By: Jeffrey J. Sallaz (University of Arizona)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745653679, Pub Date US Mar 2013, Pub Date RoW Jan 2013, Pub Date Aus Jan 2013
E-book, ISBN: 9780745665160, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Work is, and always will be, a central institution of society. What makes a capitalist society unique is that it treats the human capacity to engage ...

By: Frederick F. Wherry (University of Michigan)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745647456, Pub Date US Jan 2012, Pub Date RoW Dec 2011, Pub Date Aus Dec 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745647449, Pub Date US Jan 2012, Pub Date RoW Dec 2011, Pub Date Aus Dec 2011

Description: What are the logics of pricing, and why do some pricing schemes defy standard economic expectations? What explains the different labor market outco...

By: Francesco Duina (Bates College, Maine)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745648309, Pub Date US Sep 2011, Pub Date RoW Aug 2011, Pub Date Aus Aug 2011
E-book, ISBN: 9780745672991, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Institutions are central to economic life. They have a major impact on consumer preferences, the actions and processes of firms, levels of wealth and...

By: Celia Lury (Goldsmith?s College, University of London)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745643304, Pub Date RoW Apr 2011, Pub Date Aus Apr 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745643298, Pub Date RoW Apr 2011, Pub Date Aus Apr 2011

Description: The second edition of Consumer Culture brings this successful introductory textbook right up-to-date for students who are interested in the nature an...

By: Patrik Aspers (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany and Stockholm University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745645780, Pub Date US Mar 2011, Pub Date RoW Jan 2011, Pub Date Aus Jan 2011
E-book, ISBN: 9780745655123, Pub Date US May 2013, Pub Date RoW May 2013,

Description: Our lives have gradually become dominated by markets. They are not only at the heart of capitalistic economies all over the world, but also central i...

By: Howard Lune (Associate Professor of Sociology, Hunter College, CUNY)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644288, Pub Date US Dec 2010, Pub Date RoW Oct 2010, Pub Date Aus Oct 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745644271, Pub Date US Dec 2010, Pub Date RoW Oct 2010, Pub Date Aus Oct 2010

Description: Read the first chapter of this innovative new text here Social life is a collective process, and virtually all of social life in contemporary indus...

By: Keith Hart (Goldsmiths, University of London), Jean-Louis Laville (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Antonio David Cattani (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745649801, Pub Date US Nov 2010, Pub Date RoW Oct 2010, Pub Date Aus Oct 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745649795, Pub Date US Nov 2010, Pub Date RoW Oct 2010, Pub Date Aus Oct 2010

Description: The global financial crisis has renewed concern about whether capitalist markets are the best way of organizing economic life. Would it not be better...

By: Nina Bandelj (Assistant Professor of Sociology; University of California, Irvine) and Elizabeth Sowers (Graduate Student at The University of California, Irvine)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644554, Pub Date US Sep 2010, Pub Date RoW Aug 2010, Pub Date Aus Aug 2010
E-book, ISBN: 9780745658834, Pub Date US May 2013, Pub Date RoW May 2013,

Description: Should governments be involved in economic affairs? Challenging prevailing wisdom about the benefits of self-regulating markets, Nina Bandelj and Eli...

By: Bruce G. Carruthers and Laura Ariovich
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745643922, Pub Date US Mar 2010, Pub Date RoW Jan 2010, Pub Date Aus Jan 2010
E-book, ISBN: 9780745655345, Pub Date US May 2013, Pub Date RoW May 2013,

Description: This book offers a fresh and uniquely sociological perspective on money and credit. As basic economic institutions, money and credit are easy to over...

By: Miguel A. Centeno and Joseph N. Cohen
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644516, Pub Date US Mar 2010, Pub Date RoW Jan 2010, Pub Date Aus Jan 2010
E-book, ISBN: 9780745655949, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: The global financial crisis has challenged many of our most authoritative economic ideologies and policies. After thirty years of reshaping the world...

By: Serge Latouche (University of Paris-Sud, France)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745646176, Pub Date US Feb 2010, Pub Date RoW Dec 2009, Pub Date Aus Dec 2009
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745646169, Pub Date US Feb 2010, Pub Date RoW Dec 2009, Pub Date Aus Dec 2009

Description: Most of us who live in the North and the West consume far too much – too much meat, too much fat, too much sugar, too much salt. We are more li...

