TY - BOOK AU - Thompson,Paul AU - Smith,Chris TI - Working life: : renewing labour process analysis T2 - Critical perspectives on work and employment SN - 9780230222236 U1 - 331.125 PY - 2010/// CY - Basingstoke PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Employment (Economic theory) KW - Labor economics N1 - Includes bibliographical reference and indexes; Introduction : labour process theory in retrospect and prospect; Part I. The core theory; Debating labour process theory and the sociology of work; Developing labour process analysis : themes from industrial sociology and future directions; Labour process theory and critical realism; The core theory : critiques, defences and advances; Part II. Classic themes revisited; Skill and the labour process : the conditions and consequences of change; Normative control and beyond in contemporary capitalism; The repertoire of employee opposition; Renewing and revising the engagement between labour process theory and technology; Gender, labour process theory and intersectionality : une liaison dangereuse?; Old ambiguities and new developments : exploring the emotional labour process; Embodying labour; The globalization of service work : anaylsing the transnational call centre value chain; Go with the flow : labour power mobility and labour process theory; Making space for geography in labour process theory; Beyond the blank slate : identities and interests at work ER -