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Sociology of Work (and Gender):

Legend: ( ) Already read (*) From your syllabus (**) From syllabi I collected on-line 1) The Foundations: (analyzing the theoretical cannon) Marx, Alienated Labor, & Wage Labor and Capital. Weber, Bureucracy Durkheim, The Division of Labor in Society. RECOMMENDED: (philosophical and contextual perspectives) Hanna Arendt. 1958. Labor, Work, Action. The Human Condition. Richard Sennet, The Craftsman Tonnies, Community and Society. **Hochschild, Arlie Russell. 1997. The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work. New York: Owl Books. 2) The industry: (expanding the cannon zooming in) Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital, Smith, Bravermans Legacy: The Labor Process Tradition at 20, Work and Occupations Burawoy, Manufacturing Consent David Halle, Americas Working Man S. P. Vallas. 2003. The Adventures of Managerial Hegemony: Ideology, Teams, and Worker Resistance. Social Problems 50, 2 (May): 204-225. Edwards, Contested Terrain, in Wharton, Working in America *David Stark, Class Struggle and the Transformation of the Labor Process: A Relational Approach *David Noble, Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation (1986) *Harley Shaiken, Work Transformed: Automation and Labor in the Computer Age (1985) *Mark Wardell (1999). Labor Process: Moving beyond Braverman and the Deskilling Debate. In Rethinking the Labor Process *Michael Burawoy, The Politics of Production, Verso 1985 *Alvin Gouldner, Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy **Michael Burawoy, Thirty Years of Making Out RECOMMENDED: (expanding the cannon the labor process) Lizabeth Cohen. Making a New Deal. Fantasia, Rick. Cultures of Solidarity 3) Globalization and the New Economy:

Raxlen 2 Cowie, Capital Moves David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, Chapters 8 & 9, pp. 125-172 Saskia Sassen, Service Employment Regimes and the New Inequality, from Globalization and its Discontents, 137-152 Saskia Sassen, The Mobility of Labor and Capital (1988) Sean ORiain (2000). Net-working for a Living: Irish Software Developers in the Global Workplace. In Burawoy et al, Global Ethnography. Gideon Kunda, Engineering Culture Gina Neff et al., Entrepreneurial Labor among Cultural Producers: Cool Jobs in Hot Industries. Social Semiotics 15 (3): 2005. Karen Ho, Liquidated Newman, Katherine. 1999. Falling from Grace. Berkley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. *Ruth Milkman, Farewell to the Factory (1997) *Vicki Smith Crossing the Great Divide: Worker Risk and Opportunity in the New Economy (2001) *Robyn Rodriguez, Migrants for Export RECOMMENDED: (parallel conversations) Jennifer Jihye Chun, Organizing at the Margins Bourdieu, Pierre. 1984. Distinction: A Social Critique of The Judgment of Taste. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Florida, Richard (2003). The Rise of the Creative Class. New York: Basic Books. **Sennet, Richard. The Corrosion of Character.

4) Service and Interactive Work: (zooming in work transformations) Hochschild, Arlie. 1983. The Managed Heart: The Commercialization of Human Feeling. Berkeley: University of California Press. Robin Leidner, Rethinking Questions of Control: Lessons from McDonalds. From Macdonald & Sirianni, eds., Working in the Service Society (1996), 29-49 Rachel Sherman, Class Acts. Fuller & Smith, Consumers Reports: Management by Customers in a Changing Economy Work, Employment & Society 5(1), March 1991: pp. 1-16 Amy Wharton, The Sociology of Emotional Labor, Annual Review of Sociology, 2009 Bolton, Sharon C. and Carol Boyd. 2003. Trolley Dolly or Skilled Emotion Manager? Moving on from Hochschilds Managed Heart. Work Employment Society 17(2): 289-308. Williams & Connell, Looking Good and Sounding Right, Work and Occupations, 2010 Sherman, Rachel. 2005. Producing the Superior Self: Strategic Comparison and Symbolic Boundaries Among Luxury Hotel Workers. Ethnography 6 (2): 131158. Judith Rollins, Invisibility, Consciousness of the Other, and Ressentiment among Black

