Sociology: work and labour Books

Book SynopsisA growing share of Canada’s agricultural workforce is composed of temporary foreign workers from the Global South who work difficult and dangerous jobs with limited legal protections, but it was not always like this. Dunsworth shows how the restructuring of capitalist agriculture transformed the Ontario tobacco sector and Canada’s farm labour force.Trade Review“This book provides an impressive and detailed historical examination of labour developments in the tobacco sector in Norfolk County, Ontario, from the early 1900s to the present. Clearly argued and written with flair, Harvesting Labour is an outstanding example of how to set Canadian history within transnational contexts. Salient among its many strengths is the way this study sheds light on current debates about the situations faced by those in the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program.” Ruth Frager, McMaster University“Harvesting Labour is a significant and timely contribution to the historiography of modern North American and transnational labor. Future Canadian, European, American, and Caribbean labor historians will use this work as a key piece of their own studies, and the work will also be enjoyed by a general audience as it is captivating and exceptionally readable. It is highly recommended for anyone interested in agricultural and labor history, as well as Canadian history in general.” H-Environment

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Catharine Wilson renders visible the social bonds of neighbouring and the complexity of rural life. Her in-depth examination allows a greater understanding of the inherent tensions in these work arrangements and the neighbourhoods that sustained them, dismantling some of the romantic glow of rural culture in a ‘simpler time.’ One of the most important works on rural culture in many years.” Joe Anderson, Mount Royal University and author of Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power in America"This very welcome and richly exampled book provides a vivid and thought-provoking account of the life of ‘bees’ –moments of co-operative labour – on the farms of southern Ontario from the mid nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century." Family & Community History“This deeply researched and well-documented book skillfully reflects on rural farm life and the concept of a neighborhood. Wilson’s expertise is evident as she maintains a connection to the individual people within the network even as she examines the larger context of cooperative work, rural life, and neighborhood. …[T]hough the diaries used are specific to rural Ontario, the themes, struggles, and successes postulated by Wilson will resonate with readers across North America interested in historical rural culture. This is a great read for those interested in cooperative work, rural life, and the concept of neighborhoods.” H-Net Reviews“[Being Neighbours] explores bees’ economic and social significance, ground rules and aberrations, moral and technological dimensions. It skillfully situates the story within broader literature on rural order, dispute resolution and cooperative labour. Engaging writing and plentiful photographs add to the appeal of this groundbreaking Work.” Champlain Society Floyd S. Chalmers Award jury

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Book SynopsisDrawing on interviews and focus groups with nearly 200 women from a range of backgrounds and occupations – including healthcare workers, educators, and parents – Conscripted to Care reveals how structural inequalities put women on the frontlines of the COVID-19 response, yet with inadequate resources and little voice in decision-making.Trade Review“With a thoughtful and intersectional application of feminist political economic theory, Conscripted to Care identifies multiple structures that shifted the responsibility for care onto the women who worked during the COVID-19 response, and informs more equitable pandemic response, recovery, and preparedness. This timely and meaningful analysis of the crisis leaves no excuse for ignoring the unequal effects of the pandemic.” Julia Brassolotto, University of Lethbridge

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Book SynopsisIn this powerful anthropological study of a Bolivian tin mining town, Nash explores the influence of modern industrialization on the traditional culture of Quechua-and-Aymara-speaking Indians.Trade ReviewMore than an anthropological account of indigenous miners in far off Bolivia, the book is a serious rendering of the contemporary social, economic, and political reality at the industrial world periphery. Technology and CultureTable of ContentsThe Miners' History; Belief and Behaviour in Family Life; Community Integration and Worker Solidarity; The Natural and the Supernatural Order; Conditions of Work in the Mine; Wages, Prices, and the Accumulation of Capital in Mining; Labour Conflict and Unionization; Community and Class Consciousness.

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Book SynopsisThe unification of North and South Korea is globally volatile, but Hyun Ok Park argues capital has already unified Korea in a transnational form. The capitalist unconscious drives the current unification, imagining the capitalist integration of the Korean peninsula and the Korean diaspora as a new democratic moment.Trade ReviewA stunningly original and significant contribution to a field that seems mired in a Cold War long passed. Not only does Hyun Ok Park seek to untie the knotted problem of the two Koreas, but she also persuasively provides an exemplary guide to how best unveil the interacting entanglements of history and the contemporary moment. -- Harry Harootunian, Columbia University One of the most provocative works on North Korea to emerge in years, Hyun Ok Park's The Capitalist Unconscious offers a fresh look at the past twenty years of political and socioeconomic changes in Northeast Asia. Her focus is on labor moving across borders-how it moves, generates wealth, and transforms every place it travels. The two Koreas, we learn, might not be so divided after all. -- Andre Schmid, University of Toronto Combining broad theoretical insights into Korea's rapidly changing political economy with vivid ethnographic details of migrant workers' experiences, Hyun Ok Park's The Capitalist Unconscious challenges us to reimagine the region's present, as well as its future. It will provoke lively debates about the construction of 'transnational Korea' in the twenty-first century. -- Gay Seidman, University of Wisconsin-Madison Provocative and engaging. Korean Quarterly A deeply moving, warm personal tale. Korea.net A much-needed examination of North Korea and its relationship to South Korea, China, and global capitalism writ large. -- Patrick Chung Journal of American-East Asian Relations Park's book fundamentally challenges existing understandings of Korean unification and will surely redefine debates about the meaning of a transnational Korea. American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part I: Crisis 1. The Capitalist Unconscious: The Korea Question 2. The Aesthetics of Democratic Politics: Labor, Violence, and Repetition Part II: Reparation 3. Reparation: On Colonial Returnee 4. Socialist Reparation: On Living Labor 5. Chinese Revolution in Repetition: The Minority Question Part III: Peace and Human Rights 6. Korean Unification as Capitalist Hegemony 7. North Korean Revolution in Repetition: Crisis and Value 8. Spectacle of T'albuk: Freedom and Free Labor Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPoulomi Saha offers an innovative account of women’s political labor in East Bengal over more than a century. Through a material account of text and textile, An Empire of Touch crafts a new narrative of gendered political labor under empire.Trade ReviewA brilliant provocation in the debate about female political subjectivity in the Global South, An Empire of Touch is an important and timely book. Going beyond the typical focus on women’s empowerment and independence, it demonstrates how women in East Bengal through their symbolic and material labor produce the terms of their own political self-conception. Saha’s deft and sophisticated readings of the material particulars of women’s labor reveal a relational politics of the self that expands what and who count as political. -- Mrinalini Sinha, author of Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an EmpireSaha has given us a thought-provoking, incisive, elegant, and necessary work wherein she recasts and regenerates postcolonial criticism. This book is well written, beautifully researched, creative, and politically vital. -- Erin Manning, author of Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, SovereigntySaha proposes that the diaphanous nature first of muslin and then of other fabrics constitutes neither a simple product with exchange value nor an ephemeral or affective form of labor we have come to associate with certain kinds of women’s work. Forms of touch are woven into the fabric of colonial and postcolonial exchange. And they carry a spectral quality. Rather like the visor effect in Derrida’s reading of Hamlet in Specters of Marx, fabric casts a shadow on abstracted beings moving through history teleologically, and weaves a different affect. -- Ranjana Khanna, author of Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation, 1830 to the PresentA must-read for students of Bengal, historical and contemporary. Given the diversity of themes, the book will appeal to a wide range of scholars, of political movements, literature and language, social and economic history, colonialism and imperialism, labor and artisanal production, and development and gender studies. * H-Asia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Reading the Body Politic1. Virgin SuicidesPart II: The Fetish of Nationalism2. The Fetish Touch3. Oceanic FeelingsPart III: International Basket Case4. Archive Asylum5. Machine MadeEpilogueGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisPoulomi Saha offers an innovative account of women's political labor in East Bengal over more than a century. Through a material account of text and textile, An Empire of Touch crafts a new narrative of gendered political labor under empire.Trade ReviewA brilliant provocation in the debate about female political subjectivity in the Global South, An Empire of Touch is an important and timely book. Going beyond the typical focus on women’s empowerment and independence, it demonstrates how women in East Bengal through their symbolic and material labor produce the terms of their own political self-conception. Saha’s deft and sophisticated readings of the material particulars of women’s labor reveal a relational politics of the self that expands what and who count as political. -- Mrinalini Sinha, author of Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an EmpireSaha has given us a thought-provoking, incisive, elegant, and necessary work wherein she recasts and regenerates postcolonial criticism. This book is well written, beautifully researched, creative, and politically vital. -- Erin Manning, author of Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, SovereigntySaha proposes that the diaphanous nature first of muslin and then of other fabrics constitutes neither a simple product with exchange value nor an ephemeral or affective form of labor we have come to associate with certain kinds of women’s work. Forms of touch are woven into the fabric of colonial and postcolonial exchange. And they carry a spectral quality. Rather like the visor effect in Derrida’s reading of Hamlet in Specters of Marx, fabric casts a shadow on abstracted beings moving through history teleologically, and weaves a different affect. -- Ranjana Khanna, author of Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation, 1830 to the PresentA must-read for students of Bengal, historical and contemporary. Given the diversity of themes, the book will appeal to a wide range of scholars, of political movements, literature and language, social and economic history, colonialism and imperialism, labor and artisanal production, and development and gender studies. * H-Asia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Reading the Body Politic1. Virgin SuicidesPart II: The Fetish of Nationalism2. The Fetish Touch3. Oceanic FeelingsPart III: International Basket Case4. Archive Asylum5. Machine MadeEpilogueGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAlike in many aspects of their histories, Australia and the United States diverge in striking ways when it comes to their working classes, labor relations, and politics. Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist curate innovative essays that use transnational and comparative analysis to explore the two nations’ differences. The contributors examine five major areas: World War I’s impact on labor and socialist movements; the history of coerced labor; patterns of ethnic and class identification; forms of working-class collective action; and the struggles related to trade union democracy and independent working-class politics. Throughout, many essays highlight how hard-won transnational ties allowed Australians and Americans to influence each other’s trade union and political cultures.Contributors: Robin Archer, Nikola Balnave, James R. Barrett, Bradley Bowden, Verity Burgmann, Robert Cherny, Peter Clayworth, Tom Goyens, Dianne Hall, Benjamin Huf, Jennie Jeppesen, MaTrade Review"Two of the leading comparative labour historians in Australia and the U.S., Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist, have joined forces to produce an outstanding edited collection comparing key aspects of Australian and American labour history. . . . Their volume is a fine example of the enormous benefits and promises that such a combined approach brings to labour history." --Moving the Social"The essays in this volume make a splendid contribution to the important fields of US and Australian labor history."--Neville Kirk, author of Labour and the Politics of Empire: Britain and Australia 1900 to the Present"Historians cannot do experiments with history, but we can do the functional equivalent by way of comparative history. This excellent collection compares Australian and US workplace experiences. We expect the differences; these sophisticated labor historians also attend to the surprising extent of 'commonalities,' which seem to have grown over time." --Melanie Nolan, editor of Revolution: The 1913 Great Strike in New Zealand"This terrific collection, edited by two of the leading scholars of Australian and US labor history, respectively, contributes significantly to our understanding of labor and working-class conflicts in these two countries." --Labor"This collection is a must for comparative historians. Rather than having a collection of national case studies, this collection goes the extra mile and shows how useful and critical such transnational history is." --Pacific Historical Review"This collection of sixteen comparative essays, plus an introduction and a conclusion, marks a significant step in the advancement of labor history on both sides of the Pacific Ocean." --The Journal of American History

