The Sociology of Work

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. Edward Granter is a Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour in the Department of Management at the University of Birmingham Business School.

Definitive, critical and engaging, this is a superb introduction to the sociology of work. Edgell and Granter′s expert narrative takes us from the cotton mills to the gig economy, and from unpaid domestic chores to visions of a post-work future. Indispensable.

• The Historical Transformation of WorkWork and AlienationWork, Skill and the Labour ProcessManaging Culture at WorkIndustrial Work: Fordism, Neo-Fordism and Post-FordismService Work: Fordism, Neo-Fordism and Post-FordismNon-Standard WorkOut of Work: UnemploymentUnpaid Domestic WorkGlobalization: Paid and Unpaid WorkGlossaryReferences