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Sociology, Work, and Industry
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 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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Contents

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Introduction

Chapter 1: Sociology and Social Analysis

Chapter 2: The Sociological Analysis off Work and Industry

Chapter 3: The Industrialised Society

Chapter 4: Work: Meaning, Opportunity and Experience

Chapter 5: The Structuring of Work: Occupations and the Social Division of Labour

Chapter 6: The Structuring of Work: Organisations

Chapter 7: Conflict, Challenge and Control in Work

Chapter 8: The Restructuring of Work and Employment

Glossary

Bibliography

Author Index

Subject Index
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The Sociology of Work
by Teodore Caplow. 334 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Assignment of Work

Chapter 2: The Measurement of Occupational Status

Chapter 3: Vertical Mobility

Chapter 4: Other Mobilities

Chapter 5: Occupational Institutions

Chapter 6: Occupational Ideologies

Chapter 7: Sociology of the Labor Market

Chapter 8: The Labor Union as an Occupational Association

Chapter 9: Vocational Choice

Chapter 10: Occupations of Women

Chapter 11: Occupation and Family

Chapter 12: Working Conditions

Appendix, Bibliography, and Indexes

Appendix: A Brief Statistical Description of the American Labor Force

Bibliography

Occupational Index

General Index
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Man, Work, and Society: A Reader in the Sociology of Occupations
by Sigmund Nosow, William H. Form. 618 pgs.

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Chapter I: The Development Of Occupational Sociology

Chapter II: The Meanings of Work

2. Work and the Changing American Scene ·

3. the Function and Meaning of Work And the Job ·

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5. Work and Retirement ·

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Chapter III: Economic, Industrial, And Occupational Systems

2. Effects of Technological Change On Occupational Structure: A Case Study ·

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Chapter IV: Industrial Change And Occupational Trends

1. the Attributes of an Industrial Order ·

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Chapter V: The Structure Of The Labor Market

Conclusion

2. Interpersonal Relations in The Building Industry · Richard R. Myers

Summary and Conclusions

3. Wages and Worker Solidarity ·

4. the Conflict of Caste and Class In an American Industry ·

Notes

Chapter VI: Occupational Associations

B. Historical Perspectives · Joseph H. Foth

C. Regulation and Control ·

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4. the Present Position of American Unionism · George H. Hildebrand

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5. Why White-Collar Workers Can't Be Organized · Dick Bruner

Chapter VII: Professions

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3. Contingencies of Professional Differentiation ·

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Chapter VIII: Social Status of Occupations

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3. Prestige of Occupations ·

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4. an Empirical Scale of Prestige Status of Occupations · Mapheus Smith

6. Prestige Ratings of Occupations ·

Chapter IX: Career Patterns

Conclusions

2. Job Plans and Entry into the Labor Market · Seymour M. Lipset, Reinhard Bendix, And F. Theodore Malm

Conclusions

3. Occupational Mobility Of Professional Workers ·

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Chapter X: Occupational Mobility

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3. Measuring Trends in Occupational Mobility ·

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4. an Evaluation of Some Recent Studies in Occupational Mobility ·

Chapter XI: Occupations and Social Power

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3. the Theory of the Managerial Revolution ·

4. the Labor Leader

5. the Power Elite

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Chapter XII: Ideologies of Occupational Groups

2. Business Orientations in American Society · Francis X. Sutton, Seymour E. Harris, Carl Kaysen, and James Tobin

3. Political Identifications Of Occupational Strata · Oscar Glantz

5. the Impact of Technological Change on Ideologies

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Chapter XIII: Personal Adjustment In The World of Work

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3. Bureaucratic Structure And Personality

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Chapter XIV: Profiles

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Attitudes of '"Progressive" Trade- Union Leaders · Alvin W. Gouldner

Chapter XV: Interrelationships Between Occupations And The Wider Community

3.Work and the Family ·

Conclusions

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Notes

Bibliography

Sources and Acknowledgments

Index
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Work, Organizations, and Society: Comparative Convergences
by Merlin B. Brinkerhoff. 202 pgs.

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1: Work, Organizations, and Society: A Preview at the Macro-Level

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2: The Comparative Analysis of Organizations: Toward the Construction of a General Model

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Comments--Jones' Comparative Analysis of Organizations: Toward the Construction of a General Model

3: Sociological Conditions Affecting Participatory Organizations

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Comments--Jones' Participatory Organizations: The Purpose of Participation

4: Whither the Comparative Study of Modernization and Development?

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Comments--Beyond "Modernization" and "Development": A Response to Robert Marsh

5: The Relative Influence of Technology and Size on the Organizational Structure of Japanese Factories

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Appendix to Chapter 5 Measures of Technology Variables

6: A Selected Annotated Bibliography on Work, Organizations, and Society in Comparative Perspective

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Index

The Contributors
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The Sociology of Work: Where Have the Workers Gone?, in Social Forces
by Ida Harper Simpson. 19 pgs.

