Carl Gersuny
Biographic Data
| ID | 220073 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carl Gersuny |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carl |
| FAMILY NAME | Gersuny |
| SIGNATURE | GERSUNY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rhode Island |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Gastonia 1929: The Story of the Loray Mill Strike
Citizenship: Rights, Struggle and Class Inequality
Protecting Privacy in Surveillance Societies: The Federal Republic of Germany, Sweden, France, Canada, and the United States
Flaherty examines the passage, revision, and implementation of privacy and data protection laws at the national and state levels in Sweden, Canada, France, Germany, and the United States. He offers a comparative and critical analysis of the challenges data protectors face int their attempt to preserve individual rights
Citizenship and Capitalism: The Debate Over Reformism
The Sesquicentennial of Priestly V. Fowler and the Conflict Over Work and Health
Generally industrialists are interested only in the net product of their operations and aim to maximise this product by turning the private costs of doing business into social costs, to be borne by others, usually the employees in the form of hazards. The objective of protective labour legislation has been abatement of this avoidance of private costs at the expense of third parties. But the goal of minimising enterprise costs is at odds with this…
Gamrie-An Exploration in Cultural Ecology: A Study of Maritime Adaptations in a Scottish Fishing Village
Seniority And The Moral Economy Of U.S. Automobile Workers, 1934-1946
Carl Gersuny, Gladis Kaufman; Seniority And The Moral Economy Of U.S. Automobile Workers, 1934–1946, Journal of Social History, Volume 18, Issue 3, 1 March
Sonnet from the Parsonian
From Contract to Status: Perspectives on Employment Seniority
Length of service as a criterion governing personnel decisions is a widely applied normative principle. Contractual agreements that provide that employees' status with respect to promotion and layoff be based on seniority serve to limit discrimination and favoritism, remove an element of competition among workers, and provide a form of social insurance against the contingencies of aging. This status variable is sometimes erroneously perceived as …
Work Hazards and Industrial Conflict
Work Hazards and Industrial Conflict
New England Mill Casualties: 1890-1910
ONE of the sordid aspects of early capitalist industrialization was the treatment of factory workers as expendable. Managerial inattention to the most rudimentary safety precautions resulted in scandalous injury rates while the employers' liability laws assured that the costs of these injuries were borne primarily by the victims. Manuscripts from now defunct textile mills reveal hitherto concealed aspects of this page in our industrial history. T…
Industrial casualties in Lowell, 1890–1905
Work Injuries and Adversary Processes in Two New England Textile Mills
Whatever the shortcomings of “no-fault” employee compensation laws, such as the one passed in Massachusetts in 1911, Professor Gersuny shows that such laws were a great improvement over what had prevailed. Working with formerly confidential files, he shows that an “adversary relationship” had existed between the employer and his insurance company, on the one hand, and often pitifully maimed employees on the other. With few exceptions, all of the …
Punishment and Redress in a Modern Factory
A Devil in Petticoats” and Just Cause: Patterns of Punishment in Two New England Textile Factories
Professor Gersuny examines discipline and punishment of the workforce in two New England textile mills separated in time by almost a century and a half. He finds that, despite dramatic changes in the technological, social, and cultural context, the constraints governing factory discipline have shown remarkable continuity
Risk as a Basis for Taboos among Fishermen in Southern New England
John J. Poggie, Jr., Richard B. Pollnac, Carl Gersuny, Risk as a Basis for Taboos among Fishermen in Southern New England, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Sep., 1976), pp. 257-262
The Service Society
The Service Society
Economic Gratification Patterns of Fishermen and Millworkers in New England
The paper tests several hypotheses concerning the correlates of economic gratification orientations among fishermen and mill workers in southern New England. The findings indicate that economic gratification orientations are related to occupation, temporal perspective, and ethnicity. It is suggested that economic gratification patterns are influenced by periodicity of income and perceived access to the means of production, two factors intimately …
Occupations, Occupational Surnames and The Development of Society
Punishment and Redress in a Modern Factory
A Note on Ibn Khaldun as Precursor of Sociolinguistics
The Uncertain Future of Fishing Families
Risk and Ritual: An Interpretation of Fishermen's Folklore in a New England Community
AMONG CERTAIN GROUPS and in certain behavioral settings in the United States, there is a greater use of ritual magic than is generally characteristic of the whole society. Coal miners and fishermen as well as rodeo performers and gamblers are in occupations and situations that are replete with ritual magic. These groups and situations have in common a high degree of uncertainty associated with them. The retention of rituals in these cases, in an …
Problems of an Industrial Society
Risk as a Basis for Taboos among Fishermen in Southern New England
John J. Poggie, Jr., Richard B. Pollnac, Carl Gersuny, Risk as a Basis for Taboos among Fishermen in Southern New England, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Sep., 1976), pp. 257-262
A Devil in Petticoats” and Just Cause: Patterns of Punishment in Two New England Textile Factories
Professor Gersuny examines discipline and punishment of the workforce in two New England textile mills separated in time by almost a century and a half. He finds that, despite dramatic changes in the technological, social, and cultural context, the constraints governing factory discipline have shown remarkable continuity
Economic Gratification Patterns of Fishermen and Millworkers in New England
The paper tests several hypotheses concerning the correlates of economic gratification orientations among fishermen and mill workers in southern New England. The findings indicate that economic gratification orientations are related to occupation, temporal perspective, and ethnicity. It is suggested that economic gratification patterns are influenced by periodicity of income and perceived access to the means of production, two factors intimately …
Risk and Ritual: An Interpretation of Fishermen's Folklore in a New England Community
