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Casting the other : the production and maintenance of inequalities in work organizations / / edited by Barbara Czarniawska and Heather Hopfl



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Titolo: Casting the other : the production and maintenance of inequalities in work organizations / / edited by Barbara Czarniawska and Heather Hopfl Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
Disciplina: 331.133
658.30082
Soggetto topico: Sex discrimination in employment
Sex role in the work environment
Sexual division of labor
Altri autori: Czarniawska-JoergesBarbara  
HopflHeather  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Casting the Other: introduction; How do statistical aggregates work? About the individual and organizational effects of general classifications; Gender order and disorder: the articulation of women and disorder as resources in the establishment of new medical practices; The construction of the female entrepreneur as the Other; Keeping the veil of otherness: practising disconnection; Construction of gender in corporations
Individual vs collective action: gender inequality and women's action strategies in German and Swedish business firmsGender-neutral gender and denial of the difference; The Black Engel: women from the ruins of the National Board of Building; The business case for diversity and the 'Iron Cage'; Casting the native subject: ethnographic practice and the (re)production of difference; References; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Casting the Other: Maintaining Gender Inequalities in the Workplace focuses on the production and maintenance of gender inequalities in organizations. By emphasizing 'difference' as something to be managed many organizations institute the 'problem of difference', and while orgainzations pay lip-service to ideas of equality, their day-to-day practices may be unchanged and unchallenged. Discrimination of various groups such as women, immigrants and older people continues and its dynamics remain unclear, largely because of the difficulties of studying it in the field. Additionally, vari
Titolo autorizzato: Casting the other  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-134-47764-3
1-134-47765-1
1-280-11119-4
0-203-99422-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910784588203321
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Serie: Management, organizations and society.