The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment

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. Heidi Gottfried is Professor of Sociology at Wayne State University, USA.  Edward Granter is a Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour in the Department of Management at the University of Birmingham Business School.

An authoritative, engaging and extremely timely collection. From global trends in paid and unpaid employment to the impacts on individuals and communities, the Handbook makes a powerful case for the centrality of work to both society and sociology. Across a range of themes, debates and topics, we are confronted with the social realities of today’s working lives and compellingly reminded of the importance of the sociological imagination.

• 1. Introduction: Studies of Work and Employment at the Global Frontier - Stephen Edgell, Edward Granter and Heidi GottfriedPART 1 HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND SOCIAL DIVISIONS2. The Disciplinary Career of the Sociology of Work - Tim Strangleman3. Work and Social Theory - Tracey Warren4. Class and Work - Barry Eidlin5. Gender and Work - Harriet Bradley6. Race, Racialization and Work - Evelyn Nakano GlennPART 2 THE EXPERIENCE OF WORK7. Good Jobs, Bad Jobs - Arne Kalleberg8. The Origins and the Ideal of Dignity in the Sociology of Work and Employment - Philip Hodgkiss9. Capital and Labour: The shifting terrains of struggle and accommodation in labour and employment relations - Miguel Martinez- Lucio10. From Management to Leadership - Leo McCann11. Unruly Subjects: Misbehaviour in the Workplace - Stephen Ackroyd and Paul Thompson12. Rediscovery of the Labour Process - Chris Smith13. The Skill Debate: Concepts, Measures and Evidence - Alan FelsteadPART 3 WORK AND ORGANIZATION14. From Bureaucracy to Networks - Charles Heckscher15. Organizational Culture - Mats Alvesson16. Industrialization, Fordism and the Golden Age of Atlantic Capitalism: - Matt Vidal17. Beyond Fordism - Huw Beynon18. Interactive Service Work - Amy Wharton19. The Organization of Service Work - Kiran MirchandaniPart 4 NON-STANDARD FORMS OF WORK AND EMPLOYMENT20. Employment Uncertainty and Risk - Vicki Smith21. Destandardization: Qualitative and Quantitative - Francoise Carre22. Informal Employment: Theory & Reality - Martha Chen23. Precarious Work - Kevin Hewison24. Unpaid Domestic Labor - Janeen Baxter and Tsui-O TaiPART 5 WORK AND LIFE OUTSIDE EMPLOYMENT25. Unemployment - Ken Roberts26. Volunteering and Unpaid Work - Rebecca Taylor27. Work-Life Balance - Abigail Gregory28. Working Time - Michael Bittman29. Work and Social Policy - Karin Gottschall and Irene DingeldeyPART 6 GLOBALIZATION AND THE FUTURE OF WORK30. Global Value Chains, Organisations and Industrial Work - Paul Stewart and Brian Garvey31. Globalization and Outsourcing - Winnie Poster and Nima Yolmo32. Globalization and Labour Migrations - Eleonore Kofman33. Critiques of Work - David Frayne34. Global Labour Politics in the 21st Century: Organizing in Informal and Precarious Jobs - Jennifer Jihye Chun and Rina Agarwala35. The Future of Work: Escaping the Current Dystopian Trajectory and Building Better Alternatives - Peter Evans and Chris Tilly