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\"Since the 1970s, the closure of mines, mills, and factories has marked a rupture in working-class lives. The Deindustrialized World interrogates the process of industrial ruination, from the first impact of layoffs in metropolitan cities, suburban areas, and single-industry towns to the shock waves that rippled outward, affecting entire regions, countries, and beyond. Scholars from five nations share personal stories of ruin and ruination and ask others what it means to be working class in a postindustrial world. Together, they open a window on the lived experiences of people living at ground zero of deindustrialization, revealing its layered impacts and examining how workers, environmentalists, activists, and the state have responded to its challenges.\"-- Provided by publisher.

In Capitalism's Future: Alienation, Emancipation and Critique, sociologists, philosophers and cultural theorists critique economic and political dynamics of contemporary capitalism. An agenda for 21st century critical social theory emerges in conjoined critique of political economyand critique of political psychology.

The concepts of social networks, social capital and trust play an increasingly central role in the social sciences. They have become indispensable conceptual tools for the analysis of post-industrial/late-modern societies, which are characterized by such features as the relative decline of formal hierarchies, the development of flexible social arrangements in the sphere of production and the extreme mobility of capital. This is the first book to study the interrelationships between these important concepts both theoretically and empirically. Drawing on empirical investigations from a range of diverse European social contexts, the contributors develop an economic sociology that builds on and extends established theoretical perspectives. The book opens with an introduction to the theoretical ideas: relating social capital to reciprocity, trust and social networks in line with current debates. The authors go on to discuss the concept of social embededdness, addressing the economic effects of social capital by examining the network and trust foundations of labour markets and investigating the structural limits of trusting networks. They conclude with an exploration of the impact of networking and the functioning of trust and social capital on the economic arrangements and performance of nascent capitalist economies in post-Communist Europe. This thematically unified collection by a team of distinguished contributors from across Europe provides an innovative and distinctive contribution to an expanding area of research. Contents: Theoretical Investigations: Introduction, Sokratis M. Koniordos; From Charis to Antidosis: The reciprocity thesis revisited, Rafael Marques; The ’Network Ethic’ and the new spirit of capitalism in French sociology of capitalism, Søren Jagd; Social capital, trust and dependency, Anne Kovalainen. Investigations of Embeddedness: The social foundations of labour markets: foreign immigration in Portugal, João Peixoto; Social networks, collective action and public policy: the embeddedness idea reconsidered, Filippo Barbera; The insignificance of weak social ties and the uselessness of strong ones (with two case-histories of low-income families in Naples), Enrica Morlicchio; Informal support networks in the making of small independent businesses: beyond ’Strong’ and ’Weak’ ties?, Sokratis M. Koniordos. Investigations of Eastern European Capitalism: Informal institutional arrangements and tax evasion in Russian economy, Vadim Radaev; Security, trust, and cultural resources: Hungarian manufacturing enterprises in the post-socialist transformation, György Lengyel and Béla Janky; Young entrepreneurs in the new market economies: cultural and social capital as a basis for economic capital, Jochen Tholen; Social capital and economic performance in post-communist societies, Christian W. Haerpfer, Claire Wallace and Martin Raiser; Name index; Subject index. Sokratis M. Koniordos is Assistant Professor in Economic Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Crete, Greece.

Cover -- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD -- Research on Chinese school of modern GUANLI science -- Critical management issues in China's socio-economic transformation -- Cost-benefit analysis for regenerative energy storage in metro -- Environmental risk perception and its influence on well-being -- The contribution of environmental regulation to technological innovation and quality competitiveness -- How middle managers' participation in decision-making influences firm innovation performance -- No advertising, but more sponsorship? -- Policy support for own-brand innovation in China's auto industry: panacea or placebo? -- The performance effect of micro-innovation in SMEs: evidence from China -- How China's manufacturers achieve technological catch-up -- The exploration study of cognitive styles for Taiwan University graduates' job hunting in Mainland China -- Chinese corporations' conception of sustainable development: an innovative view of corpus analysis.

This series is dedicated to an understanding of `cultural studies′ as an interdisciplinary project concerned with the analysis of meaning. It focuses attention on the importance of the contemporary `cultural turn′ in forging a rethink of the centrality of `the cultural′ and the articulation between the material and the symbolic.

Globalisation, the shift from manufacturing to services as a source of employment, and the spread of information-based systems and technologies have given birth to a new economy, which emphasises flexibility in the labour market and in employment relations. These changes have led to the erosion of the standard (industrial) employment relationship and an increase in precarious work - work which is poorly paid and insecure. Women perform a disproportionate amount of precarious work. This collection of original essays by leading scholars on labour law and women's work explores the relationship between precarious work and gender, and evaluates the extent to which the growth and spread of precarious work challenges traditional norms of labour law and conventional forms of legal regulation.The book provides a comparative perspective by furnishing case studies from Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Quebec, Sweden, the UK, and the US, as well as the international and supranational context through essays that focus on the IMF, the ILO, and the EU. Common themes and concepts thread throughout the essays, which grapple with the legal and public policy challenges posed by women's precarious work.

This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to the issue of \"local liabilities\", drawing on close analysis of the case of Chinese migrants and the Italian industrial district of Prato in order to elucidate the problems, or liabilities, that derive from the separation between natives and immigrants in local systems of people and firms.

Intergenerational Equity: Environmental and Cultural Concerns tackles intergenerational equity from various perspectives with a view to understanding what is fair and/or just within and among generations.

Can there be such a thing as a European sociology of law? The uncertainties which arise when attempting to answer that straightforward question are the subject of this book, which also overlaps into comparative law, legal history, and legal philosophy. The richness of approaches reflected in the essays (including comparisons with the US) makes this volume a courageous attempt to show the present state of socio- legal studies in Europe and map directions for its future development.