This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the world of consumption, covering different topics and including sociological, economic and marketing aspects. The term ‘consumption’ is vague and even in academic disciplines the term is used in a variety of ways. Consumption research asks...

1. Introduction: Political Economy of Globalization -- 2. Transformation of Labour Market and Gender Patterns of Work -- 3. Homeworkers in Global Supply Chains: Issues and Controversies -- 4. CSR and Home-Based Work: Conceptualizing Social Responsibility in Global Market Economy -- 5. Dilemmas...

1. Introduction -- 2. Social Inequality and the Plurality of Life-Styles -- 3. Inequality Processes and Vertical Social Stratification -- 4. Social Network Analysis and the Sociology of Economics -- 5. From Heterodoxy to Orthodoxy and Vice Versa -- 6. The Order of Social Sciences -- 7. Bounded...