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Research in the sociology of work /
This volume includes contributions which discuss: work and identity, including the experiences of actors and teachers; authority and control at work, including insights from the hospitality and publishing industries; and issues of gender and sexuality in the workplace, including insights on sexual h...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bradford, West Yorkshire :
Emerald Group Publishing Limited,
2016.
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| Colección: | Research in the sociology of work ;
v. 29. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Research in the Sociology of Work; Copyright Page; Contents; Editorial Advisory Board; List of Contributors; The Changing Field of Workplace Sociology: An Introduction to Volume 29; Note; References; Part I: Identity Work; Work Identity without Steady Work: Lessons from Stage Actors; Work Identity, Contingent Work, and Artistic Work; Acting the Part; Data; I am an Actor; Challenges to Identity; Prospects for Making a Living; Identity Threats; Sacrifices; Sustaining Identity; The Longer Term; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References.
- "I'm a Teacher, Not a Babysitter": Workers' Strategies for Managing Identity-Related Denials of Dignity in the Early Childhood WorkplaceIntroduction; Background; Struggles for Control: Constraints in Interactive Service Work; Workers' Agency: Behaviors that Transform Constraints into Resources; Identity Processes in the Workplace; ECE as an Occupation and the Institutional Context of Preschools; The Study: Methods and Data; Analysis; Findings; Public Daycares; Private Daycares; Public Dayschools; Private Dayschools; Discussion; Implications for Theory and Future Research.
- Implications for PolicyLimitations; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Part II: Authority and Control at Work; Job Authority and Stratification Beliefs; Workplace Experiences and Stratification Beliefs; Stratification Beliefs as a Consequence of Job Conditions; Stratification Beliefs through Hierarchical Interactions; Stratification Beliefs as a Function of Managerial Tasks; Empirical Support and Expectations: Authority and Beliefs; Data and Methods; Dependent Variables; Support for Redistributive Policy; Functional Necessity of Inequality; Independent Variables.
- Amount of Authority TasksAuthority Tenure; Other Independent Variables; Ideology; Workplace and Human Capital Characteristics; Material Rewards in the Workplace; Sociodemographic Indicators; Analytic Strategy and Results; Authority Tasks and Stratification Beliefs; The Impact of Authority Task by Tenure and Context, and in the Face of Controls; Attributing Causation to Authority Experiences; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Appendix; Matching Up: Producing Proximal Service in a Los Angeles Restaurant; Introduction; Producing Interactive Service Work; Methods; Match Restaurant.
- Assembling Proximal ServiceDoing Proximal Service in Service Interactions; Discussion and Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Control from on High: Cloud-Computing, Skill, and Acute Frustration among Analytics Workers in the Digital Publishing Industry; Introduction; Skill, Technology, and Control; Pleasurably Immersive Technologies; Background on Advertising-Supported Media and the Sale of Audiences; Case Features and Methodology; Assembling an Audience Commodity; Separating Measurement from Interpretation; Discussion; Labor Process Theory and Control over Skill.