Jerry Jacobs

Professional Women at Work

Interactions, Tacit Understandings, and the Non-Trivial Nature of Trivia in Bureaucratic Settings

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book looks at the routine taken-for-granted features of work as experienced by professional women in bureaucratic environments. It shows why these trivial features are not trivial, but add up to a good part of what all work is composed of. Finally, it considers why the women interviewed in this study encountered and experienced their professional careers in the ways they did. There are many books on the general subject of women at work and the sociology of work, but few deal with what the work consists of, how it is accomplished, what one needs to know to undertake it competently, and how it is experienced by the worker. This book deals with all these issues, and more, that are typically overlooked in the literature on women at work in particular and on work in general.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9780897893800
• ISBN-10: 0897893808
• Artikelnr.: 21190670

Autorenporträt

Jerry Jacobs

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Qualitative and Quantitative Studies of Work: Some Essential
Differences Understanding Work and Workers: A Respect for Trivia and the
Need for Rich Description and Subjective Assessments Office Work: Joan,
Publication Coordinator Good Work and Bad Jobs: Ann, Principal
Administrative Analyst God Bless the Children: Toni, Educator and Child
Care Administrator God Help the Needy: Fran, HIV Clinic Director Public vs.
Private Practice: Freda, Clinical Psychologist Summary and Conclusions
Bibliography Index