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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778346103321

Titolo

Social theory at work [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Marek Korczynski, Randy Hodson, Paul K. Edwards

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-383-04318-3

1-280-87007-9

0-19-155813-3

9786612268755

9786610870073

1-282-26875-9

1-4356-1818-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (517 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KorczynskiMarek

HodsonRandy

EdwardsP. K (Paul K.)

Disciplina

306.36

Soggetti

Work - Sociological aspects

Economics - Sociological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 BeĢlanger -- 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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