James R Zetka
Biographic Data
| ID | 3634036 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James R Zetka |
| GIVEN NAMES | James R |
| FAMILY NAME | Zetka |
| SIGNATURE | ZETKA J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Innovation, professional identity, and generational divides in medicine: The case of gynecologic laparoscopy in the USA
The Anthem Companion to Everett Hughes
Technology
Establishing specialty jurisdictions in medicine: The case of American obstetrics and gynaecology
The profession of medicine has evolved into an extremely specialised occupation. Yet, recent research has neglected the intra-occupational processes influencing medical specialisation. This article aims to correct this oversight. It develops an historical account of intra-occupational factors influencing the decision to establish gynaecologic oncology as American ob/gyn's surgical subspecialty in 1972. Working within the framework initially devel…
The Genesis of the Naval Profession
Radical Logics and Their Carriers In Medicine: The Case of Psychopathology and American Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Through an historical case study, this article addresses how and why physicians carry radical logics into medicine. The radical logic of focus is psychopathology. Obstetrics and gynecology was one of the very first specialties outside of psychiatry to incorporate this logic into its work culture. Employing a core-skill conflict perspective, this article shows that obstetricians and gynecologists' failure to “deliver the goods” promised in their c…
The Making of the 'Women's Physician' in American Obstetrics and Gynecology: Re-Forging an Occupational Identity and a Division of Labor
After struggling as a surgical specialty, obstetrics and gynecology initiated its 'women's physician' program in the 1970s. This program officially defined the mostly male obstetricians and gynecologists at that time as women's primary care physicians. Using archival data, this article explains this development as a response to the specialty's dishonored position within the medical division of labor. Whatever else it was intended to be, the women…
Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism
The 1930s represents, for many, a heroic period where workers set aside their differences and mobilized collectively into unions to confront management's control. This view has led us to ignore interest divisions among workers and their importance in shaping union outcomes. In Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism, James D. Rose challenges this conventional view and develops a fascinating account of the forces that led to unionization at U.S. S…
Occupational Divisions of Labor and Their Technology Politics: The Case of Surgical Scopes and Gastrointestinal Medicine
Through a case analysis of how medicine's intra-occupational division of labor responded to the development of gastrointestinal endoscopy, this article sheds light on how occupational divisions of labor respond to technological innovation. The article proposes that innovations are introduced into such structures in ways consistent with the cultural scripts that regulate relations and workflows between occupations functional segments. However, the…
Post-Work: The Wages of Cybernation
In Post-Work, Stanley Aronowitz and Jonathan Cutler have collected essays from a variety of scholars to discuss the dreary future of work. The introduction, The Post-Work Manifesto,, provides the framework for a radical reappraisal of work and suggests an alternative organization of labor. The provocative essays that follow focus on specific issues that are key to our reconceptualization of the notion and practice of work, with coverage of the fi…
The Technological Foundations of Task-Coordinating Structures in New Work Organizations: Theoretical Notes from the Case of Abdominal Surgery
The significance of the movement to decentralize workplace authority is hotly debated. Drawing from a case study of the impact of video technology on surgical work, this article provides conceptual clarity to the debate by specifying the technological determinants of two distinct task-coordinating structures found in decentralized work units. The first involves unilateral control by the dominant actor in the work team. It is effective when tasks …
Militancy, Market Dynamics, and Workplace Authority: The Struggle over Labor Process Outcomes in the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1946-1973
Militancy, Market Dynamics, and Workplace Authority: The Struggle Over Labor Process Outcomes in the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1946 to 1973
The CIO, 1935-1955
Bureaucratic Strikes and the Rationalization of Factory Conflict: The Case of the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1962-1979
Journal Article Bureaucratic Strikes and the Rationalization of Factory Conflict: The Case of the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1962-1979 Get access James R. Zetka, Jr. James R. Zetka, Jr. State University of New York at Albany Direct all correspondence to Jim Zetka, Department of Sociology, SUNY-Albany, 1200 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12222. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 43, …
Militancy, Market Dynamics, and Workplace Authority: The Struggle over Labor Process Outcomes in the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1946 to 1973
Mobilizing labor on symbolic fronts
Union Homogenization and the Organizational Foundations of Plantwide Militancy in the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1959-1979
