William Finlay
Biographic Data
| ID | 106967 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Finlay |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Finlay |
| SIGNATURE | FINLAY W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 115 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Neoliberal Apartheid: Palestine/Israel and South Africa after 1994
Records of Social and Economic History: New Series, Vol. 53: The Bordeaux–Dublin Letters, 1757: Correspondence of an Irish Community Abroad: Correspondence of an Irish Community Abroad
The book presents 125 letters carried aboard a ship, the Two Sisters of Dublin, captured at sea in 1757, in the midst of the Seven Years War (1756-1763). Most of the letters lay unopened for 250 years until they were rediscovered in the UK National Archives in 2011.The letters from members of the Irish community in Bordeaux and their relatives, friends and trading partners in Ireland communicate the concerns and understandings of ordinary people …
The Entrepeneurial Group: Social Identities, Relations, and Collective Action
Getting the Goods: Ports, Labor, and the Logistics Revolution
Headhunters: Matchmaking in the Labor Market
Headhunters—third-party agents paid a fee by companies for locating job candidates—perform a unique sales role. The product they sell is people, matching candidates with jobs and companies with candidates. Headhunters affect the professional lives of thousands of employees every day, and their work has a profound, though hidden, effect on the employment picture in the United States. William Finlay and James E. Coverdill draw on interviews with an…
Not Just a Paper Doll: How Models Manage Bodily Capital and Why They Perform Emotional Labor
Modeling is a challenging occupation because employment is irregular, the physical demands are great, and competition is fierce. Success as a model requires the careful management of bodily capital and the performance of emotional labor. Drawing on participant observations and interviews with models in the Atlanta fashion industry, the authors examine how they do the former and why they do the latter. They manage their bodily capital by subjectin…
Headhunters: Matchmaking in the Labor Market
Dignity at Work
Risk, Opportunism, and Structural Holes: How Headhunters Manage Clients and Earn Fees
Headhunters find candidates for jobs. They are paid by their clients-employers-when the candidates they generate accept job offers. Headhunters, therefore, resemble other third-party agents or brokers whose fortunes rest on their ability to secure a match between their clients and other interested parties. In this analysis, we examine how headhunters manage the risks of being a broker in a highly competitive industry. They pursue two strategies: …
Fieldwork in Familiar Places: The UGA Workshop in Fieldwork Methods
The Search Game: Organizational Conflicts and the Use of Headhunters
This article examines why companies use contingency headhunters (that is, headhunters who compete with one another to make placements and are paid only if they produce the successful job candidate) to find new employees. We find that headhunters provide economic and political advantages to hiring managers. The economic advantages consist of the techniques headhunters have devised for locating good candidates, especially those who are happily empl…
Fit and Skill in Employee Selection: Insights from a Study of Headhunters
The Ownership of Enterprise
The Union Makes Us Strong: Radical Unionism on the San Francisco Waterfront
The Union Makes Us Strong: Radical Unionism on the San Francisco Waterfront
Organizational Structure and Job Satisfaction: Do Bureaucratic Organizations Produce more Satisfied Employees
Popular and social scientific critiques of the bureaucratic model of organizational behavior argue that employment in highly structured, bureaucratic work organizations adversely affects worker attitudes and behavior. In particular, these critics suggest that bureaucratic structure is associated with lower employee job satisfaction. Several empirical studies, however, have yielded an unexpected positive relationship between bureaucratic structure…
Understanding Mills via Mill-type methods: An application of qualitative comparative analysis to a study of labor management in southern textile manufacturing
Labor Management in the Southern Textile Industry: Comparing Qualitative, Quantitative, and Qualitative Comparative Analyses
This article explores a method developed by Ragin called qualitative comparative analysis or QCA. QCA would appear to offer two attractive possibilities: (a) it combines a consideration of systematic and ideographic elements in a single analysis; and (b) it overcomes some notable limitations of traditional quantitative and qualitative methods. The aim of the authors is to contrast the logic and results of QCA with traditional qualitative and quan…
Culture as control: Work and self in modern organizations
Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840-1950.Walter Licht
The American Merchant Seaman and His Industry: Struggle and Stigma
An historical view of US maritime policy conflict within the industry the marginal lifestyle of the seaman the stigmatized occupation sea daddy - a look at the vanishing breed the changing marine engineer epilogue - the swan song of the American seaman
Hanging by a Thread: Social Change in Southern Textiles
Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century.Dorothy Sue Cobble
Experience, Attitudes, and Plans: Determinants of the Productivity of Medical Residents in a Primary Care Clinic
Data from 90 medical residents who had completed rotations in the primary care clinic of a VA hospital were analyzed to determine the causes of physician productivity. Productivity data were compiled from the daily logsheets maintained in the clinic. Three sets of factors were examined: the residents' experience and training, future-practice plans, and attitudes toward patients. Some support for the experience and practice variables was found, bu…
Patient Age, Visit Purpose, and the Ordering of Consultations in a Primary Care Clinic
