Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- 2 "Work": A Four Letter Word -- 3 "Second Class Citizens -- 4 Managing Slavs -- 5 Negotiating Research Access -- 6 Managing the Shopfloor -- Chapter One - Power and Subjectivity in Organizations -- 1 Introduction. -- 2...

Kathleen Scanlon Research Fellow LSE London London School of Economics Christine Whitehead Professor of Housing Department of Economics London School of Economics Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia Research Officer LSE London London School of Economics Contributors The contributors are among the...

Architects of Austerity argues that the seeds of neoliberal politics were sown in the 1950s and 1960s. Suggesting that the postwar era was less socially democratic than we think, Aaron Major presents a comparative-historical analysis of economic policy in the United States, the United Kingdom,...

Disadvantaged by where you live? offers a major contribution to academic debates on the neighbourhood both as a sphere of governance and as a point of public service delivery under New Labour since 1997

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE Introduction -- The Mining Imaginary -- Place, Identity, and the Mining Landscape -- Notes -- CHAPTER TWO Toluca -- The Longwall Mining District -- A "Rip-Roaring" Town -- Mine Closure...

Are entrepreneurs essentially the same everywhere? Are the processes of entrepreneurship similar? Or are they shaped by their environments? If so, how? This study brings insights from entrepreneurship to comparative institutions and varieties of capitalism, and vice versa, and draws on two...

The use of child workers was widespread in textile manufacturing by the late eighteenth century. A particularly vital supply of child workers was via the parish apprenticeship trade, whereby pauper children could move from the 'care' of poor law officialdom to the 'care' of early industrial...

One of Australia's most important activists for women's rights, Kath Williams was a trade unionist and a communist before taking on the mantle of feminist after World War II. With a trade unionist ex-husband who was elected to Federal Politics opposing her left wing campaigns, Kath emerged as a...

Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Looking to the Past to Understand the Present -- 2. Let's Talk about Social Power -- 3. Harnessing Power in Late Nineteenth-Century-Early-Twentieth-Century 'Gig Economy' -- 4. Understanding and Using Levers of Power...