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"By zooming out to include multiple countries and contexts and by zooming in on individual films about women workers, Mennel makes a strong case that European cinema has something important to say about gender and the economy." --Feminist German Studies"Women at Work offers us a rich archive of cinematic depictions of female labor . . . It is to the credit of Mennel's sweeping cinematic analysis of the present that we now have a better understanding of not only the work women do across the continent but also the variety of new images European cinema has been offering us." --German Studies Review"Highly recommended." --Choice"A beautiful balance between plot analysis and aesthetic evaluation to show how cinematic forms and subjects work together to root women's labor in gendered and economic contexts." --MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture ​​"This book makes an important intervention into both feminist film theory and scholarship on European cinema. Mennel provides a kaleidoscopic overview of the landscape of European filmmaking today, and a key achievement of her study is its truly transnational, comparative framework, which generatively juxtaposes films from a wide range of European countries without losing sight of their cultural specificity."--Hester Baer, author of Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language"A book steeped in cinematic analysis of style and form that is relevant far beyond the field of cinema and European studies. Innovative and unique in the way it brings a very timely topical focus to a large body of contemporary European cinema."--Maria Stehle, author of Ghetto Voices in Contemporary Germany: Textscapes, Filmscapes, and Soundscapes

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Book SynopsisAlike in many aspects of their histories, Australia and the United States diverge in striking ways when it comes to their working classes, labor relations, and politics. Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist curate innovative essays that use transnational and comparative analysis to explore the two nations’ differences. The contributors examine five major areas: World War I’s impact on labor and socialist movements; the history of coerced labor; patterns of ethnic and class identification; forms of working-class collective action; and the struggles related to trade union democracy and independent working-class politics. Throughout, many essays highlight how hard-won transnational ties allowed Australians and Americans to influence each other’s trade union and political cultures.Contributors: Robin Archer, Nikola Balnave, James R. Barrett, Bradley Bowden, Verity Burgmann, Robert Cherny, Peter Clayworth, Tom Goyens, Dianne Hall, Benjamin Huf, Jennie Jeppesen, MaTrade Review"Two of the leading comparative labour historians in Australia and the U.S., Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist, have joined forces to produce an outstanding edited collection comparing key aspects of Australian and American labour history. . . . Their volume is a fine example of the enormous benefits and promises that such a combined approach brings to labour history." --Moving the Social"The essays in this volume make a splendid contribution to the important fields of US and Australian labor history."--Neville Kirk, author of Labour and the Politics of Empire: Britain and Australia 1900 to the Present"Historians cannot do experiments with history, but we can do the functional equivalent by way of comparative history. This excellent collection compares Australian and US workplace experiences. We expect the differences; these sophisticated labor historians also attend to the surprising extent of 'commonalities,' which seem to have grown over time." --Melanie Nolan, editor of Revolution: The 1913 Great Strike in New Zealand"This terrific collection, edited by two of the leading scholars of Australian and US labor history, respectively, contributes significantly to our understanding of labor and working-class conflicts in these two countries." --Labor"This collection is a must for comparative historians. Rather than having a collection of national case studies, this collection goes the extra mile and shows how useful and critical such transnational history is." --Pacific Historical Review"This collection of sixteen comparative essays, plus an introduction and a conclusion, marks a significant step in the advancement of labor history on both sides of the Pacific Ocean." --The Journal of American History

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"By zooming out to include multiple countries and contexts and by zooming in on individual films about women workers, Mennel makes a strong case that European cinema has something important to say about gender and the economy." --Feminist German Studies"Women at Work offers us a rich archive of cinematic depictions of female labor . . . It is to the credit of Mennel's sweeping cinematic analysis of the present that we now have a better understanding of not only the work women do across the continent but also the variety of new images European cinema has been offering us." --German Studies Review"Highly recommended." --Choice"A beautiful balance between plot analysis and aesthetic evaluation to show how cinematic forms and subjects work together to root women's labor in gendered and economic contexts." --MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture ​​"This book makes an important intervention into both feminist film theory and scholarship on European cinema. Mennel provides a kaleidoscopic overview of the landscape of European filmmaking today, and a key achievement of her study is its truly transnational, comparative framework, which generatively juxtaposes films from a wide range of European countries without losing sight of their cultural specificity."--Hester Baer, author of Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language"A book steeped in cinematic analysis of style and form that is relevant far beyond the field of cinema and European studies. Innovative and unique in the way it brings a very timely topical focus to a large body of contemporary European cinema."--Maria Stehle, author of Ghetto Voices in Contemporary Germany: Textscapes, Filmscapes, and Soundscapes

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Book SynopsisThis text proposes different ways of thinking about work. It explores many of the ways in which human beings have thought about the place of work in life - its meanings, its limits, and its relation to other obligations, to the life cycle, to play and to rest.Trade Review"… a tool-chest for anyone who wishes to think through the relation between God's calling and our daily tasks." —Vocation, 2005“Working is a treasure of 75 selections from sources as diverse as Aristotle, Xenophon, and the Bible, to Longfellow, Marx, Michael Novak and Josef Pieper. Meilaender deserves our gratitude for bringing together such a workman-like short library of poetry, fiction, and thoughtfulness. Anyone who works or thinks about work will find something here to nourish his soul.” —Pro Ecclesia“[A] fascinating, instructive and entertaining anthology on the subject. It is a worthy resource for all congregational libraries.” —Church and Synagogue Libraries“...shining gems of reflection and narrative. It is both a thoughtful and accessible compilation.” —Religious Studies Review“This volume provides a fine resource for serious reflection—in the context of our Western moral heritage—on how the working life might become a more integral part of the good life.” —Religion and Liberty“This anthology as a whole will promote important reflections on the ‘ethical’ meaning of work and is highly recommended for undergraduate, theological, and public libraries. A very valuable resource for undergraduate courses in ethics.” —Choice Magazine“Meilaender is a writer of elegance and power; a thinker of subtlety and grace. He reminds us of the compelling and continuing force of Scriptural and theological understandings of work. Most importantly, in a time when work dominates so much of our lives—or busyness does, at any rate—he asks us, through his commentary and selections, to ponder the meaning and role of work in our lives and to assess work within a wider framework of God’s creation and purpose for us.” —Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, The University of Chicago, and author of Augustine and the Limits of Politics“Who could have put together a quilt of passages as diverse and imaginatively patterned as the selections Gilbert Meilaender has chosen—from Marx to Mark Twain—for this anthology on working? W. H. Auden perhaps. Meilaender has also favored us with a wise and elegantly written introduction to a volume that should enrich personal reflection and stimulate classroom and public discussion.” —William F. May, Cary M. Maguire Professor of Ethics, Southern Methodist University

