Product Description: The Sociology of Work and Occupations, Second Edition connects work and occupations to the key subjects of sociological inquiry: social and technological change, race, ethnicity, gender, social class, education, social networks, and modes of organization...read more

Product Description: Why Work explores the contemporary cultural construction of work, beginning with the expression, "A Real Job." This volume examines "work" in the writings of Aristotle, Plato, Confucius, St. Benedict, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Booker T...read more

Product Description: Identity in the Age of the New Economy is a multi-faceted view of contemporary employment and identity that questions a number of the myths related to the so-called new economy, knowledge society or network society. It argues that one of the most striking things about much contemporary theorizing on work and identity is the epochalist terms in which it is framed: changing forms of identity and subjectivity are assumed to be consequences of a shift to an entirely new economic, social and cultural era, signaled by concepts such as postmodernity, risk society, network society or new economy...read more

Product Description: Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate...read more

Product Description: Do you know what it is like to communicate with people only through the mail and not by phones, computers, or fax machines? Can you imagine working in a factory all day instead of going to school? How is working different today from how it was one hundred years ago? This book is an introduction to how going to work, the types of jobs, and working conditions have changed in the past 100 years...read more

Brief text examines how going to work, the types of jobs, and working conditions have changed in the past 100 years.

A history of the dynamic nature of work notes societal, slavery, guild, trade, and religious factors that have shaped its evolution; citing the agrarian, industrial, and technological revolutions; investigating the works of top theorists; and challenging current work ethics. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The main object of this study is to find out whether the differences between classical and medieval thinking about work, occupations and technology are so significant that we are justified in speaking of a real break between Antiquity and the Middle Ages in this connection; or whether there is a possible continuity of ideas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Applebaum, Herbert

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Essays discuss the history and meaning of work, past attitudes toward work, work and play, and the rewards of labor (view table of contents)