Aims to subject to empirical scrutiny the claim that peripheral work is characterized by a range of undesirable characteristics. The analysis of data from the Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (AWIRS) clearly shows that there is a link between peripheral forms of employment and...

Introduction : labour process theory in retrospect and prospect -- Debating labour process theory and the sociology of work -- Developing labour process analysis : themes from industrial sociology and future directions -- Labour process theory and critical realism -- The core theory : critiques,...