<![CDATA[
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>A comprehensive analysis of the experiences of workers in various service-sector occupations to explore how the shift to a service-based economy fundamentally transforms the nature of work and the challenges of workplace empowerment in contemporary America<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566394796&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1217_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>Working in the Service Society</h1>
<h3>edited by Cameron Lynne Macdonald and Carmen J. Sirianni</h3>
<P>cloth 1-56639-479-1 $59.95, Sep 96, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Print</FONT>
<br>paper 1-56639-480-5 $38.95, Aug 96, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT>
<BR> 376 pp
6x9
1 table 1 figure
</P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"[A] welcome addition to...the study of organizations and workers."</I>
<br>—<b><I>Work and Occupations</I></b><I></I></BLOCKQUOTE>
<p>Continued economic restructuring has brought service work to center stage in labor and management studies, as well as in the sociology of work, gender, race, and inequality. Because the idioms of service have become so central to our public interaction, the everyday struggles for recognition and respect in the service workplace have become integral to the very meaning of democratic citizenship in contemporary America.
<p>This volume brings together some of the most important and engaging writing on service work. Based on rich ethnographic and case study material, the essays explore questions of power and control, resistance and empowerment, and innovation and organizing in the lives of front-line service workers. Cases are drawn from a broad range of occupations, including fast foods, clerical and paralegal work, domestic work and nannies, and direct sales, and from organizational settings, ranging from McDonald's to Harvard University to the suburban home.
<p>The problems of organizing and new models of unionism are analyzed in the context of women's work culture, multiracial workplaces, contingent and part-time work, and participatory innovations to improve service and experience of work simultaneously.
<BR> <h2>Reviews</h2>
<p><I>"This collection...bring[s] a light touch to consideration of a fundamental change in work in America."</I>
<br>—<b><I>Choice</I></b>
<BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P>
<p>Preface
<br>1. The Service Society and the Changing Experience of Work – Cameron Lynne Macdonald and Carmen Sirianni
<p><b>Part I: Management Control of the New Labor Process</b>
<br>2. Rethinking Questions of Control: Lessons from McDonald's – Robin Leidner
<br>3. The Politics of Service Production: Route Sales Work in the Potato-Chip Industry – Steven H. Lopez
<br>4. Consumers' Reports: Management by Customers in a Changing Economy – Linda Fuller and Vicki Smith
<br>5. Service with a Smile: Understanding the Consequences of Emotional Labor – Amy S. Wharton
<p><b>Part II: Gender, Race, and Stratification in the Service Sector</b>
<br>6. From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor – Evelyn Nakano Glenn
<br>7. Family, Gender, and Business in Direct Selling Organizations – Nicole Woolsey Biggart
<br>8. Reproducing Gender Relations in Large Law Firms: The Role of Emotional Labor in Paralegal Work – Jennifer L. Pierce
<p><b>Part III: Worker Resistance, Organizing, and Participation</b>
<br>9. Invisibility, Consciousness of the Other, and Resentment among Black Domestic Workers – Judith Rollins
<br>10. Shadow Mothers: Nannies, <I>Au Pairs</I>, and Invisible Work – Cameron Lynne Macdonald
<br>11. Resisting the Symbolism of Service among Waitresses – Greta Foff Paules
<br>12. "The Customer Is Always Interesting": Unionized Harvard Clericals Renegotiate Work Relationships – Susan C. Eaton
<br>13. The Prospects for Unionism in a Service Society – Dorothy Sue Cobble
<p>Contributors
</P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<P><B>Cameron Lynne Macdonald </B>teaches social studies at Harvard University.</P>
<P><B>Carmen Sirianni </B>is Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University.</P>
<BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2>
<p><A HREF="/tempress/labor.html" TARGET="_top">Labor Studies and Work</a>
<BR><A HREF="/tempress/sociology.html" TARGET="_top">Sociology</a>
<BR><A HREF="/tempress/women.html" TARGET="_top">Women's Studies</a>
</p>
<BR><h2 class="inpageheading">In the series</H2>
<P><I><a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/labor_change.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Click for other books in this series!'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;" target="_top">Labor and Social Change</a></i>, edited by Paula Rayman and Carmen Sirianni.
</p><p><i>Labor and Social Change</i>, edited by Paula Rayman and Carmen Sirianni, includes books on workplace issues like worker participation, quality of work life, shorter hours, technological change, and productivity, as well as union and community organizing and ethnographies of particular occupations.</p>
<p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566394796&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2015 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. All Rights Reserved. http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1217_reg.html</font></p>]]>