By: Kevin Doogan
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745633251, Pub Date US Mar 2009, Pub Date RoW Jan 2009, Pub Date Aus Jan 2009
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745633244, Pub Date US Mar 2009, Pub Date RoW Jan 2009, Pub Date Aus Jan 2009

Description: In this stimulating and highly original work, Kevin Doogan looks at contemporary social transformation through the lens of the labour market. Major t...

By: Geoffrey Ingham (University of Cambridge)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745636481, Pub Date US Feb 2009, Pub Date RoW Sep 2008, Pub Date Aus Sep 2008
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745636474, Pub Date US Nov 2008, Pub Date RoW Sep 2008, Pub Date Aus Sep 2008

Description: Now with a substantial new postscript on the financial crisis This book provides a basic introduction to the 'nuts and bolts' of capitalism. It sta...

By: Nikolas Rose (Convenor of Department of Sociology, LSE) and Peter Miller (Professor of Management Accounting, LSE)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745641010, Pub Date US Apr 2008, Pub Date RoW Apr 2008, Pub Date Aus Apr 2008
E-book, ISBN: 9780745654928, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: The literature on governmentality has had a major impact across the social sciences over the past decade, and much of this has drawn upon the pioneer...

By: Kai Hafez (University of Erfurt)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745639093, Pub Date US Mar 2007, Pub Date RoW Jan 2007, Pub Date Aus Jan 2007
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745639086, Pub Date US Apr 2007, Pub Date RoW Jan 2007, Pub Date Aus Jan 2007

Description: The ongoing interconnection of the world through modern mass media is generally considered to be one of the major developments underpinning globaliza...

By: Alan Aldridge (University of Nottingham)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745632230, Pub Date US Sep 2005, Pub Date RoW Aug 2005, Pub Date Aus Aug 2005
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745632223, Pub Date US Sep 2005, Pub Date RoW Aug 2005, Pub Date Aus Aug 2005

Description: The Market addresses one of the most controversial answers to the question, ‘how is social order possible?’ Ever since Adam Smith conceiv...

By: Keith Grint (Lancaster University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745632506, Pub Date US Jun 2005, Pub Date RoW Apr 2005, Pub Date Aus Apr 2005
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745632490, Pub Date US Jun 2005, Pub Date RoW Apr 2005, Pub Date Aus Apr 2005

Description: The third edition of this best-selling textbook has been carefully revised to provide an up-to-date, indispensable introduction to the sociology of w...

By: Pierre Bourdieu (Collège de France)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745625409, Pub Date US Apr 2005, Pub Date RoW Mar 2005, Pub Date Aus Mar 2005
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745625393, Pub Date US Jul 2005, Pub Date RoW May 2005, Pub Date Aus May 2005

Description: Much orthodox economic theory is based on assumptions which are treated as self-evident: supply and demand are regarded as independent entities, the ...

By: Geoffrey Ingham (University of Cambridge)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745609973, Pub Date US Apr 2004, Pub Date RoW Feb 2004, Pub Date Aus Feb 2004
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745609966, Pub Date US Apr 2004, Pub Date RoW Feb 2004, Pub Date Aus Feb 2004

Description: In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglected traditions in the social sciences to develop a theory of the ‘social relation...

By: Abdelmalek Sayad (Algerian Sociologist and Director of Research at CNRS (National Centre for Sociological Research) ), Pierre Bourdieu (Collège de France) and David Macey
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745626437, Pub Date US Mar 2004, Pub Date RoW Jan 2004, Pub Date Aus Jan 2004
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745626420, Pub Date US Mar 2004, Pub Date RoW Jan 2004, Pub Date Aus Jan 2004

Description: This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the condition of the immigrant and it will transform the reader’s understanding of th...

By: Ulrich Beck (Ludwig-Maximillian University in Munich), Johannes Willms and Michael Pollack
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745628240, Pub Date US Jan 2004, Pub Date RoW Oct 2003, Pub Date Aus Oct 2003
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745628233, Pub Date US Jan 2004, Pub Date RoW Oct 2003, Pub Date Aus Oct 2003

Description: In this new book, Ulrich Beck and the journalist Johannes Willms engage in a series of accessible conversations that reveal and explore the key eleme...

By: Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745631653, Pub Date US Dec 2003, Pub Date RoW Oct 2003, Pub Date Aus Oct 2003
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745631646, Pub Date US Dec 2003, Pub Date RoW Oct 2003, Pub Date Aus Oct 2003

Description: The production of ‘human waste’ – or more precisely, wasted lives, the ‘superfluous’ populations of migrants, refugees ...

