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Chapter 17

The Labour Force Survey

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/Source.asp?vlnk=358&More=Y

This site contains information on and summary data from the Labour Force Survey, a national social survey conducted for the government by the Office of National Statistics (ONS). The survey asks a sample of British households questions about their employment status and work patterns, education and training, membership of trade unions and working conditions.



Women, Enterprise and Society

http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/wes/

This is an online guide to manuscripts in the Harvard Business School that documents women’s participation in business and culture from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. You can read through the summaries of two phases of a comprehensive survey of the manuscripts, to find out more about their contents: accounts, credit books, advertisements and photographs of women at work. A very useful site for anyone who is interested in historical documentary research and/or women and work.



Work, Employment and Society

http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal201568

This is a major academic journal, published for the British Sociological Association. From the web-site you can read the abstracts and full texts of articles (in PDF format) from current and past volumes. A valuable source for anyone who is reviewing the literature on aspects of work and employment.



Leisure Studies

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/02614367.html

This is another academic journal, but full of articles about leisure rather than work. It covers a wide range of leisure activities, from arts and crafts to sport, travel and tourism, and urban versus rural forms of recreation. This would be a good starting point for anyone who is researching a topic in the sociology of leisure and wants to locate their ideas in the context of the relevant literature.



Centre for Research into Sport and Society (CRSS)

http://www.le.ac.uk/crss/

This excellent site belongs to a research centre at the University of Leicester. Here you can find various resources for the sociology of sport, including a regular newsletter, the Singer-Friedlander Review of football-related issues, selected dissertations and links to other relevant web-sites. This is well worth visiting if you are interested in understanding more about sport in its social context.



Andrew Bibby’s homepage

http://www.andrewbibby.com/

This is the website of Andrew Bibby, a professional writer and journalist who has researched and written extensively on various aspects of work and employment. His website is easy to navigate and full of excellent resources: you can read his various articles on the impact of information and communications technologies (ICT) on the workplace; telework; industrial relations; social enterprise and co-operative businesses. Well worth a visit if you are researching in this area!