People at Work

by DeVault, Marjorie L.

• ISBN13: 9780814720042
• ISBN10: 0814720048
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-01
• Publisher: New York Univ Pr

Summary

People at Workis noted sociologist Marjorie L. DeVault's groundbreaking collection of original essays on the complexities of the modern-day workplace. By focusing on the lived experiences of the worker, not as an automaton on an assembly line, but as an embodied human of flesh and bone, these essays offer important insight on the realities of the workplace, and their effects on life at home and in communities. With contributions from some of today's top scholars, each essay is a detailed case study of a different aspect of the working world.Compelling, lively, and sometimes chilling, the contributors address issues from disability rights to immigrant labor, welfare reforms to budget cuts, competition to personal motivations. Each one valuable on its own, the essays inPeople at Workcombine to illuminate the hurdles that workers of all backgrounds struggle with and, more broadly, the impact of change on workers' lives in the new, increasingly global, economy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Ideologies of the Neoliberal Economy
"Hell on My Face": The Production of Workplace Il-literacy	p. 25
Institutional Technologies: Coordinating Families and Schools, Bodies and Texts	p. 40
The Promises and Realities of U.S. Microenterprise Development	p. 57
Work, Disability, and Social Inclusion: The Promise and Problematics of EU Disability Policy	p. 74
Mobile Bodies: Incorporation Without Inclusion
Flexible Hiring, Immigration, and Indian IT Workers' Experiences of Contract Work in the United States	p. 97
Economic Restructuring and the Social Regulation of Citizenship in the Heartland	p. 112
The Fictional Worlds of "Unencumbered Workers"
Training for Low-Wage Work: TANF Recipients Preparing for Health-Care Work	p. 141
Women's Lives, Welfare's Time Limits	p. 157
Personal Responsibility in Professional Work: The Academic "Star" as Ideological Code	p. 180
"Use What You Have, Be Thankful You Have It": Work and the Promise of Social Inclusion for Students with Disabilities	p. 203
Fiscal Discipline: The Texts of Public-Sector Budget Cutting
Exploring Problematics of the Personal-Responsibility Welfare State: Issues of Family and Caregiving in Welfare-to-Work and Medicaid Consumer-Directed Care Programs	p. 223
The "Textualized" Student: An Institutional Ethnography of a Funding Policy for Students with Special Needs in Ontario	p. 248
(Dis)continuity of Care: Explicating the Ruling Relations of Home Support	p. 266
Conclusion	p. 289
References	p. 303
Contributors	p. 333
Index	p. 339
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