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Disillusionment or New Opportunities: The Changing Nature of Work in Offices, Glasgow 1880-1914 (Modern Economic and Social History Series)

R. Guerriero Wilson

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In Britain at the turn of the century the nature of office work was changing, in line with large-scale social and economic developments. These included the increasing size and influence of the service sector of the economy, the growing use of bureaucratic procedures in administrative organizations, the changing conceptions of success for individuals in a maturing industrial economy and the creation of an entirely new field of women's work Taking for its location Glasgow, the "second city of the British Empire", this book explores the physical and technological changes which occurred in the growing bureaucracies of big-business and of government as well as in the small and mid-size business of the city. The study of these changes provides a context within which to set the complementary experiences of the men and women who chose to seek a living in the wide array of constantly changing office jobs.

Doing Engineering

Joyce Tang

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The first to systematically compare Caucasians, African Americans, and Asian Americans in engineering, this study of the career attainment and mobility of engineers in the United States tells how these three groups fare in the American engineering labor market and what they can look forward to in the future.

Engineers in Britain: A Sociological Study of the Engineering Dimension

Ian A. Glover, Michael P. Kelly

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The Entrepreneurial Middle Class (Social Analysis)

Richard Scase, Robert Goffee

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Family and Work: Comparative Convergences (Contributions in Family Studies)

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The Formation of Professions: Knowledge, State and Strategy (Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences)

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Many theories have been developed in Britain and Europe on the general phenomena of professionalism, but most of this research has been dominated by two individual professions--lawyers and medical doctors. This volume and its companion, Professions in Theory and History, widen the sphere of interest to include other professions, and other countries. In the present volume, the contributors show that there are different routes into professionalism, and that the success of future professionals depends heavily on their knowledge of the field, the actions of the state, and the strategic roles they play. Some contributors discuss existing theories, note the inherent limitations, and suggest new paths of development. Others present empirical findings to explore the differences in professions. The Formation of Professions and its companion are necessary resources for academics and researchers in the fields of sociology, education, and history. "A number of excellent papers, and many that will become essential reading for any social scientist in the area." --Sociology "The books have considerable virtue. They reemphasize that comparative study is essential to future work on professions and that the role of the state will loom large in that comparative study. Their theory is often refreshingly new, as authors attack problems with theorizing styles unfamiliar to American sociologists of occupations. And for those unfamiliar with continental professions, these is an enticing variety of examples." --Contemporary Sociology

Ideas of Difference: Social Spaces and the Labour of Division (Sociological Review Monographs)

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This book introduces contemporary writing about difference through the idea of the labour of division. The contributors see divisions as artefacts that are not only produced in representations of the social but are performed as a continuous labour. Ideas of Difference will appeal to anyone working on identity, organizing, materiality, ethics or spatiality. In reversing the traditional 'division of labour'. the book puts the issue of difference in question. The issue is not so much that differences are reproduced through social constructions, but of identifying the work that social construction allows in creating, consuming and switching 'divisions'. Divisions are no longer seen as fixed, or natural, but are implicated in performing difference.

The Incorporated Wife

Hilary Callan

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Jobs and Gender: A Study of Occupational Prestige

Christine E. Bose

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A provocative study that introduces the "Bose Index," a new scale that measures change in the Duncan prestige rankings when the job applicant is female. This comprehensive volume is the first to offer both a critical review of what is known about the status of jobs held by women and analysis of all aspects of gender as it affects job prestige. The gender of the observer, the actual job holder, and the usual job incumbent are investigated in this volume.

Jobs in Context: Circles and Settings (Current Research on Occupations and Professions) (Current Research on Occupations and Professions)

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Hardbound.