The Harms of Work: An Ultra-Realist Account of the Service Economy

About Anthony Lloyd

Dr Anthony Lloyd is Co-Director at the Teesside Centre for Realist Criminology and Senior Lecturer in Criminology & Sociology at the School of Social Sciences Humanities & Law Teesside University. His research interests include work and employment labour markets and the leisure and service economy consumer culture social harm critical criminology youth identity and transitions political economy debt social theory class cultures and social change. He researches broadly on the topics of work and leisure most recently investigating the lives of young men and women engaged in low-paid service sector jobs in the North East. He has published work in this area including his first book Labour Markets and Identity on the Post-Industrial Assembly Line (Ashgate 2013).