Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment / Work Matters

List of Tables.- Acknowledgments.- Notes on the Contributors.- Work, Workplaces and Workers: The Contemporary Experience; S.C.Bolton & M.Houlihan.- The Sunlit Uplands Or Bleak House? Just How Good Are Today's Workplaces?; D.Coats.- Working But Poor: Experiences In The American Low-Wage Labour Market; M.Bok & L.Simmons.- The Reality of Vulnerability Among Britain's Non-Unionised Workers with Problems at Work; A.Pollert.- Working in the Gold Rush: Polish Migrants' Careers and the Irish Hospitality Sector; J.Wickham, E.Moriarty, A.Bobek & J.Salamonska.- Housekeepers and the Siren Call of Hotel Chains; C.Guégnard & S.A.Mériot.- Balancing Trays and Smiles: What Restaurant Servers Teach Us About Hard Work in the Service Economy; M.Gatta.- Inequality Street? Working Life in a British Chocolate Factory; B.Hopkins.- The Forgotten Factories: Supermarket Suppliers and Dignity At Work In The Contemporary Economy; K.Newsome, P.Thompson & J.Commander.- Life on the Supermarket Floor: Replenishment Assistants and Just-In-Time Systems; K.Mulholland.- Just 'Mothers Really'? Role Stretch and Low Pay Amongst Female Classroom Assistants; C.Warhurst, S.A.Hurrell, K.Gilbert, D.Nickson, J.Commander & I.Calder.- Vocabularies Of Skill: The Case of Care and Support Workers; A.Junor, I.Hampson & K.R.Ogle.- The Emotional Socialisation of Junior Doctors: Accumulating an Emotional Debt; C.Boyd-Quinn.- Who's Driving Now? GPS and the Restructuring of Taxi Work; C.Grampp, M.Houlihan & P.McGrath.- Creating, Connecting and Correcting: Motivations and Meanings of Work Blogging Amongst Public Service Workers; V.Ellis & J.Richards.- Author Index.- Subject Index.

SHARON BOLTON is Professor of Organizational Analysis at Strathclyde University Business School, Glasgow, UK.
MAEVE HOULIHAN lectures in Organizational Behaviour and Work at UCD Business Schools, University College Dublin, Ireland.