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Working in America : Continuity, Conflict, and Change

ISBN: 9780767420778 | 0767420772
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 7/17/2001

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SummaryTable of Contents
Drawing from a wide range of classic writings and contemporary empirical selections, Wharton examines important topics in the field and exposes students to examples of sociological research and different theoretical approaches to studying the world of work.

General Introduction

PART I. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

Editor’s Introduction to Part One

Historical Perspectives

*Witold Rybczynski, Keeping Saint Monday

*Sanford M. Jacoby, The Way it Was: Factory Labor Before 1915

*Ruth Schwartz Cowan, The Invention of Housework

PART II. THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF WORK

Editor’s Introduction to Part Two

Classical Sociology and the Organization of Work

Karl Marx, Alienated Labour

Max Weber, Bureaucracy

Frederick Winslow Taylor, Fundamenta... MORE

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