Introduction : one nation under work -- The hours of inequality -- Nickel and timed -- The electronic whip -- Time machines -- More than money -- Back to work -- We control the clocks -- Labor's forgotten fight.

It is now 35 years since the death of Professor Joan Woodward, one of the founding figures of organization studies. Professor Woodward died in 1971 at the age of 54 after a relatively brief but highly distinguished career as a management researcher and teacher, and just six years after the...

"Probing the ominous side of career advice to "follow your passion," this data-driven study explains how the passion principle fails us and perpetuates inequality by class, gender, and race; and it suggests how we can reconfigure our relationships to paid work. "Follow your passion" is a popular...