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This is a paperback of a 1979 hardback which broke new ground in social investigation. There have, since, been other books on the experience of fieldwork, but this remains a much cited work. The eighteen essays in the volume describe the experiences of field research mainly in rural and urban India, and in complex organizations such as a hospital, a factory and a trade union. There are also accounts of work in Japan, Sri Lanka and New Mexico. This is an ...
This book provides a lucid exposition of what constitutes human resource management. It covers a range of subjects, which comprise the core of labour relations and human resource management. The author discusses how industrial relations, participatory management and worker ownership have given way to Human Resource Management – unitary paradigm that favours consensus rather than bargaining to resolve conflicts. These far-reaching developments in theory and ...
Since its first publication, this book has been recommended reading for research methodology in the social sciences. This revised edition, which fulfils an enduring demand, contains a new preface that reviews the field since the publication of the first edition, answers critics, and emphasises the practical utility of field experience in the training of social scientists. Once considered to be the hallmark of social and cultural anthropology, intensive fieldwork ...