Harms of Work

Dr Anthony Lloyd is Co-Director at the Teesside Centre for Realist Criminology and Senior Lecturer in Criminology & Sociology at the School of Social Sciences, Humanities & Law, Teesside University. His research interests include work and employment, labour markets and the leisure and service economy, consumer culture, social harm, critical criminology, youth identity and transitions, political economy, debt, social theory, class cultures, and social change. He researches broadly on the topics of work and leisure, most recently investigating the lives of young men and women engaged in low-paid service sector jobs in the North East. He has published work in this area, including his first book, Labour Markets and Identity on the Post-Industrial Assembly Line (Ashgate, 2013).

• Introduction;Chapter 1 – Reinterpreting social harm;Chapter 2 – Restructuring labour markets;Chapter 3 – Organisational culture and management practice;Chapter 4 – The absence of stability;Chapter 5 – The absence of protection;Chapter 6 – The positive motivation to harm;Chapter 7 – The violence of ideology;Conclusion.

"Drawing on original and insightful ethnographic research, this book is indispensable for academics, practicioners and policy makers interested in the harms associated with contemporary service work. A compelling and thought-provoking read." Sam Scott, University of Gloucestershire