This ground-breaking Handbook broadens empirical and theoretical understandings of work, work relations, and workers. It advances a global, intersectional labour studies agenda, laying the foundations for the politically emancipatory project of decolonising the political economy of work. Moving beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries, this Handbook provides a comprehensive account of the relations between different forms of work, exploitation, class configuration and worker resistance. With insights from global experts across the social sciences, it examines changes in technology, geographies of production, and the dynamics of the global capitalist political economy to map modern configurations of work. Using ongoing empirical qualitative research, contributors explore key issues such as capital accumulation, migration, digital work, trade unionism and reproductive labour. There is a particular focus on perspectives from the Global South, with in-depth analyses of class and work in countries and regional economic blocs used to explore the dynamics between the local and the global. Providing an authoritative overview of traditional and current debates, this Handbook will be an essential resource for students and researchers of political economy, industrial relations and the sociology of work, critical management studies, social movement studies, and development.

This book uses a range of interpretive approaches to reveal the dynamics of service users' and professionals' individual experiences and life-worlds. From their research the contributors show how biographical methods can improve theoretical understanding of professional practice, as well as enrich the learning and development of professionals, and promote more meaningful and creative practitioner - service user relationships. The book: * reviews applications of biographical methods in both policy and practice in a range of professional contexts, from health and social care to education and employment; * explores the impact of social change in three main arenas - transformation from Eastern to Western types of society in Europe, major shifts in social and welfare principles, experiences of immigration and of new cultural diversities - on professional practice; * critically evaluates subjective and reflexive processes in interactions between researchers, practitioners and users of services; * considers the institutional arrangements and cultural contexts which support effective and sensitive interventions; * draws on actual projects and tracks reflection, progress and outcomes. With contributions from leading international experts, it provides a valuable comparative perspective. Researchers, policy analysts and practitioners, postgraduate students, teachers and trainers will find this book a stimulating read.

The discussion on new forms of non-privileged self-employment of women and minorities is usually divided into separate discourses on women's opportunities on the one hand and ethnic business on the other. The focus in the discussion about the special resources of migrant entrepreneurship has been above all on the assumed collective traditions of ethnic business and not on the individual emancipative resources of the self-employed. This book has brought the two discourses together. While women and migrants are most vulnerable to social exclusion on the labour market, at the same time they are subjects of unrecognized resources for self-employment that have to be taken into account under the special conditions of social citizenship policies in the European Union.

Der Blick auf Tradition ist in der in Bewegung geratenen Geschichte nach dem Ende des Kalten Krieges, der Neukonstitution Europas und der universalen Globalisierung weniger ein Blick auf Konserviertes oder UEberkommenes, sondern ein ploetzliches Innewerden der "Notwendigkeit des steten Tradierens der akkumulierten Kulturguter" und damit auch auf die Moeglichkeit fur einen "neuartigen" Zugang neuer Kulturtrager (im Sinne Karl Mannheims). Dies bedingen nicht nur der kontinuierliche Generationenwechsel und das Auf- und Absteigen neuer sozialer Gruppen, die den Prozess des Tradierens zu allen Zeiten pragten, sondern vor allem die seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg andauernden und sich verandernden Migrationsprozesse.

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is one of the major social and political theorists of the 20th century whose work has had an enormous influence on several fields, including educational theory and practice. Gramsci and Education demonstrates the relevance of Antonio Gramsci's thought for contemporary educational debates. The essays are written by scholars located in different parts of the world, a number of whom are well known internationally for their contributions to Gramscian scholarship and/or educational research. The collection deals with a broad range of topics, including schooling, adult education in general, popular education, workers' education, cultural studies, critical pedagogy, multicultural education, and the role of intellectuals in contemporary society.