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Reference Resources

Collective Resources

• Sociology, Intute
• Sociology of Labor, Sociosite

Bibliographies and Bibliographic Databases

• NLS Annotated Bibliography, National Longitudinal Survey, Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Department of Labor
• Work and Family Literature Database, Sloan Work and Family Research Network
• Labordoc, ILO
• Labourline, ETUI

Centres, Insitutes, ...

• Center for Work and Family, Boston College
• Center for Work, Technology and Organization, Stanford
• Future of Work, Work Design Collaborative
• Institute for Workplace Studies
• Sloan Work and Family Research Network, Boston College

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Glossaries ...

• Work-Family Encyclopedia, Sloan Work and Family Research Network
• Glossary, Appendix 2, futurework - Trends and Challenges for Work in the 21st Century, US Department of Labor
• Work-Family Glossary, Sloan Work and Family Research Network
• ILO Thesaurus

News and Current Awareness

• The Future of Work Weblog
• IWS Documented News Service

Serials

• Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organizational Studies, 1996 forward, full-text
• Japan Labor Bulletin, 1992-2003, full-text
• Monthly Labor Review, 1981 forward, full-text
• World of Work, 1996 forward, significant full-text

Studies, Reports, Papers ...

Collections

• Online Publications Sociology of Work and Organization, Universität Zürich
• The Future of Work Programme: Working Paper Series, University of Leeds
• Working Paper Series, Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law, University of Melbourne
• Social Protection Discussion Paper Series, World Bank
• Library of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, click Full-Text

Individual Titles

• Sociological Futures and the Sociology of Work, Tim Strangleman, Sociological Research Online, vol. 10, issue 4, 2005
• Rethinking central concepts of work and travel in the ‘age of aeromobility’, Claus Lasseni, paper presented at "The Alternative Mobility Futures", Centre for Motilities Research, Lancaster University, January 2004
• The Ontology of Work: Social Relations and Doing in the Sphere of Necessity, Jan Ch. Karlsson, paper presented at the 5th Annual IACR Conference, held at Roskilde University, Denmark, 17 - 19 August 2001
• The Puzzle of Work: Autonomy and Commitment Plus Discipline and Insecurity, Paul Edwards, SKOPE Research Paper No.16 Summer 2001
• Regulation work and welfare of the future: Towards a new social contract or a new gender contract?, Jacqueline O’Reilly and Claudia Spee, Discussion Paper FS I 97 - 207, Social Science Research Center Berlin, August 1997
• Dignity in the Workplace: Can Work be Dealienated?, Judith Buber Agassi, Journal of Business Ethics, 5, 1986, reprinted as chapter 11 in Alienation, Community, and Work, edited by Andrew Oldenquist and Menachem Rosner, Greenwood Press, 1991

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Country / Region

Collective

• Social Protection Discussion Paper Series, World Bank
• C175 Part-Time Work Convention, 1994, ILO

Asia-Pacific

• Work Life Balance, Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency, Australia
• Work and Family, Department of Consumer and Employment Protection, Western Australia
• Work and Family Publications, New South Wales
• Work, Family, Lifestyle, Queensland
• The future of work within households: Understanding household-level changes in the distribution of hours of paid work, Paul Callister, Department of Labour, New Zealand, February 2005

Americas

• Vulnerable Worker Research Project, Law Commission of Canada
• Vulnerable Worker Research Publications, Law Commission of Canada
• Is Work Working? Work Laws that Do a Better Job, Law Commission of Canada, Discussion Paper, December 2004
• Interim Report of the Federal Labour Standards Review [Canada], October 2005
• Review of Part III of the Canada Labour Code, Modernizing Federal Labour Standards, Consultation Paper, February 2005
• Policy Research Publications, Status of Women Canada
• Publications, Policy Research Initiative, Canada
• Conferences and Papers, futurework, US Department of Labor
• futurework - Trends and Challenges for Work in the 21st Century [report], US Department of Labor
• National Longitudinal Survey, Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Department of Labor
• Compensation and Working Conditions, Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Department of Labor
• Working in the 21st Century, Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Department of Labor
• Report on the American Workforce, Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Department of Labor

Europe

• Labour Law and Work Organisation, EU
• Council Directive 97/81/EC of 15 December 1997 concerning the Framework Agreement on part-time work concluded by UNICE, CEEP and the ETUC - Annex : Framework agreement on part-time work, EU
• UK Work Organisation Network
• Low Pay Commission, UK

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Gender and Work

• See also: Gender and Technology
• Women, Work and Employment in Europe, Nicky Le Feuvre
• Gender and non-standard work hours in 12 European countries, Harriet B. Presser, Janet C. Gornick, and Sangeeta Parashar, Monthly Labor Review, February 2008
• Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation, EU

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Technology and Work

• See also: Gender and Technology
• Service Undermined by Technology: an examination of gender relations, economics and ideology, Roma Harris, Progressive Librarian, Issue number 10/11, Winter 1995/96

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