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4th edition

Cambridge ; Malden : Polity, 2015

ix, 433 stran : ilustrace ; 25 cm

ISBN 978-0-7456-5045-6 (brožováno)

Terminologický slovník

Obsahuje bibliografii na stranách 362-405 a rejstřík

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Contents // Figures vili // Tables ix // introduction 1 // 1 What is Work? 6 // Introduction 6 // Problems of definition 7 // Working beyond the contemporary West 10 // Historical rhetorics of work: views from above and below 12 // Radical approaches to work 17 // Contemporary Western orientations to work 21 // Domestic labour 26 // Unemployment 33 // Conclusions 37 // Useful resources and seminar discussion questions 38 // 2 Work in Historical Perspective 40 // Introduction 40 // Pre-industrial work 41 // The transition from feudalism to proto-industrialization 44 // Factories and technological change 47 // Occupational change 50 // Work, the family and gender 55 // The rise of trade unionism 59 // State intervention and the Factory Acts 63 // The state and the development of clerical labour 67 // Women, work and war 68 // Conclusions 71 // Useful resources and seminar discussion questions 72 // 3 Classical Approaches to Work: Marx, Durkheim and Weber 73 // Introduction 73 // Marx and capitalism 74 // Durkheim and industrial society 81 // Weber 84 // Conclusions 90 // Useful resources and seminar discussion questions 90 // v // vi // CONTENTS // 4 Contemporary Theories of Work Organization // Introduction // Coercion // Paternalism // Lenin // Human relations Neo-human relations Organizational cultures Critical theories Systems theories Contingency theory Action theory Population ecology theory Evolutionary biology Rational choice theory Complexity theories Political organizational

theories Foucault and postmodernism Actor networks Institutional theory Conclusions // Useful resources and seminar discussion questions // 92 // 92 // 96 // 97 // 99 // 100 103 106 108 110 112 113 115 // 115 // 116 117 120 121 124 126 127 127 // 5 Class, Industrial Conflict and the Labour Process // Introduction // Theoretical approaches to class // Class, trade unions and revolution // British trade unions and labourism // Class and industrial action // Accounting for industrial action // Marx, Taylorism and the capitalist labour process // Braverman and the labour process // Conclusions // Useful resources and seminar discussion questions // 128 // 128 // 128 // 130 // 132 // 135 // 142 // 150 // 153 // 159 // 160 // 6 Gender, Patriarchy and Trade Unions // Introduction // Theoretical viewpoints on women and work Women and paid labour: the contemporary evidence Labour market restructuring and professional women Women and trade unions Masculinity, domestic labour and violence Conclusions // Useful resources and seminar discussion questions // 162 // 162 // 163 // 172 // 179 // 193 // 198 // 202 // 203 // Contents // vii // 7 Race, Ethnicity and Labour Markets: Recruitment and the Politics of // Exclusion 204 // Introduction 204 // Race, racism and ethnicity 204 // Labour markets and racism 210 // Recruitment and racism 231 // Trade unions, workers and racial discrimination 236 // Conclusions 242 // Useful resources and seminar discussion questions 243 // 8 Working Technology

244 // Introduction 244 // Technological determinism 245 // Social determinism 250 // Flexible specialization, Fordism, neo-Fordism and post-Fordism 259 // Conclusions 270 // Useful resources and seminar discussion questions 271 // 9 Contemporary Work: The Service Sector and the Knowledge Economy 272 // Introduction 272 // The rise of the post-industrial knowledge economy 273 // The informational economy 276 // The growth and shape of Britain’s service economy 279 // Skills, gender and low-level service work 286 // Conclusions - a polarizing workforce? 293 // Useful resources and seminar discussion questions 296 // 10 The Meaning ofWork in the Contemporary Economy 297 // Introduction 297 // The declining significance of work 300 // Work, identity, culture, economy 309 // Work-life balance and the invasiveness ofwork 317 // Conclusions 322 // Useful resources and seminar discussion questions 324 // 11 Work in the Global Economy 325 // Introduction 325 // The contemporary global economy 328 // Global financial meltdown and the Eurozone sovereign-debt crisis 335 // Globalization, flexibility and the quality of work 340 // Conclusions 355 // Useful resources and seminar discussion questions 356 // Glossary 357 // Bibliography 362 // Index 407