Wilson explores how the current loss of blue-collar jobs has crucially affected American society. He discusses the effects of the "suburbanization" of employment, which has excluded the black urban poor who remain isolated in neighborhoods of concentrated unemployment, neighborh…
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Comprises ten papers which examine the origins and nature of technical work and explore the position of technical workers in modern society. Describes aspects of the work and culture of technicians in specific occupations and discusses the implications of technical practice for …
A study of everyday employee resistance at work, with first person accounts of sabotage illustrated and intermingled with related news clippings, facts and quotes.
Applying modern econometrics to 1989-1998 survey data collected in Taganrog, finds that gender segregation is quite common - contrary to the notorious claim that, since the existence of the Soviet Union, men and women enjoy equal rights and that manual workers are favoured over …