Working in America: Continuity, Conflict, and Change

by Wharton, Amy S

• ISBN13: 9780073528014
• ISBN10: 0073528013
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-30
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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.

Table of Contents

General Introduction	xiii
PART I Historical and Conceptual Foundations	1	(78)
Historical Foundations	2	(1)
The Way It Was: Factory Labor Before 1915	2	(16)
Sanford M. Jacoby
How Mothers' Work Was ``Disappeared'': The Invention of the Unproductive Housewife	18	(13)
Ann Crittenden
The Evolution of the New Industrial Technology	31	(13)
Stephen Meyer III
Conceptual Foundations	44	(1)
Alienated Labour	44	(7)
Karl Marx
Bureaucracy	51	(6)
Max Weber
Fundamentals of Scientific Management	57	(8)
Frederick Winslow Taylor
The Division of Labor	65	(4)
Harry Braverman
The Managed Heart	69	(10)
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Discussion Questions for Part I	78	(1)
PART II The Social Organization of Work	79	(90)
The New Workplace	80	(1)
The Capitalist Firm in the Twenty-First Century: Emerging Patterns in Western Enterprise	80	(14)
Walter W. Powell
Structural Unemployment and the Reconstruction of the Self in the Turbulent Economy	94	(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