Edgell, Stephen

I have been interested in the sociology of work all my academic career. At the beginning I taught undergraduate courses at the University of Salford on the Sociology of Industrial Capitalism and researched the work-family nexus with reference to professional workers and their wives ("Middle-Class Couples: A Study of Segregation, Domination and Inequality in Marriage", 1980). Although my research career moved in the direction of political sociology ("A Measure of Thatcherism: A Sociology of Britain", 1991), social class ("Class", 1993), consumption ("Consumption Matters: The Production and Expe...