Rethinking Work: Global Historical and Sociological Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9788189487850 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 200 str.

Rana P. Behal; Alice Mah; Babacar Fall

Opis

This edited volume brings together global interdisciplinary perspectives on work from different regions of the world, including Europe, Africa, and Asia, drawing on both historical and contemporary examples. The contributions address wide-ranging themes such as work and life cycle, work transformation, precarious work, informalization of work, labor migration, labor, conflict and labor relations. The book is timely and innovative in its theoretical, empirical and methodological scope, providing key insights for rethinking work through interrelated global, interdisciplinary, and comparative perspectives.