The Sociology of Work: Continuity and Change in Paid and Unpaid Work

Author: Stephen Edgell
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Category: Sociology, Sociology: Work & Labour, Labour Economics, Labour Economics, Industrial Relations
Book Format: Paperback

Stephen Edgell is a Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Salford, England. He has undertaken qualitative research Middle Class Couples: A Study of Segregation, Domination and Inequality in Marriage (Allen & Unwin, 1980), quantitative research A Measure of Thatcherism: A Sociology of Britain (Unwin Hyman, 1991, co-author Vic Duke), and archival research Veblen in Perspective: His Life and Thought (Taylor & Francis, 2001), and has published numerous articles in a wide-range of British, American and European social science journals. A career-long interest in the sociology of work culminated in the publication of a textbook entitled The Sociology of Work: Continuity and Change in Paid and Unpaid Work in 2006 and a revised 2nd edition in 2012. He is the co-editor of





Table Of 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`
About Stephen Edgell
Stephen Edgell is a Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Salford, England. He has undertaken qualitative research Middle Class Couples: A Study of Segregation, Domination and Inequality in Marriage (Allen & Unwin, 1980), quantitative research A Measure of Thatcherism: A Sociology of Britain (Unwin Hyman, 1991, co-author Vic Duke), and archival research Veblen in Perspective: His Life and Thought (Taylor & Francis, 2001), and has published numerous articles in a wide-range of British, American and European social science journals. A career-long interest in the sociology of work culminated in the publication of a textbook entitled The Sociology of Work: Continuity and Change in Paid and Unpaid Work in 2006 and a revised 2nd edition in 2012. He is the co-editor of The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment (2016), along with Heidi Gottfried and Edward Granter.

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