Sociology: Work & Labour

The topic of white privilege has always triggered widespread debate, and the current media attention to police brutality and race relations in the ...

There has been an explosion of organising among workers many assumed to be unorganisable, from delivery drivers in London to tech workers in Silico...

Here David McWilliams presents the story of modern Ireland. Surveying four decades, bookended by the visits of the pope in September 1979 and Augus...

Founded in 1919 along with the League of Nations, the International Labour Organization (ILO) establishes labor standards and produces knowledge ab...

2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title A survey into an emerging pattern of labor instability and uneven global development Is job insecurity the n...

After the local newspaper where she worked as a reporter closed, Emily Guendelsberger took a pre-Christmas job at an Amazon fulfilment centre outsi...

A compelling investigation into the phenomenon of dirty work labour that society considers essential, but morally compromised. A New Statesman Bo...

A deep exploration of the experience of work in CanadaCanada, A Working History describes the ways in which work has been performed in Canada from ...

Featured in Stylists Cant Miss Books of 2023 Sometimes I think that carrying other people, the continuity of history, generational identity, the e...

Though largely invisible in histories of the First World War, over 550,000 men in the ranks of the Indian army were non-combatants. From the porter...

AS SEEN ON ARMCHAIR EXPERT WITH DAX SHEPARD AND IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES ...

How can we make sense of a world where we have both too many billionaires and too many foodbanks? Were supposed to go to university, forge a career...

Paid work is absolutely central to the culture and politics of capitalist societies, yet todays work-centred world is becoming increasingly hostile...

The Care Manifesto puts care at the heart of the debates of our current crisis: from intimate care-childcare, healthcare, elder care-to care for th...

What happens to work when it makes itself obsolete? We are told the future of work will be increasingly automated. Algorithms, processing massive a...

In photographs, artworks, and words Gloria Wilson celebrates the rugged fishing village where she was brought up, and from which she set her course...

How tech giants are reshaping spirituality to serve their religion of peak productivitySilicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work c...

An indispensable investigation into the American unemployment system and the ways gender and class affect the lives of those looking for workThroug...

In recent decades digital devices have reshaped daily life, while tech companies' stock prices have thrust them to the forefront of the business wo...

Lives from an invisible community - the migrant farmworkers of the United States The Grapes of Wrath brought national attention to the condition of...

By the end of the nineteenth century, the general Western conception of work had been reduced to simply gainful employment. But this limited perspe...

Throughout the twentieth century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home Rule. ...

In the 1980s, somewhere in Austin, Helton was young, married, and jobless. After a few strung-out years trying to make it as a writer, he was caugh...

In 1977, the iconic Swindon Works was building locomotives. By 1986, it was shut down. In The End of the Line, Ron Bateman recounts the fight to sa...

***Evening Standard's best non-fiction 2021*** 'A brilliant, searing exposé of the lies underpinning work' - Owen Jones 'Work hard, get paid.' It...