The term ‘wasta’ stems from the Arabic root for ‘middle’ or ‘medium' and describes the phenomenon of using ‘connections’ to find job, government services or other favors to circumvent bureaucracy or bypass the system as a whole. The effects of ‘wasta’ may be both positive or...

Wenn Dienstleistungsarbeit - in Fourastiés Worten - "die große Hoffnung des 20. Jahrhunderts" war, wie verhält es sich dann im 21. Jahrhundert? Rechtfertigt es noch größere Hoffnungen, oder bringt es die große Enttäuschung? Die Beiträge dieses Bandes plädieren dafür, auf säkulare...

This handbook provides an overview of the research on the changing nature of work and workers by marshalling interdisciplinary research to summarize the empirical evidence and provide documentation of what has actually changed. Connections are explored between the changing nature of work and...

"Public health officials in Finland called occupational burnout a hazard of the new economy. A quick glance at the history of labor reveals how every economic regime comes with its own forms of dis-ease. This book, based on fieldwork in Finland, rethinks welfare and the political economy's...

The New Ideal Worker: Introduction -- Hope for the (New) Ideal Worker: Resolving the Flexibility-Availability Paradox -- Fathers’ Working Times in Germany: The Role of the Ideal Worker Norm in the Context of Other Cultural and Structural Workplace Conditions -- A Closer Look to Millennials in...