Looking beyond the shiny surface of Potsdamer Platz, a designer micro-city within Berlin's city center, this book goes behind-the-scenes with the cleaners who pick up cigarette butts from sidewalks, scrape chewing gum from marble floors, wipe coffee stains from office desks and scrub public...

The corporate micro-city Potsdamer Platz: cleaners' presence from below -- Characters from the corporate underworld: Alex, Ali, Luisa, and Marcel -- From feces to flowers: the sweat, shame, disgust, pride and fun of working with dirt -- Separate in the same boat: others and allies among cleaners...

This book brings together current research on stigma, stigma management, and stigma theory as applied to business and management at the micro, meso, and macro levels. It provides a comprehensive perspective of the literature on stigmas and is relevant to those working in organizational behavior,...

Die Auto- und Zulieferindustrie in Deutschland steht unter enormem Veränderungsdruck. Dabei zeichnet sich ab, dass Produktionsbedingungen und Arbeitsbeziehungen einen grundlegenden Wandel erfahren. Welche Richtung diese Transformation einschlägt, hängt jedoch auch vom Einfluss und der...