Books:

Abercrombie. Capital, Labour and the Middle Classes (1983);

Adkins. Gendered Work: Sexuality, Family and the Labour Market (1995);

     -     The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract: Working and Living in Contingency (2016);

     -     Gender and Labour in New Times (2017);

Althusser. For Marx    / Pour Marx (2006, in French 1965a);

     -     Reading Capital (2016, in French 1965b);

Amin. Capitalism in the Age of Globalization: The Management of Contemporary Society (1997);

Ammerman. Work, Family, and Religion in Contemporary Society (1995);

Anderson N. Right to Work (1938);

     -     Work and Leisure: A Perceptive Inquiry Into Current Ways of Using Time (1961);

Arrighi. Essays on the Political Economy of Africa (1973);

Barrett. Women’s Oppression Today: The Imagination in Theory: Culture, Writing, Words, and Things (1980b);

Bauman. Memories of Class (1982);

     -     Globalisation: The Human Consequences (1998);

Bechhofer. The Affluent Worker in the Class Structure (1969);

Beck. The Brave New World of Work  (2000);

Bell. The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973);

     -     The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976);

Boserup. The Conditions of Agricultural Growth: the Economics of Agrarian Change Under Population Pressure (1965); 

     -     Woman's Role in Economic Development (1970); 

Bourdieu. Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Society (1999, in French 1993b);

     -     Counterfire: Against the Tyranny of the Market (2003, in French 1998b);

Braverman. Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century (1974).

Breckinridge. The Modern Household (1912);

Buraway. Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism (1979);

     -     The Politics of Production: Factory Regimes Under Capitalism and Socialism (1985);

Burns. The Management of Innovation (1961);

Cardoso. Dependency and Development in Latin America (1979, in Portuguese 1970);

Castells. City, Class and Power (1978);

Castoriadis. Political and Social Writings: 1961-1979 : Recommencing the Revolution : From Socialism to the Autonomous Society (1992);

Certau. Practice of Everyday Life (2011, in French 1980);

Chafetz. Sex and Advantage: A Comparative Macro-Structural Theory of Sexual Stratification (1984);

Cockburn. Machinery of Dominance: Women, Men and Technical Know-how (1985);

     -     Two-Track Training: Sex Inequalities and the Youth Training Scheme (1987);

     -     In the Way of Women: Men's Resistance to Sex Equality in Organizations (1991);

Comte. System of Positive Polity, 2 vols. (2018, in French 1851-1854);  

Connell. Gender and Power: Society, the Person and Sexual Politics (1987);

Crompton. White-Collar Proletariat: Deskilling and Gender in Clerical Work (1984);

     -     Gendered Jobs and Social Change (1990);

     -     Women and Work in Modern Britain (1998);

Crozier. The World of the Office-Worker (1965, in French 1956);

Dahrendorf. Class and Conflict in an Industrial Society (2022, in German 1957);

Davis A. Women, Race, & Class (1983);

Delphy. The Main Enemy, A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression (1977);

Du Bois. The Study of the Negro Problems (1898);

     -     The Philadelphia Negro (1899);

     -     The Negro in Business (1899);

Durkheim. Division Of Labor In Society (2014, in French 1893);

Ehrenreich. Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (1972);

     -     “The Professional-Managerial Class”, in ed. Walker, Pat. Between Labor and Capital (1979). Women in the Global Factory (1983);

     -     Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class (1989);

     -     Nickel and Dimed (2001);

     -     Global Woman (2003);

Eisenstein. Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism (1978);

     -     Global Obscenities: Patriarchy, Capitalism and the Lure of Cyberfantasy (1996);

Engels. The Condition of the Working Class in England (1885, in German 1845);

     -     The Principles of Communism (2019, in German 1847).

     -     The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (2010, in German 1884);

Epstein. Women's Place: Option and Limits on Professional Careers (1970);

     -     The Other Half: Roads to Women's Equality (1971);

     -     Women in Law (1981);

     -     Part-time Paradox: Time Norms, Professional Life, Family and Gender (1999);

     -     Fighting for Time: Shifting Boundaries of Work and Social Life (2004).

Fine. Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work (1996);

Frank. The World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand? (1996);

     -     ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age (1998). 

Friedmann. Industrial Society: The Emergence of Human Problems of Automation (1955, in French 1946);

     -     The Anatomy of Work: Labor, Leisure and the Implications of Automation (2021, in French 1956);

Giddens. The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration (1984); 

Gilman. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution (1898);

     -     The Home: Its Work and Influence (1903);

     -     Human Work (1904);

Goldthorpe. The Affluent Worker in The Class Structure, 3 vols (1968-1969);

Gorz. Farewell to the Working Class (1997, in French 1980);

     -     Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology (1994, in French 1991);

     -     Reclaiming Work: Beyond the Wage-Based Society (1999, in French 1997);

Gouldner. Wildcat Strike: A Study in Worker-Management Relationships (1954);

Gramsci. Prison Notebooks (Volumes 1, 2 & 3) (2011, in Italian 1947);

Granovetter. Getting A Job: A Study of Contacts and Careers (1974);

Hartsock. Money, Sex and Power: Toward a Feminist Historical Materialism (1983);

Harvey. The Condition of Postmodernity (1989);

