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"

part |48 pages

Conceptual Foundations

chapter |7 pages

Alienated Labour

chapter |6 pages

Bureaucracy

chapter |4 pages

The Division of Labor

chapter |8 pages

The Managed Heart

chapter |12 pages

Over the Counter

McDonald's

part |52 pages

The New Workplace

chapter |18 pages

Neo-Taylorism at Work

Occupational Change in the Post-Fordist Era

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 |18 pages

Nannies on the Market

chapter |12 pages

Making Firefighters Deployable

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 |12 pages

Hiring as Cultural Matching

The Case of Elite Professional Service Firms

chapter |13 pages

"Looking Good and Sounding Right"

Aesthetic Labor and Social Inequality in the Retail Industry

part |70 pages

Work and Inequality

chapter |16 pages

American Beliefs about Income Inequality

What, When, Who, and Why?

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