The Social Organization of Work, Second Edition,

Hodson, Randy & Sullivan, Teresa A.,

ISBN 10: 0534209823 / ISBN 13: 9780534209827

Published by Wadsworth Publishing Company/Belmont, California,, 1994

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hard cover, as new condition, 514 pages including index, 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches, second edition, very good book condition, no dust jacket, non-fiction,

Seller Inventory # A 3426

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Social Organization of Work, Second Edition,
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company/Belmont, California,
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0534209823
• ISBN 13: 9780534209827
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
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Synopsis

This text provides a unified, comprehensive view of the sociology of work, merging occupational and industrial issues. Its research-based, issues-oriented approach helps students understand the U.S. and world economies and their effects on occupations and professions, broadening students outlook on their own occupational aspirations and expectations.

About the Authors

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/.

Teresa A. Sullivan received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is currently President of the University of Virginia, where she is also George M. Kaufman Presidential Professor of Sociology. She teaches the sociology of work. Her research interests are the demography of the labor force and economic marginality. She has received three awards for undergraduate teaching, and she has received numerous honors and awards for her research.