Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Work, Professions and Organisations
About the Book Series
This series presents the latest sociological and social scientific research on professions, work and organisations, welcoming studies of careers, professional motivations, organisational change, entrepreneurship, workplace issues, working lives and identities, labour relations and the transformation of work in a changing economy.
Workers Without Companies: Towards a New Way of Working
1st Edition
By Sylvie Célérier, Alberto Riesco-Sanz
September 22, 2025
Workers Without Companies contributes to the debate on the future of work in a productive landscape that is now global, while ways of working diversify at an unprecedented pace. Faced with several decades of mass unemployment in Europe and the activation of self-employment—especially through ...
Scrutinising Polarisation: Patterns and Consequences of Occupational Transformation in the Swedish Labour Market
1st Edition
Edited
By Tomas Berglund, Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson
August 29, 2025
This book scrutinises polarisation in Sweden, identifying patterns and variations in labour market transformation and exploring the consequences in terms of jobs, income, prestige, unionization and employment security, as well as the effects on different social groups. Through a series of empirical...
Governing Street-Level Bureaucracies: The Organizational Shaping of Caseworkers
1st Edition
By Kerstin Jacobsson, Håkan Johansson
April 22, 2025
This book examines how caseworkers are governed in today’s street-level bureaucracies. It redefines our understanding of public sector governance by highlighting the subtle, informal, and everyday forms of organizational governance that shape caseworkers’ subjectivities beyond formal policies and ...
The Kibbutz Industry: Cultural, Structural and Business Strategy Design
1st Edition
By Yaffa Moskovich
October 09, 2024
This book examines the changes in many kibbutz factories which have recently transformed from socialist entities, with egalitarian and cooperative relationships, to hierarchical and market-driven structures. Focusing on five case studies from an ethnographic perspective, the book explores the ...
Transforming Subjectivities: Studies in Human Malleability in Contemporary Times
1st Edition
Edited
By Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand, Kerstin Jacobsson
January 29, 2024
This volume examines the transformation of subjectivities following contemporary societal trends with regulatory and administrative authorities targeting human subjectivity with the aim to transform it. It addresses the malleability of human subjectivity through rich qualitative analyses of how ...
Hidden Attractions of Administration: The Peculiar Appeal of Meetings and Documents
1st Edition
By Malin Åkerström, Katarina Jacobsson, Erika Andersson Cederholm, David Wästerfors
January 09, 2023
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003108436, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This book argues that the expansion of administrative activities in today’s working life is ...
The Construction Precariat: Dependence, Domination and Labour in Dhaka
1st Edition
By Selim Reza
May 06, 2022
Positioned within the discourse of neoliberalism and precarious work, this book draws on Guy Standing’s notion of "the precariat" in an examination of the role of recruiting individuals as the key actors in labour recruitment and management practices that produce precarious work conditions. Based ...
Identity, Motivation and Memory: The Role of History in the British and German Forces
1st Edition
By Sarah Kayss
January 14, 2020
This book explores the connection between British and German officer cadets’ perceptions of the past and their motivations for enlisting in the military forces in the United Kingdom and Germany. Drawing upon qualitative interviews and survey data conducted at officers’ academies in the UK and ...
Working Lives and in-House Outsourcing: Chewed-Up by Two Masters
1st Edition
By Jacqueline Zalewski
January 14, 2020
This book offers a sociological account of the process by which companies instituted and continue to institute outsourcing in their organization. Drawing on qualitative data, it examines the ways in which internal outsourcing in the information technologies and human resources professions ...