This book brings together leading academics from important schools of social and economic theory to make a pressing, spirited and highly engaging case for the relevance of these particular perspectives in contributing to the analysis of contemporary work. The schools covered are: Weberian, Marxian, Durkheimian, feminist, neo-classical economics, institutional economics, ethics, Foucauldian, postmodernist, organizational sociology, and economic sociology of work and labor/industrial relations.