ABSTRACT
The Great Recession brought rising inequality and changing family economies. New technologies continued to move jobs overseas, including those held by middle-class information workers. The first new edition to capture these historic changes, this book is the leading text in the sociology of work and related research fields. Wharton s readings retain the classics but offer a new spectrum of articles accessible to undergraduate students that focus on the changes that will most affect their lives.New to the fourth edition"
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |48 pages
Conceptual Foundations
part |52 pages
The New Workplace
chapter |9 pages
Shift Work in Multiple Time Zones
Some Implications of Contingent and Nonstandard Employment for Family Life
part |81 pages
On the Job
chapter |10 pages
The Managed Hand
The Commercialization of Bodies and Emotions in Korean Immigrant–Owned Nail Salons
chapter |13 pages
Professionalizing Body Art
A Marginalized Occupational Group's Use of Informal and Formal Strategies of Control
chapter |13 pages
"Looking Good and Sounding Right"
Aesthetic Labor and Social Inequality in the Retail Industry
part |70 pages
Work and Inequality
chapter |13 pages
Are Some Emotions Marked "Whites Only"?
Racialized Feeling Rules in Professional Workplaces
chapter |10 pages
Pride and Prejudice
Employment Discrimination against Openly Gay Men in the United States
chapter |13 pages
Skills on the Move
Rethinking the Relationship Between Human Capital and Immigrant Economic Mobility
chapter |14 pages
If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You the Boss?
Explaining the Persistent Vertical Gender Gap in Management
part |72 pages
Work and Family
chapter |16 pages
Time Work by Overworked Professionals
Strategies in Response to the Stress of Higher Status