Work Under Capitalism synthesizes recent institutionalist and Marxist ideas about the organization of production, situating production within a social context. This books analysis sheds new light on persisting inequalities by race and gender in the labour market.

Chris Tilly is associate professor of regional economic and social development at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Charles Tilly is Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University.

How to Work Things Out -- Worlds of Work -- Cotton, Coal, and Clinics -- An Analytical Frame -- Employers at Work -- Workers and Other Actors -- How Work Has Changed, How Work Changes -- Varied Work, Segmented Work -- Inequality at Work: Hiring -- Inequality at Work: Wages and Promotion -- Contention at Work -- Conclusions