By: Rajneesh Narula
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745624570, Pub Date US Sep 2003, Pub Date RoW Jul 2003, Pub Date Aus Jul 2003
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745624563, Pub Date US Sep 2003, Pub Date RoW Jul 2003, Pub Date Aus Jul 2003

Description: In this book Rajneesh Narula examines the interdependence of globalization and technological innovation at two levels: first, between locations, by e...

By: Bill Jordan (University of Plymouth) and Franck Duvell (Exeter University and University of Bremen)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745630083, Pub Date US Jun 2003, Pub Date RoW Apr 2003, Pub Date Aus Apr 2003
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745630076, Pub Date US Jun 2003, Pub Date RoW Apr 2003, Pub Date Aus Apr 2003

Description: The freedom to choose where to live and work is a fundamental right in liberal societies. The moral equality of persons is the basic principle of dem...

By: Alex Callinicos (University of York)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745629049, Pub Date US Apr 2003, Pub Date RoW Feb 2003, Pub Date Aus Feb 2003
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745629032, Pub Date US Apr 2003, Pub Date RoW Feb 2003, Pub Date Aus Feb 2003

Description: The great demonstrations at Seattle and Genoa have shown that we are in a new era of protest. The neo-liberal economic policies pursued by the Group ...

By: Jeremy Rifkin
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745630427, Pub Date RoW Oct 2002, Pub Date Aus Oct 2002
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745630410, Pub Date RoW Oct 2002, Pub Date Aus Oct 2002

Description: In The Hydrogen Economy, best-selling author Jeremy Rifkin takes us on an eye-opening journey into the next great commercial era in history. He envis...

By: Martin Parker (University of Leicester)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745629261, Pub Date US Oct 2002, Pub Date RoW Sep 2002, Pub Date Aus Sep 2002
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745629254, Pub Date US Oct 2002, Pub Date RoW Sep 2002, Pub Date Aus Sep 2002

Description: Against Management argues that management is increasingly being seen as a problem, and not a solution. Martin Parker argues that managing is not the ...

By: Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim (University of Erlangen) and Patrick Camiller
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745622149, Pub Date US Apr 2002, Pub Date RoW Jul 2002, Pub Date Aus Jul 2002
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745622132, Pub Date US Apr 2002, Pub Date RoW Jul 2002, Pub Date Aus Jul 2002

Description: The traditional image of the family as a life-long unit is fading fast. There are fewer marriages, more divorces, and ever more children born to unma...

By: Christopher T. May (University of the West of England)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745626857, Pub Date US Jun 2002, Pub Date RoW Apr 2002, Pub Date Aus Apr 2002
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745626840, Pub Date US Jun 2002, Pub Date RoW Apr 2002, Pub Date Aus Apr 2002

Description: In this timely new book, Christopher May surveys some of the most influential and important writings that declare we are entering a new information a...

By: Alex Callinicos (University of York)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745626758, Pub Date US Jun 2001, Pub Date RoW May 2001, Pub Date Aus May 2001
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745626741, Pub Date US Jun 2001, Pub Date RoW May 2001, Pub Date Aus May 2001

Description: The Third Way is the political philosophy of Tony Blair and New Labour in Britain, Bill Clinton in the United States, and Gerhard Schröder in Ge...

By: Don Slater (Goldsmiths College, University of London) and Fran Tonkiss (London School of Economics)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745620275, Pub Date US Feb 2001, Pub Date RoW Nov 2000, Pub Date Aus Nov 2000

Description: Market Society provides an original and accessible review of changing conceptions of the market in modern social thought. The book considers markets ...

By: Keith Grint (Reader in Organizational Behaviour at the Said Business School and a Fellow of Templeton College, Oxford)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745622231, Pub Date RoW Oct 2000, Pub Date Aus Oct 2000
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745622224, Pub Date US Dec 2000, Pub Date RoW Oct 2000, Pub Date Aus Oct 2000

Description: This book provides a lively and accessible introduction to key new areas in the contemporary study of work. While traditional accounts of work have t...

By: Harriet Bradley , Mark Erickson , Carol Stephenson and Steve Williams (Portsmouth University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745622712, Pub Date US Jan 2001, Pub Date RoW Oct 2000, Pub Date Aus Oct 2000

Description: During the last two decades there have been profound changes in the organization of work. Myths at Work explores these changes, critically examining ...

