The Cultural Study of Work

by Harper, Douglas; Lawson, Helene M.; Adler, Patricia A.; Becker, Howard S.; Bittner, Egon; Dabney, Dean A.; Faulkner, Robert R.; Fine, Gary Alan; Geer, Blanche; Gmelch, George; Haas, Jack; Hochschild, Arlie Russell; Hollinger, Richard C.; Hood, Jane C.; Hu

• ISBN13: 9780742519183
• ISBN10: 074251918X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-11
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This anthology brings more than fifty years of scholarship of the culture and sociology of work into a vivid introductory and analytical textbook. Sociologists have long sought to understand the universal activity of work from the point of view of the wor

Table of Contents

Introduction
Douglas Harper and Helene M. Lawson	xi
Part I. Work as Social Interaction	1	(50)
1. Teamwork in the Operating Room	7	(14)
Robert N. Wilson
2. Manufacturing Motherhood: The Shadow Work of Nannies and Au Pairs	21	(30)
Cameron L. Macdonald
Part II. Socialization and Identity	51	(108)
3. The Fate of Idealism in Medical School	65	(10)
Howard S. Becker and Blanche Geer
4. Occupational Aesthetics: How Trade School Students Learn to Cook	75	(21)
Gary Alan Fine
5. Incorporation and Mechanical Solidarity in an Underground Coal Mine	96	(20)
Charles Vaught and David L. Smith
6. Dancing with Identity: Narrative Resistance Strategies of Male and Female Stripteasers	116	(14)
Carol Rambo Ronai and Rebecca Cross
7. Careers	130	(9)
Everett C. Hughes
8. Career Concerns and Mobility Motivations of Orchestra Musicians	139	(20)
Robert R. Faulkner
Part III. Experiencing Work	159	(114)
A. Work as Practical Accomplishment
9. The Social Construction of Truth: Editing an Encyclopedia	168	(13)
Graham Tomlinson
10. Baseball Magic	181	(11)
George Gmelch
11. The Police on Skid-Row: A Study of Peace Keeping	192	(18)
Egon Bittner
B. The Social Construction of Emotions in Work
12. The Slanted Smile Factory: Emotion Management in Tokyo Disneyland	210	(18)
Aviad E. Raz
13. Learning Real Feelings: A Study of High Steel Ironworkers' Reactions to Fear and Danger	228	(18)
Jack Haas
C. Work and Time
14. From Night to Day: Timing and the Management of Custodial Work	246	(15)
Jane C. Hood
15. The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work	261	(28)
Artie Russell Hochschild
Part IV. Work Cultures and Social Structure	273	(142)
A. Cultures of Blue-Collar Work
16. "Banana Time": Job Satisfaction and Informal Interaction	289	(24)
Donald F. Roy
17. Hanging Tongues: A Sociological Encounter with the Assembly Line	313	(22)
William E. Thompson
B. Cultures of the Professions, Semiprofessions, and Service Occupations
18. Annoying Owners: Routine Interactions with Problematic Clients in a General Veterinary Practice	335	(12)
Clinton R. Sanders
19. Occupational Claims to Professionalism: The Case of Paralegals	347	(23)
Kathryn J. Lively
20. Working on Hair	370	(27)
Helene M. Lawson
21. Women, Resistance, and Care: An Ethnographic Study of Nursing Auxiliary Work	397	(25)
Geraldine Lee- Treweek
Part V. Deviance in Work	415	(48)
22. Illicit Prescription Drug Use among Pharmacists: Evidence of a Paradox of Familiarity	422	(30)
Dean A. Dabney and Richard C. Hollinger
23. Wheeling and Dealing: An Ethnography of an Upper-Level Drug Dealing and Smuggling Community	452	(11)
Patricia A. Adler
Index	463	(18)
About the Editors	481