In this study we examine what factors determine whether patients seen in a Veterans Administration primary care clinic will be referred to specialty clinics. It is based on a 25% sample of all patients seen by the medical residents in one clinic over an 18-month period. Our dependent variable is whether the patient was referred for a consultation or not. We performed separate regression analyses for patients who visited the clinic with acute comp…
Not Just a Paper Doll: How Models Manage Bodily Capital and Why They Perform Emotional Labor
Modeling is a challenging occupation because employment is irregular, the physical demands are great, and competition is fierce. Success as a model requires the careful management of bodily capital and the performance of emotional labor. Drawing on participant observations and interviews with models in the Atlanta fashion industry, the authors examine how they do the former and why they do the latter. They manage their bodily capital by subjectin…
One Occupation, Two Labor Markets: The Case of Longshore Crane Operators
Most analyses of labor markets search for uniform patterns across different industries and different occupations, and incorporate variables drawn from either individual skill, worker collective action, or employer strategy theories. This paper is a case study of a single (new) occupation within a single (old) industry-longshore crane operators-using aspects of all these theories. It argues that because the labor market is.the arena of negotiation…
Getting the Goods: Ports, Labor, and the Logistics Revolution
Fit and Skill in Employee Selection: Insights from a Study of Headhunters
Understanding Mills via Mill-type methods: An application of qualitative comparative analysis to a study of labor management in southern textile manufacturing
Risk, Opportunism, and Structural Holes: How Headhunters Manage Clients and Earn Fees
Headhunters find candidates for jobs. They are paid by their clients-employers-when the candidates they generate accept job offers. Headhunters, therefore, resemble other third-party agents or brokers whose fortunes rest on their ability to secure a match between their clients and other interested parties. In this analysis, we examine how headhunters manage the risks of being a broker in a highly competitive industry. They pursue two strategies: …
Labor Management in the Southern Textile Industry: Comparing Qualitative, Quantitative, and Qualitative Comparative Analyses
This article explores a method developed by Ragin called qualitative comparative analysis or QCA. QCA would appear to offer two attractive possibilities: (a) it combines a consideration of systematic and ideographic elements in a single analysis; and (b) it overcomes some notable limitations of traditional quantitative and qualitative methods. The aim of the authors is to contrast the logic and results of QCA with traditional qualitative and quan…
Neoliberal Apartheid: Palestine/Israel and South Africa after 1994
The Search Game: Organizational Conflicts and the Use of Headhunters
This article examines why companies use contingency headhunters (that is, headhunters who compete with one another to make placements and are paid only if they produce the successful job candidate) to find new employees. We find that headhunters provide economic and political advantages to hiring managers. The economic advantages consist of the techniques headhunters have devised for locating good candidates, especially those who are happily empl…
Organizational Structure and Job Satisfaction: Do Bureaucratic Organizations Produce more Satisfied Employees
Popular and social scientific critiques of the bureaucratic model of organizational behavior argue that employment in highly structured, bureaucratic work organizations adversely affects worker attitudes and behavior. In particular, these critics suggest that bureaucratic structure is associated with lower employee job satisfaction. Several empirical studies, however, have yielded an unexpected positive relationship between bureaucratic structure…
Fieldwork in Familiar Places: The UGA Workshop in Fieldwork Methods
Queues and Care: How Medical Residents Organize Their Work in a Busy Clinic
How do medical residents organize their work in settings where queue demands are heavy and resources are limited? Under such conditions, a queue theory would predict the delivery of care that is indifferent to clients' needs or that gets rid of clients as quickly as possible. In an exploratory case study of medical residents in a Veterans Administration outpatient clinic, we found instead that the medical residents' work was characterized by a hi…
Workers' Control and Control of Workers: The Case of West Coast Longshoremen
Patient Age, Visit Purpose, and the Ordering of Consultations in a Primary Care Clinic
In this study we examine what factors determine whether patients seen in a Veterans Administration primary care clinic will be referred to specialty clinics. It is based on a 25% sample of all patients seen by the medical residents in one clinic over an 18-month period. Our dependent variable is whether the patient was referred for a consultation or not. We performed separate regression analyses for patients who visited the clinic with acute comp…
Hoarding and Fragmenting: The Politics of Job Classification in Two Work Settings
This study examines conflicts over job classification and over the use of seniority (job-classification politics) in two work settings—a midwestern plant of an electronics company and the longshore industry of southern California. Two phenomena characterized job-classification politics in each setting—hoarding, that is, the erection of barriers around jobs, and fragmenting, that is, the erection of barriers between workers. These outcomes are att…
Human Behavior in Industry
Workers' Control and Control of Workers: The Case of West Coast Longshoremen
One Occupation, Two Labor Markets: The Case of Longshore Crane Operators
Most analyses of labor markets search for uniform patterns across different industries and different occupations, and incorporate variables drawn from either individual skill, worker collective action, or employer strategy theories. This paper is a case study of a single (new) occupation within a single (old) industry-longshore crane operators-using aspects of all these theories. It argues that because the labor market is.the arena of negotiation…
