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Social Organization of Work - Hardcover

Hodson, Randy; Sullivan, Teresa

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Synopsis

* issues-oriented approach helps students to understand the U.S. and world economy and its effect on occupations and professions.* author's goal: to broaden students' outlook on their own occupational aspirations and where they can expect to go.* chapter on methods and measurement show students how sociologists study work and gather data.* case studies, application boxes, glimpse into future world of work are included in every chapter

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About the Author

Randy Hodson received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and is currently Professor of Sociology at Ohio State University. His research interests include worker-management conflict, managerial behavior, coworker relations, and technological change. His international interests include ethnic relations in the states of the former Yugoslavia and the socialism to market transition. He is editor of the JAI Press annual series on RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF WORK and is currently working on a National Science Foundation sponsored project to content code book-length organizational ethnographies. He has received a Distinguished University Teaching Award from Ohio State University, as well as numerous awards for his research and scholarship. He is currently the editor of AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW. For more information, see his website at: http://www.soc.sbs.ohio-state.edu/rdh/.

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