
Social Theory at Work
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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; each chapter can be read as free-standing summary of a particular school of theoretical approach; in addition, the introductory and concluding chapters examine themes cross-cutting the other chapters in the book. It is an essential text for academics and advanced students concerned with the sociology of work, management, and organization studies.
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.