Changing Work Values and the Alienation of the American Worker
Author : Dallas L. Schiegg
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Work ethic
ISBN :
Author : Dallas L. Schiegg
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Work ethic
ISBN :
Author : Paul Bernstein
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,99 MB
Release : 1997-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791496589
American Work Values: Their Origin and Development examines the broad shifts in American work values from their European origins to the present. It analyzes shifts from work as salvation to work as opportunity and alienation, and concludes with a more recent focus on self-fulfilling employment in a context of industrial downsizing. Beginning with the Lutheran-Calvinist support of work for the glory of God, the book's focus shifts to the change in work values that occurred from early industrialization in America to the end of the Great Depression, a period characterized by both opportunity and alienation. The modern trends that followed led to the empowerment of employees even as that empowerment tested the values of such participation in a climate of rampant downsizing. The book also deals with the debates related to work and welfare that simmered during these transformations. Whether it involved policy-makers in sixteenth-century Europe or wonks in the Washington of 1996, controversy over public assistance to the deserving and undeserving poor remained a raging controversy that spilled over into the debate on affirmative action.
Author : Jerome M. Rosow
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,70 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Compilation of conference papers on job satisfaction in the USA - covers boredom and alienation, job enrichment, employees attitudes toward their jobs, workers adaptation, social adjustment, etc., and considers the need for employment policy revisions and for the quality of working life. Conference held in harriman 1973 November.
Author : Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,88 MB
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317259475
Over the past two hundred years, work experiences have changed greatly, causing new issues such as heightened boredom and alienation, but also new levels of obsession with work. This book looks at the modern changes in work, examining global patterns but also special features of the work culture in the United States. For the world, the United States, and also key groups such as women and children, understanding the modern history of work goes a long way toward explaining key issues in the U.S. work culture today.
Author : Jean Harold Shin
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 12,65 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Alienation (Social psychology)
ISBN :
Author : Mel van Elteren
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 34,53 MB
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0786488808
According to public opinion data over the past decade, most Americans hold center-left attitudes regarding key economic and social policy issues. Recent polls even show significant support of "socialism" among American adults, especially self-identified Democrats and the "millennial generation." At the same time, the focus of the mass media has been on a widespread right-wing "populism," while movements on the left seem to lack political clout. In order to better understand this dichotomy, this book explores relations between organized labor and left-wing parties and movements in America at crucial junctures from the 1870s to the present. Providing fresh insight into current political developments, it highlights emerging alternatives and major challenges facing labor and the left today.
Author : Kai T. Erikson
Publisher :
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300056624
In this book, America's leading authorities on the sociology of work discuss the recent transformation of the nature of work in America. Among the provocative issues they raise are these: precisely what alienation from work means, and what nonalienated forms of work might be like; what happens within the family when both husband and wife contribute to the family's income; how work values are changing, and whether the primacy of work in people's lives has begun to wane and other questions.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Employment, Poverty, and Migratory Labor
Publisher :
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 47,54 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Flextime
ISBN :
Author : Paul Bernstein
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791432150
Examines broad shifts in American work values from their Calvinist origins to present controversies involving work, welfare, and affirmative action.
Author : Leo P. Chall
Publisher :
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Sociology
ISBN :