Duke University Press, 2019. — 384 p. — ISBN: 1478001844. While Russian computer scientists are notorious for their interference in the 2016 US presidential election, they are ubiquitous on Wall Street and coveted by international IT firms and often perceive themselves as the present manifestation of the past glory of Soviet scientific prowess. Drawing on over three hundred...
Basic Books, 2015. — 368 p. Winner of the 2015 FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardTop Business Book of 2015 at Forbes One of NBCNews.com 12 Notable Science and Technology Books of 2015 What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? As technology continues to accelerate and machines begin taking care of themselves, fewer people will be...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. — 496 p. A field guide to the twenty-first century, written by one of its most celebrated observers We all sense it — something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your kids. You can’t miss it when you read the newspapers or watch the news. Our lives are being transformed in so many realms all at once —...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 257 p. — ISBN: 978-1137395375. This book describes and analyses the impact of the 2007-2008 financial crisis upon the working conditions of employees in the financial services sector in Britain. It tells the story of workers being made to pay the price for a crisis that was not of their own making, but nevertheless caused a deleterious impact on...
Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1987. — xiv, 256 p. — (Anthropology of comtemporary issues). — ISBN: 9780801494611. Taiwan's working class has been shaped by Chinese tradition, by colonialism, and by rapid industrialization. This book defines that class, explores that history, and presents with sensitive honesty the life experiences of some of its women and men....
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984. — 389 p. Labour History and Ideology. Notes on Class Consciousness. Religion and the Rise of Socialism. What is the Workers' Country? The Transformation of Labour Rituals. Man and Woman: Images on the Left. Political Shoemakers Gointly written with Joan W. Scott). The Nineteenth-Century London Labour Market. The 'New Unionism' in...
Routledge, 2002. — 219 p. — (The International Library of Sociology : The Sociology of Work and Organization). — ISBN: 0-203-00157-5. There are only a few inventions of which it can be said that they have brought nothing but blessings. Concerning some, indeed, a case can be made out for holding that they have proved to be little else than curses; but most inventions, it is...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 256 p. Recasting labor studies in a long-term and global framework, the book draws on a major new database on world labor unrest to show how local labor movements have been related to world-scale political, economic, and social processes since the late nineteenth century. Through an in-depth empirical analysis of select global industries, the...
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 198 p. This book presents the Precariat – an emerging class, comprising the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives. Guy Standing argues that this class is producing instabilities in society. Although it would be wrong to characterise members of the...
Portfolio Hardcover, 2014. What do fact-checkers, anesthesiologists, U.N. interpreters, and structural engineers have in common? When they do their jobs poorly, the consequences can be catastrophic for their organizations. But when they do their jobs perfectly...they're invisible. For most of us, the better we perform the more attention we receive. Yet for many...
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