Dimensions of Work

This comprehensive textbook examines the nature and significance of work from a multidimensional perspective. Some of these dimensions (individual, gender, age and ethnic) directly concern workers, whereas others (organizational, power and institutional) describe the work environment. Hall, an eminent industrial sociologist, also explores both the division of labour or 'horizontal' dimension of work and graduations of occupations or 'vertical' dimension -- a distinction that he uses to question today's preoccupation with status and income attainment. In addition to this original interpretation, Hall also provides an overview of the traditional textbook taxonomy of work and occupations -- managerial, professional, blue-collar, and so on -- and a review of the major public policy issues raised by his discussion. A pathbreaking account of an issue which has been pivotal in modern sociology since Marx, Weber and Durkheim, Dimensions of Work will interest a broad spectrum of academics in the fields of sociology and organization studies.Hall, Richard H. is the author of 'Dimensions of Work' with ISBN 9780783711256 and ISBN 0783711255.