If you don't laugh you'll cry : the occupational humor of white Wisconsin prison workers /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schmidt, Claire (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2017]
Series:Folklore studies in a multicultural world.
Subjects:
Prisons > Wisconsin > Officials and employees > Folklore.
Humor in the workplace > Wisconsin.
Prisons > Wisconsin > Personnel > Folklore.
Humour en milieu de travail > Wisconsin.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Humor in the workplace
Prisons > Officials and employees
Wisconsin
Folklore
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Families, stories, and the weight of an invisible occupational culture
  • Does prison make you racist? Intimate contact with strangers and expanding worldview
  • Don't take your work home with you
  • The value of humor: self-awareness, stress, and boredom
  • Transforming outsiders into insiders
  • Humor and inmate-staff relationships
  • Upholding and undermining social institutions: gay jokes and Christmas in prison
  • Playing the fool: resistance through humor
  • Class, scapegoats, smoke, and mirrors.

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