The sociology of industry

This book provides an excellent introduction to the sociology of industry. It comprises of three sections, which in turn address: the relation between industry and other sub-systems or institutions in society; the internal structure of industry and the roles people play within that structure; the social actions of individuals and groups within an organisational structure. It is an excellent resource for students of sociology who have an interest in its application to the 'world of work'.

This book is addressed mainly to students of sociology who are especiallyinterested in its application to the 'world of work'. It is intended as anintroduction, but assumes that the reader is not completely unfamiliar withsociological approaches to the study of society. The purpose of this book istwofold: to synthesise the growing body of relevant empirical material, and toshow how sociological theory at different levels of analysis applies to the threeinterrelated aspects of the subject-matter. These three inter-related aspectsconstitute the three sections of the book