The nature of work : sociological perspectives

VIII, 378 S.

Includes bibliographical references and index

The new work force meets the changing workplace / Rosabeth Moss Kanter -- The false choice between high technology and basic industry / Amitai Etzioni and Paul A. Jargowsky -- Organized labor and the welfare state / William Form -- Comments and observations on the nature of work / Steven Peter Vallas.

On work and alienation / Kai Erikson -- Unresolved issues in the relationship between work and personality / Melvin L. Kohn -- Power lost and status gained : a step in the direction of sex equality / Rose Laub Coser -- The cultural perspective and the study of work / Cynthia Fuchs Epstein -- Work institutions and the sociology of everyday life / Arthur L. Stinchcombe -- Participation in the irregular economy / Louis A. Ferman -- Double lives / Stanton Wheeler -- Labors of love in theory and practice : a prospectus / Eliot Freidson -- Forced labor in concentration camps / Lewis A. Coser -- The split society / Seymour S. Bellin and S.M. Miller -- Brother, can you spare a job? : work and welfare in the United States / Theda Skocpol -- Racial tension, cultural conflicts, and problems of employment training programs / Elijah Anderson -- Work sharing : an underused policy for combating unemployment? / Fred J. Best -- Planning for work sharing : the promise and problems of egalitarian work time reduction / Herbert J. Gans

Enth. 18 Beitr.

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