Fighting for Jobs

Bruce Nissen

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• This book examines the struggle of unions and communities to save jobs in plant-closing situations in the 1980s. The unusual depth of the research all... Lees meer

The Politics of Knowledge

Lily M Hoffman

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• Lily M. Hoffman is Assistant Professor at the Eugene Lang College of the New School for Social Research. 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

Power Plays

Richard A Colignon

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• Richard A. Colignon is Associate Professor in the Center for Social and Public Policy and the Department of Sociology at Duquesne University. Lees meer

Big Business and the State

Harland Prechel

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• Harland Prechel is Associate Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University, and the author of Corporate and Class Restructuring . Lees meer

Speculative Management

Dan Krier

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• In this timely work, Dan Krier examines the relationship between two phenomena that dominated the economic scene in the late twentieth century: the ri... Lees meer

North American Auto Unions in Crisis

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• In this edited volume, U.S. and Canadian political scientists, sociologists, and labor educators contribute to the debate of the crisis of the Fordist... Lees meer

Power in the Workplace

Steven Peter Vallas

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• Steven Peter Vallas is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is coeditor, with Kai Erikson, of The Nature of Wor... Lees meer

Forced Choices

Charles S Varano

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• What happens to employees when their company decides to close? Thousands of workers across America have faced this prospect in the past twenty years, ... Lees meer

Rationalizing Justice

Wolf Heydebrand, Carroll Seron

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• Wolf Heydebrand is Professor of Sociology at New York University and Senior Research Associate, Institute of Judicial Administration and Center for Po... 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

Forced Choices

Charles S Varano

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• Charles S. Varano is Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State University, Sacrament. 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. 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

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

Women, Work, and Divorce

Richard R Peterson

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• Richard R. Peterson is Assistant Director of the Center for Applied Social Science Research at New York University. 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

Organizational Membership

Howell S Baum

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• This book tells why people want to feel like members of work organizations, and why doing so is difficult. Using case examples, it presents a psychoan... Lees meer

Speculative Management

Dan Krier

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• Dan Krier is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Iowa State University. Lees meer

Fighting for Jobs

Bruce Nissen

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• This book examines the struggle of unions and communities to save jobs in plant-closing situations in the 1980s. The unusual depth of the research all... 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

The New Modern Times

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• David B. Bills is Associate Professor of Sociology of Education and Chair of the Division of Planning, Policy, and Leadership Studies at The Universit... Lees meer

Organization in a Changing Environment

Russell K Schutt

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• Russell K. Schutt is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Lees meer