Syllabus/achievement requirements

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Introduction

BOOK: Doogan, K. 2009. New Capitalism? The Transformation of Work. Polity Press, Cambridge. 1-214. 214p.

Work and labour studies in sociology and human geography

@Burawoy, M. 2010. From Polanyi to Pollyanna: The False Optimism of Global Labor Studies. Global Labour Journal, Vol. 1(2). 301-313. 12p. Available at: http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/vol1/iss2/7

@Burawoy, M. 2013. Ethnographic fallacies: reflections on labour studies in the era of market fundamentalism. Work, employment and society, 27(3). 526-536. 10p.

@Correll, S.J., E.L. Kelly, L.T. O’Connor and J.C. Williams. 2014. Redesigning, Redefining Work. Work and Occupations. 4(1). 3-17. 14p.

*Goldthorpe, J.H. 2000. Social Class and the Differentiation of Employment Contracts. In J.H. Goldthorpe. On Sociology. Numbers, Narratives, and the Integration of Research and Theory. Oxford University press, Oxford. 206-229. 23p.

*Hochschild, A.R. 1983. The Managed Heart. Commercialization of Human Feeling. University of California Press, Berkeley. 3-23. 20p.

Knutsen, H.M., S.B. Endresen, A.C. Bergene and D. Jordhus-Lier. (Forthcoming). Geography of Labour. International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Second Edition. Elsevier, London. 15p. Available on Fronter.

*Offe, C. 1985. Work: The Key Sociological Category? In J. Keane (Ed.) Disorganized Capitalism. Contemporary Transformations of Work and Politics. Polity Press. 129-150. 21p.

*Peck, J. A., 2013. Making space for labour. In D. Featherstone and J. Painter (Eds). Spatial Politics. Essays for Doreen Massey. RGS-IBG Book Series. Wiley Blackwell, Chichester. 99-114.16p.

Capitalisms

*Boltanski, L. and E. Chiapello. 2005. The new spirit of capitalism. Verso, London. Part II, Chapter 4: Dismantling the world of work. 217-254. 37p.

BOOK: Endresen, S.B. 2010. ‘We Order 20 Bodies’. Labour Hire and Alienation. In A.C. Bergene, S.B. Endresen and H.M. Knutsen (Eds). Missing Links in Labour Geography. Ashgate, Farnham. 211-224. 13p.

@Glassman, J. 2006. Primitive accumulation, accumulation by dispossession, accumulation by ‘extra-economic’ means. Progress in Human Geography, 30(5). 608-625. 17p.

@James, A. and B. Vira. 2012. Labour geographies of India’s new service economy. Journal of Economic Geography. doi:10.1093/jeg/lbs008 1–35. 35p. SOSGEO4604 Work and workers March 2015

*Jessop, B. 2010. Globalisation and the state. I McGrath-Champ, S., Herod, A., and A. Rainnnie (Eds). Handbook of employment and society. Elgar, Cheltenham. 19–34. 15p.

*Lipietz, A. 1982. Towards global Fordism? New Left Review, Vol. 32. 33-47. 14p.

@Olsen, K.M., A.L. Kalleberg and T. Nesheim. 2010. Perceived job quality in the United States, Great Britain, Norway and West Germany, 1989-2005. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 16(3) 221-240.19p.

@O’Reilly, J., D. Lain, M. Sheehan, B. Smale and M. Stuart. 2011. Managing uncertainty: the crisis, its consequences and the global workforce. Work, employment and society, 25(4) 581-595.14p.

@Spencer, D.A. 2000. Braverman and the Contribution of Labour Process Analysis to the Critique of Capitalist Production – Twenty-Five Years On. Work, Employment & Society, 14(2). 223-243. 20p.

@Thompson, P. 2013. Financialization and the workplace: extending and applying the disconnected capitalism thesis. Work, employment and society, 27(3) 472-488. 16p.

*Thrift, N. 1999. Capitalism’s Cultural Turn. In L. Ray & A. Sayer. Culture and Economy after the Cultural Turn. SAGE, London. 135-161. 26p.

Labour regimes and precarious work

*Arnholtz, J. and L. Eldring. (forthcoming) Varying perceptions of social dumping in most similar countries. In M. Bernaciak (Ed.) Market Expansion and Social Dumping in Europe. Routledge, London.17p. Available on Fronter.

