The sociology of work : continuity and change in paid and unpaid work / Stephen Edgell.

1. The transformation of work : from work as an economic activity to work as employment -- 2. Paid work and alienation -- 3. Paid work in industrial society and deskilling? -- 4. Paid work in post-industrial society and upskilling? -- 5. Fordism : its rise, development and demise -- 6. Solutions to the crisis of Fordism : neo-Fordism (McDonaldism) and post-Fordism -- 7. Unemployment (out of paid work) and underemployment (short of paid work) -- 8. Non-standard paid work : contractural, spatial, temporal and total destandardization -- 9. Unpaid work : domestic work and voluntary work -- 10. Globalization and the transformation of paid and unpaid work.