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Product Description: The advent of transnational economic production and market integration compels sociologists of work to look beyond traditional national boundaries and build an international sociology of work in order to effectively address the human, scientific, and practical challenges posed by global economic transnationalism...read more

Workers, Managers, and Technological Change: Emerging Patterns of Labor Relations contributes significantly to an important subject. Technological change is one of the most powerful forces transforming the American industrial relations In fact, the synergistic relationships between technology and indus­ system. trial relations are so complex that they are not well or completely understood. We know that the impact of technology, while not independent of social forces, already has been profound: it has transformed occupations, creating new skills and destroying others; altered the power relationships between workers and managers; and changed the way workers learn and work. Tech­ nology also has made it possible to decentralize some economic activities out of large metropolitan areas and into small towns, rural areas, and other coun­ tries. Most important, information technology makes it possible for interna­ tional corporations to operate on a global basis. Indeed, some international corporations, especially those based in the United States, are losing their national identities, detaching the welfare of corporations from that of particu­ lar workers and communities. Internationalization, facilitated by information technology, has trans­ formed industrial relations systems. A major objective of the traditional American industrial relations system was to take labor out of competition.

Product Description: What are the contemporary trends in workplace restructuring and the sociological impact on workers? lives? Around what concepts will work be organized and groups and individuals motivated in their work into the new century?To give you definition and answers to these contemporary questions, the editors of the sociological quarterly, Work and Occupations, assembled Working in Restructured Workplaces...read more

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Product Description: The `juggling act' of work and family has become a significant focus of those interested in the social condition. This book looks at the varied ways time influences work and family processes and considers the social policy implications that inhere. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Stern, Robert N., Cornfield, Daniel B.

Product Description: American labor unions resemble private representative democracies, complete with formally constituted conventions and officer election procedures. Like other democratic institutions, unions have repeatedly experienced highly charged conflicts over the integration of ethnic minorities and women into leadership positions...read more