Work matters : critical reflections on contemporary work /

• Bolton, Sharon C., 1960-
• Houlihan, Maeve.

• Labor
• Work
• Labor -- Social aspects.
• Work -- Social aspects

• Palgrave Macmillan,

• Critical perspectives on work and employment

• 0230576397 (pbk.) :
• 9780230576391 (pbk.)

• £26.99

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• List of Tables VIII; Acknowledgments IX-X; Notes on the Contributors XI-XXII; Work, Workplaces And Workers: The Contemporary Experience; S.C.Bolton & M.Houlihan; The Sunlit Uplands Or Bleak House? Just How Good Are Today's Workplaces?; D.Coats; Working But Poor: Experiences In The American Low-Wage Labour Market; M.Bok & L.Simmons; The Reality of Vulnerability Among Britain's Non - Unionised Workers with Problems at Work; A.Pollert; Working In The Gold Rush: Polish Migrants' Careers and the Irish Hospitality Sector; J.Wickham, E.Moriarty, A.Bobek & J. Salamonska; Housekeepers And The Siren Call of Hotel Chains; C.Guegnard & S.A.Meriot; Balancing Trays And Smiles: What Restaurant Servers Teach Us About Hard Work In The Service Economy; M.Gatta; Inequality Street? Working Life In A British Chocolate Factory; B.Hopkins; The Forgotten Factories: Supermarket Suppliers and Dignity At Work In The Contemporary Economy; K.Newsome, P.Thompson & J.Commander; Life On The Supermarket Floor: Replenishment Assistants and Just - In-Time Systems; K.Mulholland; Just 'Mothers Really'? Role Stretch And Low Pay Amongst Female Classroom Assistants; C.Warhurst, S.A.Hurrell, K.Gilbert, D.Nickson, J.Commander & I.Calder; Vocabularies Of Skill: The Case Of Care And Support Workers; A.Junor, I.Hampson & K.R.Ogle; The Emotional Socialisation of Junior Doctors: Accumulating An Emotional Debt; C.Boyd-Quinn; Who's Driving Now? GPS And The Restructuring Of Taxi Work; C.Grampp, M.Houlihan & P.McGrath; Creating, Connecting and Correcting: Motivations and Meanings of Work Blogging Amongst Public Service Workers; V.Ellis & J.Richards; Author Index; Subject Index.

• Work and society sociological approaches themes and methods
• body reader essential social and cultural readings
• Emotion management in the workplace
• Employment and the family the reconfiguration of work and family life in contemporary societies
• realities of work experiencing work and employment in contemporary society
• gender knot unraveling our patriarchal legacy
• managed heart commercialization of human feeling
• emotional labour of nursing its impact on interpersonal relations management and the educational environment in nursing
• Measuring the extent of domestic violence
• Gender culture and society contemporary femininities and masculinities
• Disciplining Foucault feminism power and the body
• realities of work
• Women on trial a study of the female suspect defendant and offender in the criminal law and criminal justice system
• Murder social and historical approaches to understanding murder and murderers
• Murder and society
• Masculinities crime and criminology men heterosexuality and the criminal ised other
• Feminist perspectives on the body
• body and social theory
• Content analysis for the social sciences and humanities
• After crime and punishment pathways to offender reintegration
• Psychology in prisons
• violences of men
• Gender a sociological reader
• Goffman reader
• body in society an introduction
• Handbook of studies on men & masculinities
• Marxism and social theory
• Gender and justice new concepts and approaches
• Human rights a very short introduction
• risk society and beyond critical issues for social theory
• Consumerism as a way of life
• Gender crime and criminal justice
• Understanding deviance a guide to the sociology of crime and rule breaking
• Mapping murder walking in killers footsteps
• short introduction to social research
• Key sociological thinkers
• Handbook of crime prevention and community safety
• sociology of work introduction
• Capitalism and modern social theory an analysis of the writings of Marx Durkheim and Max Weber
• Perspectives in sociology
• Modernity and self identity self and society in the late modern age
• Social research issues methods and process
• Understanding masculinities social relations and cultural arenas
• Women and crime
• Controlling crime
• Transforming qualitative information thematic analysis and code development
• Doing social science research
• Sociology work and industry
• Criminological perspectives essential readings
• sociology of health promotion critical analyses of consumption lifestyle and risk
• introduction to qualitative research
• problem of crime
• Basics of qualitative research grounded theory procedures and techniques
• Qualitative researching
• Questionnaire design interviewing and attitude measurement