Raxlen 3 Domestic Workers, from Macdonald and Sirianni, eds., Working in the Service Society *Steve Lopez (1996). The Politics of Service Production in Sirianni and Macdonald, eds., Working in the Service Society. *Steve Lopez (2007). Efficiency and the Fix Revisited: Informal Relations and Mock Routinization in a Nonprofit Nursing Home. Qualitative Sociology 30 (3) *Robin Leidner, Fast Food, Fast Talk (1993) *Martin Tolich (1993), Alienating and Liberating Emotions at Work: Supermarket Clerks Performance of Customer Service. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography *Barbara Gutek et al., (2000), Features of Service Relationships and Encounters. Work and Occupations 27 (3): 319-352 *Steve Lopez, Workers, Managers, and Customers: Triangles of Power in Work Communities. Work and Occupations, 2010 *Amy Hanser, Service Encounters (2008) *Rachel Sherman, The Production of Distinctions, Qualitative Sociology, 2011 *Miliann Kang, The Managed Hand (a transitional text for the next section) 5) Thinking about Gender: (zooming in) Bellas, Marcia L. 1999. Emotional Labor in Academia: The Case of Professors. American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 561(Jan.): 96-110. Pierce, Jennifer. 1995. Gender Trials. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Williams, Christine L. 1992. The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the Female Professions. Social Problems 39(3): 253-267. Paula England, Toward Gender Equality: Progress and Bottlenecks, from The Declining Significance of Gender, Blau, Brinton and Grusky (eds), 2006 Shelley Correll. Constraints into Preferences, ASR 2004 *Christine Williams, Gender Differences at Work *Donald Tomaskovic-Devey (1993). Gender and Racial Inequality at Work *Kathryn Lively, Occupational Claims to Professionalism: The Case of Paralegals, Symbolic Interaction, 2001 *Rachel Sherman, Time is Our Commodity, Work and Occupations, 2010 *Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Men and Women of the Corporation **Stone & Lovejoy, Fast-Track Women and the Choice to Stay Home, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 596, pp. 62-83. **Acker, Joan. 1990. Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organizations. Gender and Society 4(2): 139-58. **Cameron, Claire, Peter Moss, and Charlie Owen. 2001. Men in the Nursery: Gender and Caring Work. Paul Chapman Educational Publishing. **England, Paula. 1992. Comparable Worth: Theories and Evidence. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. Ch. 1 and 7. **Hall, Elaine. 1993. Smiling, Deferring, and Flirting: Doing Gender by Giving Good

Raxlen 4 Service. Work and Occupations 20(4): 452-71. **Leidner, Robin. 1991. Selling Hamburgers and Selling Insurance: Gender, Work, and Identity in Interactive Service Jobs. Gender and Society 5(June): 154-77. **Lerum, Kari. 2004. Sexuality, Power, and Camaraderie in Service Work. Gender & Society 18(6): 756-76. **Lorber, Judith. 1994. Separate But Not Equal: The Gendered Division of Paid Work. Pp. 194-222 in Paradoxes of Gender by Judith Lorber. Connecticut: Yale University Press. **Uggen, Christopher and Amy Blackstone. 2004. Sexual Harassment as a Gendered Expression of Power. American Sociological Review 62:64-92. **Welsh, Sandy. 1999. Gender and Sexual Harassment. Annual Review of Sociology 25: 169-90. **Williams, Christine, Paul Giuffre and Kirsten Dellinger. 1999. Sexuality in the Workplace: Organizational Control, Sexual Harassment, and the Pursuit of Pleasure. Annual Review of Sociology 25: 73-93. **Bernhardt, Annette, Martina Morris, and Mark S. Handcock. 1995. Womens Gains of Mens Losses? A Closer Look at the Shrinking Gender Gap in Earnings. American Journal of Sociology 101(2):302-28. **Roth, Louise Marie. 2003. Selling Women Short: Gender Differences in Compensation on Wall Street. Social Forces 82(2):783-802. **Elliott, James and Ryan Smith. 2004. Race, Gender, & Workplace Power. American Sociological Review 69(3):365-86. **Reskin, Barbara. 1988. "Bringing the Men Back In: Sex Differentiation and the Devaluation of Women's Work," Gender & Society 2:58-81. **Steinberg, Ronnie. 1990. The Social Construction of Skill: Gender, Power, and Comparable Worth. Work and Occupations 17:449-82. **England, Paula, Joan M. Hermsen, and David A. Cotter. 2000. The Devaluation of Women's Work: A Comment on Tam. American Journal of Sociology 105(6):1741-51. **Cotter, David A, Joan M. Hermsen, Seth Ovadia, and Reeve Vanneman. 2001. The Glass Ceiling Effect. Social Forces 80(2):655-82. **Budig, Michelle J. 2002. Male Advantage and the Gender Composition of Jobs: Who Rides the Glass Escalator? Social Problems 49(2):258-77. RECOMMENDED: **Martin, Patricia Y. 2004. Gender as an Institution. Social Forces. 82:1249-73. **Ridgeway, Cecilia. 1997. Interaction and the Conservation of Gender Inequality: Considering Employment. American Sociological Review 62:218-35. **Hartmann, Heidi. 1976. Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Job Segregation by Sex," Signs 1(3) part 2. RECOMMENDED (gender and networks): **Huffman, Matt and Lisa Torres. 2002. Its Not Only Who You Know That Matters: Gender, Personal Contacts, and Job Leads. Gender and Society 16(6):793-813. **Moore, Gwen. 1990. "Structural Determinants of Men's and Women's Personal