Union Homogenization and the Organizational Foundations of Plantwide Militancy in the U.S. Automobile Industry 1959-1979
The industrial relations context in U.S. automobile plants changed significantly by 1959. Union locals became more occupationally homogeneous, and the bureaucratic grievance structure functioned more effectively as a restlt. Yet, unauthorized strikes continued, albeit less frequently, and their nature was transformed. Rather than the occupationally specific xvildcats of the 1940s and 1950s, the unauthorized strikes occurring in the 1960s and 1970…
Militancy, Market Dynamics, and Workplace Authority: The Struggle over Labor Process Outcomes in the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1946 to 1973
Journal Article Militancy, Market Dynamics, and Workplace Authority: The Struggle over Labor Process Outcomes in the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1946 to 1973. By James R. Zetkajr. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. xxviii, 293 pp. Cloth, $57.50, ISBN 0-7914-2065-5. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-7914-2066-3.) Get access Steve Babson Steve Babson Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
A Qualitative Protocol for Studying Technological Change in the Labor Process
Une approche qualitative pour l'étude de l'impact des changements technologiques sur les lieux de travail. Cet article Illustre et défend la logique d'une approche qualitative pour l'étude de l'impact des changements technologiques sur les lieux de travail. La première partie traite de l'utilisation de la méthode de l'étude des cas pour mettre au jour les ordres normatifs qui façonnent les réactions aux innovations technologiques. Dans la deuxièm…
Power in the Workplace: The Politics of Production at ATT
Organizations, Uncertainties, and Risk
Work Organization and Wildcat Strikes in the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1946 to 1963
After World War II, U.S. auto workers waged wildcat strikes within an institutional structure that outlawed such strikes and mobilized considerable resources to crush them. I specify and test a theory that locates the source of these wildcat strikes in a distinctive type of labor process. This labor process forced workers to coordinate their moment-by-moment activities to accomplish immediate work tasks. It generated group-level commitment to com…
Mass-Production Automation and Work-Group Solidarity in the Post-World War II Automobile Industry
Did mass-production automation trigger a decline in shop-floor militancy in the post-World War II period? Was it responsible for deskilling and atomizing once militant occupation groups? Drawing on a rich array of archival and interview evidence, this article addresses these questions by tracing the impact of automation on the most militant work groups in the American automobile industry. These were the work groups who performed stamping, body-bu…
Occupational Divisions of Labor and Their Technology Politics: The Case of Surgical Scopes and Gastrointestinal Medicine
Through a case analysis of how medicine's intra-occupational division of labor responded to the development of gastrointestinal endoscopy, this article sheds light on how occupational divisions of labor respond to technological innovation. The article proposes that innovations are introduced into such structures in ways consistent with the cultural scripts that regulate relations and workflows between occupations functional segments. However, the…
Work Organization and Wildcat Strikes in the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1946 to 1963
After World War II, U.S. auto workers waged wildcat strikes within an institutional structure that outlawed such strikes and mobilized considerable resources to crush them. I specify and test a theory that locates the source of these wildcat strikes in a distinctive type of labor process. This labor process forced workers to coordinate their moment-by-moment activities to accomplish immediate work tasks. It generated group-level commitment to com…
Establishing specialty jurisdictions in medicine: The case of American obstetrics and gynaecology
The profession of medicine has evolved into an extremely specialised occupation. Yet, recent research has neglected the intra-occupational processes influencing medical specialisation. This article aims to correct this oversight. It develops an historical account of intra-occupational factors influencing the decision to establish gynaecologic oncology as American ob/gyn's surgical subspecialty in 1972. Working within the framework initially devel…
Radical Logics and Their Carriers In Medicine: The Case of Psychopathology and American Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Through an historical case study, this article addresses how and why physicians carry radical logics into medicine. The radical logic of focus is psychopathology. Obstetrics and gynecology was one of the very first specialties outside of psychiatry to incorporate this logic into its work culture. Employing a core-skill conflict perspective, this article shows that obstetricians and gynecologists' failure to “deliver the goods” promised in their c…
The Genesis of the Naval Profession
The Making of the 'Women's Physician' in American Obstetrics and Gynecology: Re-Forging an Occupational Identity and a Division of Labor
After struggling as a surgical specialty, obstetrics and gynecology initiated its 'women's physician' program in the 1970s. This program officially defined the mostly male obstetricians and gynecologists at that time as women's primary care physicians. Using archival data, this article explains this development as a response to the specialty's dishonored position within the medical division of labor. Whatever else it was intended to be, the women…