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"With clear, heartfelt prose, methodological imaginativeness, and careful attention to intersecting axes of power and distinction, this book not only makes essential contributions to the fields of anthropology and gender studies but also to scholars interested in South Asia, decoloniality, and ethical research methods." * New Books in Anthropology (NBN) *"This vivid ethnography lifts the veil on a community that has been marginalised and invisibilized but whose labor and contributions are central to make sense of SL’s global recognition as a leading tea exporter that has contributed greatly to the country’s economic growth and history as a post-colonial state in SA. " * Lekh *"Tea and Solidarity reinvigorates conversations in feminist political economy and presents an exciting and inspiring example of the richness of the anthropologyof work today." * Anthropology of Work Review *"Tea and Solidarity is an excellent read and provokes an engagement with such issues as positionality, situated knowledge, ethical responsibilities as researchers, and more importantly the transformative potential of transnational rights-based interventions. By focusing on ‘how gender, work and value making shape Hill-Country Tamil Women’s lives’, Jegathesan shifts the terms of feminist engagement to stand in solidarity with them." * Gender, Place & Culture *"[A]n insightful, rich ethnography, which stands as an original contribution to the plantation as an object of anthropological inquiry." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"With clear, heartfelt prose, methodological imaginativeness, and careful attention to intersecting axes of power and distinction, this book not only makes essential contributions to the fields of anthropology and gender studies but also to scholars interested in South Asia, decoloniality, and ethical research methods." * New Books in Anthropology (NBN) *"This vivid ethnography lifts the veil on a community that has been marginalised and invisibilized but whose labor and contributions are central to make sense of SL’s global recognition as a leading tea exporter that has contributed greatly to the country’s economic growth and history as a post-colonial state in SA. " * Lekh *"Tea and Solidarity reinvigorates conversations in feminist political economy and presents an exciting and inspiring example of the richness of the anthropologyof work today." * Anthropology of Work Review *"Tea and Solidarity is an excellent read and provokes an engagement with such issues as positionality, situated knowledge, ethical responsibilities as researchers, and more importantly the transformative potential of transnational rights-based interventions. By focusing on ‘how gender, work and value making shape Hill-Country Tamil Women’s lives’, Jegathesan shifts the terms of feminist engagement to stand in solidarity with them." * Gender, Place & Culture *"[A]n insightful, rich ethnography, which stands as an original contribution to the plantation as an object of anthropological inquiry." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *

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Book SynopsisOn the production of migrant labor and suffering through asylum enforcementOver the past several decades, the vibrant, multiethnic borough of Queens has seen growth in the community of Nepali migrants, many of whom are navigating the challenging bureaucratic process of asylum legalization. Surviving the Sanctuary City follows them through the institutional spaces of asylum offices, law firms, and human rights agencies to document the labor of seeking asylum. As an interpreter and a volunteer at a grassroots community center, anthropologist Tina Shrestha has witnessed how migrants must perform a particular kind of suffering that is legible to immigration judges and asylum officers. She demonstrates the lived contradictions asylum seekers face while producing their suffering testimonials and traces their attempts to overcome these contradictions through the Nepali notions of kaagaz banaune (making paper) and dukkha (suffering). Surviving the Sanctuary City asks what everyday survival amoTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Locating Nepali New Yorkers Chapter 2. Language of Suffering, Language for Survival Chapter 3. The Logic of “Claimant Credibility” Chapter 4. Testimonial Coconstruction in the Asylum Backstage Chapter 5. The Production of Claimant-Workers Chapter 6. The Paradox of Visibility and Collective Censorship Conclusion Epilogue Glossary Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Locating Nepali New Yorkers Chapter 2. Language of Suffering, Language for Survival Chapter 3. The Logic of “Claimant Credibility” Chapter 4. Testimonial Coconstruction in the Asylum Backstage Chapter 5. The Production of Claimant-Workers Chapter 6. The Paradox of Visibility and Collective Censorship Conclusion Epilogue Glossary Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisA practicing attorney views the sexual harassment of working women as a pervasive social problem and presents a legal argument that it is discrimination based on sex.

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Book SynopsisAn eye-opening look at how America's social policy has been hijacked by a rhetoric of extremes.

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Book SynopsisIn society at large, lives have been drastically altered over this century--as a consequence of increased longevity, advances in science and education, the gender revolution, improvements in public health, and other historical trends and events--but numerous inflexible social structures, roles, and norms have lagged behind. There is a mismatch or imbalance between the transformation of the aging process from birth to death and the role opportunities or places in the social structure that could foster and reward people at the various stages of their lives. While the twentieth century has experienced a revolution in human development and aging, there has been no comparable revolution in the role structures of society to keep pace with the changes in the ways people grow up and grow old. The lag involves not only institutional and organizational arrangements, but also the many aspects of culture that, in addition to being internalized by people, are built into role expectations and societTable of ContentsPartial table of contents: THE DILEMMA OF STRUCTURAL LAG. Structural Lag: Past and Future (M. Riley & J. Riley). Opportunities, Aspirations, and Goodness of Fit (R. Kahn). DIRECTIONS OF CHANGE. Social Structure and Age-Based Careers (J. Henretta). Work and Retirement: A Comparative Perspective (M. Kohli). Family Change and Historical Change: An Uneasy Relationship (T.Hareven). Old Age and Age Integration: An Anthropological Perspective (J.Keith). CURRENT INTERVENTIONS: OLDER WORKERS. Realizing the Potential: Some Examples (W. McNaught). Changing Policy Signals (R. Burkhauser & J. Quinn). Endnote: The Reach of an Idea (A. Foner). Indexes.

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Book SynopsisA practical guide for human resource managers, this book discusses the important role that flexible work arrangements (FWA) can play in the prevention and moderation of employee stress. The book also provides a blueprint for the organizational planning of such arrangements.Table of ContentsAbout the Authors vii Foreword ix Preface xiii Series Preface xv 1 Defining and Making the Case for Flexible Work Arrangements 1 2 How Flexible Work Arrangements Can Address Personal and Organizational Needs 27 3 The Cycle of Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Flexible Work Arrangements 59 4 The Effects of Flexible Work Arrangements 93 5 Sage Experience from Experience: On Management Training and Implementation Process 133 6 Toolkit: Assessing Needs and Effects 155 References 177 Index 183

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Book SynopsisAn anthology of American labor poetry of the Great Depression. This work provides a glimpse into the remarkable but largely forgotten poems published in union newspapers during the turbulent 1930s. It offers an opportunity for you to learn how an earlier generation of workers confronted and challenged injustice and inequality.Trade ReviewAn outstanding piece of scholarship and a welcome contribution to the field, this collection of neglected but powerful poetry speaks to our own time as much as it does to its own era. - Nicholas Coles, University of Pittsburgh

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Book SynopsisExplores the mutually formative interactions between the Arab and Jewish working classes, labor movements, and worker-oriented political parties in Palestine just before and during the period of British colonial rule. This book avoids treating the Arab and Jewish communities as if they developed independently of each other.

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Book SynopsisA study of how the traditional nuclear family has been supplanted by a variety of relationships that are not defined by blood ties and traditional gender roles.Table of ContentsPreface to the 1998 Edition Acknowledgments Prologue Introductions 1 The Making and Unmaking of Modern Families 2 Land of Dreams and Disasters: Postindustrial Living in the Silicon Valley Book I Pamela's Kin: Feminism, Fundamentalism, and a Postmodern Extended Family 3 Pam's Revelation and Mine 4 Sprouting Some Odd Branches: A Divorce-Extended Family 5 Pamela's Children: Spirited Youth in Stressful Times 6 Global Ministries of Love and New Wave Evangelicalism 7 The Gray and Spotted Dogs Book 11 The Lewisons: High-Tech Visions and Battered Dreams 8 The Last "Modem" Family in Town 9 To Feminism and Partway Back 10 If Wishes Were Fishes: Surviving Loss in a Matrifocal Family Conclusions 11 The Postmodern Family, For Better and Worse Epilogue Taking Women at Their Word Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOffering a portrait of the real lives of kitchen workers, this book presents their experiences, challenges, and satisfactions to colorful life.Trade Review"Oozes with first-hand accounts of pranks and mishaps... Fine's book entertains as it enlightens." North By NorthwesternTable of ContentsPreface to the 2009 Edition Preface to the First Edition Introduction Chapter 1. Living the Kitchen Life Chapter 2. Cooks'Time:Temporal Demands and the Experience of Work Chapter 3. The Kitchen as Place and Space Chapter 4· The Commonwealth of Cuisine Chapter 5· The Economical Cook:Organization as Business Chapter 6. Aesthetic Constraints Chapter 7· The Aesthetics of Kitchen Discourse Chapter 8. The Organization and Aesthetics of Culinary Life Appendix. Ethnography in the Kitchen:Issues and Cases Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisFocuses on an aspect of contemporary motherhood often hidden from view: the need for paid childcare by women returning to the workforce, and the complex bonds mothers forge with the 'shadow mothers' they hire. The author illuminates both sides of an unequal and complicated relationship.Trade Review"Offers surprising and layered insights into the ... modern mommy phenomenon played out every day from coast to coast." Boston Globe "Sparks important insights for mother-employers and their employees... And along the way, it offers society and individuals a way to create positive mother-childcare worker relationships." Foreword "An interesting read... [Macdonald's] findings are thought-provoking" -- Kate Burns Law Society JournalTable of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction: Childcare on Trial 2. Mother-Employers: Blanket Accountability at Home and at Work 3. Nannies on the Market 4. "They're Too Poor and They All Smoke": Ethnic Logics and Childcare Hiring Decisions 5. Managing a Home-Centered Childhood: Intensive Mothering by Proxy 6. Creating Shadow Mothers 7. The "Third-Parent" Ideal 8. Nanny Resistance Strategies 9. Partnerships: Seeking a New Model 10. Untangling the Mother-Nanny Knot Appendix: Research Methods Notes Bibliography Index Contents Preface

