original data from across the Link4Skills consortium and its sister projects GS4S and SKILLS4JUSTICE across at least 15 countries of origin and 15 countries of destinations, the book addresses critical issues such as the depletion of labour markets in origin countries and the challenges of skill recognition and labour market integration and retention in destination countries.

This important new book will be a breath of fresh air for researchers, practitioners and policymakers looking for possible solutions to global migration skill flow challenges.