1st week:

Module 1: Definition of Work and interlink between Work, Industry and Society.

Module 2: Nature and Types of Industry and its Development.

Module 3: What is Industrial Culture? Industrialisation, Industrialism and Organisation

Module 4: What is Sociology of Organisational Behaviour: Work ethics and Work culture.

2nd week:

Module 5: Pre industrial Society

Module 6: Industrial Society: Definition, Nature and Types

Module 7: Post Industrial Society

Module 8: Information Society

3rd week:

Module 9: Dimensions of Work: The social Dimension of Work

Module 10: The Sociology of Work Culture: Work satisfaction, Work commitment and expectation

Module 11: Dimensions of Job quality, mechanism and subjective wellbeing

Module 12: Gendered dimensions of Work: Social support system and social agency

4th week:

Module 13: Theories of Work: Marx, Durkheim and Weber Part I

Module 13: Theories of Work: Spencer, Pareto and Parsons Part II

Module 14: Theories of Work: Modern Management, Taylor and Mayo

Module 15: Unpaid work and Forced Labour Part I

Module 15: Subjective well being of unpaid domestic workers Part II

Module 16: Understanding unpaid work of Women: A constraint or a choice?

5th week:

Module 17: Domestic Child Labour: A Sociological Analysis

Module 18: Forced Labour: Slavery, Debt Bondage

Module 19: Sociological perspective of sexual slavery, sex work and exploitation

Module 20: Human trafficking and Laws against human trafficking in India:

6th week:

Module 21: Work in the informal sector: Definition of informal economy from sociological perspective

Module 22: Street Vendors, Home based workers.

Module 23: Child Trafficking: A form of modern slavery

Module 24: Role of governance, Media and Civil society to the organised crime of Human Trafficking

7th week:

Module 25: Globalization and Contemporary Issues of work Part I

Module 25: Globalization and Contemporary Issues of work Part II

Module 26: Introducing Contract Work in the “Knowledge Economy” Part I

Module 26: The Role of Intellectual Capital Part II

Module 27: The Informal labour market in India: Transition due to societal forces.

Module 28: Covid 19 pandemic and its impact on the Informal Sector in India Part I

Module 28: Covid 19 pandemic and its impact on the Informal Sector in India Part II

8th week:

Module 29: External factors affecting Workplace: The social and political dimension.

Module 30: Poverty, Child labour and its implication in Society.

Module 31: National Policy for Women and Child Development.

Module 32: Breaking the rural poverty Cycle: Gender and Rural Employment Policy, problems of Agricultural workers.

Ninth Week

Module 33: Definition of Risk, Hazards and Disaster at Workplace

Module 34: Occupational Hazards with special context to Man, Woman and Children.

Module 35: Occupational Hazards in the Health Sector

Module 36: Health and Safety in Workplace

10th week:

Module 38: Work as a Social Dimension of Stress: Role, Status, and Division of labour in Society as a factor of stress at work.

Module 39: Work life balance and Social Policies

Module 40: Coping mechanisms to deal with stress at work

11th Week

Module 41: Disaster in Workplace: Types, Nature, Causes

Module 42: Work Place disaster Preparedness, Response and Management

Module 43: Disaster Risk Reduction Programmes and their Effectiveness

Module 44: Psychosocial risk factors at the workplace

12th Week

Module 45: Risk Factors and its assessment in Workplace

Module46: The Relationship between Work and Mental Health

Module 47: Institutional Discrimination at Workplace

Module 48: Systemic discrimination at workplace Part I

Module 48: Theoretical perspectives on discrimination at work Part II