By: Ulrich Beck (Ludwig-Maximillian University of Munich)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745623986, Pub Date US Jul 2000, Pub Date RoW May 2000, Pub Date Aus May 2000

Description: In this important book, Ulrich Beck - one of the leading social thinkers in Europe today - examines how work has become unstable in the modern world ...

By: David Coates (Wake Forest University, North Carolina)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745620596, Pub Date US Apr 2000, Pub Date RoW Jan 2000, Pub Date Aus Jan 2000

Description: The contemporary debate on economic policy is dominated by the issue of 'which model of capitalism works best'....

By: Andre Gorz
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745621289, Pub Date US Nov 1999, Pub Date RoW Sep 1999, Pub Date Aus Sep 1999

Description: Over the last twenty-five years, Western societies have been reversing into the future....

By: Viviane Forrester
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745619941, Pub Date US Jun 1999, Pub Date RoW May 1999, Pub Date Aus May 1999

Description: The Economic Horror is an impassioned book addressed to the dominant political and economic elites in our society. Those in power, Forrester tells us...

By: Judy Wajcman (Australian National University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745617602, Pub Date RoW Sep 1998, Pub Date Aus Sep 1998
E-book, ISBN: 9780745668963, Pub Date US May 2013, Pub Date RoW May 2013,

Description: "Why can't a man be more like a woman?" seems to be the catchcry of modern management gurus. They claim to be revaluing feminine "soft" skills as qua...

By: Keith Grint (Lancaster University) and Steve Woolgar (Brunel University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745609256, Pub Date US May 1997, Pub Date RoW Apr 1997, Pub Date Aus Apr 1997

Description: This highly topical book is a concise and accessible account of the relationship between technology and work. Firstly, it reviews and critically asse...

By: Bill Jordan (University of Plymouth)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745616940, Pub Date US Aug 1996, Pub Date RoW Jul 1996, Pub Date Aus Jul 1996

Description: Bill Jordan seeks to fill a gap in social scientific theory by accounting for why a deterioration in the living standards of the worst-off members of...

By: Anette Gerhardt (Technical University, Aachen), Matthias Michailow (University of Munich) and Karl Hírning (Technical University, Aachen)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745610764, Pub Date US Jan 1996, Pub Date RoW Dec 1995, Pub Date Aus Dec 1995

Description: In this book the authors examine the relations between work and time and explore the possibilities of developing new and more flexible working patter...

By: Nigel Dodd (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745616353, Pub Date RoW Jul 1995, Pub Date Aus Jul 1995

Description: Now available in paperback, this book provides the first systematic sociological discussion of money and develops a new interpretation of the nature ...

By: Kyoko Sheridan (University of Adelaide, Australia)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745614144, Pub Date US Jun 1994, Pub Date RoW Apr 1994, Pub Date Aus Apr 1994

Description: This book offers a novel and wide-ranging interpretation of Japanese economic policy, using historical analysis of Japanese economic development to s...

By: Alain Lipietz (CEPREMAP Centre, Paris)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745608662, Pub Date RoW Nov 1992, Pub Date Aus Nov 1992

Description: Towards a New Economic Order is a concise and critical introduction to what has become known as "regulation theory" in political economics. It make...

By: Michael H. Best (University of Massachusetts, Lowell)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745603643, Pub Date US Jun 2011, Pub Date RoW Jun 1990, Pub Date Aus Jun 1990

Description: In this important new book, Michael Best argues that we are currently witnessing the emergence of new principles of production and business organ...

By: Harriet Bradley (University of Bristol)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745601625, Pub Date RoW Sep 1989

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By: Jorge Larrain
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745607115, Pub Date US Jan 1991, Pub Date RoW Sep 1989, Pub Date Aus Sep 1989

Description: This is a new introductory text providing an up-to-date account of leading theories of development. The book includes a discussion of classical accou...

By: Martin Joseph (Formerly at Oxford Brookes University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745604343, Pub Date RoW Jul 1989, Pub Date Aus Jul 1989

Description: With material on changing occupational structures and business enterprises of the future, together with questions, case study and project material at...

By: Scott Lash (Goldsmiths College, University of London) and John Urry (University of Lancaster)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745600697, Pub Date RoW Sep 1987, Pub Date Aus Sep 1987

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