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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- DeVaultCover; 978-0-8147-2003-5-text.pdf; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Ideologies of the Neoliberal Economy; "Hell on My Face": The Production of Workplace Il-literacy; Institutional Technologies: Coordinating Families and Schools, Bodies and Texts; The Promises and Realities of U.S. Microenterprise Development; Work, Disability, and Social Inclusion: The Promise and Problematics of EU Disability Policy; Part II: Mobile Bodies: Incorporation Without Inclusion; Flexible Hiring, Immigration, and Indian IT Workers' Experiences of Contract Work in the United States.
- Economic Restructuring and the Social Regulation of Citizenship in the HeartlandPart III: The Fictional Worlds of "Unencumbered Workers"; Training for Low-Wage Work: TANF Recipients Preparing for Health-Care Work; Women's Lives, Welfare's Time Limits; Personal Responsibility in Professional Work: The Academic "Star" as Ideological Code; "Use What You Have, Be Thankful You Have It": Work and the Promise of Social Inclusion for Students with Disabilities; Part IV: Fiscal Discipline: The Texts of Public-Sector Budget Cutting.
- Exploring Problematics of the Personal-Responsibility Welfare State: Issues of Family and Caregiving in Welfare-to-Work and Medicaid Consumer-Directed Care ProgramsThe "Textualized" Student: An Institutional Ethnography of a Funding Policy for Students with Special Needs in Ontario; (Dis)continuity of Care: Explicating the Ruling Relations of Home Support; Conclusion; References; Contributors; Index.