@Baogang He and Yuhua Xie. 2011. Wal-Mart's trade union in China. Economic and Industrial Democracy. No. 33, Vol 3. 421-440. 19p.

@Gooderham, P.N., S.E. Navrbjerg, K.M. Olsen and C. R. Steen. 2014. The labor market regimes of Denmark and Norway – One Nordic model? Journal of Industrial Relations, (0)0. 1-21. 21p.

@Guo, L., S-H Hsu, A. Holton and S. H. Jeong. 2012. A case study of the Foxconn suicides: An international perspective to framing the sweatshop issue. The International Communication Gazette, 74(5). 484-503. 19p.

*Jonas, A.E.G. 1996. Local Labour Control Regimes: Uneven Development and the Social Regulation of Production. Regional Studies, 30(4). 323-338. 15p.

@Kalleberg, A.L. 2009. Precarious Work, Insecure Workers: Employment Relations in Transition. American Sociological Review, 74(February). 1-22. 22p.

@Kalleberg, A.L. 2012. Job Quality and Precarious Work: Clarifications, Controversies, and Challenges. Work and Occupations 39(4). 427-448. 21p.

*Kelly, P. F. 2002. Spaces of labour control: comparative perspectives from Southeast Asia. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 27, No. 4. 395-411. 16p.

BOOK: Knutsen, H.M and E. Hansson. 2010. Theoretical Approaches to Changing Labour Regimes in Transition Economies. In A.C. Bergene, S.B. Endresen and H.M. Knutsen (Eds). Missing Links in Labour Geography. Ashgate, Farnham. 155-168. 13p.

@Lyness, K.L., J.C. Gornick, P. Stone and A.R. Grotto. 2012. It’s All About Control: Worker Control over Schedule and Hours in Cross-National Context. American Sociological Review, 77(6). 1023-1049. 26p.

BOOK: Magnusson, O.A., H. M. Knutsen and S. B. Endresen. 2010. Between Coercion and Consent: Understanding Post-Apartheid Workplace Regimes. In A.C. Bergene, S.B. Endresen and H.M. Knutsen (Eds). Missing Links in Labour Geography. Ashgate, Farnham. 169-181. 12p.

@Rogaly, B. 2008. Intensification of workplace regimes in British horticulture: the role of migrant workers. Population, Space and Place. 4(6). 497–510. 13p.

@Vijayabaskhar, M. 2011. Global crisis, welfare provision and coping strategies of labor in Tiruppur. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlvi, No. 22. 38-45. 7p. SOSGEO4604 Work and workers March 2015

@Wetlesen, A. 2010. Legal empowerment of workers in the informal economy: the case of the construction industry in Tamil Nadu, India. Journal of Asian Public Policy. Vol. 3, No. 3. 294–308. 14p.

Gender and agency of labour

BOOK: Bergene, A.C., S.B. Endresen and H.M. Knutsen (Eds). 2010. Approaches to the Social and Spatial Agency of Labour. In A.C. Bergene, S.B. Endresen and H.M. Knutsen (Eds). Missing Links in Labour Geography. Ashgate, Farnham. 227-240. 13p.

BOOK: Coe, N.M. and D. C. Jordhus-Lier. 2010. Re-embedding the Agency of Labour. In A.C. Bergene, S.B. Endresen and H.M. Knutsen (Eds). Missing Links in Labour Geography. Ashgate, Farnham. 29-40. 11p.

*Ellingsæter, A.L. 2000. Welfare states, labour markets and gender relations in transition: the decline of the Scandinavian model? In T.P. Boje and A. Leira (Eds). Gender, Welfare State and the Market. Routledge, London. 89-110. 21p.

@Isaksen, L. W. 2008. Global Care Crisis. A Problem of Capital, Care Chain, or Commons? American Behavioural Scientist, 52(3).405-425. 20p.

@McDowell, L., A. Batnitzky and S. Dyer. 2007. Division, segmentation, and interpellations: The embodied labors of migrant workers in a greater London Hotel. Economic Geography. 83(1). 1-25. 25p.

@McDowell, L. 2014. Gender, work, employment and society: feminist reflections on continuity and change. Work, employment and society, 28(5). 825-837. 12p.

@Michel, S. and I. Peng. 2012. All in the family? Migrants, nationhood, and care regimes in Asia and North America. Journal of European Social Policy, 22(4). 406-418. 12p.

Total about 920p.

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