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Book SynopsisTrucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States. Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews and years of extensive observation, this book explains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurred, and how companies achieve a compliant and dedicated workforce despite it.Trade Review"The Big Rig is sure to become the touchstone study of U.S. trucking. Coupling fascinating accounts of personal struggles with sharp structural analyses linking these struggles to macroeconomic forces, it is the best kind of ethnographic sociology." * Men & Masculinities *"Engagingly written and very thorough... The Big Rig is a strong contribution to scholarship on work and occupations, economic sociology, and institutional analysis." * American Journal of Sociology *"Compelling... This rich ethnographic account is grounded in sociological inquiry of labor relations and age-old questions of capitalist interests and class struggle." * Contemporary Sociology *"This is a powerful and important book that brings clear insights into some of the machinations of contemporary American capitalism." -- Shane Hamilton, University of York * Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas *Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction. Where Did All These Bad Jobs Come From? 1. The CDL Mill: Training the Professional Steering-Wheel Holder 2. Cheap Freight, Cheap Drivers: Work as a Long-Haul Trucker 3. The Big Rig: Running the Contractor Confidence Game 4. Working for the Truck: The Harsh Reality of Contracting 5. Someone to Turn To: Managing Contractors from an Arm’s Length Away 6. “No More Jimmy Hoff as”: Desperate Drivers and Divided Labor Appendix A. Data and Methods Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisYears after the Great Recession, the economy is still weak, and an unprecedented number of workers have sunk into long spells of unemployment. This book provides an account of the experiences of some of these men and women, through the example of a historically important group: autoworkers.Trade Review"Rich... Chen constructs a skilled analysis of overlapping issues rising from differences of race, gender and family status." -- Angelia R. Wilson Times Higher Education "The book is full of accounts, many containing moving, first-person stories of the impact on individuals and families of difficult work... Recomended." -- C. K. Piehl CHOICE connect "Cut Loose is an illuminating look at the impacts of prolonged joblessness that accompanied economic restructuring for a group of long-term unemployed autoworkers in Michigan and Ontario in 2009-10." American Journal of Sociology "[Chen's] in-depth interviews are both empathetic and perceptive... Important." Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. They Had It Coming 2. All This Garbage from Life: Education and the Capital Speedup 3. Decline and Fall: Hardship, Race, and the Social Safety Net 4. Half a Man: Fragile Families and the Unmarriageable Unemployed 5. Vicious Circles: The Structure of Power and the Culture of Judgment 6. Loser: The Failures of the American Dream 7. There Go I Appendix: Research Methods and Policy Details Notes Index

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Book SynopsisMost labor and migration studies classify migrants with limited formal education or credentials as unskilled. This book uncovers these migrants' lifelong human capital and identifies mobility pathways associated with the acquisition and transfer of skills across the migratory circuit, including reskilling, job jumping, and entrepreneurship.Trade Review"Through facts and figures, the book encourages readers to look beyond the classification of workers as "skilled" or "unskilled." ... Recommended." -- B. P. Corrie, CHOICE connectTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Who Are the "Unskilled," Really? 2. Learning Skills in Communities of Origin 3. Mobilizing Skills and Migrating 4. Transferring Skills, Reskilling, and Laboring in the United States 5. Returning Home and Reintegrating into the Local Labor Market 6. Conclusion Methodological Appendix Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisAcross the world, workers labor without pay for the benefit of profitable businesses - and it's legal. Labor trends like outsourcing and technology hide some workers, and branding and employer mandates erase others. This book gathers essays by prominent sociologists and legal scholars to illuminate how and why such labor has been hidden from view.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOREWORD: INVISIBLE LABOR, INAUDIBLE VOICE - ARLIE HOCHSCHILD PART ONE. EXPOSING INVISIBLE LABOR 1. INTRODUCTION: CONCEPTUALIZING INVISIBLE LABOR WINIFRED R. POSTER, MARION CRAIN, AND MIRIAM A. CHERRY 2. THE EYE SEES WHAT THE MIND KNOWS: THE CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF INVISIBLE WORK JOHN W. BUDD 3. MAINTAINING HIERARCHIES IN PREDOMINANTLY WHITE ORGANIZATIONS: A THEORY OF RACIAL TASKS AS INVISIBLE LABOR ADIA HARVEY WINGFI ELD AND RENEE SKEETE PART TWO. VIRTUALLY INVISIBLE: DISEMBODIED LABOR VIA TECHNOLOGY AND GLOBALIZATION 4. VIRTUAL WORK AND INVISIBLE LABOR MIRIAM A. CHERRY 5. THE VIRTUAL RECEPTIONIST WITH A HUMAN TOUCH: OPPOSING PRESSURES OF DIGITAL AUTOMATION AND OUTSOURCING IN INTERACTIVE SERVICES WINIFRED R. POSTER PART THREE. PUSHED OUT OF SIGHT: SHIELDED FORMS OF EMBODIED LABOR 6. HIDDEN FROM VIEW: DISABILITY, SEGREGATION, AND WORK ELIZABETH PENDO 7. SIMPLY WHITE: RACE, POLITICS, AND INVISIBILITY IN ADVERTISING DEPICTIONS OF FARM LABOR EVAN STEWART 8. PRODUCING INVISIBILITY: SURVEILLANCE, HUNGER, AND WORK IN THE PRODUCE AISLES OF WAL-MART, CHINA EILEEN M. OTIS AND ZHENG ZHAO PART IV. LOOKING GOOD AT WORK: INVISIBLE LABOR IN PLAIN SIGHT 9. THE FEMALE BREAST AS BRAND: THE AESTHETIC LABOR OF BREASTAURANT SERVERS DIANNE AVERY 10. THE INVISIBLE CONSEQUENCES OF AESTHETIC LABOR IN UPSCALE RETAIL STORES CHRISTINE L. WILLIAMS AND CATHERINE CONNELL 11. FROM INVISIBLE WORK TO INVISIBLE WORKERS: THE IMPACT OF SERVICE EMPLOYERS' SPEECH DEMANDS ON THE WORKING CLASS CHRIS WARHURST PART V. BRANDED AND CONSUMED 12. SELF-BRANDING AMONG FREELANCE KNOWLEDGE WORKERS ADAM ARVIDSSON, ALESSANDRO GANDINI, AND CAROLINA BANDINELLI 13. CONSUMING WORK MARION CRAIN 14. CONCLUSION WINIFRED R. POSTER, MARION CRAIN, AND MIRIAM A. CHERRY ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS INDEX

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Book SynopsisHow has Latino immigration transformed the South? In what ways is the presence of these newcomers complicating efforts to organize for workplace justice? This is a portrait of neoliberal globalization and calls for organizing strategies that bring diverse working communities together in mutual construction of a more just future.Trade Review"Scratching Out a Living is a model of engaged scholarship. In this timely, beautifully-written, and deeply researched activism-based ethnography about the poultry industry in the American South, Stuesse demonstrates how workers are exploited and divided on the basis of racial and ethnic identities within the context of neoliberal globalization. Without underestimating the difficulties, her research reveals that the basis for inter-racial working class solidarity among African Americans and Latinos does indeed exist in the newest 'new' South." -Judges' Comments, 2017 C.L.R. James Award for Published Books for Academic or General Audiences Working-Class Studies AssociationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Southern Fried: Globalization and Immigrant Transformations 2. Dixie Chicken: Racial Segregation, Poultry Integration, and the Making of the "New" South in Central Mississippi 3. The Caged Bird Sings for Freedom: Black Struggles for Civil and Labor Rights, 1950-1980 4. To Get to the Other Side: The Hispanic Project and the Rise of the Nuevo South 5. Pecking Order: Latino Newcomers, Receptions, and Racial Hierarchies 6. A Bone to Pick: Labor Control and the Painful Work of Chicken Processing 7. Sticking Our Necks Out: Challenges to Union and Workers' Center Organizing 8. Walking on Eggshells: Illegality, Employer Sanctions, and Disposable Workers 9. Plucked: Labor Contractors and Immigrant Exclusion 10. Flying Upwind: Toward a New Southern Solidarity Postscript Home to Roost: Reflections on Activist Research Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the seismic changes confronting media workers in an age of globalization and corporate conglomeration. This anthology peeks behind the hype and supposed glamor of screen media industries to reveal the intensifying pressures and challenges confronting actors, editors, electricians, and others.Trade Review“The current volume is overdue, because it not only assumes the rise of the worldwide precariat, but it also scrutinizes vastly different cultural practices, many of which have not received critical attention in any depth…. Readers of this volume will nonetheless encounter stimulating rehearsals of these new modes of creative precarity.” * Labor: Studies in Working-Class History *

