Sociology: work and labour

From hospitals and prisons to schools and corporations: no matter how large or seemingly abstract, all institutions are ultimately the result of the actions and interactions of people.

Arguably sociology's first classic and one of Durkheim's major works, The Division of Labour in Society studies the nature of social solidarity, exploring the ties that bind one person to the next so as to hold society together in conditions of modernity.

"e;Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider is that rare thing nowadays, an academic book that not only engages with a wider public but also provides a sharp campaigning edge to the analysis.

Now in its fifth edition, Understanding Enterprise has established itself as one of the most widely respected guides to the discipline, providing a refreshingly perceptive approach to understanding and applying theory.

This second edition of the critically acclaimed core textbook provides students from technology and science based backgrounds with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to transform innovative ideas into commercially viable businesses for profit or social ends.

This cutting-edge new textbook examines how effective knowledge management can make organizations more innovative.

Part of the Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment series, this edited collection brings together contributions from leading international scholars to initiate an important dialogue between labour process analysis and scholarship on work in the Global South.

An edited book in the Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment series associated with the annual International Labour Process Conference.

Work Matters brings together a strong collection of narratives from the ethnographic field to discover the reality of pressure and change in the modern workplace.

How will work be organised in the future?

Critical and accessible, the new edition of this bestselling textbook offers valuable insight into contemporary management practices and encourages readers to reflect on the realities of the workplace.

This book examines how the police make decisions in real life situations, particularly in major enquiries.

This important text demonstrates the range of ways in which gender can be seen to be an integral part of organisational life.

This book examines the development of women in the Hong Kong Police Force (HKP) over the past 68 years, beginning from the early colonial years when calls to include women in law enforcement first emerged, to the recruitment of the first female sub-inspector in 1949, and through to the current situation where policewomen constitute 15% of the total HKP establishment.

WINNER of The Gertrude J.

This book examines patterns of political engagement of long-term unemployed youth.

This book offers a rich ethnographic account of blue-collar workers' everyday life in a central Russian industrial town coping with simultaneous decline and the arrival of transnational corporations.

This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of 21st century families in Britain through an exploration of intergenerational relationships.

This book assesses the instruments and measures geared towards determining the EU's relations with it's neighbours.

Managing the Press re-examines the emergence of the twentieth century media President, whose authority to govern depends largely on his ability to generate public support by appealing to the citizenry through the news media.

Cecilia Ng documents the changing position of women in Malaysia.

In this volume the authors present an alternative approach to the history of gypsies and travelling groups in western Europe.

Robin Haines has analysed the origins, occupations, literacy, and mobilization of emigrants recruited in the UK on behalf of colonial legislatures.

The contributors provide critical accounts of the transformation of work and employment during the final quarter of the twentieth century.

The growth of the services sector in developing countries and their increased participation in trade in services have far-reaching implications for promotion of employment and income and management of international migration.

Gendered distinctions and differences in working life are produced by often hidden practices.

As the first in-depth study of women's experience of work in Scotland before 1800, this book draws on a wide variety of hitherto unexplored sources to throw light on the everyday working activities of women, married and single, successful and deprived, and their role in the urban community.

This book considers patterns of women's employment in the period 1700-1850.

Confronting State, Capital and Patriarchy brings together documentation of women's struggles in the process of industrialisation, within and outside traditional workers' organizations.

This book examines the effect of Information Technology on our lives, illustrating how a lack of proper social control over IT has led to a scene of technological wizardry and real everyday gains, contaminated by discrimination, deprivation and unacceptable ethical standards.

This book explores two major contemporary changes in the workplace: the impact of computerization on skills and the organization of production; and the role of quality circles in the 'democratization' of the workplace and the reorganization of bureaucratic decision-making.

Including contributions by both British and American researchers, this book explores equal value developments in the two countries.

Focusing on labour as a cultural phenomenon rather than an economic force, this book offers an assessment of the current situation and an exploration of the policy implications of theoretical conclusions.

In third-world countries an increasing number of people have been drawn into the process of industrialization as wage workers.

How are men responding to feminism?

This collection of papers considers how people who are low paid can be given better opportunities in the British labour market.

An examination of the impact of the industrial society on women and their expectations, values, personalities and achievements in the labour force.

A study concentrating on the sociology of industrial conflict and focusing on the causes of industrial disputes and their meanings for those involved.

A discussion of the power relationships between employers, workers and their organizations in capitalist societies.

An investigation into the changing fortunes of working people in a capitalist society.

A study of women's experiences in seven different employment sectors.

A survey of British womens' attitudes to work and home in the 1980s and how they have changed since World War II.

Increasingly high unemployment has brought with it a multitude of consequences affecting those without jobs and, beyond them, their families, friends and communities.