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  title info:
    title: Working in America
    sub title: continuity, conflict, and change
  name:
    name part: Wharton, Amy S.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2006
    edition: 3rd ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 590 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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. This comprehensive reader includes readings that explore micro and macro dimensions of work. This helps students see how work is shaped by its social context and how workplace dynamics shape the larger society
  table of contents: 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 …
  note: Amy S. Wharton.
  note: Revised edition of: Working in America / Amy S. Wharton. 2nd edition c2002.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Work
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Work
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Work
    topic: Sociological aspects
  classification: HD4904 .W485 2006
  classification: 306.3/6
  identifier: 0073528013 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780073528014 (alk. paper)
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    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 050526
    record change date: 20151102144503.0
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