By Steven Peter Vallas
ISBN-10: 0745680704
ISBN-13: 9780745680705
This booklet presents a serious assessment of the myriad literatures on “work,” seen not just as a made from but additionally as a social and political build. Drawing on theoretical and empirical contributions from sociology, heritage, economics, and organizational experiences, the booklet brings jointly views that too usually stay balkanized, utilizing every one to discover the character of labor this day.
Outlining the elemental rules that unite social technological know-how pondering paintings, Vallas bargains an unique dialogue of the key theoretical views that tell place of work research, together with Marxist, interactionist, feminist, and institutionalist colleges of suggestion. Chapters are dedicated to the hard work approach, to office flexibility, to gender and racial inequalities at paintings, and to the hyperlink among globalization and the constitution of labor and authority at the present time. significant themes comprise the relation among paintings and identification; the relation among place of work tradition and managerial keep watch over; and the functionality of emotional hard work inside carrier occupations.
This concise e-book can be necessary to scholars in any respect degrees because it explores more than a few insights to make feel of urgent concerns that force the social clinical learn of labor today.
“I hugely suggest this publication. It addresses all of the vital problems with paintings in our time.” —International Sociology
“An exhaustive learn of an idea that has, during the last half-decade or so, been introduced lower than the lenses of students in various diversified fields of analysis, from sociology to economics, politics to philosophy ... Work fosters a discussion that cuts throughout [these] disciplines.” —Marx & Philosophy
“A prime sociologist within the fields of labor, companies, economic climate, and social conception, Vallas offers an cutting edge, erudite, exhaustive, and lucidly written synthesis and depiction of the evolution of study within the sociology of labor. Linking the self-discipline to special financial and political advancements of the past due 20th and early twenty-first centuries, the publication illumines pathways during this dynamic and vital box of sociology for college kids, students and practitioners who're learning, instructing, and humanizing the realm of work.” —Daniel B. Cornfield, Vanderbilt University
“Steven Vallas’s Work has the nice advantage of offering a powerful theoretical review of the sociology of labor, whilst it discusses work’s ancient emergence and ongoing improvement less than capitalism. the combo will make the textual content a useful source for college students in any respect levels.” —Leslie Salzinger, college of California, Berkeley
“Steven Vallas’s Work is a vital piece of scholarship and simply the simplest ebook on what's occurring to paintings, employees and the office to be released within the final decade. Vallas synthesizes a number of strands of analysis into an built-in complete. the amount is a needs to learn for someone attracted to from the place we’ve come and to the place we’re headed.” —Stephen R. Barley, Stanford college