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The sociology of work / Keith Grint and Darren Nixon.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Malden, MA : Polity, 2015Edition: 4th edDescription: ix, 433 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780745650456 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.3 GRI
Contents:
Introduction; 1. What is Work?; 2. Work in Historical Perspective; 3. Classical Approaches to Work: Marx, Durkheim and Weber; 4. Contemporary Theories of Work Organization; 5. Class, Industrial Conflict and the Labour Process; 6. Gender, Patriarchy and Trade Unions; 7. Race, Ethnicity and Labour Markets: Recruitment and the Politics of Exclusion; 8. Working Technology; 9. Contemporary Work: The Service Sector and the Knowledge Economy; 10. The Meaning of Work in the Contemporary Economy; 11. Work in the Global Economy; Glossary.
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BOOKs NLS General Stacks 306.3 GRI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) PB Available Recommended by Dr. Mitaja Chakraborty 39561

Introduction;
1. What is Work?;
2. Work in Historical Perspective;
3. Classical Approaches to Work: Marx, Durkheim and Weber;
4. Contemporary Theories of Work Organization;
5. Class, Industrial Conflict and the Labour Process;
6. Gender, Patriarchy and Trade Unions;
7. Race, Ethnicity and Labour Markets: Recruitment and the Politics of Exclusion;
8. Working Technology;
9. Contemporary Work: The Service Sector and the Knowledge Economy;
10. The Meaning of Work in the Contemporary Economy;
11. Work in the Global Economy;
Glossary.