(eBook PDF) Working in America: Continuity, Conflict, and Change in a New Economic Era 4th Edition

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1612057322
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1612057323
• Author: Amy Wharton

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 contents:

Part I: Conceptual Foundations

1. Alienated Labour

2. Bureaucracy

3. Fundamentals of Scientific Management

4. The Division of Labor

5. The Managed Heart

Part II: The New Workplace

6. The Rise of the Temp Economy in America

7. Beyond Carrots and Sticks: How Outsourcing Companies Manufacture Effort via “Permanent Pedagogy”

8. Work and Identity: How Precarious Workers Respond to ‘Personal Branding’ Discourse

9. Precarious Futures: How White-Collar Workers Experience Unemployment

10. Being Nowhere in the World: Indian Call Center Operators and the Transnational Service Economy

Part III: On The Job

11. Algorithmic Control in Platform Food Delivery Work

12. Cool Clothes and Fun Times? Consumer Identity in Retail Clothing Work

13. ‘I Can Never Be Too Comfortable’: Race, Gender, and Emotion at the Hospital Bedside

14. Creative Freelancers: Occupational Community and Crowdsourced Work

15. The Portfolio Ideal Worker: Insecurity and Inequality in the New Economy

Part IV: The Changed Landscape Of Opportunity

16. Mock Schedules and the Meaning of ‘Flexible Employment’ for Undocumented Workers

17. Working for Redemption: Incarcerated Black Women and Punishment in the Labor Market

18. Moral Storytelling: Employers’ Use of Credit Reports in Hiring Decisions

19. How Does a Silicon Valley Company Approach Gender Equality Change?

20. How Much is Too Much? The High Pay of CEOs

Part V: Work And Family

21. How Do Mothers Make Sense of Work-Family Conflict? A Cross-National Interview Study

22. Signaling Parenthood: Managing the Motherhood Penalty and Fatherhood Premium in the U.S. Service Sector

23. Returning to Work After a Job Loss: How Class and Gender Shape Workers’ Decisions

24. The Gendered Pandemic: The Implications of COVID‐19 for Work and Family

Title tag:

1. Working in America 4th Edition: Understanding Economic Continuity and Conflict
2. Exploring the New Economic Era: Continuity, Conflict, and Change in American Workforce
3. Continuity, Conflict, and Change: Insights into the American Workplace – 4th Edition