A collection of provocative, original essays on work and workplaces throughout the world that challenge the celebration of globalization technologies. It offers an approach to the study of workplace relations and production organization and even the notion of work itself.

They offer an accessible and flexible approach to the study of workplace relations and production organization and even the notion of work itself.Rick Baldoz is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawaii. Charles Koeber is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Wichita State University. Philip Kraft is Associate Professor of Sociology at SUNY Binghamton.

Acknowledgments Introduction: Making Sense of Work in the 21st Century
Rick Baldoz, Charles Koeber, and Philip Kraft.
Part I: Continuity and Change 1. Dwelling in Capitalism, Traveling Through Socialism

Michael Burawoy 2. Do Capitalist Matter in the Capitalist Labor Process? Collective Capacities, Group Interest, and Management Prerogatives, C. 1886-1904
Jeffrey Haydu Part II: Service and Service Sector Workers 3. Gender, Race, and the Organization of Reproductive Labor
Evelyn Nakano Glenn 4. The Body as a Contested Terrain for Labor Control: Cosmetics Retailers in Department Stores and Direct Selling
Pei-Chia Lan 5. Silent Rebellions in Capitalist Paradise: A Brazil-Quebec Comparison
Angelo Soares Part III. Production and Industrial Workers 6. Flexible Despotisms: The Intensification of Insecurity and Uncertainty in the Lives of Silicon Valley's High-Tech Assembly Workers
Jennifer Chun 7. The Challenge of Organizing in a Globalized/Flexible Industry: The Case of the Apparel Industry in Los Angeles
Edna Bonacich 8. Transcending Taylorism and Fordism? Three Decades of Work Restructuring
James Rinehart 9. Manufacturing Compromise: The Dynamics of Race and Class Among South African Shop Stewards in the 1990s
Edward Webster Part IV. Professional and Technical Workers 10. "Globalization": The Next Tactic in the Fifty Year Struggle of Labor and Capital in Software Production
Richard Sharpe 11. Controlling Technical Workers in Alternative Work Arrangements: Rethinking the Work Contract
Peter Whalley and Peter Meiksins 12. Net-Working for a Living: Irish Software Developers in the Global Workplace
Sean O'Riain About the Contributors