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Professional Women at Work: Interactions, Tacit Understandings, and the Non-Trivial Nature of Trivia in Bureaucratic Settings
Contributor(s): Jacobs, Jerry (Author)

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 ISBN: 0897893808     ISBN-13: 9780897893800
Publisher: Praeger
OUR PRICE: $78.75  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 1994
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Annotation: 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.
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations
- Social Science | Sociology - General
- Social Science | Gender Studies
Dewey: 331.409
LCCN: 93037848
Lexile Measure: 1240(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (0.77 lbs) 160 pages
Features: Bibliography
 
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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.
 
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