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People at work : life, power, and social inclusion in the new economy /

People at Work is 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: DeVault, Marjorie L., 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Ideologies of the Neoliberal Economy
  • 1. "Hell on My Face": The Production of Workplace Il-literacy / Bonnie Slade / Nancy Jackson
  • 2. Institutional Technologies: Coordinating Families and Schools, Bodies and Texts / Lois Andre-Bechely / Alison I. Griffith
  • 3. Promises and Realities of U.S. Microenterprise Development / Nancy C. Jurik
  • 4. Work, Disability, and Social Inclusion: The Promise and Problematics of EU Disability Policy / Rannveig Traustadottir
  • pt. II Mobile Bodies: Incorporation Without Inclusion
  • 5. Flexible Hiring, Immigration, and Indian IT Workers' Experiences of Contract Work in the United States / Payal Banerjee
  • 6. Economic Restructuring and the Social Regulation of Citizenship in the Heartland / Nancy A. Naples
  • pt. III Fictional Worlds of "Unencumbered Workers"
  • 7. Training for Low-Wage Work: TANF Recipients Preparing for Health-Care Work / Brenda Solomon
  • 8. Women's Lives, Welfare's Time Limits / Ellen K. Scott / Andrew S. London
  • 9. Personal Responsibility in Professional Work: The Academic "Star" as Ideological Code / Catherine Richards Solomon
  • 10. "Use What You Have, Be Thankful You Have It": Work and the Promise of Social Inclusion for Students with Disabilities / Katrina Arndt
  • pt. IV Fiscal Discipline: The Texts of Public-Sector Budget Cutting
  • 11. Exploring Problematics of the Personal-Responsibility Welfare State: Issues of Family and Caregiving in Welfare-to-Work and Medicaid Consumer-Directed Care Programs / Frank Ridzi
  • 12. "Textualized" Student: An Institutional Ethnography of a Funding Policy for Students with Special Needs in Ontario / Yvette Daniel
  • 13. (Dis)continuity of Care: Explicating the Ruling Relations of Home Support / Marie Campbell.