AMONG CERTAIN GROUPS and in certain behavioral settings in the United States, there is a greater use of ritual magic than is generally characteristic of the whole society. Coal miners and fishermen as well as rodeo performers and gamblers are in occupations and situations that are replete with ritual magic. These groups and situations have in common a high degree of uncertainty associated with them. The retention of rituals in these cases, in an …
Citizenship and Capitalism: The Debate Over Reformism
Occupations, Occupational Surnames and The Development of Society
The Uncertain Future of Fishing Families
Punishment and Redress in a Modern Factory
A SYSTEM of punishment the correlate of every power relationship. Power, wrote Lasswell and Kaplan, is a special case of the exercise of influence: it the of affecting the policies of others with the help of (actual or threatened) severe deprivations for nonconformity with the policies intended. 1 power holder disposes of an arsenal of penalties for securing the compliance of the persons over whom he has power. need for labor discipline stems fro…
Occupational Hazards in the Academy
The dictionary gives one of definitions of hazard as thing or condition that might operate against success or safety: a possible source of peril, danger, duress or difficulty. Occupations are differentiated, among other ways, by type of hazards to which practitioner is subjected. Occupational hazards emerge both from nonsocial environ ment and from social environment. Hazards from physical environment are characteristic of manual labor in various…
Punishment and Redress in a Modern Factory
A SYSTEM of punishment the correlate of every power relationship. Power, wrote Lasswell and Kaplan, is a special case of the exercise of influence: it the of affecting the policies of others with the help of (actual or threatened) severe deprivations for nonconformity with the policies intended. 1 power holder disposes of an arsenal of penalties for securing the compliance of the persons over whom he has power. need for labor discipline stems fro…
Problems of an Industrial Society
Service and Servitude in the Sheltered Workshop
The rationale for the operation of sheltered workshops is benefit to the client through provision of an opportunity to earn money and feel useful. However, the broad scope of agency intervention in clients' lives and the refusal of agencies to bargain collectively with their clients suggest that despite the ideology of service an element of servitude is present. The authors present evidence for this thesis through an examination of the literature…
Clienthood in Children's Literature
The Honeymoon Industry: Rhetoric and Bureaucratization of Status Passage
Risk and Ritual: An Interpretation of Fishermen's Folklore in a New England Community
AMONG CERTAIN GROUPS and in certain behavioral settings in the United States, there is a greater use of ritual magic than is generally characteristic of the whole society. Coal miners and fishermen as well as rodeo performers and gamblers are in occupations and situations that are replete with ritual magic. These groups and situations have in common a high degree of uncertainty associated with them. The retention of rituals in these cases, in an …
A Note on Ibn Khaldun as Precursor of Sociolinguistics
The Uncertain Future of Fishing Families
Occupations, Occupational Surnames and The Development of Society
Punishment and Redress in a Modern Factory
The Service Society
The Service Society
Economic Gratification Patterns of Fishermen and Millworkers in New England
The paper tests several hypotheses concerning the correlates of economic gratification orientations among fishermen and mill workers in southern New England. The findings indicate that economic gratification orientations are related to occupation, temporal perspective, and ethnicity. It is suggested that economic gratification patterns are influenced by periodicity of income and perceived access to the means of production, two factors intimately …
Punishment and Redress in a Modern Factory
A Devil in Petticoats” and Just Cause: Patterns of Punishment in Two New England Textile Factories
Professor Gersuny examines discipline and punishment of the workforce in two New England textile mills separated in time by almost a century and a half. He finds that, despite dramatic changes in the technological, social, and cultural context, the constraints governing factory discipline have shown remarkable continuity
Risk as a Basis for Taboos among Fishermen in Southern New England
John J. Poggie, Jr., Richard B. Pollnac, Carl Gersuny, Risk as a Basis for Taboos among Fishermen in Southern New England, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Sep., 1976), pp. 257-262
Work Injuries and Adversary Processes in Two New England Textile Mills
Whatever the shortcomings of “no-fault” employee compensation laws, such as the one passed in Massachusetts in 1911, Professor Gersuny shows that such laws were a great improvement over what had prevailed. Working with formerly confidential files, he shows that an “adversary relationship” had existed between the employer and his insurance company, on the one hand, and often pitifully maimed employees on the other. With few exceptions, all of the …
New England Mill Casualties: 1890-1910
ONE of the sordid aspects of early capitalist industrialization was the treatment of factory workers as expendable. Managerial inattention to the most rudimentary safety precautions resulted in scandalous injury rates while the employers' liability laws assured that the costs of these injuries were borne primarily by the victims. Manuscripts from now defunct textile mills reveal hitherto concealed aspects of this page in our industrial history. T…
Industrial casualties in Lowell, 1890–1905
Work Hazards and Industrial Conflict
Work Hazards and Industrial Conflict
From Contract to Status: Perspectives on Employment Seniority
Length of service as a criterion governing personnel decisions is a widely applied normative principle. Contractual agreements that provide that employees' status with respect to promotion and layoff be based on seniority serve to limit discrimination and favoritism, remove an element of competition among workers, and provide a form of social insurance against the contingencies of aging. This status variable is sometimes erroneously perceived as …
Gamrie-An Exploration in Cultural Ecology: A Study of Maritime Adaptations in a Scottish Fishing Village
Seniority And The Moral Economy Of U.S. Automobile Workers, 1934-1946
Carl Gersuny, Gladis Kaufman; Seniority And The Moral Economy Of U.S. Automobile Workers, 1934–1946, Journal of Social History, Volume 18, Issue 3, 1 March
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (18 works) · Law (13 works) · Psychology (10 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (6 works)