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1 online resource (xiv, 502 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Competing, collaborating, and reinforcing theories / Marek Korczynski, Randy Hodson, and Paul Edwards -- Marxist thought and the analysis of work / Richard Hyman -- Max Weber and the irony of bureaucracy / Graham Sewell and James Barker -- A Durkheimian view of organizational culture / James Lincoln and Didier Guillot -- Feminist theories of work / Heidi Gottfried -- Foucauldian and postmodern thought and the analysis of work / Gibson Burrell -- The economic approach of the labor market / Steve Machin -- Institutional economics and the analysis of work / Geoffrey Hodgson -- Economic worlds of work : uniting economic sociology with the sociology of work / Thomas Beamish and Nicole Woolsey Biggart -- Organizational sociology and the analysis of work / Heather Haveman and Mukti Khaire -- Ethics and work / Karen Legge -- Technology and work / Jacques Bélanger -- Professional work / Keith Macdonald -- Towards a theory of dominant interests, globalization, and work / Stephen Frenkel -- Identity and work / Robin Leidner -- Conclusions : Change at work and the opportunities for theory / Peter Cappelli. |
| Summary |
This book brings together leading academics from important schools of social and economic theory to make a pressing, spirited, and highly engaging case for the relevance of these particular perspectives in contributing to the analysis of contemporary work. The schools covered are: Weberian, Marxian, Durkheimian, feminist, neo-classical economics, institutional economics, ethics, Foucauldian, postmodernist, organizational sociology and economic sociology. It is an essential text. for academics and advanced students concerned with the sociology of work and labour/industrial relations. - ;Work i. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Work -- Sociological aspects.
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Work -- Sociological aspects. |
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Work. |
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Economics -- Sociological aspects.
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Economics -- Sociological aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Korczynski, Marek.
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Hodson, Randy.
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Edwards, P. K. (Paul K.)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Social theory at work. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 (DLC) 2006280730 |
| ISBN |
9780199285976 |
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0199285977 |
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0199285985 |
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9780199285983 |
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9780191558139 (electronic book) |
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0191558133 (electronic book) |
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1282268759 |
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9781282268753 |
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0199285977 (Cloth) |
| Standard No. |
9780199285976 |
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9780199285983 |
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