Handbook on the Sociology of Work

Edited by Chris Rees, Professor of Employment Relations, Royal Holloway, University of London, Ödül Bozkurt, Professor of Work and Employment, University of Sussex Business School, UK, Stephanie A. Limoncelli, Professor of Sociology, Loyola Marymount University, USA and Jonathan Preminger, Senior Lecturer in Employment Relations, Cardiff University, UK

• ContentsSociology of work: conceptual legacies, contemporary issues xviJonathan Preminger, Stephanie Limoncelli, Ödül Bozkurt and Chris ReesPART I CONTEXT AND DIMENSIONS OF WORK1 Financialisation and work: disconnected capitalism, new corporategovernance, and the future of labour militancy 2Pau López-Gaitán and Giorgos Gouzoulis2 Marketisation, contracting out and the regulation of labour 17E.K. Sarter3 Towards a sociology of labour regulation and enforcement in the context ofthe modern fissured workplace 31Andrew B. Wolf, Michael Piore, Hana Shepherd, Janice Fine and Jacob Barnes4 The changing practice and sociological study of management control 46Ian Roper5 A multi-level perspective on employee voice and silence 61Emma Hughes6 Is alt-labour really “alternative”? Worker activism and representationbeyond trade unions 76Gretchen Purser and Sergio Saravia7 The sociology of work and resistance: concepts and cases from the goodsmovement industry 90Ellen Reese, Abe Walker and Teke WigginPART II INEQUALITIES AND DIVISIONS AT WORK8 Classed inequalities at work: understanding culture, closure and capitalism 107Louise Ashley9 The limits of corporate diversity management: toward new models ofworkplace justice 122Rana Abulbasal and Christy Glass10 Gender, family and work: mechanisms for the reproduction of genderinequality in the workplace 138Elizabeth A. Kiester11 Race matters at work: contemporary workplace dynamics of racial andethnic inequality 153Eli R. Wilson12 Age and ageing in the contemporary workplace: an opportunity forsociological understanding and analysis 166Cara Reed and Katrina Pritchard13 The sociology of youth employment, unemployment and employability 180Rachel J. WildePART III FORMS AND EXPERIENCES OF WORK14 Factory work: the making, remaking, and reimagining of the factorysystem of work 194Daina Bellido de Luna and Miguel Martínez-Lucio15 Agricultural work: unfreedom and resistance 209Kathleen Sexsmith and Rebecca Tarlau16 Craft as an ambivalent future of work: from deskilling and nostalgia toneo-craft fetishism and the gentrification of labour 224Chris Land17 Dissolving the Cartesian body-mind division: current conceptualisations ofthe embodiment of knowledge work 238Hanne Vesala and Markku Sippola18 Corporal control: aesthetic labour as an employer strategy 254Chris Warhurst19 Emotional labour: the management of feeling and display in the workplace 267James Frederick Green20 From workplaces to workspaces: the rise of coworking and independentmodes of work 281Janet Merkel21 Informal work: definitions, drivers, agency 298Chris Tilly22 A critical theoretical narrative of inequality in precarious work 313Valeria Pulignano23 The spectrum of platform labour: conditions and agency across location-and web-based platforms 327Sarrah Kassem24 Traditions and paradigms in domestic labour research 342Man-Yee Kan and Wei WangPART IV THEMES AND ISSUES IN WORK25 Skill, time, ethics and care: applying a migration lens to the sociology ofwork 357Leah Williams Veazey and Anna Boucher26 Making good and bad jobs visible: grading jobs and occupations in socialscience research 372Mark Williams27 Work and climate crisis – sociological analysis in demand 387Vera Trappmann, Jo Cutter and Felix Schulz28 Form follows function? The twisted encounters of technology and work 402Kendra Briken29 Unfree labour: how modern is modern slavery? 416Jean Jenkins30 Critical perspectives on work, health and wellbeing: past, present andfuture 430Ulla Forseth31 Love, death and robots: envisaging the future of work 445Edward Granter, Mickael Peiro and Jeremy Aroles

‘This Handbook includes an excellent set of cutting-edge contributions that deftly summarize and critically dissect the rich sociological scholarship on work and labor in the 21st century. Theoretically sophisticated, and at the same time deeply rooted in the empirical literature, this volume will be equally valuable for students and for seasoned scholars.’