Hochschild. The Managed Heart (1983);

     -     The Second Shift (1989);

     -     The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work (1997);

     -     The Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes From Home and Work (2003);

     -     The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times (2012);

Hughes. Men and Their Work (1958); 

     -     On Work, Race, and the Sociological Imagination (1994); 

Illich. Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health (1975);

     -     The Right to Useful Unemployment (1978);

     -     Shadow Work (1981);

Klein V. Women’s Two Roles: Home and Work (1956);

     -     Britain’s Married Women Workers (1965);

     -     Women Workers: Working Hours and Services: A Survey of 21 Countries (1965);

Knor-Cetina. The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science (1981);

Kropotkin. Fields, Factories, and Workshops (1899);

Le Play. The Organisation of Labor in Accordance with Custom and the Law of the Decalogue (1872, in French 1870);

Lockwood. The Blackcoated Worker (1958);

     -     The Affluent Worker in the Class Structure (1969);

Lukács. History and Class Consciousness (1971, in German 1923);

     -     The Ontology of Social Being: Labour (1978);

Lynd. Middletown (1929);

     -     Middletown in Transition (1937);

Mann. Workers on the Move (1973);

     -     Consciousness and Action among the Western Working Class (1973);

     -     The Working Class and the Labour Market (1979);

Marx. The Communist Manifesto (in German 1948); 

     -     Wage Labour and Capital (in German 1849);

     -     Class Struggles in France (in German 1850);

     -     The XVIII Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (in German 1852);

     -     A Contribution to The Critique Of The Political Economy (in German 1859);

     -     Capital Vol. 1, 2, & 3: The Only Complete and Unabridged Edition in One Volume (2020, in German 1867, 1885, 1894);

Mayo. The Human Problems of an Industrialized Civilization (1933);

     -     The Social Problems of an Industrialized Civilization (1945);

Miliband. The State in Capitalist Society (1969);

     -     „Politics and Povery”, in Wedderburn (ed.) Poverty, Inequality and Class Structure (1974);

Mills. New Men of Power (1948);

     -     White Collar: The American Middle Classes (1951);

Myrdal A. Women’s Two Roles: Home and Work (1956);

Oakley. The Sociology of Housework (1974a);

     -     Housewife (1974b);

Oppenheimer. The State (2018, in German 1907);

Poulantzas. Classes in Contemporary Capitalism (1975, in French 1974);

Reskin. Women's Work, Men's Work: Sex Segregation on the Workplace (1986);

     -     Job Queues, Gender Queues: Explaining Women’s Inroads into Male Occupations (1990);

     -     Women and Men at Work (1994);

     -     The Realities of Affirmative Action in Employment (1998);

Rex. Colonial Immigrants in a British City: A Class Analysis (1979);

Risman. Gender in Intimate Relations: A Microstructural Approach (1989);

Ritzer. The McDonaldization of Society (1993);

Rossi. Seasons of a Woman’s Life: A Self-Reflective Essay on Love and Work in Family,

     -     Caring and Doing for Others: Social Responsibility in the Domains of Family, Work and Community (2001).

Rowbotham. Dignity and Daily Bread: New Forms of Economic Organization Among Poor

     -     Homeworkers Worldwide (1993);

     -     Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World (1997);

Sassen. Globalization and its Discontents (1999);

Shanin. Peasants and Peasant Society (1971);

     -     The Awkward Class (1972);

Sombart. Modern Capitalism (2019, in German 1902);

Spencer. Principles of Sociology, 3 vols. (1876-1896);

Toffler. The Third Wave (1980);

 Touraine. The Post-Industrial Society (1971, in French 1969); 

Veblen. The Instinct of Workmanship (1914);

Walby. Patriarchy at Work: Patriarchal and Capitalist Relations in Employment (1986);

     -     Gender Segregation at Work (1988); 

     -     Equity in the Workplace: Gendering Workplace Policy Analysis (2004);  

Warner. The Status System of a Modern Community, 2 vols. (1941, 1942);

Webb. Cooperative Movement in Great Britain (1891);

     -     History of Trade Unionism  (1894);

     -     Women and the Factory Acts (1896);

     -     Industrial Democracy (1897);

     -     Works Manager Today (1917);

     -     Wages of Men and Women: Should They be Equal? (1919);

Weber Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: and Other Writings (2002, in German 1920);

     -     Economy and Society: A New Translation (2019, in German 1922);

White. Chains of Opportunity: System Models of Mobility in Organizations (1970);

Whyte. Man and Organization (1959);

     -     Men at Work (1961); 

     -     Action Research for Management (1965);

     -     Worker Participation and Ownership: Cooperative Strategies for Strengthening Local Economies (1983); 

     -     Learning from the Field (1984);  

     -     Making Mondragon: The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex (1988);

Wilensky. Intellectuals in Labor Unions (1956);

Willis. Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs  (1977); 

Wilson W. When Work Disappears (1996);

Wolf. Europe and the People Without History (1982);

Wright. Class, Crisis, and the State (1978);

     -     Class Structure and Income Determination (1979);

     -     Classes (1985);

Zelizer. Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States (1979);

     -     Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children (1985);

     -     The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies (1994);

Zerubavel. The Seven Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week (1985).