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The Historical Transformation of Work | |
Work in pre-industrial societies | |
Work in industrial capitalist societies | |
Main features of work in industrial capitalist societies | |
Capitalist industrialization and the primacy of work | |
Crises and industrial capitalism | |
Technological and organizational change | |
The rise of trade unions | |
Women and work in the development of industrial capitalism | |
The dominant conception of work in industrial capitalism | |
Summary and conclusions | |
Further reading | |
Questions for discussion and assessment | |
Work and Alienation | |
Marx's theory of alienation | |
Blauner's technology and alienation thesis | |
Critique of Blauner's technology and alienation thesis | |
Empirical research on the Blauner thesis | |
Summary and conclusions | |
Further reading | |
Questions for discussion and assessment | |
Work and Deskilling | |
Braverman's deskilling thesis | |
Critique of Braverman's deskilling thesis | |
Braverman's supporters | |
Summary and conclusions | |
Further reading | |
Questions for discussion and assessment | |
Work, Upskilling and Polarization | |
Bell's upskilling thesis | |
Critique of Bell's upskilling thesis | |
Bell`s supporters | |
The polarization of skill? | |
Summary and conclusions | |
Further reading | |
Questions for discussion and assessment | |
Industrial Work: Fordism, Neo-Fordism and Post-Fordism | |
The rise of Fordism | |
The development of Fordism beyond the workplace | |
The decline of Fordism | |
Solutions to the crisis of Fordism: neo-Fordism and post-Fordism | |
Summary and conclusions | |
Further reading | |
Questions for discussion and assessment | |
Service Work: Fordism, Neo-Fordism and Post-Fordism | |
Interactive service work | |
The rise of Fordism and interactive service work | |
Interactive service work: neo-Fordism and post-Fordism | |
Knowledge work and the Fordist model of change | |
Summary and conclusions | |
Further reading | |
Questions for discussion and assessment | |
Non-Standard Work | |
The destandardization of work thesis | |
Contractural destandardization: self-employment | |
Spatial destandardization: homeworking | |
Temporal destandardization: temporary | |
Time work | |
Critical evaluation of the destandardization thesis | |
Summary and conclusions | |
Further reading | |
Questions for discussion and assessment | |
Out of Work: Unemployment | |
Unemployment: meaning and measurement | |
Jahoda`s deprivation theory of unemployment | |
Class, age and gender, and the social consequences of unemployment | |
Critical evaluation of Jahoda`s deprivation theory of unemployment | |
Summary and conclusions | |
Further reading | |
Questions for discussion and assessment | |
Domestic Work | |
The sociology of domestic work | |
Domestic work: conditions and technology | |
The symmetrical family thesis | |
Critical evaluation of the symmetrical family thesis | |
Explanations of the unequal division of domestic labour | |
Outsourcing domestic work | |
Summary and conclusions | |
Further reading | |
Questions for discussion and assessment | |
Globalization: Paid and Unpaid Work | |
Globalization | |
Causes of globalization | |
Globalization in action: call centres | |
The transformation of paid work? | |
The transformation of unpaid work? | |
Summary and conclusions | |
Concluding remarks: continuity and change and `work` | |
Further reading | |
Questions for discussion and assessment | |
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