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Work is fundamental to human society and modern organizations, and consequently has been central to the thinking of major social theorists and social science disciplines. This book offers a 'one-stop-shop' guide to classical and contemporary perspectvies of work written by leading international experts. Schools covered include: Weberian, Marxian, Durkheimian, feminist, neo-classical economics, institutional economics, ethics, Foucauldian, postmodernist, organizational sociology andeconomic sociology.Each chapter traces the origins of the theoretical school, reviews seminal contributions,and considers major criticisms of the approach. In addition, the book features a section on key aspects of work - professions, technology, identity and globalisation - to which these theories have been applied.The book makes a major contribution in a number of ways:• Provides systematic coverage of major social and economic theories and the way they aid our understanding of work;• Includes a section of chapters that consider, in an applied way, how social theories have helped the analysis of key substantive areas of work;• Includes contributions from leading academics from both Europe and the USA;•

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Author

Marek Korczynski, Randy Hodson, Paul K. Edwards

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199285976

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Management, Sociology, Economics