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| List of Figures | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is Work? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Problems of definition | |
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| Working beyond the contemporary West | |
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| Historical rhetorics of work: views from above and below | |
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| Radical approaches to work | |
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| Contemporary Western orientations to work | |
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| Domestic labour | |
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| Unemployment | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exam/essay questions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Work in Historical Perspective | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Pre-industrial work | |
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| The transition from feudalism to proto-industrialization | |
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| Factories and technological change | |
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| Occupational change | |
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| Work, the family and gender | |
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| The rise of trade unionism | |
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| State intervention and the Factory Acts | |
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| The state and the development of clerical labour | |
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| Women, work and war | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exam/essay questions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Classical Approaches to Work: Marx, Weber and Durkheim | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Marx and capitalism | |
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| Durkheim and industrial society | |
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| Weber | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exam/essay questions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Contemporary Theories of Work Organization | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Coercion | |
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| Paternalism | |
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| Lenin | |
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| Human relations | |
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| Neo-human relations | |
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| Organizational cultures | |
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| Critical theories | |
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| Systems theories | |
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| Contingency theory | |
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| Action theory | |
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| Population ecology theory | |
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| Evolutionary biology | |
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| Rational choice theory | |
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| Complexity theories | |
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| Political organizational theories | |
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| Foucault and post-modernism | |
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| Actor networks | |
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| Institutional theory | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exam/essay questions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Class, Industrial Conflict and the Labour Process | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Theoretical approaches to class | |
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| Class, trade unions and revolution | |
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| British trade unions and labourism | |
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| Class and industrial action | |
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| Accounting for industrial action | |
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| Marx, Taylorism and the capitalist labour process | |
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| Braverman and the labour process | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exam/essay questions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Gender, Patriarchy and Trade Unions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Theoretical viewpoints on women and work | |
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| Women and paid labour: the contemporary evidence | |
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| Labour market restructuring and professional women | |
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| Women and trade unions | |
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| Masculinity, domestic labour and violence | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exam/essay questions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Race, Ethnicity and Labour Markets: Recruitment and the Politics of Exclusion | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Race, racism and ethnicity | |
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| Labour markets and racism | |
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| Recruitment and racism | |
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| Trade unions, workers and racial discrimination | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exam/essay questions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Working Technology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Technological determinism | |
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| Social determinism | |
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| Flexible specialization, Fordism, neo-Fordism and post-Fordism | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exam/essay questions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Present Work: The Age of Employment | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Manufacturing, McDonaldization and migrants | |
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| Living to work or working to live? | |
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| Social class, wealth and health | |
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| Work, productivity and pay: a fat cat or a dog's life? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exam/essay questions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Future Work: Globalization and the Age of Enthralment? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Modelling the future or walking backwards into it? | |
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| The context of globalization | |
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| Global inequality | |
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| Global cultural imperialism: branding | |
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| Global exploitation: enthralment | |
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| Global exploitation: slavery | |
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| Summary | |
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| Exam/essay questions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |