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The article reviews the book "Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: The Rise of Polarized and Precarious Employment Systems in the United States, 1970s to 2000s," by Arne L. Kalleberg and "Good Jobs America: Making Work Better for Everyone," by Paul Osterman and Beth Shulman.

Reviews two books about labor economics. "Invisible Work, Invisible Workers: The Informal Economy in Europe and the US," by Madeleine Leonard; "Part-Time Prospects: An International Comparison of Part-Time Work in Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim," edited by Jacqueline O'Reilly and Colette Fagan.

This article reviews the book "Wealth and the Wealthy: Exploring and Tackling Inequalities between Rich and Poor," by Karen Rowlingson and Stephen McKay.

Reviews the book "Social Change and the Middle Classes," edited by Tim Butler and Mike Savage.

Reviews the book "Thorstein Veblen and His Critics, 1891-1963," by Rick Tilman.

Reviews the book "Selling the Work Ethic: From Puritan Pulpit to Corporate PR," by Sharon Beder.

Reviews the book "Status," by Bryan S. Turner.

Reviews the book "The Gender Factory: The Appointment of Work in American Households," by S.F. Berk.

Reviews the book "Social Issues in British Society," by Gerry Popplestone.

Reviews two books on sociology. "Marital Violence," edited by Norman Johnson; "The Family, Politics and Social Theory," by D. H. J. Morgan.

Reviews the book "Identity and Stability in Marriage," by Janet Askham.

Reviews the book "The Family and Industrial Society," by C.C. Harris.

Reviews the book "Talcott Parsons and the Capitalist Nation-State: Political Sociology as a Strategic Vocation," by William Buxton.

This is not a book about AIDS, it is a book about responses to AIDS (p. 1). It charts religious metaphors of judgement, compassion, healing, isolation, and threat. It takes the body-positives of each of these as metaphors for specific religious-bodies. It brings rituals of purity and danger (Douglas) together with the nomisation of death, disease and deviancy (Berger), and confers them upon metaphors of the AIDS-body (Sontag). The question asked is of AIDS as a symbol for socio-religious order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]