A New Sociology of Work

This collection examines the concept of work, questioning what constitutes work, where work ends and other activities begin, and how different forms of labour are organized across and within societies. It asks what might be required of "a new sociology of work" and why such a project is vital for understanding peoplers"s working lives at the start of the twenty-first century. At the bookrs"s core is the acknowledgement that work goes on outside formal employment as well as within it, in the family, the community and within various institutions. Drawing together fieldwork from young researchers as well as those eminent in the field, it explores how a diverse range of localized, temporal and socio-economic factors shape peoplers"s experiences of work. The collection offers particular insight into the experiences of people who are constrained in their economic activities. In the opening and closing chapters, the editors develop a distinctive theoretical framework and draw together key conclusions and policy recommendations.

Lynne Pettinger is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex. Her research interests include work and consumption in the service sector, with particular reference to aesthetic labour, and to the relationship between production and consumption more generally. She is currently examining the relationship between work, leisure and consumption in the lives of amateur musicians.

Jane Parry is Senior Research Fellow, who has worked in the Employment Group at the Policy Studies Institute (PSI) since 2000. A qualitative sociologist, her research interests include labour market disadvantage, lifestyle transitions, and the significance of work for individual identities, in particular, how these are affected by class, gender, ethnicity and occupational sector.

Rebecca Taylor is Research Fellow at the Policy Studies Institute whose research interests include voluntary work, community work and forms of work outside employment. Recent research has focused on those marginalized by the labour market such as ethnic minorities and older workers.

Miriam Glucksmann is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. She has longstanding research interests in the historical and contemporary restructuring of work and employment. Her books include Women on the Line (1982) published under the pseudonym of Ruth Cavendish and Cotton and Casuals: the gendered organisation of labour in time and space (2000). Currently she is engaged on a three-year programme of research on ‘Transformations of work: new frontiers, shifting boundaries, changing temporalities’ as an ESRC Professorial Fellow.

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Part 1: Conceptualizing work

1

(36)

Confronting the challenges of work today: New horizons and perspectives

3

(16)

Jane Parry

Rebecca Taylor

Lynne Pettinger

Miriam Glucksmann

Shifting boundaries and interconnections: Extending the `total social organisation of labour'

19

(18)

Miriam Glucksmann

Part 2: Re-examining paid employment

37

(52)

Friends, relations and colleagues: The blurred boundaries of the workplace

39

(17)

Lynne Pettinger

Interaction distance and the social meaning of occupations

56

(17)

Wendy Bottero

Changing times: Flexibilization and the re-organization of work in feminized labour markets

73

(16)

Angela Coyle

Part 3: Privatized work

89

(28)

Time and labour: Fathers' perceptions of employment and childcare

91

(13)

Esther Dermott

Doing the dirty work of social class? Mothers' work in support of their children's schooling

104

(13)

Diane Reay

Part 4: Challenging the boundaries of the public and private spheres

117

(50)

Rethinking voluntary work

119

(17)

Rebecca F. Taylor

Markets and politics: Public and private relations in the case of prostitution

136

(13)

Jackie West

Terry Austrin

Care in the Community? Gender and the reconfiguration of community work in a post-mining neighbourhood

149

(18)

Jane Parry

Part 5: International comparisons

167

(52)

Public and private: Implications for care work

169

(19)

Pat Armstrong

Hugh Armstrong

Care, work and feeling

188

(16)

Clare Ungerson

Welfare State regimes and the social organization of labour: Childcare arrangements and the work/family balance dilemma

204

(15)

Margarita Leon

Bibliography

219

(19)

Notes on Contributors

238

(3)

Index

241

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