The sociological, economic, political, and anthropological literatures are devoting increasing
attention to globalization. This chapter discusses the various connotations of the term and …

During the early post-war period, Western trade-union movements grew in membership and
achieved an institutionalized role in industrial relations and politics. However, during the last …

Organizations are the dominant social invention for generating resources and distributing
them. Relational Inequalities develops a general sociological and organizational analysis of …

This book examines contemporary changes in labor market institutions in the United States,
Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, focusing on developments in industrial …

Throughout the twentieth century, much of the population in Latin America lacked access to
social protection. Since the 1990s, however, social policy for millions of outsiders-rural …

Trade unions in most of Europe are on the defensive: in recent decades they have lost
membership, sometimes drastically; their collective bargaining power has declined, as has …

What does it mean to grow up today as working-class young adults? How does the
economic and social instability left in the wake of neoliberalism shape their identities, their …

What is the impact of three decades of neoliberal narratives and policies on communities
and individual lives? What are the sources of social resilience? This book offers a sweeping …

In this innovative approach to the practice of social science, Charles Ragin explores the use
of fuzzy sets to bridge the divide between quantitative and qualitative methods …

I offer an institutional theory of corporate social responsibility consisting of a series of
propositions specifying the conditions under which corporations are likely to behave in …