A Qualitative Protocol for Studying Technological Change in the Labor Process
Une approche qualitative pour l'étude de l'impact des changements technologiques sur les lieux de travail. Cet article Illustre et défend la logique d'une approche qualitative pour l'étude de l'impact des changements technologiques sur les lieux de travail. La première partie traite de l'utilisation de la méthode de l'étude des cas pour mettre au jour les ordres normatifs qui façonnent les réactions aux innovations technologiques. Dans la deuxièm…
Automated Technologies, Institutional Environments, and Skilled Labor Processes: Toward an Institutional Theory of Automation Outcomes
This article explores how new computer-directed technologies affect skilled-abor processes. The extent of corporate organizations' embeddedness in institutional environments that prescribe a deskilling/managerial-control program as the most rational is argued to constrain management's capacity to implement the types of shop-floor programs required for optimal production outcomes. Corporations extremely dependent for vital resources and markets up…
The Technological Foundations of Task-Coordinating Structures in New Work Organizations: Theoretical Notes from the Case of Abdominal Surgery
The significance of the movement to decentralize workplace authority is hotly debated. Drawing from a case study of the impact of video technology on surgical work, this article provides conceptual clarity to the debate by specifying the technological determinants of two distinct task-coordinating structures found in decentralized work units. The first involves unilateral control by the dominant actor in the work team. It is effective when tasks …
Innovation, professional identity, and generational divides in medicine: The case of gynecologic laparoscopy in the USA
Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism
The 1930s represents, for many, a heroic period where workers set aside their differences and mobilized collectively into unions to confront management's control. This view has led us to ignore interest divisions among workers and their importance in shaping union outcomes. In Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism, James D. Rose challenges this conventional view and develops a fascinating account of the forces that led to unionization at U.S. S…
Beyond Method: Strategies for Social Research
Restructuring the Automobile Industry: A Study of Firms and States in Modern Capitalism
Automated Technologies, Institutional Environments, and Skilled Labor Processes: Toward an Institutional Theory of Automation Outcomes
This article explores how new computer-directed technologies affect skilled-abor processes. The extent of corporate organizations' embeddedness in institutional environments that prescribe a deskilling/managerial-control program as the most rational is argued to constrain management's capacity to implement the types of shop-floor programs required for optimal production outcomes. Corporations extremely dependent for vital resources and markets up…
Work Organization and Wildcat Strikes in the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1946 to 1963
After World War II, U.S. auto workers waged wildcat strikes within an institutional structure that outlawed such strikes and mobilized considerable resources to crush them. I specify and test a theory that locates the source of these wildcat strikes in a distinctive type of labor process. This labor process forced workers to coordinate their moment-by-moment activities to accomplish immediate work tasks. It generated group-level commitment to com…
Mass-Production Automation and Work-Group Solidarity in the Post-World War II Automobile Industry
Did mass-production automation trigger a decline in shop-floor militancy in the post-World War II period? Was it responsible for deskilling and atomizing once militant occupation groups? Drawing on a rich array of archival and interview evidence, this article addresses these questions by tracing the impact of automation on the most militant work groups in the American automobile industry. These were the work groups who performed stamping, body-bu…
Organizations, Uncertainties, and Risk
A Qualitative Protocol for Studying Technological Change in the Labor Process
Une approche qualitative pour l'étude de l'impact des changements technologiques sur les lieux de travail. Cet article Illustre et défend la logique d'une approche qualitative pour l'étude de l'impact des changements technologiques sur les lieux de travail. La première partie traite de l'utilisation de la méthode de l'étude des cas pour mettre au jour les ordres normatifs qui façonnent les réactions aux innovations technologiques. Dans la deuxièm…
Power in the Workplace: The Politics of Production at ATT
Union Homogenization and the Organizational Foundations of Plantwide Militancy in the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1959-1979
Union Homogenization and the Organizational Foundations of Plantwide Militancy in the U.S. Automobile Industry 1959-1979
The industrial relations context in U.S. automobile plants changed significantly by 1959. Union locals became more occupationally homogeneous, and the bureaucratic grievance structure functioned more effectively as a restlt. Yet, unauthorized strikes continued, albeit less frequently, and their nature was transformed. Rather than the occupationally specific xvildcats of the 1940s and 1950s, the unauthorized strikes occurring in the 1960s and 1970…
