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Economic institutions are undergoing radical transformations, and with these has come a reconfiguration of labor market institutions, managerial conceptions of work, and the nature of authority and control over employees as well. This volume addresses a wide array of questions to better understand these dramatic changes

Research in the Sociology of Work (RSW) is a twice yearly publication that examines current issues related to the sociology of work. The series provides a comprehensive collection of research focused on the social, economic, political and cultural aspects of work and labour. This volume includes contributions which discuss: work and identity, including the experiences of actors and teachers; authority and control at work, including insights from the hospitality and publishing industries; and issues of gender and sexuality in the workplace, including insights on sexual harassment in the workplace.

While most agree that major changes are taking place in the exact nature of the advanced capitalist workplace, there is disagreement as to the specific nature of these new production concepts. The ambiguity owes to the asymmetrical distribution of theory & research in this area, with markedly more interest directed to managerial initiatives than to the meaning regimes that workers themselves contribute to the new managerial systems. This chapter provides an ethnographic study of the forms of subjectivity that emerge among individual workers faced with the reorganization of their jobs, considering as well the action-orientations that workers take on. The chapter also outlines an action-theoretic approach to work & social inequality, with particular focus on lived experience within economic institutions. K. Coddon

This volume presents the most recent studies of work and labor in the digital age as it unfolds in both Europe and the United States.One of the critical questions facing modernity concerns the reconfiguration of paid employment, which has been subject to wholesale changes that have widespread consequences for workers, their families, and the institutional structure that characterizes capitalist societies. A key driver of these changes has been the digital revolution and the rapid proliferation of the gig economy. Together with social network sites for hiring, the spread of robotics, and the rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning, they leave virtually no occupation untouched.

On work and alienation / Kai Erikson -- Unresolved issues in the relationship between work and personality / Melvin L. Kohn -- Power lost and status gained : a step in the direction of sex equality / Rose Laub Coser -- The cultural perspective and the study of work / Cynthia Fuchs Epstein -- Work institutions and the sociology of everyday life / Arthur L. Stinchcombe -- Participation in the irregular economy / Louis A. Ferman -- Double lives / Stanton Wheeler -- Labors of love in theory and practice : a prospectus / Eliot Freidson -- Forced labor in concentration camps / Lewis A. Coser -- The split society / Seymour S. Bellin and S.M. Miller -- Brother, can you spare a job? : work and welfare in the United States / Theda Skocpol -- Racial tension, cultural conflicts, and problems of employment training programs / Elijah Anderson -- Work sharing : an underused policy for combating unemployment? / Fred J. Best -- Planning for work sharing : the promise and problems of egalitarian work time reduction / Herbert J. Gans

"This volume presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political, and economic origins, its manifestations in the USA, Europe, Asia, and the Global South, and its consequences for personal and family life"--

This volume presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political and economic origins, its manifestations in the USA, Europe, Asia, and the Global South, and its consequences for personal and family life