What's wrong with work shows that how workers are treated has wide implications beyond the lives of workers themselves. Recognising gender, race, class and global differences, the book considers the ways formal work is often dependent on informal work and concludes by considering what might make work better. -- Provided by publisher.

Part One -- Framing the present: capitalism, work and crisis -- Work as production -- Deleted labour and hidden work -- How does a bodey work? -- Work now -- Part Two -- Informal work and everyday life -- Technology -- Green work -- Biting back.