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Author: Siobhan Austen Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 9781781009680 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 172
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Attempting to define the meaning of culture and the nature of its possible consequences on economic processes and outcomes, this book examines alternative theoretical and empirical approaches to the economic analysis of cultural effects in the labour market. Using extensive new data from 14 countries, this book presents tangible evidence of substantial cross-cultural differences in beliefs about wage inequality.
Author: Siobhan Austen Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 9781781009680 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 172
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Attempting to define the meaning of culture and the nature of its possible consequences on economic processes and outcomes, this book examines alternative theoretical and empirical approaches to the economic analysis of cultural effects in the labour market. Using extensive new data from 14 countries, this book presents tangible evidence of substantial cross-cultural differences in beliefs about wage inequality.
Author: Daniel J. Walkowitz Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350078336 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 232
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Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities Changes in production and consumption fundamentally transformed the culture of work in the industrial world during the century after World War I. In the aftermath of the war, the drive to create new markets and rationalize work management engaged new strategies of advertising and scientific management, deploying new workforces increasingly tied to consumption rather than production. These changes affected both the culture of the workplace and the home, as the gendered family economy of the modern worker struggled with the vagaries of a changing gendered labour market and the inequalities that accompanied them. This volume draws on illustrative cases to highlight the uneven development of the modern culture of work over the course of the long 20th century. A Cultural History of Work in the Modern Age presents an overview of the period with essays on economies, representations of work, workplaces, work cultures, technology, mobility, society, politics and leisure.
Author: Birgit Pfau-Effinger Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351944711 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 225
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This refreshing volume introduces a theory for explaining cross-national differences in the social practice of women (and men) in the areas of family and employment. This provides a theoretical framework for the ensuing comprehensive cross-national analysis of the degree and forms of labour market integration of women in three European countries - Finland, West Germany and the Netherlands - from the 1950s until 2000. Cross-national differences are explained with a focus on cultural change and the development of welfare state, labour markets, the family and social movements. It is evident that change took place along different development paths that were based on deep-rooted historical differences in the cultural ideals of the family. Such historical differences and their explanations also form part of the analysis. The results of this survey contribute to the further development of cross-national sociology on social change, social and gender inequality, welfare state, labour markets and family structures.
Author: Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 366892516X Category : Business & Economics Languages : de Pages : 21
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Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich VWL - Arbeitsmarktökonomik, Note: 2,0, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: This research paper deals with the current situation on the labour market. Furthermore it will show how corporate culture is designed nowadays to meet the demands of employees. To get a first impression the first chapter will introduce the topic. Further the goal and the construction of the research paper are clarified in that chapter. The second chapter will give an overview about the current situation on the labour market. The goal is to explain the topic in detail and reflect factors that have changed. Few of the many are the lack of specialists, the demographic change and the change of values. Chapter three will illustrate the corporate culture starting with its defintion. Afterwards different parts of corporate culture will be examined and described such as how a company can create a workspace and work atmosphere that will attract employees. This includes flexible work time models, diversity management, culture of learning and team work. The research paper ends with chapter four which sums up the most important findings of this document. The economy is booming, the unemployment rate is lower than ever before, we are becoming more mobile, the labour markets are more transparent and more global, the values are shifting and the demographic change can no longer be averted. At the same time products are becoming more interchangeable and people with special abilities and creative ideas are becoming an increasingly important sucess factor. The economy is in transition. But where does this change lead to? All these factors cause that companies are struggling to find employees and need to change their corportate culture. Especially for skilled employees and executives the competition is becoming more and more important and tougher. The balance of the power in the labour market has changed. While companies could choose their employees in the past, employees can now choose which company they want to work for. Companies must adapt to these new conditions and present themselves as an attractive employer. To achieve this, small measures such as employee benefits are no longer sufficient, but the entire corporate culture must be questioned and reorientated.
Author: Paul Corrigan Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1349212555 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 202
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Focusing on labour as a cultural phenomenon rather than an economic force, this book offers an assessment of the current situation and an exploration of the policy implications of theoretical conclusions. The authors have also written "Striking Out: Social Work and Trade Unionism, 1970-1985".
Author: Mark Banks Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134083513 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 222
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In recent years, cultural work has engaged the interest of scholars from a broad range of social science and humanities disciplines. The debate in this ‘turn to cultural work’ has largely been based around evaluating its advantages and disadvantages: its freedoms and its constraints, its informal but precarious nature, the inequalities within its global workforce, and the blurring of work–life boundaries leading to ‘self-exploitation’. While academic critics have persuasively challenged more optimistic accounts of ‘converged’ worlds of creative production, the critical debate on cultural work has itself leant heavily towards suggesting a profoundly new confluence of forces and effects. Theorizing Cultural Work instead views cultural work through a specifically historicized and temporal lens, to ask: what novelty can we actually attach to current conditions, and precisely what relation does cultural work have to social precedent? The contributors to this volume also explore current transformations and future(s) of work within the cultural and creative industries as they move into an uncertain future. This book challenges more affirmative and proselytising industry and academic perspectives, and the pervasive cult of novelty that surrounds them, to locate cultural work as an historically and geographically situated process. It will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, cultural studies, human geography, urban studies and industrial relations, as well as management and business studies, cultural and economic policy and development, government and planning.
Author: Karen Robson Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1402094507 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 235
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Pierre Bourdieu’s contributions to the theory and practice of social research are far reaching. Possibly the most prominent sociologist in recent times, his work has touched on a myriad of topics and has influenced scholars in multiple disciplines. Throughout Bourdieu’s work, emphasis is placed on the linkage between the practice of social research and its relationship to social theory. This book honours Bourdieu’s commitment to the inextricable relationship between social theory and research in social science. In this volume, authors from all over the world utilize key concepts coined by Bourdieu, specifically his concept of capitals, habitus, and the field, and attempt to test them using quantitative survey data. The focus of this volume is how researchers can take key elements of Bourdieu’s work and apply them to the analysis of quantitative data on a variety of topics. Throughout the volume, issues of the possible interpretations of concepts and measurement validity are focused upon in a language that can be appreciated by new and experienced researchers alike. This volume is useful for courses where the linkage between theory and research is emphasized, at both the upper undergraduate and general postgraduate level. In addition to serving as a teaching tool, the articles within the volume will be invaluable to any scholar interested in working with Bourdieu’s concepts in quantitative research.
Author: Alexia Cameron Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 9780815380047 Category : Bars (Drinking establishments) Languages : en Pages : 0
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What does it mean to work in the 'hip' postmodern economy? This book develops the concept of 'affected labour' within Melbourne, Australia. Through the lens of café and bar culture, the book provides an ethnographic investigation into the ways that affect arises, circulates, sticks and dissipates over the course of everyday encounters. The dynamics and atmospheres of affective labour among those working in the hospitality-oriented environments are unfolded. Service work is rooted in the notion that labour is 'performed' by an exhausted worker for a demanding customer. This book goes beyond this idea by describing the way not only consumers are moved by the experience and seduced by the atmosphere, but more pressingly workers and employers. This book reveals the ways in which workers themselves are capitalised on by being affected pleasurably in the moment, fuelling an economy of short-term desires in which 'affected labourers' are manipulated.
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