The Social Organization of Industrial Conflict: Control and Resistance in the Workplace
The Miners of Decazeville: A Genealogy of Deindustrialization
Chaos on the Shop Floor: A Worker's View of Quality, Productivity, and Management
Decisions in Organizations: A Three-Country Comparative Study
Introduction Theoretical Considerations Design of the Research Methods and Instruments Participation in Operational Decisions Medium- and Long-Term Decision-Making Qualitative Material to Illustrate the Process of Longitudinal Decision-Making Conclusion
Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Long-shoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s
Work on the Waterfront: Worker Power and Technological Change in a West Coast Port
In this ethnographic account of longshoremen in California, William Finlay examines how they have been affected by recent technological changes in this industry. Focusing on the workers in Local 13 (Los Angeles-Long Beach) of the ILWU, he finds that despite the profound impact of new technologies, in particular of containerization, these workers have retained much of their influence over production, their autonomy at work, and their skill on the …
Sociology of Occupations and Professions
Work on the Waterfront: Worker Power and Technological Change in a West Coast Port
Patient Age, Visit Purpose, and the Ordering of Consultations in a Primary Care Clinic
In this study we examine what factors determine whether patients seen in a Veterans Administration primary care clinic will be referred to specialty clinics. It is based on a 25% sample of all patients seen by the medical residents in one clinic over an 18-month period. Our dependent variable is whether the patient was referred for a consultation or not. We performed separate regression analyses for patients who visited the clinic with acute comp…
Work on the Waterfront: Worker Power and Technological Change in a West Coast Port
Two Ages of Waterfront Labour
THERE ARE TWO crucial watersheds in the modem history of waterfront labour (1) the successful struggle, beginning with the Pacific Coast revolts of the 1930s, to set-up union-dominated hiring halls; and (2) the technological revolution in cargo handling and ship design associated with the introduction of containers in the 1960s and 70s. Bruce Nelson's historical treatment of waterfront labour focuses on the first of these watersheds, with particu…
Work on the Waterfront: Worker Power and Technological Change in a West Coast Port
Queues and Care: How Medical Residents Organize Their Work in a Busy Clinic
How do medical residents organize their work in settings where queue demands are heavy and resources are limited? Under such conditions, a queue theory would predict the delivery of care that is indifferent to clients' needs or that gets rid of clients as quickly as possible. In an exploratory case study of medical residents in a Veterans Administration outpatient clinic, we found instead that the medical residents' work was characterized by a hi…
Hoarding and Fragmenting: The Politics of Job Classification in Two Work Settings
This study examines conflicts over job classification and over the use of seniority (job-classification politics) in two work settings—a midwestern plant of an electronics company and the longshore industry of southern California. Two phenomena characterized job-classification politics in each setting—hoarding, that is, the erection of barriers around jobs, and fragmenting, that is, the erection of barriers between workers. These outcomes are att…
Experience, Attitudes, and Plans: Determinants of the Productivity of Medical Residents in a Primary Care Clinic
Data from 90 medical residents who had completed rotations in the primary care clinic of a VA hospital were analyzed to determine the causes of physician productivity. Productivity data were compiled from the daily logsheets maintained in the clinic. Three sets of factors were examined: the residents' experience and training, future-practice plans, and attitudes toward patients. Some support for the experience and practice variables was found, bu…
The American Merchant Seaman and His Industry: Struggle and Stigma
An historical view of US maritime policy conflict within the industry the marginal lifestyle of the seaman the stigmatized occupation sea daddy - a look at the vanishing breed the changing marine engineer epilogue - the swan song of the American seaman
Hanging by a Thread: Social Change in Southern Textiles
Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century.Dorothy Sue Cobble
Culture as control: Work and self in modern organizations
Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840-1950.Walter Licht
Labor Management in the Southern Textile Industry: Comparing Qualitative, Quantitative, and Qualitative Comparative Analyses
This article explores a method developed by Ragin called qualitative comparative analysis or QCA. QCA would appear to offer two attractive possibilities: (a) it combines a consideration of systematic and ideographic elements in a single analysis; and (b) it overcomes some notable limitations of traditional quantitative and qualitative methods. The aim of the authors is to contrast the logic and results of QCA with traditional qualitative and quan…
Organizational Structure and Job Satisfaction: Do Bureaucratic Organizations Produce more Satisfied Employees
Popular and social scientific critiques of the bureaucratic model of organizational behavior argue that employment in highly structured, bureaucratic work organizations adversely affects worker attitudes and behavior. In particular, these critics suggest that bureaucratic structure is associated with lower employee job satisfaction. Several empirical studies, however, have yielded an unexpected positive relationship between bureaucratic structure…
Economics (18 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Business (12 works) · Engineering (10 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Law (7 works)