Vicki Smith
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3610288 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Vicki Smith |
| PRENOMES | Vicki |
| SOBRENOME | Smith |
| ASSINATURA | SMITH V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 406 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
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Employment Management Work
Managing employment and labor market experiences is a critical activity for virtually all adults but it is undertheorized in the sociology of work. In this article, we argue for the concept of employment management work, referring to the generic, lifelong process in which everyone in a capitalist market economy engages to some degree. To grasp the significance of employment management work, we draw on and synthesize multiple streams of literature…
Sociology of Work
The simple act of going to work every day is an integral part of all societies across the globe. It is an ingrained social contract: we all work to survive. But it goes beyond physical survival. Psychologists have equated losing a job with the trauma of divorce or a family death, and enormous issues arise, from financial panic to sinking self-esteem. Through work, we build our self-identity, our lifestyle and our aspirations. How did it come abou…
Sociology of work
This encyclopedia discusses the simple act of going to work every day and examines why it is an integral part of all societies across the globe. Covers curricular subjects that addresses why we work, ranging from business and management to anthropology, sociology, social history, psychology, politics, economics, and health.--Publisher's website
Fitting In, Standing Out
You Get the Economy You Choose
This article reviews three new books that analyze trends in jobs, careers, and labor markets. All three highlight ways in which work and employment have become precarious and how different groups of workers have experienced degradation in their labor market positions. They also show how economic and institutional transformations are the products of conscious choices made by political and corporate leaders, and by workers themselves. The article b…
Introduction to special issue
This special issue aims to develop new perspectives on the much-debated issue of risk. As the articles discuss in detail, and as thus need no comment here, the works of Beck and Giddens in particular established the broad idea of the ‘risk society’. The idea is that modern economies expose workers to increased insecurity and uncertainty. Following on from this broad concept, some researchers have used nationally representative samples to assess t…
“It's the End of Work as We Know It…But Maybe Not”
Jeremy Rifkin's 1995 book, The End of Work, has recently been reissued, “updated for the 21st century.” Rifkin's prediction of how changing technologies will displace workers and lead to massive global unemployment by the mid-21st century has been repeatedly cited by many academics, policy makers, and members of the public. This essay revisits Rifkin's argument, asking, “How well does it stand a decade later?” The author contends that although Th…
Risky Business
Laboring below the Line
The Russell Sage Foundation, one of the oldest of America's general purpose foundations, was established in 1907 by Mrs. Margaret Olivia Sage
Crossing the Great Divide
Ethnographies of Work and the Work of Ethnographers
Forced Choices
Broken Ladders
The Fractured World of the Temporary Worker
White-Collar Blues
Ethnography Bound; Taking Stock of Organizational Case Studies
New Forms of Work Organization
A growing body of social science literature has examined the organizational innovations and staffing practices comprising new flexible forms of work. Researchers have investigated the depth and scope of these changes and questioned how they affect diverse groups of workers in the United States. Reviewing the research on this transformation reveals a model of combined and uneven flexibility, characterized by the opening of opportunities that are d…
Banking on Flexibility
Part 1: approaches to cross-national employment research labour markets, firms and flexibility the banking sector. Part 2: functional flexibility temporary work subcontracting part-time work. Part 3: the societal construction of female labour supply industrial relations and labour regulation conclusions
Employee Involvement, Involved Employees
Using interview and observational data from an in-depth case study, this article analyzes outcomes associated with a participative approach to work for non-unionized, white-collar service workers. It describes the organizational basis for business-service workers' limited self-management, and the way consent to self-management was constructed in the context of a decentralized, unpredictable, and often interpersonally stressful work environment. W…
The Jobless Future
The New American Workplace
Braverman's Legacy
Commemorating its twentieth anniversary, this paper examines the legacy of Harry Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century. Braverman's book provoked three areas of inquiry that continue to thrive and to orient sociological research: the topic of worker's interests, participation, and resistances; gendered outcomes and causes of labor process transformation; and the interrelated topic of changes in s…
Institutionalizing Flexibility in a Service Firm
This article uses in-depth case study research to examine one set of organizational and staffing arrangements designed to facilitate flexible service delivery. 'Institutionalized flexibility' incorporated multiple contingent bases of employment and concealed hidden hierarchies in workplaces within and across organizations. It also relied on the combined efforts of permanent, moderately skilled workers and temporary, deskilled workers. The article…
The New Social Economy
New Forms of Work Organization
A growing body of social science literature has examined the organizational innovations and staffing practices comprising new flexible forms of work. Researchers have investigated the depth and scope of these changes and questioned how they affect diverse groups of workers in the United States. Reviewing the research on this transformation reveals a model of combined and uneven flexibility, characterized by the opening of opportunities that are d…
Consumers' Reports
Under recent conditions of economic competition, customer/worker interactions increasingly are a source of profitability in service firms. Companies may employ refined methods for making these interactions a source of information about workers' performance. This paper investigates how managers and employers use customer feedback to monitor, evaluate and discipline service workers. We argue that management by customers may deepen and complicate au…
The Fractured World of the Temporary Worker
Employee Involvement, Involved Employees
Using interview and observational data from an in-depth case study, this article analyzes outcomes associated with a participative approach to work for non-unionized, white-collar service workers. It describes the organizational basis for business-service workers' limited self-management, and the way consent to self-management was constructed in the context of a decentralized, unpredictable, and often interpersonally stressful work environment. W…
