A long-term study providing rare insights into the precarious careers and ordinary working culture of professional footballers, away from the unreal and short-lived glamour of the media glare.

The book examines changes in workers’ attitudes towards their management’s and unions in electronics plants in eleven countries, capitalists and (ex) socialist between 1984 and 1996. Based on original field…

Explores the nature of Buddha’s enlightenment and the meaning of Buddhist symbolism, discussing the relationship between Buddhist meditative techniques and examples of Buddhist symbolism found in early Pali texts and…

Western business practice has been transformed since the 1980s, especially in the US and Britain, with the growth of shareholder value. This book examines the resulting change in relations between…