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Social exclusion and poverty -- Social work's enduring tensions -- Theories of work and society -- Work, exclusion, poverty and social work -- Theoretical concepts: family, gender and discourse -- Social work and reproduction: regulation and family life -- New forms of relations and inequality? -- Social work: the power of consumption and the creation of customers -- A changing landscape: theoretical approaches to 'community' -- Social work, social capital and community -- Using sociology to inform practice -- Contradictions and change?

Work and Politics develops a historical and comparative sociology of workplace relations in industrial capitalist societies. Professor Sabel argues that the system of mass production using specialized machines and mostly unskilled workers was the result of the distribution of power and wealth in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Great Britain and the United States, not of an inexorable logic of technological advance. Once in place, this system created the need for workers with systematically different ideas about the acquisition of skill and the desirability of long-term employment. Professor Sabel shows how capitalists have played on naturally existing division in the workforce in order to match workers with diverse ambitions to jobs in different parts of the labor market. But he also demonstrates the limits, different from work group to work group, of these forms of collaboration. ; https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/1171/thumbnail.jpg