Over the past decade, the topic of social class in organizations has enjoyed unexpected growth. However, management researchers lack an in-depth understanding of what we …
With societal inequalities continuing to increase and organizations providing the vast majority of people with their income, we wanted to assess the ways in which organizational …
INtRoduCtIoN in recent decades, significant changes have begun to engulf the employment systems found in virtually all the advanced capitalist nations. These changes have provoked …
In today's new economy—in which “good” jobs are typically knowledge or technology based— many well-educated and culturally savvy young men are instead choosing to pursue …
D Dion, S Borraz - Journal of Marketing, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Although a large body of research has investigated how consumers use goods to signal their status, little is known about how brands manage status. The very few studies that have …
E Hatton - Work, employment and society, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
In the mid-1980s, Daniels coined the term 'invisible work'to characterize those types of women's unpaid labour–housework and volunteer work–which had been culturally and …
Recent efforts to understand the significance of precarious work have been limited in at least two important respects. One is the neglect of the ideological constructs that workers are led …
CL Williams - Gender & Society, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
When women work in male-dominated professions, they encounter a “glass ceiling” that prevents their ascension into the top jobs. Twenty years ago, I introduced the concept of the …
Sociologist Ashley Mears takes us behind the brightly lit runways and glossy advertisements of the fashion industry in this insider's study of the world of modeling. Mears, who worked as …