This book follows a simple structure and uses clear writing to present the material you need in ways you can understand. It discusses the hot issues everyone's debating, from the technology revolution to women's issues to the globalization of today's workforce. With this sociology textbook, you'll be ready for the next step after college as well as the test. His research interests include worker-management conflict, managerial behavior, coworker relations, and technological change. His international interests include ethnic relations in the states of the former Yugoslavia and the socialism to market transition. It is provided by the ability to link changesat the national or global level to changes in the lived experience of work for individuals--one of the core contributions and promises of sociology.