Working in America : continuity, conflict, and change / Amy S.Wharton
Publication details: New York : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2006. Edition: 3rd edDescription: xii, 590 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN: 9780073528014; 0073528013Subject(s): 1. Work---Sociological aspects | 2. Work---Social aspects---United StatesDDC classification: 306.3 WHA| Item type | Current library | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Indicates New Reading
Editor's General Introduction
Part I: Historical And Conceptual Foundations
Historical Perspectives
1. The Way it Was: Factory Labor Before 1915, Sanford M. Jacoby
2. How Mothers? Work Was ?Disappeared:? The Invention of the Unproductive Housewife, Ann Crittenden
3. The Evolution of the New Industrial Technology, Stephen Meyer III
Conceptual Foundations
4. Alienated Labour, Karl Marx
5. Bureaucracy, Max Weber
6. The Principles of Scientific Management, Frederick Winslow Taylor
7. The Division of Labor, Harry Braverman
8. The Managed Heart, Arlie Hochschild
Part Ii: The New Workplace
The New Workplace
9. The Capitalist Firm in the 21st Century, Walter Powell
10. Structural Unemployment and the Reconstruction of the Self in the Turbulent Economy, Vicki Smith
Technology and Flexibility on the Job
11. In the Age of the Smart Machine, Shoshana Zuboff
12. On the Digital Assembly Line, Simon Head
13. The Transformation of Work Revisited: The Limits of Flexibility, Steven P. Vallas and John P. Beck
14. Employee Involvement, Involved Employees: Participative Work Arrangements in a White Collar Service Occupation, Vicki Smith
Part Iii: Work And Inequality
Work, Wages, and Inequality
15. The New Geography of Global Income Inequality, Glenn Firebaugh
16. Jobless Poverty: A New Form of Social Dislocation in the Inner-City Ghetto, William Julius Wilson
17. Gender Inequality at Work, David A. Cotter, Joan M. Hermsen, and Reeve Vanneman
Race, Gender, and Sexuality on the Job
18. ?Why Marcia You?ve Changed!? Male Temporary Clerical Workers Doing Masculinity in a Feminized Occupation, Kevin D. Henson and Jackie Krasas Rogers
19. The Locker Room and the Dorm Room: Workplace Norms and the Boundaries of Sexual Harassment in Magazine Editing, Kirsten Dellinger and Christine L. Williams
20. Stories Employers Tell, Philip Moss and Chris Tilly
Immigration, Globalization, and Workplace Inequality
21. Unionization and Immigrant Incorporation in San Francisco Hotels, Miriam J. Wells
22. Behind the Label, Edna Bonacich and Richard P. Appelbaum
23. Maid in L.A., Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Part Iv: Types Of Work
Industrial Work
24. Thirty Years of Making Out, Michael Buroway
25. Women on the Line, Tom Juravich
26. The Most Dangerous Job, Eric Schlosser
Service Work
27. Over the Counter: McDonald?s, Robin Leidner
28. `Getting` and `Making` a Tip, Greta Foff Paules
29. The House Rules, Jeffrey Sallaz
Professional and Managerial Work
30. Rambo Litigators: Emotional Labor in a Male-Dominated Job, Jennifer Pierce
31. The Social Structure of Managerial Work, Robert Jackall
32. Black Corporate Executives, Sharon Collins
Marginal, Contingent, and Low-Wage Jobs
33. Just a Temp, Kevin Henson
34. American Untouchables: Homeless Scavengers in San Francisco?s Underground Economy, Teresa Gowan
35. The 24/7 Economy, Harriet B. Presser
36. Flat Broke With Children: Enforcing the Work Ethic, Sharon Hays
Part V: Work And Family
Care Work: Paid and Unpaid
37. Love and Gold, Arlie Hochschild
38. Capitalism and the Erosion of Care, Paula England and Nancy Folbre
39. Maid to Order: The Politics of Other Women's Work, Barbara Ehrenreich
Balancing Work and Family Life
40. The Time Bind: Men, Arlie Hochschild
41. Motherhood on the Night Shift, Anita Ilta Garey
42. American Workers in Cross-National Perspective, Jerry A. Jacobs, Kathleen Gerson, and Janet C. Gornick
43. Beach Time, Bridge Time, and Billable Hours: The Temporal Structure of Technical Contracting, James A. Evans, Gideon Kunda, and Stephen R. Barley.
Includes bibliographical references
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