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Working in America : Continuity, Conflict, and Change

ISBN: 9781559347372 | 1559347376
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill College
Pub. Date: 6/1/1998

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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.
Prefacevii
General Introduction1(5)
PART I Introduction6(39)
THE MEANINGS OF WORK8(37)
1. American Untouchables: Homeless Scavengers in ... MORE
8(13)
Teresa Gowan
2. Doing Housework: Feeding and Family Life
21(10)
Marjorie DeVault
3. Families on the Fault Line
31(14)
Lillian B. Rubin
PART II The Social Organization of Work45(109)
CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGY AND THE ORGANIZATION OF WORK50(17)
4. Alienated Labour
50(7)
Karl Marx
5. The Social and Political Role of the Occupational Groups
57(4)
Emile Durkheim
6. Bureaucracy
61(6)
Max Weber
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE AMERICAN WORKPLACE67(29)
7. Fundamenatals of Scientific Management
67(8)
Frederick Winslow Taylor
8. The Hawthorne Experiment: Western Electric Company
75(6)
Elton Mayo
9. The Division of Labor
81(5)
Harry Braverman
10. Contested Terrain: The Transformation of the Workplace in the Twentieth Century
86(10)
Richard C. Edwards
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND THE WORKPLACE96(58)
11. In the Age of the Smart Machine
96(13)
Shoshana Zuboff
12. Capital, Labor, and New Technology
109(18)
Steven Peter Vallas
13. Labor and Management in Uncertain Times: Renegotiating the Social Contract
127(14)
Ruth Milkman
14. The Electronic Sweatshop: How Computers Are Transforming the Office of the Future into the Factory of the Past
141(13)
Barbara Garson
PART III Work and Inequality154(96)
WORK, WAGES, AND INEQUALITY158(40)
15. Sex and Racial Segregation and Pay Gaps
158(9)
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey
16. When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor
167(10)
William Julius Wilson
17. The Wage Squeeze
177(10)
David M. Gordon
18. Rising Wage Inequality: The United States vs. Other Advanced Countries
187(11)
Richard B. Freeman
Lawrence F. Katz
RACE AND GENDER ON THE JOB198(52)
19. Numbers: Minorities and Majorities
198(14)
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
20. Culture, Commerce, and Gender: The Feminization of Book Editing
212(14)
Barbara F. Reskin
21. Boundary Lines: Labeling Sexual Harassment in Restaurants
226(15)
Patti A. Giuffre
Christine L. Williams
22. "We'd Love to Hire Them, But...": The Meaning of Race for Employers
241(9)
Joleen Kirschenman
Kathryn M. Neckerman
PART IV Types of Work250(123)
INDUSTRIAL WORK255(27)
23. Thirty Years of Making Out
255(7)
Michael Burawoy
24. Women on the Line
262(7)
Tom Juravich
25. On the Line at Subaru-Isuzu
269(13)
Laurie Graham
PERSONAL SERVICE WORK282(30)
26. Over the Counter: McDonald's
282(13)
Robin Leidner
27. "Getting" and "Making" a Tip
295(8)
Greta Foff Paules
28. Between Women: Domestics and Their Employers
303(9)
Judith Rollins
PROFESSIONAL AND MANAGERIAL WORK312(61)
29. Formal Knowledge, Power, and the Professions
312(10)
Eliot Friedson
30. Rambo Litigators: Emotional Labor in a Male-Dominated Job
322(12)
Jennifer Pierce
31. The Corporate Closet: The Professional Lives of Gay Men in America
334(13)
James D. Woods
Jay H. Lucas
32. The Social Structure of Managerial Work
347(13)
Robert Jackall
33. The Marginalization of Black Executives
360(13)
Sharon M. Collins
PART V Work and Family373(72)
CONSTRUCTING WORK-FAMILY RELATIONS376(39)
34. The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home
376(15)
Arlie Hochschild
Anne Machung
35. Hispanic Women and Homework: Women in the Informal Economy of Miami and Los Angeles
391(11)
M. Patricia Fernandez-Kelly
Anna M. Garcia
36. Family, Gender, and Business in Direct Selling Organizations
402(13)
Nicole Woolsey Biggart
PERSPECTIVES AND POLICIES ON WORK AND FAMILY415(30)
37. Management Women and the New Facts of Life
415(7)
Felice N. Schwartz
38. The Emotional Geography of Work and Family Life
422(11)
Arlie Russell Hochschild
39. What Do Men Want?
433(12)
Michael S. Kimmel
PART VI Work and Society in the Twenty-First Century445
CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING AND NEW FORMS OF WORK447(38)
40. Temporary Clerical Workers
447(13)
Robert E. Parker
41. Employee Involvement, Involved Employees: Participative Work Arrangements in a White-Collar Service Occupation
460(13)
Vicki Smith
42. "Their Logic Against Them": Contradictions in Sex, Race, and Class in Silicon Valley
473(12)
Karen J. Hossfeld
THE FUTURE OF WORK485
43. Exiting the Squirrel Cage
485(13)
Juliet B. Schor
44. The New Occupational Structure: What Are the Questions?
498
Andrew Abbott

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