The Cultural Study of Work - Softcover

Harper, Douglas; Lawson, Helene M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074251918X ISBN 13: 9780742519183

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003

Synopsis

This anthology brings more than fifty years of scholarship of the culture and sociology of work into a compelling introductory and analytical text. Sociologists have long sought to understand the universal activity of work from the point of view of the worker. This book shows how common sociological themes such as socialization, social interaction, the social construction of time, and deviance are experienced in work settings as diverse as the factory, the nightclub, the restaurant, and the offices of high-tech professionals. Featuring vivid ethnographies, the book is organized around the concept of culture: the recognition that people doing things together organize social life in common and identifiable ways. As such, this collection can be used as an innovative core reader or as an ideal supplement to standard texts that approach work from the demographic, structural, or macro perspectives. An online teaching guide is available to all adopters.

About this title

About the Author

Douglas Harper, professor and chair of the sociology department at Duquesne University, is the author of Working Knowledge: Skill and Community in a Small Shop (1987) and Changing Works: Visions of a Lost Agriculture. Helene M. Lawson, professor and program director of sociology and coordinator of the gender studies program at the University of Pittsburgh, Bradford, is the author of Ladies on the Lot: Women, Car Sales, and the Pursuit of the American Dream.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 074251918X
• ISBN 13: 9780742519183
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 504