"This leading comprehensive text for courses on the sociology of work covers many vital new topics since the 2015 edition, just as it continues to offer foundational writings and discusses different types of jobs, inequality and intersectionality, work and family, and more."

The education system should emphasize work skills / Ray Marshall & Marc Tucker -- The education system should not emphasize work skills / Peter Shaw -- A German-style apprenticeship program would be effective / Wilfried Prewo -- A German-style apprenticeship program may not be effective /...

The machine tells the body how to work: "automation" and the postwar automobile industry -- The electronic brain's tired hands: automation, the digital computer, and the degradation of clerical work -- The liberation of the leisure class: debating freedom and work in the 1950s and early 1960s --...