Sociology: Work & Labour

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...

Written by a leading expert on diversity, social mobility and elite professions, this book examines the issues of equality and diversity in the Cit...

A new model of health emerged in Britain between 1870 and 1939. Centered on the working body, organized around the concept of efficiency, and groun...

Over the last ten years - especially with the 'no' votes in the French and Dutch referendums in 2010, and the victory for Brexit in 2016 - the issu...

In Leaning Out, respected journalist Kristine Ziwica maps a decade of stasis on the gender equality front in Australia, and why the pandemic has le...

Written by a leading expert on diversity, social mobility and elite professions, this book examines the issues of equality and diversity in the Cit...

We are led to believe that an endemic of overwork, debt, the underfunding of public services, gross inequality and poor mental health are sadly una...

The NHS is stretched to its limits. Yet doctors are writing 10 million sick-notes a year for people they cannot 'fix', while patients with treatabl...

Workers and their organizations are facing enormous obstacles today. Corporations wield immense power, not only in the marketplace but also in poli...

Discussions around the increase in number and improved quality of artisans have been widely supported. There is, however, a need for the notion of ...

An accessible overview of the power of women in the economy and the obstacles they face Women are joining the workforce in increasing numbers, mak...

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