Paul G Letkemann
Biographic Data
| ID | 87925 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul G Letkemann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul G |
| FAMILY NAME | Letkemann |
| SIGNATURE | LETKEMANN P G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lethbridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Learning and Knowledge in an Office Workplace: Perceptions of the Recently Unemployed
This paper uses interview data from employees and former employees of a Regional Land Use Planning Commission Office in Alberta, Canada. This workplace is unified by a sense of common social and environmental purpose revolving around the Regional Planning Act of Alberta. Occupationally specific contextual parameters allow collective recognition of roles symbolizing knowledge acquisition, contributing to self-validation in the workplace. By emphas…
Headhunters: Matchmaking in the Labor Market/ In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966/ The Human Cost of Food: Farmworkers' Lives, Labor, and Advocacy/ The Trouble with Com…
Headhunters: Matchmaking in the Labor Market. William Finlay and James E. Coverdill. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966. Joshua B. Freeman. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001 [1989].The Human Cost of Food: Farmworkers' Lives, Labor, and Advocacy. Charles D. Thompson, Jr. and Melinda F. Wiggins, eds. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.The Trouble with Community: …
The Office Workplace: Communitas and Hierarchical Social Structures
Keywords: workplace, occupation, symbolism, ritual, communitas, Heirarchy IntroductionIn this case study I present interview-based narrative indicating experiences of communitas in a small civil service office in Alberta. This is not intended as a review of ongoing theoretical discussions of Turner's concept, or as a comprehensive ethnographic description of an organization. However, while interviewing unemployed and still working members of a Re…
Government Cutbacks, Job Loss and 'Blaming the Managerial Messenger: Trauma and Subjective Perception
Unemployed Professionals, Stigma Management and Derivative Stigmata
The Works: The Industrial Architecture of the United States
The Works: The Industrial Architecture of the United States. Betsy Hunter Bradley. New York: Oxford University Press. 1999.348 pp
Unemployed Professionals, Stigma Management and Derivative Stigmata
The Office Workplace: Communitas and Hierarchical Social Structures
Keywords: workplace, occupation, symbolism, ritual, communitas, Heirarchy IntroductionIn this case study I present interview-based narrative indicating experiences of communitas in a small civil service office in Alberta. This is not intended as a review of ongoing theoretical discussions of Turner's concept, or as a comprehensive ethnographic description of an organization. However, while interviewing unemployed and still working members of a Re…
Learning and Knowledge in an Office Workplace: Perceptions of the Recently Unemployed
This paper uses interview data from employees and former employees of a Regional Land Use Planning Commission Office in Alberta, Canada. This workplace is unified by a sense of common social and environmental purpose revolving around the Regional Planning Act of Alberta. Occupationally specific contextual parameters allow collective recognition of roles symbolizing knowledge acquisition, contributing to self-validation in the workplace. By emphas…
The Works: The Industrial Architecture of the United States
The Works: The Industrial Architecture of the United States. Betsy Hunter Bradley. New York: Oxford University Press. 1999.348 pp
The Office Workplace: Communitas and Hierarchical Social Structures
Keywords: workplace, occupation, symbolism, ritual, communitas, Heirarchy IntroductionIn this case study I present interview-based narrative indicating experiences of communitas in a small civil service office in Alberta. This is not intended as a review of ongoing theoretical discussions of Turner's concept, or as a comprehensive ethnographic description of an organization. However, while interviewing unemployed and still working members of a Re…
Government Cutbacks, Job Loss and 'Blaming the Managerial Messenger: Trauma and Subjective Perception
Unemployed Professionals, Stigma Management and Derivative Stigmata
Headhunters: Matchmaking in the Labor Market/ In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966/ The Human Cost of Food: Farmworkers' Lives, Labor, and Advocacy/ The Trouble with Com…
Headhunters: Matchmaking in the Labor Market. William Finlay and James E. Coverdill. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966. Joshua B. Freeman. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001 [1989].The Human Cost of Food: Farmworkers' Lives, Labor, and Advocacy. Charles D. Thompson, Jr. and Melinda F. Wiggins, eds. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.The Trouble with Community: …
Learning and Knowledge in an Office Workplace: Perceptions of the Recently Unemployed
This paper uses interview data from employees and former employees of a Regional Land Use Planning Commission Office in Alberta, Canada. This workplace is unified by a sense of common social and environmental purpose revolving around the Regional Planning Act of Alberta. Occupationally specific contextual parameters allow collective recognition of roles symbolizing knowledge acquisition, contributing to self-validation in the workplace. By emphas…
Psychology (2 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Architecture (1 works) · Architecture (1 works) · Architecture, Art, Education (1 works) · Architecture, Modernity, and Design (1 works) · Canadian Identity and History (1 works) · Communitas (1 works) · Critical Realism in Sociology (1 works)