SUNY series in the Sociology of Work and Organizations – serie
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Power in the Workplace
The Politics of Production at AT&T
Häftad, 1993
463 kr
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This book presents a systematic case study of the hi-tech communications industry that reveals many trends in managerial authority in the workpace. Vallas reveals the mechanisms that enable advanced capitalist firms to achieve and maintain control over the workers they employ. He demonstrates that …
Elite Families
Class and Power in Nineteenth-Century Boston
Häftad, 1993
371 kr
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This book maps the development of a regional elite and its persistence as an economic upper class through the nineteenth century. Farrell's study traces the kinship networks and overlapping business ties of the most economically prominent Brahmin families from the beginning of industrialization in …
Team Toyota
Transplanting the Toyota Culture to the Camry Plant in Kentucky
Häftad, 1996
477 kr
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Examines the Toyota team culture as a conceptual framework and uses it to discuss related topics, such as workplace injuries, the implications of alienating assembly workers, and the role of women.In Team Toyota Besser presents the results of an in-depth study of Toyota's assembly plant in …
American Work Values
Their Origin and Development
Häftad, 1997
487 kr
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Examines broad shifts in American work values from their Calvinist origins to present controversies involving work, welfare, and affirmative action.American Work Values: Their Origin and Development examines the broad shifts in American work values from their European origins to the present. It …
Rationalizing Justice
The Political Economy of Federal District Courts
Av Wolf Heydebrand, Carroll Seron
Häftad, 1990
389 kr
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This book connects the history and organization of the federal district courts to the emergence of a new technocratic form of justice. The centerpiece of this study is the clash between adjudication - the traditional model of dispute resolution - and the introduction of modern management …
Organizational Membership
Personal Development in the Workplace
Inbunden, 1990
1111 kr
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This book tells why people want to feel like members of work organizations, and why doing so is difficult. Using case examples, it presents a psychoanalytic perspective on organizational entry and the process of entry negotiations for workers which sometimes lasts years. Interview material shows …
Enforcing the Work Ethic
Rhetoric and Everyday Life in a Work Incentive Program
Av Gale Miller
Häftad, 1991
401 kr
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This analysis, based on a year's observation of social relations in a Work Incentive Program (WIC) office, explores the ways in which staff members organize their interactions with clients, coworkers, and supervisors. Miller focuses on rhetoric (persuasive discourse) as a central aspect of everyday …
Power in the Workplace
The Politics of Production at AT&T
Inbunden, 1993
1087 kr
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This book presents a systematic case study of the hi-tech communications industry that reveals many trends in managerial authority in the workpace. Vallas reveals the mechanisms that enable advanced capitalist firms to achieve and maintain control over the workers they employ. He demonstrates that …
Gender, Time, and Reduced Work
Häftad, 1993
384 kr
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This book compares and analyzes different forms of reduced work: conventional part-time employment, temporary employment, job sharing, and work sharing. Through interviews, workers reveal their experiences with reduced work, particularly the extent to which they control their work schedules, how …
Work and Inequality in Urban China
Av Yanjie Bian
Inbunden, 1994
1111 kr
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This book offers a systematic analysis of the impact of work organization on the social stratification of individuals in urban China. It explains why economic and labor market segmentation is possible and necessary in state socialism at a certain stage of its development, as in market capitalism, …
Work and Inequality in Urban China
Av Yanjie Bian
Häftad, 1994
401 kr
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This book offers a systematic analysis of the impact of work organization on the social stratification of individuals in urban China. It explains why economic and labor market segmentation is possible and necessary in state socialism at a certain stage of its development, as in market capitalism, …
New Modern Times
Factors Reshaping the World of Work
Häftad, 1995
422 kr
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The New Modern Times assesses historical, contemporary, and projected trends in the American world of work. The contributors represent a range of disciplines - sociology, history, education, economics, women's studies, and planning- yet all share the perspective that an understanding of the …
Fighting For Jobs
Case Studies of Labor-Community Coalitions Confronting Plant Closings
Av Bruce Nissen
Inbunden, 1995
1144 kr
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Examines the struggle of the unions and communities to save jobs in plant-closing situations in the 1980s, and shows why some labor-community coalitions were more successful than others.This book examines the struggle of unions and communities to save jobs in plant-closing situations in the 1980s. …
Fighting For Jobs
Case Studies of Labor-Community Coalitions Confronting Plant Closings
Av Bruce Nissen
Häftad, 1995
413 kr
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Examines the struggle of the unions and communities to save jobs in plant-closing situations in the 1980s, and shows why some labor-community coalitions were more successful than others.This book examines the struggle of unions and communities to save jobs in plant-closing situations in the 1980s. …
