Return Migration Decision Making: Theoretical Considerations -- Chinese Migration to Japan: Then and Now -- A Conceptualization of (Locational) Decision-Making Processes -- Impact of Career, Family and Lifestyle Factors on Migrants’ Locational Decisions. .Ruth Achenbach develops a model of individual return migration decision making, which examines both the process and the decisive factors in…
Chapter 1: Content and scope -- Chapter 2: Working lives of men aged 60 and older; Chapter 3: Working lives of men aged 45–60 -- Chapter 4 Working lives of men aged 45 and younger -- Chapter 5: Old age fears or concerns -- Chapter 6: Old age plans -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- .This book examines the working lives, retirement plans, and old age experiences of three generations of gay men born 1…
Preamble: ‘Look at me’ -- 1 Healthy Volunteering: The Concept of Volunteering in Phase I Clinical drug trials in the UK -- 2 Risk, Rewards and Rational Consent in Healthy Volunteering -- 3 Risk, Motivation and Decision Making in Everyday life: A Phenomenological Approach -- 4 Who takes part in clinical drug trials? -- 5 ‘Context is Everything’: - The Reality of Becoming a Human Guinea P…
Development of an historical account to explain change in social mobility -- Critical review of the main conceptualizations of social stratification -- Conceptualization, test and application of a new class scheme -- In-depth analysis of absolute and relative mobility in Germany and the U.S. -- Comparison of social mobility chances in the U.S. and Germany. .Based on a novel class scheme and a u…
The era of a 'slow-paced' academia characterized by leisurely tempos of research and pedagogy has gone. Academia is now an intensely social site, and the boundaries between capitalist dynamics and academic life have become blurred. Academic workloads are increasing as academics have to deal with an ever-growing number of tasks, information, obligations, texts, procedures and connections. Yet th…
Palgrave Critical Universities Studies Series Editor: John Smyth, University of Hudderfield, UK This book explores how the kinds of world-wide restructurings of higher education and research work that are underway today have not only increased employment insecurity in academia but may actually be producing unemployment both for those within academia and for graduate job-seekers in other sectors…
1. Introduction: Work, Poverty, and Capitalism -- 2. Marginality Reconsidered -- 3. Homeless Street Press: Historical and Contemporary Connections -- 4. Time is Money -- 5. Being Productive: Working, Not Begging -- 6. Learning to Entrepreneurially Labour -- 7. Working in Public: Value, Exchange, and Performance -- 8. Moving On?: Pathways, Aspirations, and Stasis -- 9. Epilogue: Enterprise on th…
This book reinvigorates the debate about the origins and development of police culture within our changing social, economic and political landscape. An in-depth analysis and appreciation of the literature surrounding police socialisation, identity and culture is combined with a comprehensive four-year longitudinal study of new recruits to a police force in England. The result offers new insight…
Introduction: The Subterranean Stream -- 1. Communicative Capitalism and Call Centre Labour -- 2. Labour's Resistance in the Call Centre -- 3. The Making of the Call Centre Cybertariat -- 4. The Migration of Struggle -- 5. The Organization of Autonomy -- 6. The Making and the Unmaking of the Global Call Centre Workforce.This book examines the striking rise of call centres over the past quarter …
This book examines patterns of political engagement of long-term unemployed youth. The authors show how unemployment affects the personal, social, and political life of young people. Focusing on the case of Geneva in Switzerland, the study shows the importance of socioeconomic, relational, psychological, and institutional resources for the political engagement of unemployed youth. The book show…