The Great Recession brought rising inequality and changing family economies. New technologies continued to move jobs overseas, including those held by middle-class information workers. The first new edition to capture these historic changes, this book is the leading text in the sociology of work and related research fields. Wharton s readings retain the classics but offer a new spectrum of articles accessible to undergraduate students that focus on the changes that will most affect their lives.New to the fourth edition"
Author(s): Amy S. Wharton
Edition: 4
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 344
City: Abingdon
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
General Introduction
Part I Conceptual Foundations
1 Alienated Labour
2 Bureaucracy
3 Fundamentals of Scientific Management
4 The Division of Labor
5 The Managed Heart
6 Over the Counter: McDonald's
Discussion Questions for Part I
Part II The New Workplace
7 Neo-Taylorism at Work: Occupational Change in the Post-Fordist Era
8 Globalization, Flexibility and New Workplace Culture in the United States and India
9 Shift Work in Multiple Time Zones: Some Implications of Contingent and Nonstandard Employment for Family Life
10 Emotional Life on the Market Frontier
Discussion Questions for Part II
Part III On the Job
11 Nannies on the Market
12 Making Firefighters Deployable
13 The Managed Hand: The Commercialization of Bodies and Emotions in Korean Immigrant–Owned Nail Salons
14 Professionalizing Body Art: A Marginalized Occupational Group's Use of Informal and Formal Strategies of Control
15 Hiring as Cultural Matching: The Case of Elite Professional Service Firms
16 "Looking Good and Sounding Right": Aesthetic Labor and Social Inequality in the Retail Industry
Discussion Questions for Part III
Part IV Work and Inequality
17 American Beliefs about Income Inequality: What, When, Who, and Why?
18 Are Some Emotions Marked "Whites Only"?: Racialized Feeling Rules in Professional Workplaces
19 Pride and Prejudice: Employment Discrimination against Openly Gay Men in the United States
20 Skills on the Move: Rethinking the Relationship Between Human Capital and Immigrant Economic Mobility
21 If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You the Boss?: Explaining the Persistent Vertical Gender Gap in Management
Discussion Questions for Part IV
Part V Work and Family
22 Do Traditional Fathers Always Work More?: Gender Ideology, Race, and Parenthood
23 Normative Discrimination and the Motherhood Penalty
24 Time Work by Overworked Professionals: Strategies in Response to the Stress of Higher Status
25 Stereotyping Low-Wage Mothers Who Have Work and Family Conflicts
26 Toward a Model of Work Redesign for Better Work and Better Life
Discussion Questions for Part V
Credits
