Review Essay: Teaching the Sociology of Work and Employment

Ackroyd, S., R. Batt , P. Thompson and P.S. Tolbert (eds) (2005) The Oxford Handbook of Work and Organization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bolton, S.C. ( 2005) Emotion Management in the Workplace. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Castree, N. , N.M. Coe , K. Ward and M. Samers ( 2004) Spaces of Work: Global Capitalism and the Geographies of Labour. London: Sage.

Coates, D. ( 2000) Models of Capitalism. Cambridge : Polity.

Edwards, P. (ed.) (2003) Industrial Relations: Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell.

Elger, T. ( 2008) ‘Sociologists, the Restructuring of Higher Education and the Erosion of Critical Social Science’, Network: the Newsletter of the BSA 100(Autumn): 16.

Gallie, D. , M. White , Y. Cheng and M. Tomlinson ( 1998) Restructuring the Employment Relationship. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Herzenberg, S.A. , J.A. Alic and H. Wial ( 1998) New Rules for a New Economy: Employment and Opportunity in Postindustrial America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Korczynski, M., R. Hodson and P. Edwards (eds) ( 2006) Social Theory at Work. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

McCall, L. ( 2001) Complex Inequalities: Gender, Class and Race in the New Economy. New York: Routledge.

Purcell, K. , P. Elias , R. Davis and N. Wilton ( 2005) The Class of ’99: The Early Labour Market Experiences of Recent Graduates. IER Full Report, University of Warwick , URL (consulted June 2009): http://www.2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ier/news/classof99fullreport.pdf

Rubery, J. and D. Grimshaw ( 2002) The Organization of Employment: An International Perspective . Basingstoke: Palgrave .

Strangleman, T. ( 2005) ‘Sociological Futures and the Sociology of Work’ , Sociological Research Online, 10.4, URL (consulted June 2009): http://www.socresonline.org.uk/10/4/strangleman.html

Strangleman, T. and Y. Warren ( 2008) Work and Society: Sociological Approaches, Themes and Methods. London: Routledge.

Thompson, P. ( 2003) ‘Disconnected Capitalism: Or Why Employers Can’t Keep Their Side of the Bargain’, Work, Employment and Society 17(2): 359-78.

Thompson, P. and D. McHugh (2002) Work Organisations, 3rd ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Tilly, C. and C. Tilly ( 1998) Work under Capitalism. London : Westview Press.

Wolkowitz, C. ( 2006) Bodies at Work. London: Sage.