The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment

729 Pages·2016·8.721 MB·English

by  Stephen Edgell (Editor), Heidi Gottfried (Editor), Edward Granter (Editor)

The SAGE Handbook of
the Sociology of Work
and Employment
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Contents
List of Figures viii
List of Tables and Boxes ix
Notes on the Editors and Contributors x
1 Introduction: Studies of Work and Employment at the Global Frontier 1
Stephen Edgell, Heidi Gottfried and Edward Granter
PART I HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND SOCIAL DIVISIONS 15
2 The Disciplinary Career of the Sociology of Work 17
Tim Strangleman
3 Work and Social Theory 34
Tracey Warren
4 Class and Work 52
Barry Eidlin
5 Gender and Work 73
Harriet Bradley
6 Race, Racialization and Work 93
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
PART II THE EXPERIENCE OF WORK 109
7 Good Jobs, Bad Jobs 111
Arne L. Kalleberg
8 The Origins of the Idea and Ideal of Dignity in the
Sociology of Work and Employment 129
Philip Hodgkiss
9 Capital and Labour: The Shifting Terrains of Struggle and
Accommodation in Labour and Employment Relations 148
Miguel Martínez Lucio
10 From Management to Leadership 167
Leo McCann
11 Unruly Subjects: Misbehaviour in the Workplace 185
Stephen Ackroyd and Paul Thompson
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12 Rediscovery of the Labour Process 205
Chris Smith
13 The Skill Debate: Concepts, Measures and Evidence 225
Alan Felstead
PART III W ORK AND ORGANIZATION 243
14 From Bureaucracy to Networks 245
Charles Heckscher
15 Organizational Culture and Work 262
Mats Alvesson
16 Fordism and the Golden Age of Atlantic Capitalism 283
Matt Vidal
17 Beyond Fordism 306
Huw Beynon
18 Interactive Service Work 329
Amy S. Wharton
19 The Organization of Service Work 348
Kiran Mirchandani
PART IV NON-STANDARD FORMS OF WORK AND EMPLOYMENT 365
20 Employment Uncertainty and Risk 367
Vicki Smith
21 Destandardization: Qualitative and Quantitative 385
Françoise Carré
22 Informal Employment: Theory and Reality 407
Martha Alter Chen
23 Precarious Work 428
Kevin Hewison
24 Unpaid Domestic Labor 444
Janeen Baxter and Tsui-o Tai
PART V WORK AND LIFE BEYOND EMPLOYMENT 467
25 Unemployment 469
Ken Roberts
Contents vii
26 Volunteering and Unpaid Work 485
Rebecca Taylor
27 Work-Life Balance 502
Abigail Gregory
28 Working Time 520
Michael Bittman
29 Work and Social Policy 541
Karin Gottschall and Irene Dingeldey
PART VI GLOBALIZATION AND THE FUTURE OF WORK 557
30 Global Value Chains, Organizations and Industrial Work 559
Paul Stewart and Brian Garvey
31 Globalization and Outsourcing 576
Winifred R. Poster and Nima L. Yolmo
32 Globalization and Labour Migrations 597
Eleonore Kofman
33 Critiques of Work 616
David Frayne
34 Global Labour Politics in Informal and Precarious Jobs 634
Jennifer Jihye Chun and Rina Agarwala
35 The Future of Work: Escaping the Current Dystopian Trajectory
and Building Better Alternatives 651
Peter Evans and Chris Tilly
Author Index 672
Subject Index 689
List of Figures
11.1 Dimensions and forms of misbehaviour (classic forms of
misbehaviour highlighted) 190
11.2 Modalities of disengagement 199
13.1 Level of influence over the day-to-day organisation of work,
Europe, 2010 229
13.2 Level of influence over the pace of work, Europe, 2010 229
13.3 Qualification required trends, Britain, 1986–2012 233
13.4 Generic skill change, Britain, 1997–2012 233
13.5 Problem-solving skills at work, OECD, 2011/12 234
13.6 Incidence of over-qualification, OECD, 2011/12 239
22.1 WIEGO model of informal employment: hierarchy of earnings
and poverty risk by employment status and sex 411
24.1 Women’s weekly housework hours, 2002 455
24.2 Women’s weekly housework hours, 2012 455
24.3 Change in women’s housework hours, 2002–2012 455
24.4 Men’s weekly housework hours, 2002 456
24.5 Men’s weekly housework hours, 2012 456
24.6 Change in men’s housework hours, 2002–2012 456
24.7 Women’s percent of total housework time, 2002 458
24.8 Women’s percent of total housework time, 2012 458
24.9 Change in women’s percent of housework time, 2002–2012 458
24.10 Change in sharing of household tasks, 2002–2012 459
28.1 Proportion of male workers working short and long usual hours,
1994 and 1985 530
28.2 Proportion of female workers working short and long usual hours,
1994 and 1985 531
List of Tables and Boxes
TABLES
5.1 Percentage share of employment of women and men by occupational
categories in 2013 77
5.2 Daily contributions of men and women to domestic labour at
different time periods 83
5.3 Female labour market participation (economic activity) rates in
selected countries, 2012 (female population aged 15+) 86
13.1 Reading, maths and science test scores, OECD country rankings, 2012 235
13.2 Real and formal over-qualification, Britain, 1992–2012 (%) 238
16.1 Core organizational models, USA, 1826–present 288
16.2 Fordist regimes, USA, UK, Germany, 1945–1973 292
16.3 Phases of GDP growth, 1870–1984* 295
16.4 Phases of growth in labor productivity, 1870–1984* 296
16.5 Employment structure, 1870–1984* 297
16.6 Imports and exports of goods as a percentage of nominal GDP 298
22.1 Informal employment as a percentage of total non-agricultural
employment, 2004–2010 413
22.2 Informal employment inside and outside the informal sector as
a percentage of total non-agricultural employment, 2004–2010 414
22.3 Informal wage employment and informal self-employment as
a percentage of informal non-agricultural employment, 2004–2010 414
22.4 Home-based industrial outworkers on a continuum of independent
to dependent work arrangements 420
23.1 GDP and precarious work, most recent data 435
BOXES
12.1 Main concepts in labour process analysis 208
12.2 New Trends 218
22.1 World Bank 2007 Model of Informality: Composition and Causes 412