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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.