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In what ways is work affected by the existence of a consumer, capitalist culture? This book brings together the study of work, markets and consumption.

What's wrong with work shows that how workers are treated has wide implications beyond the lives of workers themselves. Recognising gender, race, class and global differences, the book considers the ways formal work is often dependent on informal work and concludes by considering what might make work better.

In what ways is work affected by the existence of a consumer, capitalist culture? This book brings together the study of work, markets and consumption.

Annie O'Brien was raised in a traditional, wealthy Catholic family living by the belief that the family that prays together stays together but behind the cloistered walls of the convent where she was educated she uncovers a secret that tears her family apart. Left to fend for herself, she is determined to complete her education and help her mother. She enters the shrouded, mysterious world of the exotic dancer to make the fast, easy money she needs. After completing her education, she climbs the corporate ladder to a successful career, but at a price, only to find herself back in a strip club...

This book asks what might be required of "a new sociology of work" and why such a project is vital for understanding people's working lives at the start of the twenty-first century.

• A collection of essays examining the concept of work, questioning what constitutes work, and where work ends and other activities begin.
  
• Acknowledges the work that goes on outside formal employment, in the family, the community and within various institutions.
  
• Highlights the importance of understanding the broad range of experiences of work in order to...