ABSTRACT
This leading, comprehensive text for courses on the sociology of work covers many vital new topics since the last edition (2015), just as it continues to offer foundational writings and discusses different types of jobs, inequality and intersectionality, work and family, and more.
New to this edition:
• The gig economy and new digital platforms and their effects on how work is organized.
• Precarious work and precarious workers, changes that reflect fundamental changes in employment relationships, increased job insecurity, and how people think about their jobs.
• The new retail, from customer interactions to a world where consumption is driven by data science.
• The latest research on call centers as the archetypal 21st-century workplace, illustrating many important issues about interactive work, transnational workplaces, gender, etc.
• The post-pandemic workplace, including essential workers and frontline workers, healthcare work and care workers; job flexibility, and implications for gender, work, and family.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|40 pages
Conceptual Foundations
part II|3 pages
The New Workplace
chapter Chapter 7|11 pages
Beyond Carrots and Sticks
chapter Chapter 8|14 pages
Work and Identity
part III|4 pages
On the Job
chapter Chapter 13|13 pages
“I Can Never Be Too Comfortable”
chapter Chapter 15|18 pages
The Portfolio Ideal Worker *
part IV|4 pages
The Changed Landscape of Opportunity
chapter Chapter 16|15 pages
Mock Schedules and the Meaning of Flexible Employment for Undocumented Workers
chapter Chapter 17|9 pages
Working for RedemptionFormerly Incarcerated Black Women and Punishment in the Labor Market
part V|63 pages
Work and Family