Working in America: Continuity, Conflict, and Change in a New Economic Era - Paperback

by Amy S. Wharton (Editor)

This leading, comprehensive text for courses on the sociology of work covers many vital new topics since the last edition (2015), just as it continues to offer foundational writings and discusses different types of jobs, inequality and intersectionality, work and family, and more.

New to this edition:
- The gig economy and new digital platforms and their effects on how work is organized.
- Precarious work and precarious workers, changes that reflect fundamental changes in employment relationships, increased job insecurity, and how people think about their jobs.
- The new retail, from customer interactions to a world where consumption is driven by data science.
- The latest research on call centers as the archetypal 21st-century workplace, illustrating many important issues about interactive work, transnational workplaces, gender, etc.
- The post-pandemic workplace, including essential workers and frontline workers, healthcare work and care workers; job flexibility, and implications for gender, work, and family.

Author Biography

Amy S. Wharton is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Washington State University, USA.