Melanie Simms, Professor of Work and Employment, University of Glasgow, UK. She writes widely on the topic of work and employment with a particular interest in two main areas: how workers get to influence changes at work, and how young people move into the labour market after education.
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1. Introduction 2. What Do We Know About Work? 3. What Do We Know About the Future of Work? 4. What Should We Do About the Future of Work? 5. Conclusion
Simms' intelligent delve into the labour market and its economic effects is an excellent summary of why and how we work. But it also points out some unexpected truths - that most people work in the same way they would have 50 years ago, for example, or that the car wash industry demonstrates automation is far from inevitable. -- People Management magazine Concise, precise, beautifully designed, illustrated and written. If you want to learn a lot about what matters most, in as short a time as possible, this is the series for you. -- Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford This highly accessible but scholarly series which sees leading social scientists in the UK tackle some of the key issues facing us all today is exactly the sort of publication the Academy of Social Sciences has encouraged over the years. Congratulations to SAGE on bringing it out. -- Roger Goodman, Chair, Academy of Social Sciences