TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grint,Keith
TI  - The sociology of work: introduction 
SN  - 0745632491
AV  - HD6955 .G75 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge, U.K., Malden, MA
PB  - Polity Press
KW  - Industrial sociology
KW  - Work
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [391]-451) and index; 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
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