Introduction -- Terms and concepts -- Work discourses -- Work and language -- Categories of analysis -- Divisions of labour: the simultaneity and combination of (different) labour relations -- Historical cross-sections -- Combining labour relations in the longue duree

Productivity and the workplace -- The changing labour market - myths and reality -- The global workforce -- The future workplace -- Better managers in the future workplace -- The future health of the workforce -- The future of pay & reward - the triumph of faith over evidence? -- The future of...

Coffee from East Africa, wine from California, chocolate from the Ivory Coast - all those every day products are based on labour, often produced under appalling conditions, but always involving the combination of various work processes we are often not aware of. What is the day-to-day reality...