By Marjorie L. DeVault
People at Work is famous sociologist Marjorie L. DeVault’s groundbreaking selection of unique essays at the complexities of the modern day place of work. by way of concentrating on the lived reviews of the employee, no longer as an automaton on an meeting line, yet as an embodied human of flesh and bone, those essays supply vital perception at the realities of the place of work, and their results on existence at domestic and in groups. With contributions from a few of today’s best students, every one essay is a close case research of a unique element of the operating world.
Compelling, energetic, and infrequently chilling, the participants deal with concerns from incapacity rights to immigrant hard work, welfare reforms to funds cuts, pageant to private motivations. every one invaluable by itself, the essays in People at Work mix to light up the hurdles that staff of all backgrounds fight with and, extra extensively, the impression of switch on staff’ lives within the new, more and more worldwide, economy.
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