Workplace Flexibility brings together sixteen essays by leading experts in economics, demography, political science, law, sociology, anthropology, and management to make the case for workplace flexibility in business and public policy.

First-hand report on the largest migration in human history.

Presents a collection of candid and intimate conversations with 42 men and women who describe in detail how physical risk is a familiar companion in their working lives, and how they deal with it. This title reveals who these daring people are, what they will endure for a paycheck, and how they feel about their jobs.

A bold new edition of this popular textbook. Including a host of up-to-date examples and greatly improved pedagogy, it will continue to be adopted on courses in sociology and business and management departments worldwide.

Offers an introduction to the key issues, perspectives and debates within the field of medical sociology. This book helps readers understand how sociological approaches are crucial to understanding the impact that health and illness have on the behaviour, attitudes, beliefs, and practices, of an increasingly health-aware population.

Combines a critique of the scientific evidence relating to work stress, with an account of the social, historical and cultural changes that produced this phenomenon. This book employs sociological theories of embodiment, emotions and medicalization to explore the role of subjectivity in mediating the relationship between work and ill health.