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Book SynopsisFrom famously humble origins, Amazon has grown to become one of the most successful businesses in history. In its effort to provide its trademark fast and convenient Prime delivery, the company built a vast worldwide network of fulfillment centers and warehouses. Unsustainable looks inside the company's warehouses to reveal that the rise of Amazon is only made possible by the exploitation of workers' labor and communities' resources. Juliann Emmons Allison and Ellen Reese expose the real-world repercussions of these pernicious strategies through a chilling case study of the socioeconomic and environmental harms associated with the largely unchecked growth of warehousing in Inland Southern California, one of the nation's largest logistics hubs, where Amazon is the largest private-sector employer. Tracing the rise of grassroots resistance to the warehouse industry by workers and communities across this region, the country, and the globe, Unsustainable provides fresh insight into one of tTrade Review"The book develops a broad and insightful analysis of the human and environmental costs that flow from Amazon’s virtually unchecked domination of local communities, low-wage labor markets, and the workers whose labor it exploits." * Social Forces *

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Book SynopsisProfessional Work: A Sociological Approach is an introduction examining recent trends in the world of professional work. Authors Kevin Leicht and Mary Fennell review the history and theory of managerial and professional work, and then describe specific contemporary changes in professions and work-settings. Provides overview of recent organizational changes in the workplace. Analyzes current history and theory of managerial and professional work. Includes definitions of key terms, original tables and figures. Trade Review"Managerial prerogatives are expanding while professionals find their autonomy and sphere of discretion shrinking. That is the provocative thesis of this thoughtfully crafted and carefully documented analysis of the dynamics of elite occupations and the changing nature of the workplace. Leicht and Fennell's volume is an impressive and innovative contribution to both the sociology of work and social stratification." W. Richard Scott, Stanford University "The idea that managers and professionals are exchanging places is a novel way of thinking about the changes that are occurring in the division of labor in elite occupations and the shift toward less bureaucratized organizations." Arne L. Kalleberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "This book does a good job integrating organizational theory and arguing for a new interpretation of the nature of work in elite occupations. It should be particularly valuable to those who study organizations, work, and social inequality." Choice "Professional Work, organized into nine chapters, provides an instructive historical and theoretical overview of managerial and professional work. [...] this book is thoughtful and creative in its use of existing data sources" Kevin D. Henson, University of Chicago, Contemporary Sociology 31, 5Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgements. 1. Professional and Managerial Work in the 21st Century. 2. Conceptual Background: The Expert Division of Labor and Professional Work. 3. Managers and Managerial Work in the 20th Century. 4. The Neoentrepreneurial Workplace. 5. Theoretical Models of Professional Work. 6. Change in the Organizational Context of Managerial and Professional Work. 7. Interest Diversity and Demographic Diversity Among Professionals. 8. Organizations as Vehicles for Producing Stratification Among Professionals. 9. Conclusion: The Rise of the Postorganizational Workplace. Additional Readings on Professions. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisA study of the links between schooling and the workplace in modern society. It examines links between schooling and the modern workplace, from a sociological perspective. It combines and analyzes theory and studies in the sociology of education and the sociology of work.Trade Review“David Bills’ brilliant synthesis and critique of research on the education/work nexus now stands as the definitive reference source on the topic. It is a masterful work by our leading authority on this important linkage.” David K. Brown, Illinois State University “This is a crucial, up-to-date formulation of the relationship between credentialism, work skills, and stratification in today's society. This is the box that everyone is locked in, and Bills tells us the most important things we need to know about it.” Randall Collins, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsList of Tables And Figures. Acknowledgments. 1. Education And Work: Establishing Some Terrain. The Ambiguous Relationships Between Education And Work / Education And Work: What Are We Talking About? / The Contested Nature Of Sociological Concepts / Education, Work, And What Else? / Education And Work In The United States And Elsewhere / Education And Not-Work / Plan Of The Book. 2. Schooling And Socioeconomic Success: Establishing Their Relationship. Schooling And Socioeconomic Attainment / Does The Myth Of Schooling And Socioeconomic Success Hold? / How Do We Explain The Grip Of The “School For Success” Model Among Americans: Schooling As Panacea / Some Dissenting Views. 3. Two Models Of The Relationships Between Education And Work. Meritocrats And Credentialists / The Meritocracy / Credentialism. 4. Is The U.S. A Meritocratic Or A Credentialist Society?. The Status Attainment Model As An Organizing Framework / Some General Findings On Status Attainment: What Are The Overall Trends And Patterns? / How Do Employers Think About And Act Upon Education And Other Credentials? / Summary. 5. Education And Work In The Post-Industrial Society. The Structure Of Contemporary Society / Daniel Bell’s Formulation Of The Post-Industrial Society / More Specific Features Of Post-Industrialism And How They Shape The Relationships Between Education And Work / Education And Work In The Post-Industrial Society. 6. Demographic Booms And Busts, Aging, And The New Cultural Diversity. A Demographic Perspective On Education And Work / Some Demographic Preliminaries / The Baby Boom, The Baby Bust, And So On / Racial And Ethnic Differences In Fertility / The Movement Of People: Immigration And Internal Migration / The Changing Life Course / Putting The Demographic Changes Together: The Racialized, Disorderly, And Forevermore Aging Of America / What Does All Of This Add Up To?. 7. The Transformation Of The High School, The Coming Of Mass Higher Education, And The Youth Labor Market. Changing Linkages Between Education And Work / The Shifting Role Of High School As Preparation For Work: Schooling And Socialization / How Schooling Prepares Students For The World Of Work / Departures From The Ideal Type Of Socialization For Work / The Formal Curriculum / Vocational Education / The Hidden Curriculum And School Socialization / Interim Summary And An Unresolved Issue / The Advent Of The Youth Labor Market / The Transition From High School To Work In The United States / Conclusion: Young People, Schooling, And Jobs. 8. The Possibilities Of A Learning Society. Lifelong Learning And Adult Education In The United States / The Rise And Fall (And Rise And Fall) Of Job Training / Apprenticeships, Community Colleges, And Other Adult Learning Settings / Other Forms Of Postsecondary Education / Learning By Long Distance: The Possibilities Of Information Technology For Bridging School And Work / Certifying The New Modes Of Training / Chapter Summary. 9. The Future Of Education And Work. Conclusion: Education And Work In The “New Modern Times”. References. Name Index. Subject Index

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Book SynopsisExamines links between schooling and the modern workplace, from a sociological perspective. This book combines and analyzes theory and studies in the sociology of education and the sociology of work. It includes case studies to illustrate conclusions drawn from a combined study of education and work.Trade Review“David Bills’ brilliant synthesis and critique of research on the education/work nexus now stands as the definitive reference source on the topic. It is a masterful work by our leading authority on this important linkage.” David K. Brown, Illinois State University “This is a crucial, up-to-date formulation of the relationship between credentialism, work skills, and stratification in today's society. This is the box that everyone is locked in, and Bills tells us the most important things we need to know about it.” Randall Collins, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsList of Tables And Figures. Acknowledgments. 1. Education And Work: Establishing Some Terrain. The Ambiguous Relationships Between Education And Work / Education And Work: What Are We Talking About? / The Contested Nature Of Sociological Concepts / Education, Work, And What Else? / Education And Work In The United States And Elsewhere / Education And Not-Work / Plan Of The Book. 2. Schooling And Socioeconomic Success: Establishing Their Relationship. Schooling And Socioeconomic Attainment / Does The Myth Of Schooling And Socioeconomic Success Hold? / How Do We Explain The Grip Of The “School For Success” Model Among Americans: Schooling As Panacea / Some Dissenting Views. 3. Two Models Of The Relationships Between Education And Work. Meritocrats And Credentialists / The Meritocracy / Credentialism. 4. Is The U.S. A Meritocratic Or A Credentialist Society?. The Status Attainment Model As An Organizing Framework / Some General Findings On Status Attainment: What Are The Overall Trends And Patterns? / How Do Employers Think About And Act Upon Education And Other Credentials? / Summary. 5. Education And Work In The Post-Industrial Society. The Structure Of Contemporary Society / Daniel Bell’s Formulation Of The Post-Industrial Society / More Specific Features Of Post-Industrialism And How They Shape The Relationships Between Education And Work / Education And Work In The Post-Industrial Society. 6. Demographic Booms And Busts, Aging, And The New Cultural Diversity. A Demographic Perspective On Education And Work / Some Demographic Preliminaries / The Baby Boom, The Baby Bust, And So On / Racial And Ethnic Differences In Fertility / The Movement Of People: Immigration And Internal Migration / The Changing Life Course / Putting The Demographic Changes Together: The Racialized, Disorderly, And Forevermore Aging Of America / What Does All Of This Add Up To?. 7. The Transformation Of The High School, The Coming Of Mass Higher Education, And The Youth Labor Market. Changing Linkages Between Education And Work / The Shifting Role Of High School As Preparation For Work: Schooling And Socialization / How Schooling Prepares Students For The World Of Work / Departures From The Ideal Type Of Socialization For Work / The Formal Curriculum / Vocational Education / The Hidden Curriculum And School Socialization / Interim Summary And An Unresolved Issue / The Advent Of The Youth Labor Market / The Transition From High School To Work In The United States / Conclusion: Young People, Schooling, And Jobs. 8. The Possibilities Of A Learning Society. Lifelong Learning And Adult Education In The United States / The Rise And Fall (And Rise And Fall) Of Job Training / Apprenticeships, Community Colleges, And Other Adult Learning Settings / Other Forms Of Postsecondary Education / Learning By Long Distance: The Possibilities Of Information Technology For Bridging School And Work / Certifying The New Modes Of Training / Chapter Summary. 9. The Future Of Education And Work. Conclusion: Education And Work In The “New Modern Times”. References. Name Index. Subject Index

