section_path: Subfields/Economic sociology/Work, employment, and industry
section_name: Work, employment, and industry
paragraph_text: Work, employment, and industry
  
  The sociology of work, or industrial sociology, examines "the direction and implications of trends in technological change, globalization, labour markets, work organization, managerial practices and employment relations to the extent to which these trends are intimately related to changing patterns of inequality in modern societies and to the changing experiences of individuals and families the ways in which workers challenge, resist and make their own contributions to the patterning of work and shaping of work institutions."