Sociology of work / Keith Grint.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge : Polity, 2005.Edition: 3rd edDescription: 400 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780745632490 (hbk.) :
- 9780745632506 (pbk.) :
- 0745632505 (pbk.)
- 306.36 GRI
- HD6953
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 306.36 GRI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 219256 |
Previous ed.: 1998.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.What is work? -- 2.Work in historical perspective -- 3.Classical approaches to work: Marx, Weber and Durkheim -- 4.Contemporary theories of work organization -- 5.Class, industrial conflict and the labour process -- 6.Gender, patriarchy and trade unions -- 7.Race, ethnicity and labour markets; recruitment and the politics of exclusion -- 8.Working technology -- 9.Present work: the age of employment -- 10.Future work: globalization and the age of enthralment?
Chapter-by-chapter, Keith Grint examines different sociological approaches to work, emphasising the links between social processes, the institutions of employment, and their social and domestic contexts.