Sociology: Work & Labour

In this provocative new study, Zak Cope makes the case that capitalism is empirically inseparable from imperialism, historically and today. Using a...

Imagine a workplace where workers enjoyed a well-paid job for life, one where they could start their day with a pint of stout and a smoke, and enjo...

This volume examines the connections between race and work, focusing on three key themes. First, contributors consider how racial minorities deal ...

Moral struggles in and around markets abound in contemporary societies where markets have become the dominant form of economic coordination. The pr...

Once hidden behind the veils of entrepreneurship, it is now clear that platforms are reshaping the world of work, and Amazon has been a forerunner ...

In the bustling cities of the mid-nineteenth-century Northeast, young male clerks working in commercial offices and stores were on the make, persis...

Are the unemployed more likely to commit crimes? Does having a job make one less likely to commit a crime? Criminologists have found that individua...

Since the early twentieth century, thousands of Mexican Americans have lived, worked, and formed communities in Chicagos steel mill neighborhoods. ...

Are the unemployed more likely to commit crimes? Does having a job make one less likely to commit a crime? Criminologists have found that individua...

This is an iconoclastic work, based on a vast knowledge of the relevant literature and on archival materials in French, English, and Russian. It ef...

According to some social critics, the digital age involves a retreat into the isolation of intelligent machines. Acclaimed scholar Stefana Broadben...

This is a very welcome addition to the historiography of Ottoman and post-Ottoman politics and society in the age of nationalism and expanding glob...

Even as the rewards of work decline and its demands on us increase, many people double-down on their commitment to wage slavery-working harder, doi...

Employee participation and voice (EPV) concern power and influence. Traditionally, EPV has encompassed worker attempts to wrest control from employ...

Despite the intense processes of deindustrialisation around the world, the working class continues to play an important role in post-industrial soc...

André Gorz's earlier books-from Ecology as Politics to Farewell to the Working Class and Paths to Paradise-have informed and inspired the most radi...

The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger's archive. It brings together for the first time his work on minew...

Aging has emerged as a major and urgent issue for individuals, organisations and governments of our time. In this well-timed and comprehensive han...

This book paints a picture of poor older peoples life-worlds in Beijing, China. Instead of viewing them as pitiful recipients of vulnerabilities an...

Opening Pathways, Building Bridges explores contemporary skilled migration and the brain drain using a bottom-up approach, based on a case study of...

This is an eight-scene drama portraying black women reliving their journey through higher education and work-based learning. Black womens voices ar...

Why has labor played a more limited role in national politics in the United States than it has in other advanced industrial societies? Victoria Hat...

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