Rethinking Work - Global Historical and Sociological Perspectives

Global Historical and Sociological Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-81-89487-85-0
Verlag: Tulika Print Communication Services

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 495 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Behal, Rana P.

Mah, Alice

Fall, Babacar

Behal, Rana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Gewerkschaften, Industrielle Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie

Über Autor(innen)

Alice Mah is assistant professor in sociology at the Universityof Warwick.

Rana Behal is an associate professor in the department of history at Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi.

Babacar Fall is head of the History and Geography Didactic Department at Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal.