The Nature of Work
Sociological Perspectives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2556532 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arthur B Shostak (corresponding author), Steven Peter Valla (0000-0003-4101-3353) |
| Editors | Kai Erikson, Steven Peter Vallas |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 839 |
| Publication date | 1992-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Forces (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7732 • E-ISSN: 1534-7605 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2579765 |
| OpenAlex | W2328411660 |
| ISBN | 9780300237825 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
The nature of work in America is changing in important ways. Blue-collar jobs are being eliminated because of increased competition from countries where wages are lower, while a greater economic role is being assumend by professional, technical, and clerical workers involved in developing complex technologies, providing services, and processing information. All this affects the values and expectations of those who work as well as their relationships to one another and to society at large. This book discusses this recent transformation. Among the provocative issues raised are - precisely what alienation from work means, and what non-alienated forms of work might be like, what happens within the family when both husband and wife contribute to the family's income, how work values are changing, and whether the primacy of work in people's lives has begun to wane, why American society has failed to develop a full employment policy in the past, how the economy might be redirected to reduce unemployment, whether work sharing (in which available hours of work are divided among a labor force) is feasible in America, and what the future will be like for workers in advanced industrial societies
Alienation · Competition (biology) · Economic growth · Economics · Industrial society · Industrial sociology · Labour economics · Political science · Sociology · Unemployment · Wife · Work (physics) · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Law · Mechanical Engineering
Protecting the Boundary
The meaning of family-like care among operators of small board and care homes
Boredom during Day Activity Programs in Rehabilitation Centers
A glossary for the social epidemiology of work organisation
Central American Unions in the Era of Globalization
Work Alienation and Problem Alcohol Behavior
Precarious Work, Insecure Workers
Corporate Transformations
Chapter 22 Artistic Labor Markets
The Health of Men
Multiple Dimensions of Meaning in the Domains of Work, Family, and Leisure
The Myth of Rising Female Employment
The Fractured World of the Temporary Worker
Sociology of Work at the Crossroad
Work Is Desirable/Loathsome
Artistic Labor Markets and Careers
Working the System
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,53 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2009 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |