PART I: THE CORE THEORY.- Debating Labour Process Theory and the Sociology of Work.- Developing Labour Process Analysis: Themes from Industrial Sociology and Future Directions.- Labour Process Theory and Critical Realism.- The Core Theory: Critiques, Defences and Advances.- PART II: CLASSIC THEMES REVISITED.- Skill and the Labour Process: The Conditions and Consequences of Change.- Normative Control and Beyond in Contemporary Capitalism.- The Repertoire of Employee Opposition.- Renewing and Revising the Engagement between Labour Process Theory and Technology.- Gender, Labour Process Theory and Intersectionality: Une Liason Dangereuse?.- PART III: NEW CONCEPTS, NEW REALITIES.- Old Ambiguities and New Developments: Exploring the Emotional Labour Process.- Embodying Labour.- The Globalization of Service Work: Analysing the Transnational Call Centre Value Chain.- Go with the Flow: Labour Power Mobility and Labour Process Theory.- Making Space for Geography in Labour Process Theory.- Beyond the Blank Slate: Identities and Interests at Work.