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The harms of work: An ultra-realist account of the service economy (Studies in Social Harm)

The harms of work: An ultra-realist account of the service economy (Studies in Social Harm)

by Anthony Lloyd (Author)

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    Hardcover 2018

    $164.52
Synopsis

This is the first book to discuss workplace harm through an ultra-realist lens and examines the connection between individuals, their working conditions and management culture. It investigates the reorganisation of labour markets and the shift from security to flexibility, a central function of consumer capitalism and highlights working conditions and organisational practices which employees experience as normal and routine but within which multiple harms occur. Reconnecting ideology and political economy with workplace studies, it uses examples of legal and illegal activity to demonstrate the multiple harms within the service economy.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 200
 Publisher: Bristol University Press
Published: 31 Oct 2018
ISBN 10: 1529204011
ISBN 13: 9781529204018

Media Reviews
Drawing on original and insightful ethnographic research, this book is indispensable for academics, practicioners and policy makers interested in the harms associated with contemporary service work. A compelling and thought-provoking read. Sam Scott, University of Gloucestershire
Author Bio
Dr Anthony Lloyd is Co-Director at the Teesside Centre for Realist Criminology and Senior Lecturer in Criminology & Sociology at the School of Social Sciences, Humanities & Law, Teesside University. His research interests include work and employment, labour markets and the leisure and service economy, consumer culture, social harm, critical criminology, youth identity and transitions, political economy, debt, social theory, class cultures, and social change. He researches broadly on the topics of work and leisure, most recently investigating the lives of young men and women engaged in low-paid service sector jobs in the North East. He has published work in this area, including his first book, Labour Markets and Identity on the Post-Industrial Assembly Line (Ashgate, 2013).