Publisher's Synopsis
One- or two-semester courses in Sociology-Work and Occupations, Industrial Sociology, and Gender in the Workplace.
Employing all major sociological perspectives, this book analyzes the field of work from the perspective of both individual workers and the organizations that employ them. The purpose of the book is to provide students with an understanding of the dynamics of social relations in the workplace, and the social and economic forces that are reshaping work as we approach the 21st Century