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ISBN 10: 1786354055
ISBN 13: 9781786354051
Author: Steven P Vallas

Research in the Sociology of Work 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I: Identity Work

Work Identity without Steady Work: Lessons from Stage Actors

Work Identity, Contingent Work, and Artistic Work

Acting the Part

Data

I am an Actor

Challenges to Identity

Prospects for Making a Living

Identity Threats

Sacrifices

Sustaining Identity

The Longer Term

Conclusion

Notes

Acknowledgments

References

“I’m a Teacher, Not a Babysitter”: Workers’ Strategies for Managing Identity-Related Denials

Introduction

Background

Struggles for Control: Constraints in Interactive Service Work

Workers’ Agency: Behaviors that Transform Constraints into Resources

Identity Processes in the Workplace

ECE as an Occupation and the Institutional Context of Preschools

The Study: Methods and Data

Analysis

Findings

Public Daycares

Private Daycares

Public Dayschools

Private Dayschools

Discussion

Implications for Theory and Future Research

Implications for Policy

Limitations

Conclusion

Notes

Acknowledgments

References

Part II: Authority and Control at Work

Job Authority and Stratification Beliefs

Workplace Experiences and Stratification Beliefs

Stratification Beliefs as a Consequence of Job Conditions

Stratification Beliefs through Hierarchical Interactions

Stratification Beliefs as a Function of Managerial Tasks

Empirical Support and Expectations: Authority and Beliefs

Data and Methods

Dependent Variables

Support for Redistributive Policy

Functional Necessity of Inequality

Independent Variables

Amount of Authority Tasks

Authority Tenure

Other Independent Variables

Ideology

Workplace and Human Capital Characteristics

Material Rewards in the Workplace

Sociodemographic Indicators

Analytic Strategy and Results

Authority Tasks and Stratification Beliefs

The Impact of Authority Task by Tenure and Context, and in the Face of Controls

Attributing Causation to Authority Experiences

Conclusion

Notes

Acknowledgments

References

Appendix

Matching Up: Producing Proximal Service in a Los Angeles Restaurant

Introduction

Producing Interactive Service Work

Methods

Match Restaurant

Assembling Proximal Service

Doing Proximal Service in Service Interactions

Discussion and Conclusion

Notes

Acknowledgments

References

Control from on High: Cloud-Computing, Skill, and Acute Frustration among Analytics Workers in the D

Introduction

Skill, Technology, and Control

Pleasurably Immersive Technologies

Background on Advertising-Supported Media and the Sale of Audiences

Case Features and Methodology

Assembling an Audience Commodity

Separating Measurement from Interpretation

Discussion

Labor Process Theory and Control over Skill

Affectively Binding Technology

Measuring Skill

Conclusion

Notes

Acknowledgments

References

The Limits of Control in Service Work: Interactive Routines and Interactional Competence

Introduction

Controlling Employee Behavior in Frontline Service Work

Control Strategies of Service Organizations

Employee Control through Panoptic Surveillance

Current Research

Methods

Findings

Script Requirements

Recognizing Interactional Contingencies

Managing Interactional Contingencies

Servers’ Recognition of Mystery Shoppers and Mystery Shop Potential

Table Servers

Counter Workers

Discussion

Notes

References

Part III: Gender, Sexuality and Precarity

The Walk-In Closet: Between “Gay-Friendly” and “Post-Closeted” Work

Introduction

Background

Methods

The Walk-In Closet: Gay Work Culture and the Limits of Post-Closeted Work

Inside the Walk-In Closet

Bounding the Walk-In Closet

Ceiling

Walls

Floor

Conclusion

Notes

Acknowledgments

References

Workplace Regulation of Sexual Harassment and Federal and State-Level Legal Environments

The Legal Regulation of Workplace Rights

Federal Legal Environment

State-Level Legal Environment

SH Training Program Content

Additional Factors

Data and Methods

Dependent Variables

Focal Independent Variables

Federal Legal Environment

State-Level Legal Environment

Controls

Methods

Results

Descriptive Results

Multivariate Results

SH Training Program

Discussion and Conclusions

Notes

Acknowledgments

References

Appendix

Job Insecurity and Substance Use in the United States: Stress, Strain, and the Gendering of Precario

Background

The Health Consequences of Job Insecurity for Workers

Substance Use

Stress Process and Strain

Job Insecurity and Substance Use

The Gendering of Precarious Employment

Data and Methods

Data

Measures

Analytic Strategy

Results

Descriptive Statistics and Bivariate Associations

Logistic Regression Models

Supplementary Analyses of Intervening Mechanisms

Discussion and Conclusions

Limitations

Future Research and Conclusion

Notes

Acknowledgments

References

Appendix

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