edited by Marek Korczynski, Randy Hodson, Paul K. Edwards.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
1 online resource (xiv, 502 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Competing, collaborating, and reinforcing theories / Marek Korczynski, Randy Hodson, and Paul Edwards -- Marxist thought and the analysis of work / Richard Hyman -- Max Weber and the irony of bureaucracy / Graham Sewell and James Barker -- A Durkheimian view of organizational culture / James Lincoln and Didier Guillot -- Feminist theories of work / Heidi Gottfried -- Foucauldian and postmodern thought and the analysis of work / Gibson Burrell -- The economic approach of the labor market / Steve Machin -- Institutional economics and the analysis of work / Geoffrey Hodgson -- Economic worlds of work : uniting economic sociology with the sociology of work / Thomas Beamish and Nicole Woolsey Biggart -- Organizational sociology and the analysis of work / Heather Haveman and Mukti Khaire -- Ethics and work / Karen Legge -- Technology and work / Jacques Bélanger -- Professional work / Keith Macdonald -- Towards a theory of dominant interests, globalization, and work / Stephen Frenkel -- Identity and work / Robin Leidner -- Conclusions : Change at work and the opportunities for theory / Peter Cappelli.
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This book brings together leading academics from important schools of social and economic theory to make a pressing, spirited, and highly engaging case for the relevance of these particular perspectives in contributing to the analysis of contemporary work. The schools covered are: Weberian, Marxian, Durkheimian, feminist, neo-classical economics, institutional economics, ethics, Foucauldian, postmodernist, organizational sociology and economic sociology. It is an essential text. for academics and advanced students concerned with the sociology of work and labour/industrial relations. - ;Work i.
Social theory at work.
Economics-- Sociological aspects.
Work-- Sociological aspects.
Économie politique-- Aspect sociologique.
Sociologie industrielle.
Travail-- Aspect social.
Economics-- Sociological aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.