Work, labour and industrial society

What the corporation did to the people inside it, written at its peak.

The Basque Mondragon cooperative group, studied as a working business model.

A Pennsylvania steel town from Carnegie's purchase in 1883 to the 1986 closure.

Broad employee ownership as an American tradition, and the case for reviving it.

How the way organisations divide work blinds them, and how some break down silos.

How fixation on measured performance damages the work it is meant to improve.

The hidden on-demand workers who make automated online services work.

One USB charger followed from a factory in Vietnam by ship and truck to a door.

How Amazon's growth concentrated wealth in a few places and hollowed out others.

Broad-based stock options and what they did to company performance.

The NCEO's evidence on when shared ownership raises performance.

Edited volume on the supply chain and logistics model.

Labor historian on Walmart as a new template for capitalism.

How Wal-Mart's culture and labour model were built.

The global co-operative sector and how member ownership works.

African American co-operative economics, a history largely written out.

Why Costco, Trader Joe's and QuikTrip pay more and still undercut rivals.

Dhaka's garment industry from Rana Plaza back through its supply chain.

The critical case: platform power, housing supply and regulatory arbitrage.

A worker's guide to the gig economy and how platforms price labour.

Economics of trust and matching that make marketplaces like Airbnb work.

The revival of co-operatives and member ownership, online platforms included.

The gig-work model Uber's unit economics depend on.

The gig economy's promises and realities, and the law on classifying its workers.

Field research on algorithmic management of drivers.

Foxconn from the inside; the labour cost of the contract model.

Four breaks with the postwar world, from a global economy to knowledge as capital.

How employee pension funds came to own a controlling share of American industry.

Essays on 'social ecology': how societies and institutions change, Japan included.

Selections on community and society

The Dukes v. Wal-Mart sex discrimination litigation.

Longitudinal academic study of Boeing employees through restructuring.

Sociology of platform work across Uber and peers.