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Building an International Sociology of Work

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The sociology of work has thrived during eras of fundamental economic, political, and social change. During eras of industrialization, labor mobilization, and democratization, sociologists of work have applied their rigorous social scientific techniques to wrestle with and resolve wrenching human problems and thorny theoretical issues associated with new social relations in workplaces, labor markets, and societies. Among the pioneers of the sociology of work, for example, Karl Marx analyzed sharpening class inequalities that accompanied capital concentration and accumulation; Emile Durkheim examined the impact of the increasing complexity of the division of labor on anomie and community; and Max Weber characterized the new bureaucratic social order as an “iron cage.”

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    Daniel B. Cornfield

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Cornfield, D.B., Hodson, R. (2002). Building an International Sociology of Work. In: Cornfield, D.B., Hodson, R. (eds) Worlds of Work. Plenum Studies in Work and Industry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0659-1_1

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