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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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The Sociology of Work: An Invitation | |
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The Primacy-of-Production Thesis | |
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The Sociology of Work: Core Principles | |
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Conclusion | |
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Theoretical Traditions in the Sociology of Work | |
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Classical Perspectives on Work and Society | |
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Contemporary Perspectives on Work and Society | |
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Perspectives on Work: Present Realities and Future Perspectives | |
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Studying Workers and Work: Research Methods in the Field | |
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Methods for Studying Work and Workers Official Statistics | |
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Surveys and Interviews | |
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Ethnographies | |
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Experiments | |
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Summary and Conclusion | |
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The Historical Development of Work | |
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The Industrial Revolution and Beyond: Culture, Work, and Social Change | |
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Understanding the Industrial Revolution | |
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The Meaning of Work in Preindustrial Societies | |
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The Rise of the Factory System | |
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Gender, Family, and the Factory System: The Rise of the Male Breadwinner Norm | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Second Industrial Revolution: Mass Production and Labor Management | |
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The Rise of Mass Production | |
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How Workers Responded to Mass Production | |
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The Invention of Personnel Management | |
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The Hawthorne Research: The Discovery of the Work Group | |
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Summary | |
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Occupational Structures | |
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Blue-Collar Workers and the Hidden World of Work | |
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The Skills of Blue-Collar Workers | |
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How Work Gets Done: Informal Work Practices | |
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Good Citizenship in the Workplace | |
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Summary | |
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Managers: Careers at Work | |
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The Managerial Occupation | |
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What Do Managers Do? | |
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Managers' Careers | |
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Gender and Racial Differences in Access to Power and Authority | |
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The Future of Management | |
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Summary | |
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The Professions: Power and Status in the Workplace | |
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Characteristics of the Professions | |
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Controlling Professional Work: The Professional Ethic | |
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Professional Careers | |
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Summary | |
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Service Jobs: Close Encounters with Customers | |
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Defining Service | |
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Service Industries and Service Occupations | |
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Characteristics of Service Jobs | |
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Control, Routinization, and Technology in Service Work | |
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Doing Deference: Personal Service Work | |
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Conclusion: Beyond the Service Economy | |
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Inequalities | |
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Unions in America: The Struggles of the Labor Movement | |
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The Glory Years of Industrial Unionism: 1933-1945 | |
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The Decline of Unions After World War II | |
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The Costs of Union Decline | |
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The Future of Unions | |
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Summary | |
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Gender and Work | |
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The Rise in Women's Labor Force Participation | |
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The Sex Segregation of Jobs and Occupations | |
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Maintaining Barriers Between "Women's" and "Men's" Jobs | |
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The Gender Pay Gap and the Worth of Jobs | |
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The Future of Gender Inequality at Work | |
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Conclusion | |
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Managing Diversity: Racial and Ethnic Divisions at Work | |
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Race, Ethnicity, and the Sociology of Work | |
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Government Efforts to Uproot Racial and Ethnic Disparities | |
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Conclusion | |
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Immigrant Workers: Marginal Work, Networks, and Entrepreneurship | |
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Migration of the Poor: Mexicans, Central Americans, and Filipinos | |
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Immigrant Hiring: Networks and Gateways | |
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Immigrants and Entrepreneurship | |
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Summary | |
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The Future of Work: Key Issues and Social Choices | |
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Work and Family | |
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The Rise of Domesticity | |
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Work Time, Family Time, and Work-Family Conflict | |
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Cross-National Differences in Work and Family | |
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The Growth of Nonstandard Employment Contracts and the "24/7" Economy | |
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Conclusion | |
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The New American Workplace | |
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Trends in Occupational Growth: Some Evidence | |
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The Changing Employment Relationship | |
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The Participatory Management Movement | |
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Conclusion | |
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Globalization and the American Workplace | |
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Dimensions of Globalization | |
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The Meaning of Globalization for the American Worker | |
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Conclusions: Shaping Globalization | |
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References | |
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Index | |