This textbook offers ancient, integrative and probing surveys of the topics that constitute the discipline of industrial sociology, written strictly as per the latest syllabus prescribed by Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow and Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun. This book is an endeavour to serve a new generation of undergraduate students pursuing studies in Sociology as their core subject. This book will enable students to understand and critically analyse the society and its transformation in this new age. It also provides an excellent introduction to the sociology of industry. It is an excellent resource for students of sociology who have an interest in its application to the ?society and people at work?.