From 15–21 July 2018, the World Congress of Sociology, organized by the International Sociological Association (ISA), took place in Toronto, Canada. Here, TA research continued to feature prominently at ISA, this time focusing on conceptual approaches to the relation of technology and work....

The paper reviews the progress of the sociology of work in Britain since 1945. It identifies two long-standing influences, Marxism and Weberian analysis, and a third more recent approach shaped by post-modernism. It disputes claims associated with the last, that the field suffers from...