The sociology of work : continuity and change in paid and unpaid work /: continuity and change in paid and unpaid work. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Stephen Edgell.
• Other Names: Edgell, Stephen
• Contents: Chapter 1: The Historical Transformation of Work; Work in pre-industrial societies; Work in industrial capitalist societies; Main features of work in industrial capitalist societies; Capitalist industrialization and the primacy of work; Crises and industrial capitalism; Technological and organizational change; The rise of trade unions; Women and work in the development of industrial capitalism; The dominant conception of work in industrial capitalism; Chapter 2: Work and Alienation; Marx's theory of alienation; Blauner's technology and alienation thesis; Critique of Blauner's technology and alienation thesis; Empirical research on the Blauner thesis; Chapter 3: Work and Deskilling; Braverman's deskilling thesis; Critique of Braverman's deskilling thesis; Braverman's supporters; Chapter 4: Work, Upskilling and Polarization; Bell's upskilling thesis; Critique of Bell's upskilling thesis; Bell`s supporters; The polarization of skill?; Chapter 5: Industrial Work: Fordism, Neo-Fordism and Post-Fordism; The rise of Fordism; The development of Fordism beyond the workplace; The decline of Fordism; Solutions to the crisis of Fordism: neo-Fordism and post-Fordism; Chapter 6: Service Work: Fordism, Neo-Fordism and Post-Fordism; Interactive service work; The rise of Fordism and interactive service work; Interactive service work: neo-Fordism and post-Fordism; Knowledge work and the Fordist model of change; Chapter 7: Non-Standard Work; The destandardization of work thesis; Contractural destandardization: self-employment; Spatial destandardization: homeworking; Temporal destandardization: temporary and part time work; Critical evaluation of the destandardization thesis; Chapter 8: Out of Work: Unemployment; Unemployment: meaning and measurement; Jahoda`s deprivation theory of unemployment; Class, age and gender, and the impact of unemployment; Critical evaluation of Jahoda`s deprivation theory of unemployment; Chapter 9: Domestic Work; The sociology of domestic work; Domestic work: conditions and technology; The symmetrical family thesis; Critical evaluation of the symmetrical family thesis; Explanations of the unequal division of domestic labour; Outsourcing domestic work; Chapter 10: Globalization: Paid and Unpaid Work; Globalization; Causes of globalization; Globalization in action: call centres; The transformation of paid work?; The transformation of unpaid work?; Concluding remarks: continuity and change and `work`;
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Publisher Details: London : SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (296 pages)
• Subjects: 306.36; Industrial sociology; Work
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781446254356; 1446254356
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