Forced Choices

Charles S Varano

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• Examines the celebrated case of Weirton, West Virginia where steelworkers and area residents fought to save a steelmill, community, and way of life. C... Lees meer

The Politics of Knowledge

Lily M Hoffman

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• In this book the author examines the question of the compatibility of politics, policy-making, and professional work. Based on nineteen case studies o... Lees meer

Rationalizing Justice

Wolf Heydebrand, Carroll Seron

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• This book connects the history and organization of the federal district courts to the emergence of a new technocratic form of justice. The centerpiece... Lees meer

North American Auto Unions in Crisis

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• This edited volume provides the first comparative cross-national study of U.S. and Canadian Labor relations in Japanese North American auto transplant... Lees meer

Enforcing the Work Ethic

Gale Miller

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• This analysis, based on a year's observation of social relations in a Work Incentive Program (WIC) office, explores the ways in which staff members or... Lees meer

Power in the Workplace

Steven Peter Vallas

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• This book presents a systematic case study of the hi-tech communications industry that reveals many trends in managerial authority in the workpace. Va... Lees meer

Women, Work, and Divorce

Richard R Peterson

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• This book considers how women cope with the economic hardship which accompanies divorce, using national longitudinal data on a generation of women in ... Lees meer

American Work Values

Paul Bernstein

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• Examines broad shifts in American work values from their Calvinist origins to present controversies involving work, welfare, and affirmative action. A... Lees meer

Team Toyota

Terry L Besser

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• Examines the Toyota team culture as a conceptual framework and uses it to discuss related topics, such as workplace injuries, the implications of alie... Lees meer

Organization in a Changing Environment

Russell K Schutt

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• This study deals with the interfaces between bureaucratized social service agencies, social workers, and clients. Russell K. Schutt covers significant... Lees meer

The New Modern Times

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• The New Modern Times assesses historical, contemporary, and projected trends in the American world of work. The contributors represent a range of disc... Lees meer

Gender, Time, and Reduced Work

Cynthia Negrey

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• This book compares and analyzes different forms of reduced work: conventional part-time employment, temporary employment, job sharing, and work sharin... Lees meer

Big Business and the State

Harland Prechel

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• Examines the evolution of corporate form and managerial process from the 1880s to the 1990s, detailing how corporations influenced government to affec... Lees meer

Power Plays

Richard A Colignon

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• Identifies the importance of New Deal conflicts, policy networks politics, and ruthless domination as critical events in the creation and early develo... Lees meer

The Eclipse of the State Mental Hospital

George W Dowdall

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• Examines the origins, recent history, and future of state hospitals. State hospitals still account for the majority of the state dollars spent on ment... Lees meer

Speculative Management

Dan Krier

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• Argues that recent initiatives by industrial management were directed more toward short-term gains than improving efficiency. In this timely work, Dan... Lees meer

Elite Families

Betty G Farrell

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• This book maps the development of a regional elite and its persistence as an economic upper class through the nineteenth century. Farrell's study trac... Lees meer

Fighting for Jobs

Bruce Nissen

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• Examines the struggle of the unions and communities to save jobs in plant-closing situations in the 1980s, and shows why some labor-community coalitio... Lees meer

Work and Inequality in Urban China

Yanjie Bian

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• This book offers a systematic analysis of the impact of work organization on the social stratification of individuals in urban China. It explains why ... Lees meer