The sociology of work : introduction - Grint, Keith (Cambridge, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2008)
List of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgements. Preface. Introduction. 1 What is Work?. Introduction. Problems of Definition. Working Beyond the Contemporary West. Historical Rhetorics of Work: Views from Above and Below. Radical Approaches to Work. Contemporary Western Orientations to Work. Domestic Labour. Unemployment. Summary. Further Reading. Glossary. Exam/Essay Questions. 2 Unpaid Work in Historical Perspective. Introduction. Slavery in Ancient Times. Medieval Serfs. Atlantic Slavery and Indentured Labour. Slave Labour under the Nazis. Contemporary Slavery. Summary. Further Reading. Glossary. Exam/Essay Questions. 3 Paid Work in Historical Perspective. Introduction. Pre-Industrial Work. Factories and Technological Change. Occupational Change. Work, the Family and Gender. The Rise of Trade Unionism. State Intervention and the Factory Acts. The State and the Development of Clerical Labour. Women, Work and War. Summary. Further Reading. Glossary. Exam/Essay Questions. 4 Classical Approaches to Work: Marx, Weber and Durkheim. Introduction. Marx and Capitalism. Durkheim and Industrial Society. Weber. Summary. Further Reading. Glossary. Exam/Essay Questions. 5 Contemporary Theories of Work Organization. Introduction. Coercion. Paternalism. Lenin. Human Relations. Neo-Human Relations. Organizational Cultures. Critical Theories. Systems Theories. Contingency Theory. Action Theory. Population Ecology Theory. Political Organizational Theories. Foucault and Post-Modernism. Actor Networks. Institutional Theory. Summary. Further Reading. Glossary. Exam/Essay Questions. 6 Class, Industrial Conflict and the Labour Process. Introduction. Theoretical Approaches to Class. Class, Wealth and Income. Class, Occupation and Inequality. Class, Trade Unions and Revolution. British Trade Unions and Labourism. Class and Industrial Action. Accounting for Industrial Action. Marx, Taylorism and the Capitalist Labour Process. Braverman and the Labour Process. Summary. Further Reading. Glossary. Examination/Essay Questions. 7 Gender, Patriarchy and Trade Unions. Introduction. Theoretical Viewpoints on Women and Work. Women and Paid Labour. Labour Market Restructuring and Professional Women. Women and Trade Unions. Masculinity, Domestic Labour and Violence. The End of Gendered Inequality?. Summary. Exam/Essay Questions. Further Reading. 8 Race, Ethnicity and Labour Markets. Introduction. Race, Racism and Ethnicity. Labour Markets and Racism. Recruitment and Racism. Trade Unions, Workers and Racial Discrimination. Summary. Exam/Essay Questions. Further Reading. 9 Working Technology. Introduction. Technological Determinism. Social Determinism. Flexible Specialization, Fordism, Neo-Fordism and Post Fordism. Summary. Exam/Essay Questions. Further Reading. 10 Present Work: Employment. Introduction: From Plantocracy to Plutocracy. Manufacturing, McDonalization and Migrants. Living to Work or Working to Live?. The Polarization of Effort and Rewards: A Dog's Life or a Fat Cat's?. From Heteronomous to Autonomous Work?. Summary. Further Reading. Glossary. Exam/Essay Questions. 11 Future Work: Enthralment. Introduction: From Plutocracy to Planetocracy. Modelling the Future or Walking Backwards into It?. The Context of Globalization. Global Inequality. Global Cultural Imperialism: Branding. Global Political Imperialism. Global Environmental Imperialism and Sustainable Development. Global Exploitation: Enthralment to Enslavement. Summary. Further Reading. Glossary. Exam/Essay Questions. Glossary. Bibliography. Index
Includes bibliographical references (pages [391]-451) and index
Keywords: Industrial sociology; Work