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Book SynopsisSurgery is the most martial and masculine of medical specialties. What, then, if the surgeon is a woman? An anthropologist enters this closely guarded arena to explore the work and lives of women practicing their craft in what is largely a man's world. Cassell observed 33 surgeons in five North American cities over the course of three years.Trade ReviewThis [is a] riveting study on women surgeons in the United States...The author studied 33 women surgeons of differing ages practising in eastern and mid-western United States. There was a wide representation of career stages and surgical subspecialties. She spent five days spread over a two week period shadowing each surgeon and also conducted structured, tape recorded interviews. She observed relationships with colleagues, patients, nurses, and trainees as well as aspects of family life. The aim of her study was to examine differences between male and female surgeons and the internal and external forces affecting these differences. Each chapter examines a key area and is vividly illustrated with extracts from the taped interviews as well as descriptions and analysis provided by the author. The frantic, fast paced, almost hysterical way of life in an American department of surgery provides an enthralling background. The author sensibly lets the interviewees speak for themselves when she wishes to make a point...I hope that this excellent book is widely read. -- Sarah Creighton * British Medical Journal *[An] exploration of the world of women surgeons, a world we are drawn into through skillful storytelling...Comfortable with the first person and drawing on 14 years of experiences as an anthropologist reflecting and writing on surgeons, Cassell provides the non-anthropological reader access to the practice of her craft...The author successfully permits our entry into the fascinating, gritty, complex world of women surgeons. The book is well organized and immensely readable. Social scientists will appreciate this exploration of women's place in a male-dominated profession. The structuralists among us will be heartened by the call to refocus our energies from women's 'choices' or coping strategies to the structure of the institution itself. -- Susan W. Hinze * Health *Dr. Cassell has conducted an ethnographic study of 33 women surgeons, following them through their workdays, meeting their families, and interviewing them and others in their lives. Her insights focus on surgery generally and the experience of women surgeons specifically...The author's narrative succeeds in raising essential questions while she recounts the lives and experiences of the women surgeons she has studied with respect, empathy, and admiration. -- Carol C. Nadelson * Psychiatric Services *I identified closely with many of the women profiled in The Woman In The Surgeon's Body. All of the feelings and emotions I have had regarding my surgical training and practice were so articulately crystalized in Cassell's accounts. It was thrilling for me to read how other women's experiences paralleled my own. This is a wonderfully researched work. -- Beth Ann Ditkoff, M.D.Joan Cassell asks whether a feminine body can be embodied in a surgeon's identity and ethos, and whether there is a difference between the work worlds of male and female surgeons. She studied 33 surgeons in five North American cities, women of varying age, rank, matrimonial and parental status, and from a number of surgical specialties. The result is a lively presentation of professional, dedicated women operating in a world that is not quite sure where and if they really fit. This book should appeal to a readership beyond the anthropologists for whom it is intended. -- Frances K. Conley, M.D., Stanford University[N]ew and provocative...This book should be of interest to women who are surgeons, any woman interested in becoming a surgeon, anyone involved in advising medical students, especially women students, about careers in surgery, and anyone in charge of a surgery training program. -- Sylvia Ramos, M.D. * Journal of the American Medical Association *This anthropologist's perspective on the development of women surgeons will ring true in different degrees to all women physicians, and it will add a dimension of understanding and, one hopes, empathy from their male peers. * Psychiatric Services *In this enjoyable, fast-paced ethnography of women surgeons, Cassell emphasizes gender analysis and the anthropological concept of habitus in order to get at the social construction of the experience and the place in that experience of 'difference.' She uses her impressive interview transcripts to round out an effective portrait of women surgeons. -- Arthur Kleinman, M.D., Harvard UniversityTable of Contents* What's an Anthropologist Doing Studying Surgeons? * Bodies of Difference * Telling Stories * Women Leading * Forging the Iron Surgeon * The Gender of Care * A Greedy Institution * A Worst-Case Scenario * Surgeons in This Day and Age * Notes * References * Index