Militancy, Market Dynamics, and Workplace Authority: The Struggle over Labor Process Outcomes in the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1946 to 1973
Journal Article Militancy, Market Dynamics, and Workplace Authority: The Struggle over Labor Process Outcomes in the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1946 to 1973. By James R. Zetkajr. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. xxviii, 293 pp. Cloth, $57.50, ISBN 0-7914-2065-5. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-7914-2066-3.) Get access Steve Babson Steve Babson Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
Militancy, Market Dynamics, and Workplace Authority: The Struggle Over Labor Process Outcomes in the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1946 to 1973
The CIO, 1935-1955
Bureaucratic Strikes and the Rationalization of Factory Conflict: The Case of the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1962-1979
Journal Article Bureaucratic Strikes and the Rationalization of Factory Conflict: The Case of the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1962-1979 Get access James R. Zetka, Jr. James R. Zetka, Jr. State University of New York at Albany Direct all correspondence to Jim Zetka, Department of Sociology, SUNY-Albany, 1200 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12222. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 43, …
Militancy, Market Dynamics, and Workplace Authority: The Struggle over Labor Process Outcomes in the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1946 to 1973
Mobilizing labor on symbolic fronts
Militancy, Market Dynamics, and Workplace Authority: The Struggle over Labor Process Outcomes in the U.S. Automobile Industry, 1946-1973
The Technological Foundations of Task-Coordinating Structures in New Work Organizations: Theoretical Notes from the Case of Abdominal Surgery
The significance of the movement to decentralize workplace authority is hotly debated. Drawing from a case study of the impact of video technology on surgical work, this article provides conceptual clarity to the debate by specifying the technological determinants of two distinct task-coordinating structures found in decentralized work units. The first involves unilateral control by the dominant actor in the work team. It is effective when tasks …
Post-Work: The Wages of Cybernation
In Post-Work, Stanley Aronowitz and Jonathan Cutler have collected essays from a variety of scholars to discuss the dreary future of work. The introduction, The Post-Work Manifesto,, provides the framework for a radical reappraisal of work and suggests an alternative organization of labor. The provocative essays that follow focus on specific issues that are key to our reconceptualization of the notion and practice of work, with coverage of the fi…
Occupational Divisions of Labor and Their Technology Politics: The Case of Surgical Scopes and Gastrointestinal Medicine
Through a case analysis of how medicine's intra-occupational division of labor responded to the development of gastrointestinal endoscopy, this article sheds light on how occupational divisions of labor respond to technological innovation. The article proposes that innovations are introduced into such structures in ways consistent with the cultural scripts that regulate relations and workflows between occupations functional segments. However, the…
Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism
The 1930s represents, for many, a heroic period where workers set aside their differences and mobilized collectively into unions to confront management's control. This view has led us to ignore interest divisions among workers and their importance in shaping union outcomes. In Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism, James D. Rose challenges this conventional view and develops a fascinating account of the forces that led to unionization at U.S. S…
The Genesis of the Naval Profession
Radical Logics and Their Carriers In Medicine: The Case of Psychopathology and American Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Through an historical case study, this article addresses how and why physicians carry radical logics into medicine. The radical logic of focus is psychopathology. Obstetrics and gynecology was one of the very first specialties outside of psychiatry to incorporate this logic into its work culture. Employing a core-skill conflict perspective, this article shows that obstetricians and gynecologists' failure to “deliver the goods” promised in their c…
The Making of the 'Women's Physician' in American Obstetrics and Gynecology: Re-Forging an Occupational Identity and a Division of Labor
After struggling as a surgical specialty, obstetrics and gynecology initiated its 'women's physician' program in the 1970s. This program officially defined the mostly male obstetricians and gynecologists at that time as women's primary care physicians. Using archival data, this article explains this development as a response to the specialty's dishonored position within the medical division of labor. Whatever else it was intended to be, the women…
Establishing specialty jurisdictions in medicine: The case of American obstetrics and gynaecology
The profession of medicine has evolved into an extremely specialised occupation. Yet, recent research has neglected the intra-occupational processes influencing medical specialisation. This article aims to correct this oversight. It develops an historical account of intra-occupational factors influencing the decision to establish gynaecologic oncology as American ob/gyn's surgical subspecialty in 1972. Working within the framework initially devel…
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