This new study presents the first large-scale empirical analysis of the changes in British work experiences and employment relationships between the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing evidence from the Employment in Britain survey, it demonstrates that, despite a marked trend towards upskilling, the restructuring of the employment relationship has actually reinforced traditional lines of division in the workplace.

Restructuring the Employment Relationship

Business & Money

Gallie, Duncan

Cheng, Yuan

Tomlinson, Mark

WHITE,MICHAEL

Economics

Clarendon Press

The structure and regulation of consumption and demand has recently become of great interest to sociologists and economists alike, and at the same time there is growing interest in trying to understand the patterns and drivers of technological innovation. This book, newly available in paperback, brings together a range of sociologists and economists to study the role of demand and consumption in the innovative process. The book starts with a broad conceptual overview of ways that the sociological and economics literatures address issues of innovation, demand and consumption. It goes on to offer different approaches to the economics of demand and innovation through an evolutionary framework, before reviewing how consumption fits into evolutionary models of economic development. Food consumption is then looked at as an example of innovation by demand, including an examination of the dynamic nature of socially-constituted consumption routines. The book includes a number of illuminating case studies, including an analysis of how black Americans use consumption to express collective identity, and a number of demand-innovation relationships within matrices or chains of producers and users or other actors, including service industries such as security, and the environmental performance of companies. The involvement of consumers in innovation is looked at, including an analysis of how consumer needs may be incorporated in the design of high-tech products. The final chapter argues for the need to build an economic sociology of demand that goes from micro-individual through to macro-structural features.

Innovation by demand: An interdisciplinary approach to the study of demand and its role in innovation (New Dynamics of Innovation and Competition)

Green, Ken

Walsh, Vivien

McMeekin, Andrew

Manchester University Press

Oracle is the world's most popular high-end database and Visual Basic is the most popular programming language, but information for developers on how to get them to work together is hard to come by. This book is an essential resource for developers working with Oracle databases and Visual Basic. It provides complete information on data access methods from VB, including ADO, working with PL/SQL and Java, building ActiveX controls and COM objects, and deploying your application. This book is the perfect follow-up to Nick Snowdon's best-selling Oracle Programming with Visual Basic.

Oracle and Visual Basic Developer's Handbook

Computers & Technology

Besaw, Jenny

Fedynich, Jim

Programming Languages

Sybex, Inc.

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