Als Adam Smith und andere die Theorie freier Märkte entwickelten, war das ein progressives Projekt: Die Freiheit der Märkte sollte auch zur Befreiung der Lohnabhängigen führen - von den Zwängen obrigkeitsstaatlicher Strukturen, vor allem aber von der Gängelung durch die Arbeitgeber. In...

Examining women's diverse experiences of male-dominated work, this ground-breaking book explores what sexuality and gender means to women working in the construction and transport industries. Using accounts from heterosexual women and lesbians working in professional, manual and operational...

1. Work and labour in great transformations -- 2. Fictitious decommodification : the failure of industrial citizenship -- 3. Labour recommodification in the global transformation -- 4. Inequality, class and the 'precariat' -- 5. Crumbling barriers to decommodification -- 6. Occupational...

Branded Lives explores the increasingly popular concept of employee branding as a new form of employment relationship based on brand representation. In doing so it examines the ways in which the production and consumption of meaning at work are increasingly mediated by the brand. -- This...