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Book SynopsisLamont takes us into the world inhabited by working-class men—the world as they understand it. Interviewing French and American working-class men who, because they are not college graduates, have limited access to high-paying jobs and other social benefits, she constructs a revealing portrait of how they see themselves and the rest of society.Trade ReviewThe Dignity of Working Men is an outstanding example of comparative ethnography. Through a series of careful and thoughtful interviews, Michèle Lamont reveals the moral standards ordinary workers use in evaluating their fellow citizens. In this engaging book, Lamont also provides an interesting comparison between workers in the United States and France on the criteria used to draw class and racial boundaries. -- William Julius Wilson, Harvard University and author of When Work DisappearsLamont's book is a classic in the making. It breaks new ground as a major in-depth study of comparative racism. It will also broaden the horizons of social class studies. The Dignity of Working Men opens up a wider perspective, so that by looking at French racial conflict, American racial conflict looks less fixed, less inevitable. There are alternative patterns, revealing that societies do have room to maneuver. -- Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania and author of The Sociology of Philosophies (Harvard)Lamont's richly-textured comparison does more than hold up for view the moral perspectives of working-class men across the racial divide in the United States and France. It poses fresh and rich challenges to research, demonstrates the difference systematic qualitative analysis can make, and points the way to a politics of sensibility and possibility. -- Ira I. Katznelson, Columbia UniversityThe Dignity of Working Men is a wonderful book. What is most striking is the richness of the interviews. Lamont's questions seem really to have touched working men where they live, to have encouraged them to talk about their sense of self, their pride in themselves as workers, their sense of moral order, their aspirations and (occasional) political passions, their families, their beliefs in equality and inequality, their racial attitudes, and much more. By asking black workers what they think of whites as well as what whites think of blacks, and by comparing racial and ethnic cleavages in France and the United States, The Dignity of Working Men adds a vital new dimension to studies of class and race. -- Ann Swidler, University of California, BerkeleyMany interpreters of current society have posited that class is no longer a useful concept as a basis for identity. This book, based on hundreds of interviews with American and French workers, rejects that analysis...It is fascinating reading, an important contribution to a reexamination of class. -- J. Wishnia * Choice *Was there actually a set of values that could be considered distinctly "working class" in character, that represented a distinctly working-class worldview? One of the most sophisticated recent attempts to answer this question appeared in the recent study The Dignity of Working Men...[Lamont] recognized that asking workers to choose their most important values from a prepared list would essentially force their replies into a predetermined mold that had little to do with their real-world thoughts and feelings. Lamont used instead open-ended and non-directive questions. She interviewed 150 blue-collar workers, black and white, in the United States and in France, and compared them with middle-class people in both countries. Her questions asked workers to describe people who were similar to them and people who were different, people they liked and disliked, and those to whom they felt superior or inferior. Follow-up questions probed why they felt as they did, spontaneously eliciting a complex pattern of moral judgements and values. Both work and family did indeed emerge among the blue-collar workers' core values. But the real significance lay in how those were perceived. -- Andrew Levinson * The Nation *It is hard to imagine a comparative research design as well conceived as the one that frames Michèle Lamont's book…. The book is a model of cross cultural comparative analysis and deserves high praise. -- Rick Fantasia, Contemporary SociologyThe Dignity of Working Men is an important entry into examinations of the intersection of class, race, and immigration. (Lamont) gives us new leverage on both some viable antiracist threads of thinking among the white working class and on the complexity and humanism animating how African Americans engage the great divides of race and class. We shall all be discussing this meticulously researched, cogently argued, and provocative book for some years to come. -- Lawrence Bobo, Contemporary SociologyMichele Lamont's study of working-class men in the USA and France is...the most interesting contribution to this field for quite some time, and should serve as a benchmark for future scholarly debate...This is a really innovative and challenging book and it needs to be read as widely as possible...The Dignity of Working Men has all the potential to become a classic. -- John Solomos * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Making Sense of Their Worlds The Questions The People The Research I. American Workers 1. The World in Moral Order "Disciplined Selves": Survival, Work Ethic, and Responsibility Providing for and Protecting the Family Straightforwardness and Personal Integrity Salvation from Pollution: Religion and Traditional Morality Caring Selves: Black Conceptions of Solidarity and Altruism The Policing of Moral Boundaries 2. Euphemized Racism: Moral qua Racial Boundaries How Morality Defines Racism Whites on Blacks Blacks on Whites Immigration The Policing of Racial Boundaries 3. Assessing"People Above" and"People Below" Morality and Class Relations "People Above" "People Below" The Policing of Class Boundaries II. The United States Compared 4. Workers Compared Profile of French Workers Profile of North African Immigrants Working Class Morality The Policing of Moral Boundaries Compared 5. Racism Compared French Workers on Muslims French Workers' Antiracism: Egalitarianism and Solidarity North African Responses The Policing of Racial Boundaries Compared 6. Class Boundaries Compared Class Boundaries in a Dying Class Struggle Workers on"People Above" Solidarity a la francaise: Against"Exclusion" The Policing of Class Boundaries Compared Conclusion: Toward a New Agenda Appendix A: Methods and Analysis Appendix B: The Context of the Interview: Economic Insecurity, Globalization, and Places Appendix C: Interviewees Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisCompeting Devotions focuses on the broad social and cultural forces that create women’s identities and shape their understanding of what makes life worth living. Mary Blair-Loy examines the career paths of women financial executives who have tried various approaches to balancing career and family.Trade ReviewMany professional women intuit that male colleagues whose spouse handle for them the details of everyday life are favored in the workplace. Blair-Loy confirms this intuition and shows us how it happens. She captures how the cultural schemas of "family devotion" and "work devotion" contribute to the reproduction of gender inequality, and how meeting the demands of a husband's job and other people's needs push professional women to progressively abandon their work to take care of others. Her analysis also gives us hope by comparing the fate of pre and post-baby boomers. This is both an important scholarly contribution and a book that will help readers think differently about their lives. It should be required reading for professional women who aspire to maintain multidimensional lives. -- Michèle Lamont, author of The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and ImmigrationThis is a fascinating book with an important message. Blair-Loy's findings are surprising. She challenges conventional viewpoints. She is on to something really new when she writes about not only the interplay between cultural norms and individual actions (and institutional structures) but on the cultural schemas that evoke deep emotional resonances. An outstanding book. -- Cynthia Fuchs-Epstein, author of Deceptive Distinctions: Sex, Gender and the Social OrderMary Blair-Loy's book transcends old debates about work and family by examining the women who have beaten the odds and risen to the top. Her detailed examination of careers and strategies perfectly complements her subtle analysis of the schemas and visions these women have for their lives. Blair-Loy has given us not only a splendid view into a little known world, but also a new way of understanding the dynamic interplay of work and family. Looking beyond the static conflict we have studied so much, she shows how creative women put traditional schemas of family and work into a mutual transformation to build for themselves a new and more livable world. -- Andrew Abbott, author of Time MattersBlair-Loy's comparison of the two groups [of work-committed and family-committed] women is an imaginative and beautifully constructed study that bristles with insight...Rather than serving up the standard menu of neat public policy fixes to achieve work-family 'balance,' Competing Devotions offers a compelling explanation as to why even such long overdue reforms as paid family leave legislation and the proliferation of 'family friendly' corporate benefits are not likely to do much to resolve the work-family conundrum without a far more fundamental set of social changes. Both corporate elite careers and motherhood, Blair-Loy argues, have deep moral and cultural underpinnings. Both are governed by what she calls 'schemas of devotion' that demand total commitment to one's 'calling,' whether it be to the corporation or the child(ren)...These morally laden schemas are so powerful that they often trump economic rationality. -- Ruth Milkman * Women's Review of Books *The work-devotion and family-devotion schemas are not simply used as rationalizations; they are gendered frameworks that others use to interpret behavior. As cultural models, they serve to define 'economic rationality'...Blair-Loy skillfully illustrates the patterns that emerge when we view individual lives in the context of their historical moment and social location. Competing Devotions is an insightful examination of work and family among elite executive women. -- Anita Ilta Garey * American Journal of Sociology *This book will be of significant interest to students of work and organizations, those who are concerned with work-family conflict and accommodation, and those students of cultural sociology who wish to read a testimonial on how important cultural schemas are in constructing social lives. Here the schemas are work and family. But the findings may potentially generalize to other cultural schemas that can have a powerful grip on us as we negotiate our lives, regardless of whether we innovate at the boundaries of competing devotions or not. -- Toby L. Parcel * Administrative Science Quarterly *This work is a welcome addition to the growing body of sociological studies of working women. A significant contribution of this book is that it lends a qualitative consideration to a topic too often evaluated by quantitative measures. -- Susan R. Cody * NWSA Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Devotion to Work Schema 2. The Devotion to Family Schema 3. Reinventing Schemas: Creating Part-Time Careers 4. Reinventing Schemas: Family Life among Full-Time Executive Women 5. Turning Points 6. Implications Appendix: Methods and Data Notes References Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisIndustrial workers, not just peasants, played an essential role in the Mexican Revolution. Tracing the introduction of mechanized industry into the Orizaba Valley, Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato argues convincingly that the revolution cannot be understood apart from the Industrial Revolution, and thus provides a fresh perspective on both transformations.Trade ReviewGómez-Galvarriato’s sophisticated analysis of economic and labor history investigates the intersections of the Industrial Revolution in the textile industry with the revolutionary changes taking place in the Mexican political and social arena in 1910… Through careful research in government and textile company archives, oral history, and local and national newspapers, the author demonstrates that industrial labor won important postrevolutionary gains in how laborers worked and lived. -- J. B. Kirkwood * Choice *A new and exciting contribution to our understanding of modern Mexico. Ambitious in scope and compelling in the strength of its analysis and argument, this is a superb economic history of the Mexican textile industry that also addresses the critical issues of politics and workers’ welfare. Industry and Revolution will become a must-read for all historians of Mexico. -- Edward Beatty, University of Notre DameIndustry and Revolution is an important addition to both the literature on the economic history of Mexico and the literature on the economic effects of civil wars and revolutions. It is a powerful demonstration of how careful archival research can be marshaled to answer big social science questions. -- Stephen Haber, Stanford University

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Book SynopsisThis book is a study of labor relations and the first generation of skilled workers in colonial Korea, a subject crucial to the understanding of modernization in twentieth-century Korea. Born in rural Korea, these workers confronted both the colonial experience and the modern workplace as they interacted with Japanese managers and workers.

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Book SynopsisIn this book Daniel Hamermesh provides the first comprehensive picture of the disparate field of labor demand. The author reviews both the static and dynamic theories of labor demand, and provides evaluative summaries of the available empirical research in these two subject areas. Moreover, he uses both theory and evidence to establish a generalized framework for analyzing the impact of policies such as minimum wages, payroll taxes, job- security measures, unemployment insurance, and others. Covering every aspect of labor demand, this book uses material from a wide range of countries.Trade Review"Do we need a book concentrating solely on the demand side of the labor market? There are ... strong reasons why the answer is yes... Hamermesh is to be congratulated for providing a text that will stimulate a greater interest in the study of labor demand."--Robert A. Hart, Journal of Political Economy "In addition to discussing the relevant theoretical aspects in the field, Hamermesh spares no effort in providing tabular surveys of the vast empirical literature. Confronting theoretical models with empirical 'facts' of how a firm's labor demand responses to exogenous shocks provides ... 'a dose of reality to the more fanciful flights of macroeconomic theory.'... The book is ... essential reading."--Christoph R. Weiss, KyklosTable of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceCh. 1The Study of Labor Demand3Pt. 1The Static Demand for LaborCh. 2The Static Theory of Labor Demand17Ch. 3Wage, Employment, and Substitution Elasticities61Ch. 4Employment Demand and the Birth and Death of Firms137Ch. 5Static Demand Policies163Pt. 2The Dynamic Demand for LaborCh. 6The Dynamic Theory of Labor Demand205Ch. 7Estimates of the Dynamics of Employment and Hours247Ch. 8Dynamic Demand Policies298Pt. 3Some ApplicationsCh. 9Labor Demand and the Macroeconomy335Ch. 10Labor Demand and the Economics of Development364Ch. 11Conclusions, Data Requirements, and New Directions391References403Index437

