This volume is about deviance in the workplace. It defines deviance as departures from laws or organizational rules by workers, managers, or an organization as an entity. It brings together contributions by scholars in the sociology of work and of crime and deviance, and identifies workplace deviance as a subject shared by the two. The contributions center around two main topics: deviance-making processes, and the social control of deviance through workplace regulation to detect and correct deviant behavior.

Provides students and researchers with a grounding both in traditional aspects of marginality and in the important topics of part-time and contingent work. This book helps you learn more about the growing range and diversity of marginal employment in the contemporary economy, the hardships and challenges of marginal employment.