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Professional work : knowledge, power and social inequalities /

Current challenges to the legitimacy of expert knowledge has caused professional control over knowledge, autonomy at work, orientation toward public service, and social status to have declined. In this collection, scholars examine the nature of these changes and how they have altered the experience...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gorman, Elizabeth M., Vallas, Steven P. (Steven Peter), 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020.
Colección:Research in the sociology of work ; v. 34.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Half Title Page
  • Series Editor Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • About the Authors
  • Introduction: Expertise and the Changing Structure of Professional Work
  • Structural and Institutional Changes in Professional Work
  • Overview of the Volume
  • References
  • Part I: Thematic Chapters
  • Chapter 1: Professional Engagement in Articulation Work: Implications for Experiences of Clinical and Workplace Autonomy
  • Examining the "Content" of Work: Professional Engagement in Articulation Work
  • The Place of Work in Professional Experiences of Autonomy
  • Data and Methods
  • Structural Shifts
  • Data Collection and Analysis
  • Findings
  • Registered Nurses
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Physicians
  • Discussion
  • References
  • Chapter 2: The Intimate Dance of Networking: A Comparative Study of the Emotional Labor of Young American and Danish Jobseekers
  • Networking Experiences
  • The Strategic Comparison of the United States and Denmark
  • Methodology and Sample
  • Training Jobseekers to Network in the United States and Denmark
  • Cross-national Similarities in Networking Experiences
  • Cross-national Differences in Networking Experiences
  • Discussion and Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Teaching on Contract: Job Satisfaction Among Non-tenure-track Faculty
  • Introduction
  • Job Satisfaction Among Non-standard Professional Workers
  • Methods
  • The Importance of the Role of Income in the Household
  • Secondary Income: The Privileged
  • Primary Income: The Struggling
  • The Importance of Pathway to the Position
  • The Teachers
  • The Frustrated Scholars
  • A Typology of NTT Faculty
  • Privileged Teachers
  • Privileged Frustrated Scholars
  • Struggling Teachers
  • Struggling Frustrated Scholars
  • Discussion and Conclusion
  • Average Racial Differences in Referrals
  • Differential Treatment by Employers
  • Research Setting, Data, and Analytic Strategy
  • Measures
  • Analytic Strategy
  • Findings
  • White and Asian Advantage at InGen by Hiring Stage
  • Establishing Racial Differences in Education and Referrals
  • Attribution of Racial Differences in Callbacks to Racial Differences in Education and Referrals
  • Differences in Recruiter Treatment by Applicant Race
  • Discussion and Conclusion
  • References
  • Appendix
  • Chapter 5: Skill Development Practices and Racial-Ethnic Diversity in Elite Professional Firms