Professional work : knowledge, power and social inequalities

• Other Authors: Gorman, Elizabeth M. (Editor), Vallas, Steven P. 1951- (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020.
• Series: Research in the sociology of work ; v. 34.
• Subjects: Professions > Sociological aspects.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781800432123; 9781800432109
• DOI: 10.1108/s0277-2833202034
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 pages)

The professions have undergone massive changes in recent decades, as globalization, information technology, bureaucratization and market competition have begun to envelop even the most prestigious occupations in contemporary societies. Ironically, at a time when expert knowledge has grown increasing...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction; Elizabeth Gorman and Steven Vallas
• Thematic Papers
• Chapter 2: Professional engagement in articulation work: implications for experiences of clinical and workplace autonomy; Jane S. VanHeuvelen
• Chapter 3: The intimate dance of networking: a comparative study of the emotional labors of young American and Danish jobseekers; Sabina Pultz and Ofer Sharone
• Chapter 4: Teaching on contract: job satisfaction among non-tenure-track faculty; Elizabeth Klainot-Hess
• Chapter 5: Education and referrals: parallel mechanisms of white and asian hiring advantage in a Silicon Valley high technology firm; Koji Chavez
• Chapter 6: Skill development practices and racial-ethnic diversity in elite professional firms; Elizabeth H. Gorman and Fiona M. Kay
• Chapter 7: Professional impurities; Sida Liu
• Chapter 8: Measured success: knowledge, power, and inequality in the professional work of evaluation; Elisa Martínez, Laurel Smith-Doerr, Timothy Sacco Papers at Large
• Chapter 9: Labor, lifestyle, and the "ladies who lunch": work and worth among elite stay at home mothers; Jussara do Santos Raxlen and Rachel Sherman
• Chapter 10: Manufacturing discontent: the labor process, job insecurity and the making of "good" and "bad" workers; Martha Crowley, Julianne Payne, and Earl Kennedy.