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Book SynopsisA dynamic framework for studying social emergenceThe social sciences have sophisticated models of choice and equilibrium but little understanding of the emergence of novelty. Where do new alternatives, new organizational forms, and new types of people come from? Combining biochemical insights about the origin of life with innovative and historically oriented social network analyses, John Padgett and Walter Powell develop a theory about the emergence of organizational, market, and biographical novelty from the coevolution of multiple social networks. They demonstrate that novelty arises from spillovers across intertwined networks in different domains. In the short run actors make relations, but in the long run relations make actors.This theory of novelty emerging from intersecting production and biographical flows is developed through formal deductive modeling and through a wide range of original historical case studies. Padgett and Powell build on the biochemiTrade Review"[Padgett and Powell] see the 'percolation of perturbations' through complex networks as the next research frontier in the program of study that they propose, and they hope their initial forays in The Emergence of Organizations and Markets will inspire readers across the sciences to pick up the torch. If that happens, this theoretically innovative contribution to social science will have catalyzed the regeneration of historical applications of complexity science."--Michael Macy, Science "This important book ... combines insights from biochemical origins of life and social network analysis to study the emergence of organizational forms that have been important in the development of market societies. This unusual synthesis provides original perspectives to the fourteen case studies in the book. These studies make sense of detailed relational data through models of biological evolution. In addition to being informative on some of the major turning points in economic history, the case studies suggest new explanations for the background and origins of major organizational innovations."--Ozge Dilaver Kalkan, JASSS "Combining biochemical insights about the origin of life with innovative and historically oriented social net-work analyses, John Padgett and Walter Powell develop a theory about the emergence of organizational market, and biographical novelty from the coevolution of multiple social networks."--World Book Industry "Padgett and Powell have put together an imposing positive theoretical and empirical account of organizational novelty that bears even the potential to inspire the natural sciences in return, irrespective of any remaining qualms on the part of less naturalistic social scientists."--Guido Mollering, Economic Sociology European Newsletter "The Emergence of Organizations and Markets will unquestionably change how scholars think about innovation and the economy, highlighting the importance of coevolution across multiple network domains and the duality between actors and social relations."--James N. Baron, American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsContributors ix List of Illustrations xiii List of Tables xvii Acknowledgments xix Chapter 1 The Problem of Emergence John F. Padgett and Walter W. Powell 1 Part I Autocatalysis 31 * Chapter 2 Autocatalysis in Chemistry and the Origin of Life John F. Padgett 33 * Chapter 3 Economic Production as Chemistry II John F. Padgett, Peter McMahan, and Xing Zhong 70 * Chapter 4 From Chemical to Social Networks John F. Padgett 92 Part II Early Capitalism and State Formation 115 * Chapter 5 The Emergence of Corporate Merchant-Banks in Dugento Tuscany John F. Padgett 121 * Chapter 6 Transposition and Refunctionality: The Birth of Partnership Systems in Renaissance Florence John F. Padgett 168 * Chapter 7 Country as Global Market: Netherlands, Calvinism, and the Joint-Stock Company John F. Padgett 208 * Chapter 8 Conflict Displacement and Dual Inclusion in the Construction of Germany Jonathan Obert and John F. Padgett 235 Part III Communist Transitions 267 * Chapter 9 The Politics of Communist Economic Reform: Soviet Union and China John F. Padgett 271 * Chapter 10 Deviations from Design: The Emergence of New Financial Markets and Organizations in Yeltsin's Russia Andrew Spicer 316 * Chapter 11 The Emergence of the Russian Mobile Telecom Market: Local Technical Leadership and Global Investors in a Shadow of the State Valery Yakubovich and Stanislav Shekshnia 334 * Chapter 12 Social Sequence Analysis: Ownership Networks, Political Ties, and Foreign Investment in Hungary David Stark and Balazs Vedres 347 Part IV Contemporary Capitalism and Science 375 * Chapter 13 Chance, Necessite, et Naivete: Ingredients to Create a New Organizational Form Walter W. Powell and Kurt Sandholtz 379 * Chapter 14 Organizational and Institutional Genesis: The Emergence of High-Tech Clusters in the Life Sciences Walter W. Powell, Kelley Packalen, and Kjersten Whittington 434 * Chapter 15 An Open Elite: Arbiters, Catalysts, or Gatekeepers in the Dynamics of Industry Evolution? Walter W. Powell and Jason Owen-Smith 466 * Chapter 16 Academic Laboratories and the Reproduction of Proprietary Science: Modeling Organizational Rules through Autocatalytic Networks Jeannette A. Colyvas and Spiro Maroulis 496 * Chapter 17 Why the Valley Went First: Aggregation and Emergence in Regional Inventor Networks Lee Fleming, Lyra Colfer, Alexandra Marin, and Jonathan McPhie 520 * Chapter 18 Managing the Boundaries of an "Open" Project Fabrizio Ferraro and Siobhan O'Mahony 545 * Coda: Reflections on the Study of Multiple Networks Walter W. Powell and John F. Padgett 566 Index of Authors 571 Index of Subjects 573

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""Cobble’s appreciation for the integrity of the full rights feminists’ line of reasoning and their persistence shapes her book."---Nancy F. Cott, New York Review of Books"Cobble’s impressive research draws on countless primary sources from collections spanning archives, libraries, and research institutions from around the globe, making her book a must read for students interested in transnational feminism." * Choice Reviews *"[A] comprehensive new history. . . . Cobble’s book is brimming with stories of women who similarly moved in and out of unions, feminist organizations, and government posts."---Laura Tanenbaum, Jacobin"Dorothy Sue Cobble's sweeping, carefully-researched, and beautifully-written story of full-rights feminists. . . . will no doubt remain a touchstone for the history of feminism and labor for years to come."---Jocelyn Olcott, International Review of Social History

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Book SynopsisRace is now relevant not only in negative cases of discrimination, but in more positive ways as well. This book examines this emerging strategy in a range of employment situations, including the low-skilled sector, professional and white-collar jobs, and entertainment and media.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2014 Richard A. Lester Award for the Outstanding Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University Finalist for the 2014 Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change National Book Award, The University of Memphis Honorable Mention for the 2015 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section of the American Sociological Association "After Civil Rights makes a compelling case for the pervasiveness of race-conscious employment practices."--Glenn Altschuler, Florida Courier "John Skrentny, Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UC-San Diego, gives readers a well-researched, thoroughly documented and provocative work, presenting his theory for how employers view race in the workplace in the USA... Skrentny's chapter on racial realism, and its corollary, immigrant realism, in the low-wage workplace, is one I wish I had written... His account of how the law works in practice and on the ground is a great read for those interested in legal studies, history, political science, sociology or civil rights."--Leticia Saucedo, LSE Review of Books "If you want to explore deeper social policy, it is worth a read."--Barry H. Dyller, Trial "With the book's over 1,300 notes, scores of case law findings, and dozens of studies on race and labor market outcomes, it is impossible not to be impressed by Skrentny's erudition, research prowess, and deft ability to link multiple academic disciplines under one driving question... If you are a race, labor, immigration, or legal scholar you should absolutely read this book. You will never think about Title VII or the intersection of race and employment decisions in the same way again."--Charles A. Gallagher, American Journal of Sociology "Skrentny shows that in many sectors of the labor market, race is used in ways that were unanticipated when the 1964 Civil Rights Act was enacted... [His] account of racial realism in the low-skilled sector is chilling."--Kevin Lang, Journal of Economic Literature "This book skillfully presents comprehensive empirical research and is written in a conversational style accessible to a wide audience."--Nigel Carter, Transfer "[An] important and thought-provoking book."--Anthony S. Chen, Social Service Review "Skrentny has authored a fascinating book that is filled with law, information about how employers operate notwithstanding the law, and empirical evidence that supports and, at times, contradicts some employers' beliefs about the usefulness of employing race as a qualifier for jobs. This empirical research should be useful to lawyers who litigate these cases using Title VII. And Skrentny comes up with a cross-disciplinary approach to solving problems. Not all of his solutions are politically or constitutionally possible, but the legislative solutions he suggests are interesting and innovative, and, perhaps in the future, may be effective."--Ann C. McGinley, Tulsa Law Review "After Civil Rights not only contributes valuably to our understanding of how race figures into employment practices at the contemporary American workplace, it also succeeds in making the case for renewing the debate about where law and public policy should go from here."--Anthony S. Chen, Social Service Review "Sociologist John D. Skrentny has written an important and original book examining the fundamental role played by race in hiring and other personnel decisions in the modern American workplace. The originality of his premise calls attention to a phenomenon that everyone knows about but rarely discusses as he investigates the ways in which racial considerations are taken into account by employers for a wide range of reasons, even though in principle this practice was prohibited by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and justly celebrated as a landmark statute of historic importance. Skrentny obtains remarkable mileage by exploring this simple yet apparently paradoxical state of affairs in depth and by avoiding judgmental impulses that frequently arise."--Gavin Wright, Journal of American StudiesTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables ix Preface xi Chapter 1 Managing Race in the American Workplace 1 Chapter 2 Leverage Racial Realism in the Professions and Business 38 Chapter 3 We the People Racial Realism in Politics and Government 89 Chapter 4 Displaying Race for Dollars Racial Realism in Media and Entertainment 153 Chapter 5 The Jungle Revisited? Racial Realism in the Low-Skilled Sector 216 Chapter 6 Bringing Practice, Law, and Values Together 265 Notes 291 Index 383

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Book SynopsisFarming is essential to the American economy and our daily lives, yet few of us have much contact with farmers except through the food we eat. Who are America's farmers? Why is farming important to them? How are they coping with dramatic changes to their way of life? In the Blood paints a vivid and moving portrait of America's farm families, sheddiTrade Review"A vivid and moving portrait of America's farm families."--Bookseller Buyer's Guide "An important book for rural sociologists."--ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 1 Families 12 2 Neighbors 46 3 Faith 72 4 Independence 95 5 The Land 119 6 Technology 140 7 Markets 163 Afterword 185 Appendix 191 Notes 199 Index 219

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