Table of Contents

Introduction
Lisa Herzog and Bénédicte Zimmermann

Part 1: (Un)organized Work

1. Subordinate Work: How Does the Law Categorize Modern Labor Relationships?
Linxin He

2. Corporate Work: A Category That Has Lost Its Managerial Foundations?
Blanche Segrestin

3. Remote Work: From Employee Telework to Self-Employed Home-Based Work?
Frédérique Letourneux and Gabrielle Schütz

4. Platform Work: New Workers, New Rights?
Sophie Bernard and Josépha Dirringer

5. Teamwork: From Self-Managed to Lean and Agile Teams
Martin Krzywdzinski and Maximilian Greb

6. Democratized Work: Concepts and Practices
Roberto Frega and Martin Kuhlmann

Part 2: (In)visible Work

7. Free Versus Unfree Labor: Challenging Their Boundaries
Léa Renard and Theresa Wobbe

8. Informal Work: A Relational Category
Nicola Schalkowski and Marianne Braig

9. Migrants’ Work: An Anthropological Perspective From West Africa
Isaie Dougnon

10. Domestic Work: The Invention of a Gendered Relationship
Michel Lallement

11. Unpaid Work: Expansion and Mobilization of a Feminist Category
Maud Simonet

12. Emotional Labor: Concept and Practical Categorizations in Light of COVID Critical Care Nursing
Robert McMurray, Nicki Credland, Martyn Griffin, Peter Hamilton, Oonagh HarnessandKimberly Jamie

Part 3: (In)valuable Work

13. Dirty Work: Physical, Social and Moral Taint
Natalia Slutskaya and Annilee M. Game

14. Efficient Work: Exploring Algorithmic Approaches to Categorization
Sasha Disko, Bruce Kogut, Hanyu Li and Jennifer Zhang

15. Skilled and Unskilled Work: From Theoretical Concepts to Social Practices
Philipp Grollmann and Michael Tiemann

16. Entrepreneurship: Moral Categorizations Across Three Countries
Constance Perrin-Joly and Laure de Verdalle

17. Essential Work: A Category in the Making?
Lisa Herzog, Katrin Sold and Bénédicte Zimmermann

18. Sustainable Work: Foundations and Challenges of a Contested Category
Maja Hoffmann