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  • Critical Social Theory and the End of Work

    by Edward Granter ...
    Critical Social Theory and the End of Work examines the development and sociological significance of the idea that work is being eliminated through the use of advanced production technology.Granter’s engagement with the work of key American and European figures such as Marx, Marcuse, Gorz, Habermas and Negri, focuses his arguments for the abolition of labour as a response to the current socio ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Blockchain and Supply Chain Management

    The Five Paradoxes in Organisations

    by Paul Bebbington, Edward Granter, John Hassard ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
    This book offers a distinctive and evidence- based examination of why blockchain technology has not achieved the transformative impact in supply chain management that many anticipated. Drawing on extensive fieldwork with technology and supply chain executives across the logistics, food, and pharmaceutical sectors, it develops a novel analytical framework based on sociomateriality, affordance ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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  • The Sociology of Work

    Continuity and Change in Paid and Unpaid Work

    by Stephen Edgell, Edward Granter ...
    ‘Definitive, critical and engaging, this is a superb introduction to the sociology of work.’ Leo McCannNow in a fully updated third edition, The Sociology of Work draws on the work of classic and contemporary theorists, to provide readers with a thorough exploration of all aspects of work and employment, including paid and unpaid work, standard and non-standard employment, and unemployment.The new ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Elgar Encyclopedia of Critical Management Studies

    Edited by Leo McCann, Ödül Bozkurt, Rachael Finn, Edward Granter, Carolyn Hunter, Nina Kivinen, Arun Kumar, Brian Wierman ...
    Series series Elgar Encyclopedias in Business and Management series
    This expansive Encyclopedia provides a detailed overview of Critical Management Studies (CMS). This exciting and iconoclastic area of research and scholarship has had a major impact on the academic field of business and management studies, opening up possibilities for exploring radical and liberatory ideas in the often conservative and technicist realm of business school education. Covering many ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment

    Edited by Heidi Gottfried, Stephen Edgell, Edward Granter ...
    The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment is a landmark collection of original contributions by leading specialists from around the world.The coverage is both comprehensive and comparative (in terms of time and space) and each ‘state of the art’ chapter provides a critical review of the literature combined with some thoughts on the direction of research. This authoritative text is ... Read more

    $147.99 CAD

  • Deconstructing the Welfare State

    Managing Healthcare in the Age of Reform

    by Paula Hyde, Edward Granter, John Hassard, Leo McCann ...
    Who are NHS middle managers? What do they do, and why and how do they do it’?This book explores the daily realities of working life for middle managers in the UK’s National Health Service during a time of radical change and disruption to the entire edifice of publicly-funded healthcare. It is an empirical critique of the movement towards a healthcare model based around HMO-type providers such as ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

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    Culture and Politics After Neoliberalism

    by Nick Couldry ...
    One of the best books I have read in years about what it means to engage neoliberalism through a critical framework that highlights those narratives and stories that affirm both our humanity and our longing for justice. It should be read by everyone concerned with what it might mean to not only dream about democracy but to engage it as a lived experience and political possibility.- Henry Giroux, ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Publics, Politics and Power

    Remaking the Public in Public Services

    by Janet E Newman, John H. Clarke ...
    Very stimulating and intellectually exciting. In fact, I think it is one of the best books I have read for a long time. - Professor Carsten Greve, International centre for Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business SchoolPublicness appears to be in decline or retreat in the face of markets, consumerism and individualism. Yet questions of public participation, public governance and the reform ... Read more

    $99.99 CAD

  • Managing Modernity

    Beyond Bureaucracy?

    Edited by Stewart R. Clegg, Martin Harris, Harro Höpfl ...
    Bureaucracy has long been a cornerstone of advanced industrial societies, and a defining feature of modernity. At the same time, many commentators from all quarters argue that it is on the wane in this post-this or that world; or that if it isn't, it should be dismantled to free up organizations, enterprise, and innovation. But do we live in a more or less bureaucratic world? Do contemporary forms ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Impact and Future of Arts and Humanities Research

    by Paul Benneworth, Magnus Gulbrandsen, Ellen Hazelkorn ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Drawing on original international research by a cross-European social science team, this book makes an important contribution to the discussion about the future of arts and humanities research. It explores the responses of these fields to the growing range of questions being asked about the value, impact and benefit of publicly-funded research. The objective is to better understand what really ... Read more

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  • Liberalism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Freeden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Liberalism is one of the most central and pervasive political theories and ideologies, yet it is subject to different interpretations as well as misappropriations. Its history carries a crucial heritage of civilized thinking, of political practice, and of philosophical-ethical creativity. This Very Short Introduction unpacks the concept of liberalism and its various interpretations through three ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Knowledge Sharing Strategies for Large Complex Building Projects

    by Esra Bektas ...
    This volume of A+BE examines the current extent of knowledge sharing between actors who form design teams of Large Complex Building Projects (LCBPs), the problems that limited knowledge sharing causes in such projects. As part of this analysis I compare deliberately designed and emerging project-specific Knowledge Sharing Strategies (KSS). Based on this analysis, it proposes an approach how to ... Read more

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