Book review: Continuities and changes in ethnographies of work

Ethnographies of Work is a volume in the Emerald series “Research In The Sociology of Work,” edited by Rick Delbridge and associate editors Andreas Pekarek, Gretchen Purser and Markus Helfen. The series editors, echoing Gideon Kunda’s call of 20 years ago, aim at transforming the agenda of the sociology of work – “bringing work back in” – in times when work, workplaces and labor markets face existential challenges, such as increasingly precarious and insecure work arrangements, accelerated by the rapid development of new technologies and ongoing upheaval wrought by climate change and the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. These challenges,...