Talcott Parsons and the Capitalist Nation-State: Political Sociology as a Strategic Vocation.

Abstract

authors stand in the debates. However the text is not sufliciently comprehensive to be a textbook for an undergraduate course in industrial sociology. Wider debates and changes in industrial relations are largely ignored, as are the significant contributions of feminist research on the labour process. Nevertheless the book deserves a significant place on reading lists for being up to date on the debates it does cover and especially its coverage of new developments in the workplace. Most of all perhaps, its 'textbook value' lies in the straightforward writing and accessibility to non-specialists. Paul Bagguley University of Lancaster