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Working in America: Continuity, Conflict, and Change

by: Wharton, Amy S

Working in America: Continuity, Conflict, and Change

by: Wharton, Amy S

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Edition: 3rd
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Copyright: 08/30/2005
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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Summary

Drawing on a wide range of classic writings and contemporary empirical selections, this text 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

xiii

PART I Historical and Conceptual Foundations

(78)

Historical Foundations

(1)

The Way It Was: Factory Labor Before 1915

(16)

Sanford M. Jacoby

How Mothers' Work Was ``Disappeared'': The Invention of the Unproductive Housewife

(13)

Ann Crittenden

The Evolution of the New Industrial Technology

(13)

Stephen Meyer III

Conceptual Foundations

(1)

Alienated Labour

(7)

Karl Marx

Bureaucracy

(6)

Max Weber

Fundamentals of Scientific Management

(8)

Frederick Winslow Taylor

The Division of Labor

(4)

Harry Braverman

The Managed Heart

(10)

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Discussion Questions for Part I

(1)

PART II The Social Organization of Work

(90)

The New Workplace

(1)

The Capitalist Firm in the Twenty-First Century: Emerging Patterns in Western Enterprise

(14)

Walter W. Powell

Structural Unemployment and the Reconstruction of the Self in the Turbulent Economy

(19)

Vicki Smith

Technology and Flexibility on the Job

113

(1)

In the Age of the Smart Machine

113

(12)

Shoshana Zuboff

On the Digital Assembly Line

125

(11)

Simon Head

The Transformation of Work Revisited: The Limits of Flexibility in American Manufacturing

136

(19)

Steven P. Vallas

John P. Beck

Employee Involvement, Involved Employees: Participative Work Arrangements in a White-Collar Service Occupation

155

(14)

Vicki Smith

Discussion Questions for Part II

168

(1)

PART III Work and Inequality

169

(148)

Work Wages and Inequality

170

(1)

The New Geography of Global Income Inequality

170

(8)

Glenn Firebaugh

Jobless Poverty: A New Form of Social Dislocation in the Inner-City Ghetto

178

(11)

William Julius Wilson

Gender Inequality at Work

189

(13)

David A. Cotter

Joan M. Hermsen

Reeve Vanneman

Race, Gender, and Sexuality on the Job

202

(1)

``Why Marcia You've Changed!'': Male Clerical Temporary Workers Doing Masculinity in a Feminized Occupation

202

(16)

Keven D. Henson

Jackie Krasas Rogers

The Locker Room and the Dorm Room: Workplace Norms and the Boundaries of Sexual Harassment in Magazine Editing

218

(17)

Kirsten Dellinger

Christine L. Williams

Stories Employers Tell: Employer Perceptions of Race and Skill

235

(26)

Philip Moss

Chris Tilly

Immigration, Globalization, and Workplace Inequality

261

(1)

Unionization and Immigrant Incorporation in San Francisco Hotels

261

(23)

Miriam J. Wells

Behind the Label: The Return of the Sweatshop

284

(15)

Edna Bonacich

Richard P. Appelbaum

Maid in L.A.

299

(18)

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

Discussion Questions for Part III

314

(3)

PART IV Types of Work

317

(168)

Industrial Work

318

(1)

Thirty Years of Making Out

318

(6)

Michael Burawoy

Women on the Line

324

(6)

Tom Juravich

Fast Food Nation: The Most Dangerous Job

330

(15)

Eric Schlosser

Service Work

345

(1)

Over the Counter: McDonald's

345

(13)

Robin Leidner

Lives on the Line: Low-Wage Work in the Teleservice Economy

358

(19)

Ruth Buchanan

The House Rules: Autonomy and Interests Among Service Workers in the Contemporary Casino Industry

377

(17)

Jeffrey J. Sallaz

Professional and Managerial Work

394

(1)

Rambo Litigators: Emotional Labor in a Male-Dominated Job

394

(12)

Jennifer L. Pierce

The Social Structure of Managerial Work

406

(12)

Robert Jackall

Blacks on the Bubble: The Vulnerability of Black Executives in White Corporations

418

(16)

Sharon M. Collins

Marginal, Contingent, and Low-Wage Jobs

434

(1)

Are We Not Temps?

434

(13)

Jackie Krasas Rogers

American Untouchables: Homeless Scavengers in San Francisco's Underground Economy

447

(12)

Teresa Gowan

Toward a 24 Hour Economy: The U.S. Experience and Implications for the Family

459

(7)

Harriet B. Presser

Flat Broke with Children: Enforcing the Work Ethic

466

(19)

Sharon Hays

Discussion Questions for Part IV

482

(3)

PART V Work and Family

485

(105)

Care Work: Paid and Unpaid

486

(1)

Love and Gold

486

(10)

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Capitalism and the Erosion of Care

496

(14)

Paula England

Nancy Folbre

Maid to Order: The Politics of Other Women's Work

510

(12)

Barbara Ehrenreich

Balancing Work and Family Life

522

(1)

The Time Bind: Men

522

(10)

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Motherhood on the Night Shift

532

(15)

Anita Ilta Garey

The Time Divided: American Workers in Cross-National Perspective

547

(17)

Jerry A. Jacobs

Kathleen Gerson

Janet C. Gornick

Beach Time, Bridge Time, and Billable Hours: The Temporal Structure of Technical Contracting

564

(26)

James A. Evans

Gideon Kunda

Stephen R. Barley

Discussion Questions for Part V

590

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Working in America: Continuity, Conflict, and Change

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0073528013

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