Research Catalog

Title

Working life : renewing labour process analysis / edited by Paul Thompson and Chris Smith.

Publication

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Thompson, Paul, 1951 January 1-
• Smith, Chris.

Description

xv, 350 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Labour process theory is consolidated in 'Working Life' to develop a credible account of the relationships between capitalist political economy, work systems and the strategies and practices of actors in the employment relationship. Beyond this, the book explores the future of labour process analysis.

Series Statement

Critical perspectives on work and employment

Uniform Title

Critical perspectives on work and employment.

Subject

• Employment (Economic theory)
• Labor
• Labor economics
• Arbeidsanalyse
• Arbeids- en organisatiepsychologie

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Introduction : labour process theory in retrospect and prospect -- Debating labour process theory and the sociology of work -- Developing labour process analysis : themes from industrial sociology and future directions -- Labour process theory and critical realism -- The core theory : critiques, defences and advances -- Skill and the labour process : the conditions and consequences of change -- Normative control and beyond in contemporary capitalism -- The repertoire of employee opposition -- Renewing and revising the engagement between labour process theory and technology -- Gender, labour process theory and intersectionality : une liaison dangereuse? -- Old ambiguities and new developments : exploring the emotional labour process -- Embodying labour -- The globalization of service work : anaylsing the transnational call centre value chain -- Go with the flow : labour power mobility and labour process theory -- Making space for geography in labour process theory -- Beyond the blank slate : identities and interests at work.

ISBN

• 9780230222236 (pbk.)
• 0230222234 (pbk.)

OCLC

559746182

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library