Employment Management Work
Managing employment and labor market experiences is a critical activity for virtually all adults but it is undertheorized in the sociology of work. In this article, we argue for the concept of employment management work, referring to the generic, lifelong process in which everyone in a capitalist market economy engages to some degree. To grasp the significance of employment management work, we draw on and synthesize multiple streams of literature…
Institutionalizing Flexibility in a Service Firm
This article uses in-depth case study research to examine one set of organizational and staffing arrangements designed to facilitate flexible service delivery. 'Institutionalized flexibility' incorporated multiple contingent bases of employment and concealed hidden hierarchies in workplaces within and across organizations. It also relied on the combined efforts of permanent, moderately skilled workers and temporary, deskilled workers. The article…
Braverman's Legacy
Commemorating its twentieth anniversary, this paper examines the legacy of Harry Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century. Braverman's book provoked three areas of inquiry that continue to thrive and to orient sociological research: the topic of worker's interests, participation, and resistances; gendered outcomes and causes of labor process transformation; and the interrelated topic of changes in s…
Women's Mobility in the Corporation
"On Gilligan's "In a Different Voice
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You Get the Economy You Choose
This article reviews three new books that analyze trends in jobs, careers, and labor markets. All three highlight ways in which work and employment have become precarious and how different groups of workers have experienced degradation in their labor market positions. They also show how economic and institutional transformations are the products of conscious choices made by political and corporate leaders, and by workers themselves. The article b…
Introduction to special issue
This special issue aims to develop new perspectives on the much-debated issue of risk. As the articles discuss in detail, and as thus need no comment here, the works of Beck and Giddens in particular established the broad idea of the ‘risk society’. The idea is that modern economies expose workers to increased insecurity and uncertainty. Following on from this broad concept, some researchers have used nationally representative samples to assess t…
Broken Ladders
Ethnography Bound; Taking Stock of Organizational Case Studies
A History of Women's Bodies.Edward Shorter
"On Gilligan's "In a Different Voice
The Field of Social Investment
Preface Part I. The Idea of Social Investment: 1. The meaning of social investment 2. The activity of social investment 3. A theory of social investment Part II. Social Criteria and Research: 4. Social investment in business corporations 5. Social investment in industry: a new social policy 6. Social research on industrial policy 7. Investment in community development Part III. Global Social Investment: 8. International investment 9. Social devel…
Women's Mobility in the Corporation
Reluctant Managers
The changing context of work, careers and lifestyles the costs and benefits of work organizational change and management style personal ambitions and careers women, work and careers homw lives and personal lifestyles man and women managers and their partners
Technical Workers in an Advanced Society
Figured Tapestry
Managing in the Corporate Interest
The Work of Nations
Consumers' Reports
Under recent conditions of economic competition, customer/worker interactions increasingly are a source of profitability in service firms. Companies may employ refined methods for making these interactions a source of information about workers' performance. This paper investigates how managers and employers use customer feedback to monitor, evaluate and discipline service workers. We argue that management by customers may deepen and complicate au…
Women Assemble
Circles of Care
The Invisible Work Force
It is well known that number of nonwage in United States is growing rapidly. While clear definitions and relatively reliable data series are available to study characteristics and related employment trends of wage for nonwage there is only broad classification of workers. This term, however, can embrace a wide diversity of actual labor-market relationships. The phrase contingent workers (a concept that has no official definition) has evolved in a…
Approaching Organizational Culture versus Cultural Approaches to Organizations
Work in the Fast Lane
Braverman's Legacy
Commemorating its twentieth anniversary, this paper examines the legacy of Harry Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century. Braverman's book provoked three areas of inquiry that continue to thrive and to orient sociological research: the topic of worker's interests, participation, and resistances; gendered outcomes and causes of labor process transformation; and the interrelated topic of changes in s…
Institutionalizing Flexibility in a Service Firm
This article uses in-depth case study research to examine one set of organizational and staffing arrangements designed to facilitate flexible service delivery. 'Institutionalized flexibility' incorporated multiple contingent bases of employment and concealed hidden hierarchies in workplaces within and across organizations. It also relied on the combined efforts of permanent, moderately skilled workers and temporary, deskilled workers. The article…
The New Social Economy
The New American Workplace
Banking on Flexibility
Part 1: approaches to cross-national employment research labour markets, firms and flexibility the banking sector. Part 2: functional flexibility temporary work subcontracting part-time work. Part 3: the societal construction of female labour supply industrial relations and labour regulation conclusions
Employee Involvement, Involved Employees
Using interview and observational data from an in-depth case study, this article analyzes outcomes associated with a participative approach to work for non-unionized, white-collar service workers. It describes the organizational basis for business-service workers' limited self-management, and the way consent to self-management was constructed in the context of a decentralized, unpredictable, and often interpersonally stressful work environment. W…
The Jobless Future
White-Collar Blues
Ethnography Bound; Taking Stock of Organizational Case Studies
New Forms of Work Organization
A growing body of social science literature has examined the organizational innovations and staffing practices comprising new flexible forms of work. Researchers have investigated the depth and scope of these changes and questioned how they affect diverse groups of workers in the United States. Reviewing the research on this transformation reveals a model of combined and uneven flexibility, characterized by the opening of opportunities that are d…
Sociology (25 obras) · Economics (21 obras) · Political science (18 obras) · Engineering (17 obras) · Business (14 obras) · Management (13 obras) · Computer Science (12 obras) · Labor Movements and Unions (11 obras) · Employment and Welfare Studies (9 obras) · Law (9 obras)