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Handbook on the Sociology of Work.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rees, Chris.
- Series:
- Research handbooks in sociology.
- Research handbooks in sociology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial sociology.
- Work.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (849 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Sociology of work: conceptual legacies, contemporary issues
- PART I: CONTEXT AND DIMENSIONS OF WORK
- Chapter 1: Financialisation and work: disconnected capitalism, new corporate governance, and the future of labour militancy
- Chapter 2: Marketisation, contracting out and the regulation of labour
- Chapter 3: Towards a sociology of labour regulation and enforcement in the context of the modern fissured workplace
- Chapter 4: The changing practice and sociological study of management control
- Chapter 5: A multi-level perspective on employee voice and silence
- Chapter 6: Is alt-labour really "alternative"? Worker activism and representation beyond trade unions
- Chapter 7: The sociology of work and resistance: concepts and cases from the goods movement industry
- PART II: INEQUALITIES AND DIVISIONS AT WORK
- Chapter 8: Classed inequalities at work: understanding culture, closure and capitalism
- Chapter 9: The limits of corporate diversity management: toward new models of workplace justice
- Chapter 10: Gender, family and work: mechanisms for the reproduction of gender inequality in the workplace
- Chapter 11: Race matters at work: contemporary workplace dynamics of racial and ethnic inequality
- Chapter 12: Age and ageing in the contemporary workplace: an opportunity for sociological understanding and analysis
- Chapter 13: The sociology of youth employment, unemployment and employability
- PART III: FORMS AND EXPERIENCES OF WORK
- Chapter 14: Factory work: the making, remaking, and reimagining of the factory system of work
- Chapter 15: Agricultural work: unfreedom and resistance
- Chapter 16: Craft as an ambivalent future of work: from deskilling and nostalgia to neo-craft fetishism and the gentrification of labour.
- Chapter 17: Dissolving the Cartesian body-mind division: current conceptualisations of the embodiment of knowledge work
- Chapter 18: Corporal control: aesthetic labour as an employer strategy
- Chapter 19: Emotional labour: the management of feeling and display in the workplace
- Chapter 20: From workplaces to workspaces: the rise of coworking and independent modes of work
- Chapter 21: Informal work: definitions, drivers, agency
- Chapter 22: A critical theoretical narrative of inequality in precarious work
- Chapter 23: The spectrum of platform labour: conditions and agency across location- and web-based platforms
- Chapter 24: Traditions and paradigms in domestic labour research
- PART IV: THEMES AND ISSUES IN WORK
- Chapter 25: Skill, time, ethics and care: applying a migration lens to the sociology of work
- Chapter 26: Making good and bad jobs visible: grading jobs and occupations in social science research
- Chapter 27: Work and the climate crisis - sociological analysis in demand
- Chapter 28: Form follows function? The twisted encounters of technology and work
- Chapter 29: Unfree labour: how modern is modern slavery?
- Chapter 30: Critical perspectives on work, health and wellbeing: past, present and future
- Chapter 31: Love, death and robots: envisaging the future of work
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-03-537873-6
- 1-03-530237-3
- 9781035302376
- OCLC:
- 1570385750
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