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Professional Women at Work

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

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Published: 30th April 1994
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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.

"Jacobs offers Professional Women at Work as one way to increase the number of studies offering "rich description of work and the work experience.""-Social Forces 74: 2

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
Publication Coordinator Good Work and Bad Jobs
Principal Administrative Analyst God Bless the Children
Educator and Child Care Administrator God Help the Needy
HIV Clinic Director Public vs. Private Practice
Clinical Psychologist
Summary and Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
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ISBN: 9780897893800
ISBN-10: 0897893808
Audience: Professional
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 156
Published: 30th April 1994
Publisher: ABC-Clio
Dimensions (cm): 21.6 x 14.0  x 1.2
Weight (kg): 0.349