North American Auto Unions in Crisis
Lean Production as Contested Terrain
Av William C. Green, Ernest J. Yanarella
Inbunden, 1996
1144 kr
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This edited volume provides the first comparative cross-national study of U.S. and Canadian Labor relations in Japanese North American auto transplants, Japanese joint ventures with the Big Three automakers, and Saturn, the Japanese-style GM auto plant.In this edited volume, U.S. and Canadian …
North American Auto Unions in Crisis
Lean Production as Contested Terrain
Av William C. Green, Ernest J. Yanarella
Häftad, 1996
393 kr
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This edited volume provides the first comparative cross-national study of U.S. and Canadian Labor relations in Japanese North American auto transplants, Japanese joint ventures with the Big Three automakers, and Saturn, the Japanese-style GM auto plant.In this edited volume, U.S. and Canadian …
Eclipse of the State Mental Hospital
Policy, Stigma, and Organization
Inbunden, 1996
1120 kr
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Examines the origins, recent history, and future of state hospitals.State hospitals still account for the majority of the state dollars spent on mental health care across the nation. Why do state hospitals persist and expand despite public scandal and professional disapproval? What role does the …
Eclipse of the State Mental Hospital
Policy, Stigma, and Organization
Häftad, 1996
405 kr
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Examines the origins, recent history, and future of state hospitals.State hospitals still account for the majority of the state dollars spent on mental health care across the nation. Why do state hospitals persist and expand despite public scandal and professional disapproval? What role does the …
Power Plays
Critical Events in the Institutionalization of the Tennessee Valley Authority
Häftad, 1996
414 kr
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Identifies the importance of New Deal conflicts, policy networks politics, and ruthless domination as critical events in the creation and early development of the Tennessee Valley Authority.CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic BooksPower Plays provides a conflict model of organizational behavior based …
Forced Choices
Class, Community, and Worker Ownership
Häftad, 1999
422 kr
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Examines the celebrated case of Weirton, West Virginia where steelworkers and area residents fought to save a steelmill, community, and way of life.CHOICE 1999 Outstanding Academic Title2000 Distinguished Scholarship Award presented by the Pacific Sociological AssociationWhat happens to employees …
Big Business and the State
Historical Transitions and Corporate Transformations, 1880s-1990s
Inbunden, 2000
1111 kr
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Examines the evolution of corporate form and managerial process from the 1880s to the 1990s, detailing how corporations influenced government to affect changes in response to economic transitions.In Big Business and the State Harland Prechel develops a conceptual framework that contrasts with …
Big Business and the State
Historical Transitions and Corporate Transformations, 1880s-1990s
Häftad, 2000
414 kr
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Examines the evolution of corporate form and managerial process from the 1880s to the 1990s, detailing how corporations influenced government to affect changes in response to economic transitions.In Big Business and the State Harland Prechel develops a conceptual framework that contrasts with …
Speculative Management
Stock Market Power and Corporate Change
Av Dan Krier
Inbunden, 2005
1144 kr
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Argues that recent initiatives by industrial management were directed more toward short-term gains than improving efficiency.In this timely work, Dan Krier examines the relationship between two phenomena that dominated the economic scene in the late twentieth century: the rising power of financial …
Speculative Management
Stock Market Power and Corporate Change
Av Dan Krier
Häftad, 2005
426 kr
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Argues that recent initiatives by industrial management were directed more toward short-term gains than improving efficiency.In this timely work, Dan Krier examines the relationship between two phenomena that dominated the economic scene in the late twentieth century: the rising power of financial …
Organization in a Changing Environment
Unionization of Welfare Employees
Häftad, 1985
413 kr
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This study deals with the interfaces between bureaucratized social service agencies, social workers, and clients. Russell K. Schutt covers significant topics of the history and organization of labor unions. He illuminates important questions concerning the degree to which initially democratic …
Women, Work, and Divorce
Häftad, 1989
394 kr
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This book considers how women cope with the economic hardship which accompanies divorce, using national longitudinal data on a generation of women in the United States. These women came of age at a time when they were expected to give priority to family roles over work roles. Yet by the time many …
Politics of Knowledge
Activist Movements in Medicine and Planning
Inbunden, 1989
1076 kr
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In this book the author examines the question of the compatibility of politics, policy-making, and professional work. Based on nineteen case studies of organizations, Hoffman looks at "what happened" as doctors and planners set out to redistribute services to minorities and the poor between 1960 …
Politics of Knowledge
Activist Movements in Medicine and Planning
Häftad, 1989
414 kr
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In this book the author examines the question of the compatibility of politics, policy-making, and professional work. Based on nineteen case studies of organizations, Hoffman looks at "what happened" as doctors and planners set out to redistribute services to minorities and the poor between 1960 …
