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The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class

By Prof. Guy Standing (SOAS, UK)

WILLING SLAVES: How the Overwork Culture is Ruling Our Lives

By Bunting

Poor Labouring Men: Rural Radicalism in Norfolk, 1870-1923

By Alun Howkins

Computerising Work: People, Systems Design and Workplace Relations

By Willcocks, Leslie P., Mason, David

Worst Case Scenario Work Survival Handbk

By Joshua Piven

Gender and Well-Being in Europe: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

By Lina Galvez, Bernard Harris

Welfare States in the 21st Century: The New Five Giants Confronting Societal Progress

By Ian Greener

The politics of parental leave policies: Children, parenting, gender and the labour market

By Sheila Kamerman, Peter Moss

Why We Need a New Welfare State

By Gosta Esping-Andersen (, Professor of Sociology at Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)

Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality

By Eyal Press

Growing Up Girl: Psycho-Social Explorations of Gender and Class

By Valerie Walkerdine, Helen Lucey, June Melody

Sports in Society: Issues and Controversies: WITH Online Learning Center Passcode Bind-in Card

By Jay J. Coakley

Work Organisations

By Thompson, P. & McHugh, D., Paul, McHugh, David

Safeguarding the Organization Against Violence and Bullying: An International Perspective

By P. McCarthy, C. Mayhew

Social Movements in Latin America: Neoliberalism and Popular Resistance

By J. Petras

From Capitalistic to Humanistic Business

By M. Pirson, Ulrich Steinvorth, Carlos Largacha-Martinez, Claus Dierksmeier

The Political Economy of Household Services in Europe

By Nathalie Morel, Clement Carbonnier

Labour in British Society, 1830-1914

By Donald M. MacRaild, David E. Martin

Trust in Food: A Comparative and Institutional Analysis

By U. Kjaernes, M. Harvey, A. Warde

Managing an Age-Diverse Workforce

By E. Parry, S. Tyson

Locating Cultural Work: The Politics and Poetics of Rural, Regional and Remote Creativity

By S. Luckman

What Women Want From Work: Gender and Occupational Choice in the 21st Century

By R. Woodfield

Gendering the Knowledge Economy: Comparative Perspectives

By S. Walby, H. Gottfried, K. Gottschall, M. Osawa

Household Divisions of Labour: Teamwork, Gender and Time

By E. Birch, A. Le, P. W. Miller

Work-Life Balance in the 21st Century

By D. Houston

Masculinities in Transition

By V. Robinson, J. Hockey

Liberal Internationalism: The Interwar Movement for Peace in Britain

By M. Pugh

Art and Aesthetics at Work

By A. Carr, P. Hancock

Work, Family Policies and Transitions to Adulthood in Europe

By T. Knijn

Women's Work in Britain and France: Practice, Theory and Policy

By Abigail Gregory, Jan Windebank