Handbook on the sociology of work / edited by Chris Rees (Professor of Employment Relations, Royal Holloway, University of London), Ödül Bozkurt (Professor of Work and Employment, University of Sussex Business School, UK), Stephanie A. Limoncelli (Professor of Sociology, Loyola Marymount University, USA) and Jonathan Preminger (Senior Lecturer in Employment Relations, Cardiff University, UK).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rees, Chris, editor.

Bozkurt, Ödül, editor.

Limoncelli, Stephanie A., editor.

Preminger, Jonathan, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Research handbooks in sociology

Research handbooks in sociology series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor--Research.

Labor.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (522 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

"This comprehensive Handbook presents an overview of current research and thinking within the sociology of work. The contributors examine how the organisation and experience of work are shaped by the evolution of global capitalism, trends in political economy, and rapid technological developments. The Handbook explores varied forms and experiences of work - from factory, informal, and agricultural work, to more recent developments like platform work, coworking, neo-craft work, and emotional labour. Contributing authors also reflect on social inequalities in the workplace, interrogating the interplay between class, identity, race, gender, and age, and they address important policy issues, such as the climate crisis, digitisation and artificial intelligence, modern slavery, and the future of work. Each chapter critically evaluates core sociological concepts and theories while also identifying potential future research agendas. The Handbook on the Sociology of Work is a vital resource for scholars and students of sociology, political science, employment studies, and business and management. Practitioners and policymakers will also benefit from the in-depth coverage of such a wide range of contemporary topics in the field"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Sociology of work: Conceptual legacies, contemporary issues / Jonathan Preminger, Stephanie Limoncelli, Ödül Bozkurt and Chris Rees

Part I: Context and dimensions of work

1. Financialisation and work: Disconnected capitalism, new corporate governance, and the future of labour militancy / Pau López-Gaitán and Giorgos Gouzoulis

2. Marketisation, contracting out and the regulation of labour / E.K. Sarter

3. Towards a sociology of labour regulation and enforcement in the context of the modern fissured workplace / Andrew B. Wolf, Michael Piore, Hana Shepherd, Janice Fine and Jacob Barnes

4. The changing practice and sociological study of management control / Ian Roper

5. A multi-level perspective on employee voice and silence / Emma Hughes

6. Is alt-labour really "alternative"? Worker activism and representation beyond trade unions / Gretchen Purser and Sergio Saravia

7. The sociology of work and resistance: Concepts and cases from the goods movement industry / Ellen Reese, Abe Walker and Teke Wiggin

Part II: Inequalities and divisions at work

8. Classed inequalities at work: Understanding culture, closure and capitalism / Louise Ashley

9. The limits of corporate diversity management: Toward new models of workplace justice / Rana Abulbasal and Christy Glass

10. Gender, family and work: Mechanisms for the reproduction of gender inequality in the workplace / Elizabeth A. Kiester

11. Race matters at work: Contemporary workplace dynamics of racial and ethnic inequality / Eli R. Wilson

12. Age and ageing in the contemporary workplace: An opportunity for sociological understanding and analysis / Cara Reed and Katrina Pritchard

13. The sociology of youth employment, unemployment and employability / Rachel J. Wilde

Part III: Forms and experiences of work

14. Factory work: The making, remaking, and reimagining of the factory system of work / Daina Bellido de Luna and Miguel Martínez-Lucio

15. Agricultural work: Unfreedom and resistance / Kathleen Sexsmith and Rebecca Tarlau

16. Craft as an ambivalent future of work: From deskilling and nostalgia to neo-craft fetishism and the gentrification of labour / Chris Land

17. Dissolving the cartesian body-mind division: Current conceptualisations of the embodiment of knowledge work / Hanne Vesala and Markku Sippola

18. Corporal control: Aesthetic labour as an employer strategy / Chris Warhurst

19. Emotional labour: The management of feeling and display in the workplace / James Frederick Green

20. From workplaces to workspaces: The rise of coworking and independent modes of work / Janet Merkel

21. Informal work: Definitions, drivers, agency / Chris Tilly

22. A critical theoretical narrative of inequality in precarious work / Valeria Pulignano

23. The spectrum of platform labour: Conditions and agency across location- and web-based platforms / Sarrah Kassem

24. Traditions and paradigms in domestic labour research / Man-Yee Kan and Wei Wang

Part IV: Themes and issues in work

25. Skill, time, ethics and care: Applying a migration lens to the sociology of work / Leah Williams Veazey and Anna Boucher

26. Making good and bad jobs visible: Grading jobs and occupations in social science research / Mark Williams

27. Work and climate crisis - sociological analysis in demand / Vera Trappmann, Jo Cutter and Felix Schulz

28. Form follows function? The twisted encounters of technology and work / Kendra Briken

29. Unfree labour: How modern is modern slavery? / Jean Jenkins

30. Critical perspectives on work, health and wellbeing: Past, present and future / Ulla Forseth

31. Love, death and robots: Envisaging the future of work / Edward Granter, Mickael Peiro and Jeremy Aroles.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035302376 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.