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Sociology of Work: A Metatheoretical Analysis, in Social Forces
by George Ritzer. 12 pgs.

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The Sociology of Work and Occupations, in Annual Review of Sociology
by Andrew Abbott. 23 pgs.

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Life in Organizations: Workplaces as People Experience Them
by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Barry A. Stein. 444 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

General Introduction

Part I: Slices of Life

Section One: Life at the Top: the Struggle for Power

1: How the Top Is Different

2: Why Leaders Can't Lead

3: Henry Kissinger as Department Manager

4: Bob Six's Long Search for a Successor

Section Two: Life in the Middle: Getting In, Getting Up, and Getting along

5: Wheeler Stanley, General Foreman

6: A Day at the Crystal Palace

7: The Managers Staff Reporters of the Wall Street Journal

8: The Gender Pioneers: Women in an Industrial Sales Force

9: Why Should My Conscience Bother Me?

Section Three: Making a Life at the Bottom

10: Banana Time: Job Satisfaction and Informal Interaction

11: The Lordstown Auto Workers

12: Women's Work: Some Lousy Offices to Work In, and One Good One

13: Retail Sales Worker

Part II: Life Times

Section Four: Growing Pains

14: The Changing Structure of a Great Corporation

15: The Company Family: the Early Years of the Andrews Winery

Section Five: Life in Politicized Environments: Interdependence, Responsibility, and Skullduggery

16: Running the San Francisco City Planning Department

17: The Buffalo Search

18: At IGP, It's Not Business as Usual

19: The Bagman

Section Six: Organizational Death Watch

20: Organizations in Trouble: Two Vignettes

21: W. T. Grant's Last Days as Seen from Store 1192

22: Termination at Baker Plant

References

Index
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The Therapeutic Corporation
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 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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Acknowledgments

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One Introduction

Two Helpco a Postbureaucratic Organization

Three Therapeutic Management

Four Therapeutic Peacemaking

Five Therapeutic Protest

Six Conclusion

Notes

References

Index
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Organizational Ethnographies: An Underutilized Resource in the Sociology of Work, in Social Forces
by Randy Hodson. 36 pgs.

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Linking Macro and Micro Levels: Bringing the Workers Back into the Sociology of Work, in Social Forces
by Arnel. Kalleberg. 11 pgs.

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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)
by Mark Granovetter, Richard Swedberg. 408 pgs.

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Introduction

NOTES

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Part I: Sociological Approaches to the Economy

1: The Economy as Instituted Process

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EDITORS' NOTES ON FURTHER READING: POLANYI

2: Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness

NOTES

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EDITORS' NOTES ON FURTHER READING: GRANOVETTER

Part II: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on the Economy

3: Weber's Last Theory of Capitalism: A Systematization Randall Collins

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EDITORS' NOTES ON FURTHER READING: COLLINS

NOTES

EDITORS' NOTES ON FURTHER READING: GERSCHENKRON

5: The Emergence of Managerial Capitalism

6: Goodwill and the Spirit of Market Capitalism

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EDITORS' NOTES ON FURTHER READING: DORE

7: Market, Culture, and Authority: A Comparative Analysis of Management and Organization in the Far East

NOTES

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EDITORS' NOTES ON FURTHER READING: HAMILTON AND BIGGART

Part III: The Sociology of Economic Institutions

8: The Bazaar Economy: Information and Search in Peasant Marketing

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EDITORS' NOTES ON FURTHER READING: GEERTZ

The Sociological and Economic Approaches to Labor Market Analysis: A Social Structural View

NOTES

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EDITORS' NOTES ON FURTHER READING: GRANOVETTER

10: Non-Contractual Relations in Business: A Preliminary Study

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EDITORS' NOTES ON FURTHER READING: MACAULAY

11: Human Values and the Market: The Case of Life Insurance and Death in 19th-Century America

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EDITORS' NOTES ON FURTHER READING: ZELIZER

Part IV: The Sociology of the Firm and Industrial Organization

12: Group Dynamics and Intergroup Relations George Strauss

NOTES

EDITORS' NOTES ON FURTHER READING: STRAUSS

13: Men Who Manage

NOTES

EDITORS' NOTES ON FURTHER READING: DALTON

14: Bureaucratic and Craft Administration of Production: A Comparative Study

EDITORS' NOTES ON FURTHER READING: STINCHCOMBE

15: Processing Fads and Fashions: An Organization-Set Analysis of Cultural Industry Systems

NOTES

REFERENCES

EDITORS' NOTES ON FURTHER READING: HIRSCH

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