Work and Occupations articles from February 1998

Work and Occupations archives from February 1998

Getting away and getting by: the experiences of self-employed homeworkers.
February 1, 1998... The past two decades have witnessed a resurgence in the number of women and men in the United States who do paid work in their homes (Silver, 1989). Some scholars see this development as emancipatory--a fulfillment of worker demands for more...

Work (if you can get it) and occupations (if there are any)?: what social scientists can learn from predictions of the end of work and radical workplace change.
February 1, 1998... What Social Scientists Can Learn From Predictions of the End of Work and Radical Workplace Change Workplace 2000: The revolution shaping American business, by Joseph H. Boyett and Henry P. Conn. New York: Plume, 1992, 367 pp. $22.95 (cloth);...

To cut or not to cut: a cross-national comparison of attitudes toward wage flexibility.
February 1, 1998... In recent years, there has been much talk, in public as well as scientific debates, about the paramount importance of economic flexibility in the current era of increasingly intensified competition due to economic globalization (see, e.g.,...

The effects of job characteristics on active effort at work.
February 1, 1998... One of the fundamental issues in the study of organizational behavior is how to elicit the active cooperation of the members. Current theories of work redesign are premised on the assumption that workers contain pools of skill, knowledge,...

A hierarchical linear model for estimating gender-based earnings differentials.
February 1, 1998... In the present article, we propose a multilevel individual- and occupation-level model to examine the effect of gender on earnings inequality. We apply a hierarchical linear model (HLM) proposed by Bryk and Raudenbush (1992) to the area of...

Playing for Dollars: Labor Relations and the Sports Business.
February 1, 1998... by Paul D. Staudohar. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1996, 232 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Although neither book under review builds directly on relevant sociological literature and traditions, Playing for Dollars and Under the Stars...

Under the Stars: Essays on Labor Relations in Arts and Entertainment.
February 1, 1998... by Lois S. Gray and Ronald L. Seeber (Eds.). Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1996, 207 pp. $38.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Although neither book under review builds directly on relevant sociological literature and traditions, Playing for Dollars...

Broken Ladders: Managerial Careers in the New Economy.
February 1, 1998... by Sonia Ospina. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996, 270 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). A number of books have surfaced from a primordial soup that is composed of a volatile mixture of changing global economic conditions...

Illusions of Opportunity: Employee Expectations and Workplace Inequality.
February 1, 1998... edited by Paul Osterman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, 259 pp. $35.00 (cloth). A number of books have surfaced from a primordial soup that is composed of a volatile mixture of changing global economic conditions combined with a...

Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic.
February 1, 1998... by Wendy Simonds. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, 262 pp. $48.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). On the day that I sat down to write this review, two bomb blasts, timed to explode an hour apart, destroyed parts of an Atlanta...

Working in the Service Society.
February 1, 1998... edited by Cameron Lynne MacDonald and Carmen Sirianni. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 996, 362 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Although more than 70% of employed Americans now work in services, our models of organizations and...

Opposing Ambitions: Gender and Identity in an Alternative Organization.
February 1, 1998... by Sherryl Kleinman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, 160 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $10.95 (paper). Sherryl Kleinman's Opposing Ambitions: Gender and Identity in an Alternative Organization is a critical ethnography informed by...

Masculinities in Organizations.
February 1, 1998... edited by Cliff Cheng. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996, 210 pp. $54.00 (cloth); $26.00 (paper) Sherryl Kleinman's Opposing Ambitions: Gender and Identity in an Alternative Organization is a critical ethnography informed by symbolic...

Women and Minorities in American Professions.
February 1, 1998... by Joyce Tang and Earl Smith. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996, 227 pp. $59.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper) "Is the glass half hill or half empty?" Jennifer Hochschild asks in her foreword to Women and Minorities in American...

Gender and Career in Science and Engineering.
February 1, 1998... by Julia Evetts. London: Taylor & Francis, 1996, 179 pp. $69.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper). "Is the glass half hill or half empty?" Jennifer Hochschild asks in her foreword to Women and Minorities in American Professions. This adage aptly...

When Doctors Join Unions.
February 1, 1998... by Grace Budrys, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997, 188 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). One way that physicians are responding to managed care is by increasingly coming together in groups. This raises questions about the...