Das Forschungsvolumen von arbeitnehmernaher Forschung war zwischen 1970 und 2003 zwar konstant, verteilte sich aber auf immer mehr Projekte und mehr Themen. Die Forschungsbedingungen verschlechterten sich: Die Forschungsprojekte waren im Laufe der Zeit mit immer weniger wissenschaftlichem...

Acknowledgements -- Foreword looking back in order to look forward / Ken Roberts -- Understanding the changing youth labour market -- From the "golden age" to neo-liberalism -- The great transformation and the punitive turn -- Towards a new normality : work and unemployment in contemporary...

This book is situated in the nexus between technology, labour and politics. It focuses on contradictions as heuristic devices that uncover struggles, frictions and ambiguities of digitalization in work and labour environments. Topics include contradictions in automation, internet platforms,...

Getting to know the autonomic self -- Labour processes from industrial betterment to agility : mind, body, machine -- Precarity 4.0 : a political economy of new materialism and the quantified worker -- Unseen labour and all-of-life surveillance -- Meet some self-trackers -- Robot army of redressers?

"Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforce--young adults, parents, formerly incarcerated people, retirees. Walmart also presents one possible future of work--Walmartism--in which the arbitrary authority of managers mixes with a...

"'Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world?' David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative online essay titled On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs. He defined a bullshit job as 'a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious...

Die Studie präsentiert eine Übersicht zu Forschungsarbeiten von Arbeits- und Beschäftigungsbedingungen von Arbeitnehmern im Fokus von Forschern, Forschungsorganisationen und Forschungsförderern im Zeitraum von 1970 bis 2003 und zeigt somit die Entwicklung der Forschung über Arbeitnehmer....

1. Work and Livelihoods: An Introduction -- Section I. Past, Present and Future: Generations in Times of Crisis -- 2. Lost Generations? Unemployment, Migration and New Knowledge Regimes in Post EU Poland -- 3. Credentialism and Recommendations: The Bases of the Reproduction of the Metallurgical...

Introduction. Men and Masculinities in the International Division of Reproductive Labour -- Migrant Men in Europe and Beyond: Historical and Sociological Perspectives -- Gender, Racism and Migrant Reproductive Labour in Italy and Europe -- Migrant Men Doing 'Women's Work -- Masculinities and...