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Informationen zum Autor Marek Korczynski is a Reader in Employment Relations at Loughborough University. His research centres on social theory and work, on the sociology of service work and on music and work. He is the author of On the Front Line: Organization of Work in the Service Economy (Cornell University Press, 1999, co-authored) and Human Resource Management in Service Work (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002). Randy Hodson is Professor of Sociology at Ohio State University. His research interests include worker citizenship and resistance, management behavior, and coworker relations. He is also engaged in research on economic transformations in Eastern Europe and China. His recent books include Dignity at Work (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and Worlds of Work: Building an International Sociology of Work (coauthored with Daniel B. Cornfield, Kluwer/Plenum, 2002). He is also coauthor with Teresa A. Sullivan of The Social Organization of Work, 3rd edition (Wadsworth, 2001) and editor of the JAI/ Elsevier Science annual series on Research in the Sociology of Work. For more information see his web site at: http://www.soc.sbs.ohio-state.edu/rdh/.Paul Edwards is a Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Warwick and a Fellow of the British Academy. Current research focuses on employment policies in multinational companies and skills and training in small firms. The most recent of his eight books is The Politics of Working Life (OUP, 2005, with Judy Wajcman). He is a former editor of Work, Employment and Society. Klappentext 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 anessential text for academics and advanced students concerned with the sociology of work and labour/industrial relations. Zusammenfassung Brings together leading academics from important schools of social and economic theory to make a case for the relevance of these perspectives in contributing to the analysis of contemporary work. This text is intended for academics and advanced students concerned with the sociology of work and labour/industrial relations. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Marek Korczynski, Randy Hodson, and Paul Edwards: Introduction: Competing, collaborating and reinforcing theories Theory Overview 2: Richard Hyman: Marxist thought and the analysis of work 3: Graham Sewell and James Barker: Weberian thought and the analysis of work 4: James Lincoln and Didier Guillot: A Durkheimian view of organizational culture 5: Heidi Gottfried: Feminist thought and the analysis of work 6: Gibson Burrell: Foucauldian and postmodern thought and the analysis of work 7: Steve Machin: Neo-classical economic thought and the analysis of work 8: Geoffrey Hodgson: The institutional economics tradition and the analysis of work 9: Nicole Biggart: Economic sociology and the analysis of work 10: Heather Haveman: Organizational sociology and the analysis of work 11: Karen Legge: Ethical analysis and work Integrative Chapters 12: Jacques Belanger: Technology and work 13: Keith Macdonald: Professions 14: Steve Frenkel: Globalization and work 15: Robin Leidner: Identity and work 16: Peter Cappelli: Conclusion: Change at work and opportunities for theory ...
