- Observation Archive's early work included the well-known worktown project. The early project was wound up in 1950, but interest in … represents a cycling through of ideas about the relationships between health, sickness, and work, via my reading of some of the …' and on working life were consulted. Unlike much of the data about sickness in relation to work - which relies on …

control of their lives, and do have well articulated ambitions and plans to achieve them with respect especially to work and …

Most current sociological approaches to work recognise that the same activity may be undertaken within a variety of … article takes care of the elderly as an exemplary case for probing some of the linkages between paid and unpaid work. We … attempt to unravel the interconnections between forms of care work undertaken in different socio-economic conditions in two …

Many volumes have been written cataloguing and detailing the long-term or historical changes in the process of work … work and leisure are seen as taking place either 'in' or 'away from' the home. The space between home and the place of work … consideration of the work and leisure that individuals undertake on the train. We draw on own experience and on empirical data from …

terms of our use of language and ways of conceptualising care at work. We explain how we operationalised the concept of care … at work through the development of a questionnaire, which sought to map the care policies and services offered by a range … research, we seek to bridge the sociologies of work and care. …

Revolution.' Inevitably, this reconceptualization raises questions about the value of many forms of contemporary work and what …

that studies of the under-representation of women lack attention to the detail of how scientific work is done in practice …. Both are necessary to understand the gendering of science work. Our arguments are based on findings of a qualitative study … ways in which institutional forces, particularly contractual insecurity and the linear career, work to reproduce patterns …

paper contrasts the work of production with the work of repair and argues that the later is an artisanal process in tune … with the species being of humans identified by Marx. Amongst the distinctive characteristics of the work of repair are the … the work of repairing cars in local garages. Video data – here summarised with still images – is used to show the …