This popular text effectively explains and justifies the use of the sociological imagination to
understand the nature of institutions of work, occupations, organizations, management and …

The bulk of current research on the transformation of modern welfare states has focused on
the issue of retrenchment and, in particular, on how cash-strapped governments have …

At a time where, after decades of progress in gender and sexual rights, people in many parts
of the world are facing new forms of resistance and opposition to gender equality, this timely …

Data sovereignty and security are critical issues in network engineering, particularly in an
era of increasing data breaches and regulatory scrutiny. This concept paper presents a …

This book charts the turbulent history of the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU)
from its foundation in 1913, to its dissolution in 1945. Established to protect and advance the …

Although trade unions were founded to fight for better protection against social risks of
employees in the industrialising period, they seem in today's post-industrial welfare states …

This article examines how different repertoires of women's activism influence gender
earnings equality across countries. We develop a typology of three forms of mobilization …

Women in the developed world expect to work in the labour force over the course of their
lives. On finishing school more girls are entering universities and undertaking professional …

T he ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work'adopted in 1998 could
not be clearer:" the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining" and" the …

In the formative years of the Japanese labor movement after World War II, the socialist
unions affiliated with the General Council of Trade Unions (the labor federation known …