Raxlen 5 Networks." American Sociological Review 55(5):726-35. **Campbell, Karen E. 1988. Gender Differences in Job-Related Networks. Work and Occupations 15:179-200. **Ibarra, H. 1993. "Personal Networks of Women and Minorities in Management: A Conceptual Framework. Academy of Management Review 18:46-87. RECOMMENDED (gender work policy): **England, Paula and Dana Dunn. 1988. "Evaluating Work and Comparable Worth." Annual Review of Sociology 14:227-48. **Kelly, Erin and Frank Dobbin. 1999. Civil Rights Law at Work: Sex Discrimination and the Rise of Maternity Leave Policies. American Journal of Sociology. 105:455-92. **Stryker, Robin. 2001. Disparate Impact and the Quota Debates: Law, Labor Market Sociology, and Equal Employment Policies. The Sociological Quarterly 42(1):13-46. 6) Further Intersections: (zooming out looking in to all of the other axes) Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Unequal Freedom (Harvard UP) Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. 1992. From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Reproductive Labor. Signs 18 (1): 1-43. Angela Davis. 1983. The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working Class Perspective. Women, Race and Class. New York: Vintage Books. Anthias, Floya and Gabriella Lazaridis, ed. 2000. Gender and Migration in Southern Europe: Women on The Move. New York: Berg. Ehrenreich, Barbara and Arlie Russell Hochschild, ed. 2002. Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in The New Economy. New York: Metropolitan Books. Lamont, Michle. 1999. Above People Above? Status and Worth Among White and Black Workers. In The Cultural Territories of Race Black and White Boundaries, edited by Michle Lamont. Chicago: Chicago University Press. Sherman, Jennifer. 2009. Those Who Work and Those Who Dont: Poverty, Morality and Family in Rural America. Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press. Wharton, Amy S. 2009. The Sociology of Emotional Labor. The Annual Review of Sociology 35: 147-165. Ogaya, Chiho. 2006. Towards an Analysis of Social Mobility of Transnational Migrant Women: The Case of Filipina Domestic Workers. Pp. 116-135 in Migrant Women and Work, vol. 4, Women and Migration in Asia, edited by Anuja Agrawal. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications Inc. Sheba George, Dirty Nurses, and Men Who Play: Gender and Class in Transnational Migration. From Burawoy et al, Global Ethnography (UC Press, 2000: 144-174). **Collins, Patricia Hill. 1990. Work, Family, and Black Womens Oppression. Chap. 3 in Black Feminist Thought. Harper and Collins. RECOMMENDED: **Pettinger, Lynne (et al.) (2006). A new sociology of work? Wiley-Blackwell.

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6) Domestic Work: Constable, Nicole. 1997. Maid to Order in Hong Kong. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. 2001. Domstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in The Shadows of Affluence. Los Angeles: University of California Press. Lan, Pei-Chia. 2003. Negotiating Social Boundaries and Private Zones: The Micropolitics of Employing Domestic Workers. Social Problems 50 (4): 525549. Parreas, Rhacel Salazar. 2000. Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers and The International Division of Reproductive Labor. Gender and Society 14 (4): 560580. Parreas, Rhacel Salazar. 2001. Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration and Domestic Work. Stamford: Stamford University Press. Parrens, Rhacel Salazar. 2002. The Care Crisis in the Philippines: Children and Transnational Families in the New Global Economy, in Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in The New Economy. Edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild. New York: Metropolitan Books. Raijman, Rebeca et al. 2003. International Migration, Domestic Work, and Care Work: Undocumented Latina Migrants in Israel. Gender and Society 17 (5): 727-749. Romero, Mary. 1992. Maid in The U.S.A. New York: Routledge. Duffy, Mignon. 2007. Doing the Dirty Work: Gender, Race, and Reproductive Labor in Historical Perspective. Gender and Society 21(3): 313-336. Duffy, Mignon. 2005. Reproducing Labor Inequalities: Challenges for Feminists Conceptualizing Care at the Intersections of Gender, Race and Class. Gender and Society 19(1): 66-82. RECOMMENDED: 7) Care Work: Dodson, Lisa and Rebekah M. Zincavage. 2007. Its Like a Family: Caring Labor, Exploitation, and Race in Nursing Homes. Gender and Society 21(6): 905-928. England, Paula and Nancy Folbre. 1999. The Cost of Caring. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 561: 39-51. England, Paula, Michelle Budig and Nancy Folbre. 2002. Wages of Virtue: The Relative Pay of Care Work. Social Problems 49(4): 455-473. England, Paula. 2005. Emerging Theories of Care Work. Annual Review of Sociology 31: 381-399. Folbre, Nancy and Julie A. Nelson. 2000. For Love or Money or Both? The Journal of Economic Perspectives 14(4): 123-140. Himmelweit, Susan. 1999. Caring Labor. Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science 561: 27-38. Lopez, Steven H. 2006. Emotional Labor and Organized Emotional Care: Conceptualizing Nursing Home Care Work. Working and Occupations 33(2):

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