Steven P. Vallas

Gebundenes Buch

Emerging Conceptions of Work, Management and the Labor Market

Beschreibung

Economic institutions are undergoing radical transformations, and with these has come a reconfiguration of labor market institutions, managerial conceptions of work, and the nature of authority and control over employees as well. This volume addresses a wide array of questions to better understand these dramatic changes.

Autor

Steven Vallas is Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University, USA, where he teaches contemporary social theory and the sociology of work. He is the author of numerous books and articles on a wide array of topics, including the shifting nature of authority relations at work, racial and ethnic boundaries among employees, the commercialization of the life sciences, and the disruptions that new technologies provoke within the firm. Most recently, he is the author of Work: A Critique (Polity, 2012) and co-editor of The SAGE Handbook of Resistance (2016), with David Courpasson.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9781787144606
• ISBN-10: 1787144607
• Artikelnr.: 47552052