Abstract
The UK contribution makes four claims. First, it offers a sociology of the sociology work, exploring the power bases and the social and economic structures that have shaped the discipline and led to a neglect of key disadvantaged workers in the early post war period. Second, it challenges the view that the 1950s and 1960s heralded a ‘Golden Age’ of sociology of work with an emphasis on paid employment. Third, we challenge the notion that the sociology of work is at its most vital when embedded within Sociology Departments and that the ‘spread’ of the study of work into business schools was a distraction and, at worst, a degradation of the sub-discipline. Finally, we call for a focus on the role that work and employment play in the reproduction of social inequalities.
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