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  • The New Political Sociology

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  • The Cambridge International Handbook of Lean Production

    Diverging Theories and New Industries around the World

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    This handbook focuses on two sides of the lean production debate that rarely interact. On the one hand, management and industrial engineering scholars have presented a positive view of lean production as the epitome of efficiency and quality. On the other hand, sociology, industrial relations, and labor relations scholars focus on work speedups, management by stress, trade union positions, and ... Leer más

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  • Framing and Managing Lean Organizations in the New Economy

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  • The Causes of Structural Unemployment

    Four Factors that Keep People from the Jobs they Deserve

    Series series Work & Society
    There is a specter haunting advanced industrial countries: structural unemployment. Recent years have seen growing concern over declining jobs, and though corporate profits have picked up after the Great Recession of 2008, jobs have not. It is possible that “jobless recoveries” could become a permanent feature of Western economies.This illuminating book focuses on the employment futures of ... Leer más

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  • Theorizing Chinese Citizenship

    Series series Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
    This volume theorizes the concept of citizenship in contemporary China by probing into the formation of Chinese citizenship and synthesizing the practices of citizenship by different social groups. The first section, “Imagining Chinese Citizenship,” analyses how Chinese citizenship was first imagined by means of translation and education at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Chinese ... Leer más

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  • Strategies for Success among African-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans

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    How can African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans from the former British colonies be so different in their approaches toward social mobility? Chrystal Y. Grey and Thomas Janoski state that this is because native blacks grow up as “strangers” in their own country and immigrants from the English-speaking Caribbean are conversely part of “the dominant group.” Unlike previous research that compares ... Leer más

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  • The New Handbook of Political Sociology

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  • The Ironies of Citizenship

    Naturalization and Integration in Industrialized Countries

    Explanations of naturalization and jus soli citizenship have relied on cultural, convergence, racialization, or capture theories, and they tend to be strongly affected by the literature on immigration. This study of naturalization breaks with the usual immigration theories and proposes an approach over centuries and decades toward explaining naturalization rates. First, it provides consistent ... Leer más

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