Globalization and Social Change takes a refreshing new perspective on globalization and
widening social and spatial inequalities. Diane Perrons draws on ideas about the new …

In this, and the following chapter, we are concerned with the overarching and broadly-
defined concept of organizational life, and focus on two core themes. In the present chapter …

Taking a critical perspective, Skill, Training and Human Resource Development focuses on
the way people are developed at work; the skills that are encouraged, the way they are …

The interaction of higher education with other stakeholder groups (industry, communities
and regulatory bodies) in scaling up the activities of informal enterprises has been largely …

This article investigates the relationship between spatial mobility and the labour process,
developing a typology of 'mobile work'. Working while mobile is a largely white-collar (and …

Gender mainstreaming now forms part of many national and supranational policies and is
mandatory in development projects such as those financed by the EU structural funds and …

The growth of agency work in recent years has posed a challenge to trade unions, which
must decide if they will accept agency workers as part of their constituency and accept …

Purpose–To examine the experience of agency employment for workers and employers' use
of agency workers in Britain to evaluate competing claims made about this form of work …

There is little agreement over what the 'new economy'is: its size, in financial and
employment terms; its impact on the work men and women do inside and outside of the …

Medical tourism is nothing new for certain develop and developing countries. This industry is
a good money generator to help economic growth and balance of payment of a country. This …