People at work : life, power, and social inclusion in the new economy / / edited by Marjorie L. DeVault

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910808581703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : New York University Press, c2008
• ISBN: 0-8147-8519-0; 0-8147-2033-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): DeVaultMarjorie L. <1950->
• Disciplina: 306.3/6
• Soggetti: Work - Social aspects; Industrial sociology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-332) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Introduction -- 1. “ Hell on My Face”: The Production of Workplace II-literacy -- 2. Institutional Technologies: Coordinating Families and Schools, Bodies and Texts -- 3. The Promises and Realities of U.S. Microenterprise Development -- 4. Work, Disability, and Social Inclusion: The Promise and Problematics of EU Disability Policy -- Introduction -- 5. Flexible Hiring, Immigration, and Indian IT Workers’ Experiences of Contract Work in the United States -- 6. Economic Restructuring and the Social Regulation of Citizenship in the Heartland -- Introduction -- 7. Training for Low-Wage Work: TANF Recipients Preparing for Health-Care Work -- 8. Women’s Lives, Welfare’s Time Limits -- 9. Personal Responsibility in Professional Work: The Academic “Star” as Ideological Code -- 10. “ Use What You Have, Be Thankful You Have It”: Work and the Promise of Social Inclusion for Students with Disabilities -- Introduction -- 11. Exploring Problematics of the Personal-Responsibility Welfare State: Issues of Family and Caregiving in Welfare-to-Work and Medicaid Consumer-Directed Care Programs -- 12. The “Textualized” Student: An Institutional Ethnography of a Funding Policy for Students with Special Needs in Ontario -- 13. (Dis)continuity of Care: Explicating the Ruling Relations of Home Support -- Conclusion -- References -- Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: People at Work is noted sociologist Marjorie L. DeVault’s groundbreaking collection of original essays on the complexities of the modern-day workplace. By focusing on the lived experiences of the worker, not as an automaton on an assembly line, but as an embodied human of flesh and bone, these essays offer important insight on the realities of the workplace, and their effects on life at home and in communities. With contributions from some of today’s top scholars, each essay is a detailed case study of a different aspect of the working world. Compelling, lively, and sometimes chilling, the contributors address issues from disability rights to immigrant labor, welfare reforms to budget cuts, competition to personal motivations. Each one valuable on its own, the essays in People at Work combine to illuminate the hurdles that workers of all backgrounds struggle with and, more broadly, the impact of change on workers’ lives in the new, increasingly global, economy.