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   Sociology, Work, and Industry » Read Now

   by Tony J. Watson. 426 pgs.

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   In the third edition of this successful and popular text, Tony Watson explains how the discipline of sociology can contribute to our wider understanding of the variety of work practices and institutions which exist in modern societies. He travels the full journey from the founding ideas of the...

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   In the third edition of this successful and popular text, Tony Watson explains how the discipline of sociology can contribute to our wider understanding of the variety of work practices and institutions which exist in modern societies. He travels the full journey from the founding ideas of the discipline to post-modernist departures and develops all the main areas: occupations; organizations; work experience; industrial relations; industrial society and theory. The book ends with a thoroughly revised chapter covering the major questions of how work experience and global patterns of relationships are changing now and may change in the future.

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   The Sociology of Work » Read Now

   by Teodore Caplow. 334 pgs.

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   ...The Sociology of Work Theodore Caplow McGraw-Hill...compelling reason for studying the sociology of work is that no description of the human...American Journal of...
   
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   Man, Work, and Society: A Reader in the Sociology of Occupations » Read Now

   by Sigmund Nosow, William H. Form. 618 pgs.

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   ...SOCIETY MAN, WORK, AND SOCIETY...READER IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF OCCUPATIONS...OCCUPATIONAL SOCIOLOGY 3...THE MEANINGS OF WORK 9...occupations. Work of...
   
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   Work, Organizations, and Society: Comparative Convergences » Read Now

   by Merlin B. Brinkerhoff. 202 pgs.

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   ...the areas of sociology of family, work, or organizations...Women, their work and families...continuities in studies of social constraints...presented at Canadian Sociology...
   
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   The Sociology of Work: Where Have the Workers Gone?, in Social Forces » Read Now

   by Ida Harper Simpson. 19 pgs.

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   ...The Sociology of Work: Where Have the Workers Gone...have always set the style for the sociology of work, and their interests have shifted...fact, a fair amount of...
   
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   Sociology of Work: A Metatheoretical Analysis, in Social Forces » Read Now

   by George Ritzer. 12 pgs.

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   ...Sociology of Work: A Metatheoretical Analysis...Simpsons overview of the history of the sociology of work. There is a broad correspondence between changes in the sociology...
   
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   The Sociology of Work and Occupations, in Annual Review of Sociology » Read Now

   by Andrew Abbott. 23 pgs.

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   Life in Organizations: Workplaces as People Experience Them » Read Now

   by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Barry A. Stein. 444 pgs.

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   The Therapeutic Corporation » Read Now

   by James Tucker. 196 pgs.

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   A growing number of contemporary organizations have management structures that are less centralized and hierarchical than the traditional bureaucratic model. This book takes a close look inside one such organization: an employee-owned manufacturing corporation. It addresses the question of how...

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   A growing number of contemporary organizations have management structures that are less centralized and hierarchical than the traditional bureaucratic model. This book takes a close look inside one such organization: an employee-owned manufacturing corporation. It addresses the question of how conflicts are handled when bureaucracy is greatly reduced--and its findings will surprise and enlighten many readers. Therapy, a behavior or practice normally thought to be confined to the offices of psychiatrists and the wards of mental hospitals, turns out to be the most common way of handling conflict in the postbureaucratic work environment. James Tucker reveals that this therapeutic system of social control contrasts sharply, and tellingly, with the more authoritative--often violent--systems of social control found in more centralized and hierarchical work settings, especially those of the past.

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    Organizational Ethnographies: An Underutilized Resource in the Sociology of Work, in Social Forces » Read Now

    by Randy Hodson. 36 pgs.

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    ...Underutilized Resource in the Sociology of Work RANDY HODSON, Ohio...ethnographic observation . The sociology of work is rich in its diversity of...appreciated by those...
    
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    Linking Macro and Micro Levels: Bringing the Workers Back into the Sociology of Work, in Social Forces » Read Now

    by Arnel. Kalleberg. 11 pgs.

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    ...Bringing the Workers Back into the Sociology of Work * ARNEL. KALLEBERG...advantages to using the label "sociology of work" to classify the sociological...a particular...
    
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    The Sociology of Economic Life ("The Sociological and Economic Approaches to Labor Market Analysis: A Social Structural View" begins on p. 233) » Read Now

    by Mark Granovetter, Richard Swedberg. 408 pgs.

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