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The Sociology of Work: Continuity and Change in Paid and Unpaid Work

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By (author): Edward Granter Stephen Edgell

Definitive, critical and engaging, this is a superb introduction to the sociology of work. Leo McCann

Now in a fully updated third edition, The Sociology of Work draws on the work of classic and contemporary theorists, to provide readers with a thorough exploration of all aspects of work and employment, including paid and unpaid work, standard and non-standard employment, and unemployment.

The new edition includes:

  • Two new chapters on Work, Skill and the Labour Process and Managing Culture at Work.
  • Expanded coverage of the rise and decline of trade unions; emotional labour, misbehaviour, and resistance at work.
  • Further discussion of the gig economy and precarious work; automation and the end of work; globalization and human rights.

For Sociology and Business students, taking modules in work, employment and society.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 850g
  • Dimensions: 170 x 242mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Nov 2019
  • Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781526402639

About Edward GranterStephen Edgell

Stephen Edgell is a Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Salford England. He has undertaken qualitative research Middle Class Couples: A Study of Segregation Domination and Inequality in Marriage (Allen & Unwin 1980) quantitative research A Measure of Thatcherism: A Sociology of Britain (Unwin Hyman 1991 co-author Vic Duke) and archival research Veblen in Perspective: His Life and Thought (Taylor & Francis 2001) and has published numerous articles in a wide-range of British American and European social science journals. A career-long interest in the sociology of work culminated in the publication of a textbook entitled The Sociology of Work: Continuity and Change in Paid and Unpaid Work in 2006 and a revised 2nd edition in 2012. He is the co-editor of The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment (2016) along with Heidi Gottfried and Edward Granter.  Edward Granter is a Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour in the Department of Management at the University of Birmingham Business School.

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