ON WORK: HISTORICAL, COMPARATIVE AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES

by Pahl, R.E., ed. (Chris Middleton, R.W. Malcolmson, Maxine Berg, Jane Humphries, Herbert G. Gutman, Krishan Kumar, Stephen Wood, John Kelly, Michael Burawoy, J. Child, Fergus Murray, Giovanni Solinas, Gabor Kertesi, Gyorgy Sziraczki, David Stark, et

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Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1989, reprint.. 752 pp, 8vo (9" H), soft cover. Tables, graphs. ISBN 063115762X "This book brings together some of the most significant recent contributions to the debate (on work and society) to provide a thorough coverage of important issues. In part I the pa. st experience of work is examined - the emergence of the male breadwinner and collective mass worker, and the whole concept of unemployment and the unemployed. These patterns of work and attitudes to it lasted around 200 years, but have recently . b e en in decline. Part II examines the receding dominance of such patterns under the stress of new divisions in labour markets and new strategies among employers, workers and households. Part III focuses particularly on the work done by women - p. ai d and unpaid, domestically and globally - in the light of feminist thinking since the early 1970s. The emphasis in the fourth part is on forms of work outside employment, which have come to be of central interest in recent years. Collective wor. k a nd pooling of labour in varying contexts have always existed; new balances and mixtures are now being formed. The fifth part looks at the new processes of disaggregated capitalism - from homeworking to office automation and the new factories i. n th e t hird world. Finally, some fundamental questions about the need to work, in both social science and philosophical terms, are aired. 'On Work' will be essential reading for students of sociology, history and politics." Interior - minor bro. wning to pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - small crease at top corner of front cover - light migration into first few pages, tiny surface paper tear (re-glued) at top of spine, minor rubbing. Very Good.

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