SYLLABUS

Class hours/location: MW 1:30-3:18, Bolz 128
Office hours:   MW 12:00-1:00 or by appointment

Course Description

This course provides a survey of the major theories, issues and empirical literature in the sociology of work and is designed as an introduction to this area for graduate students.  Topics covered include the nature and experience of work, occupations and professions, organizations, international comparisons and contemporary developments.  As with any survey course, especially a survey course for a large and diverse area, the selection of topics and issues covered is far from comprehensive.

Learning Objectives

1. To provide students with knowledge concerning the nature of work, the functioning of organizations and economic aspects of society.

2. To introduce students to some of the important debates and issues in the study of work, organizations and society and to the concepts necessary for understanding these issues and debates.

3. To develop students' abilities to engage in critical thinking concerning both theoretical and empirical work and to evaluate its strengths and weaknesses.

4. To develop students' abilities to present orally in class and to engage in considered intellectual discussions.

5. To develop students' abilities to generate original research ideas relevant to the issues in the sociology of work.

Requirements

1. Students must do at least 4 of 9 weekly essays reacting to and critiquing the week's required readings.  These must be typed, double-spaced, and be a maximum of 3 pages in length.  The four best essays will count for 30% of the course grade.  Essays are due on Wednesdays.

2. Each student must prepare a written critical book review of one of the books on the weekly book list.  The review must be typed, double-spaced, and 1000 words in length.  The review will also be presented to the class, supplemented by an outline summarizing the book's content and handed out to all class members before the oral presentation.  A separate handout provides more details.  The outline, written review, and oral presentation together constitute 20% of the course grade.

3. Class participation in discussions will count for 20% of the course grade.  Part of class participation is writing 1-2 thoughtful discussion questions on the week's readings.  The discussion questions are due by Noon on Tuesdays and are to be emailed to me at r.hodson@osu.edu.

4. A final project is also required and will count for 30% of the course grade.  The project is due by 5:00 P.M. on Wednesday of finals week.  Students may choose either to do a reading and conceptual coding of a workplace ethnography or a more focused and in-depth research proposal.  Students should schedule meetings with me to discuss their final projects by the 4th week of class.  Separate handouts provides more details on the final projects.
 

Required Reading

Freeman, Richard B. (editor).  1994.  Working Under Different Rules.  New York:  Russell Sage.

Wharton, Amy S. (editor).  1998.  Working in America.  Mountain View, Calif.:  Mayfield.

A variety of journal articles and book chapters are also part of the required reading.  Full citations are given below.  A copy of these readings may be purchased at COP-EZ in the basement of Bricker Hall.  The readings are separated into two packets to spread the expense of purchase over the quarter.

The order in which materials are listed in each section is the recommended order of reading.

Daily Outline

Labor Process and Management Control:  March 26-April 3

WHARTON, Ch. 9:  Harry Braverman, "The Division of Labor."
WHARTON, Ch. 8:  Elton Mayo, "The Hawthorne Experiment."
WHARTON, Ch. 24:  Tom Juravich, "Women on the Line."
WHARTON, Ch. 23:  Michael Burawoy, "Thirty Years of Making Out."
(opt.) WHARTON, Ch. 25:  Laurie Graham, "On the Line at Subaru-Isuzu"

Kusterer, Kenneth.  1978.  Know-How on the Job:  The Important Working Knowledge of 'Unskilled' Workers.  Boulder, Colo.:  Westview.  Chs. 7-9, pp. 163-194.

(opt.) Wallace, Michael and Arne L. Kalleberg.  1982.  "Industrial Transformation and the Decline of Craft:  The Decomposition of Skill in the Printing Industry, 1931-1978."  American Sociological Review 47:307-25.

Vallas, Steve.  1990.  "The Concept of Skill."  Work and Occupations 17,4 (November):379-98..

Form, William.  1987.  "On the Degradation of Skills."  Annual Review of Sociology 13:29-47.  Palo Alto, California:  Annual Reviews.

WHARTON, Ch. 7:  Frederick Taylor, "Fundamentals of Scientific Management."
WHARTON, Ch. 10:  Richard C. Edwards, "Contested Terrain."

Hodson, Randy.  1996.  "Dignity in the Workplace under Participative Management:  Alienation and Freedom Revisited."  American Sociological Review 61,5 (October):719-38.

FREEMAN, Ch. 3:  Lisa M. Lynch, "Payoffs to Alternative Training Strategies at Work."

(opt.) WHARTON, Ch. 44:  Andrew Abbott, "The New Occupational Structure:  What are the Questions?"

SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS:

Halaby, Charles and David Weakliem.  1989.  "Worker Control and Attachment to the Firm."   American Journal of Sociology 95 (November):549-91.

Tilly, Chris and Charles Tilly.  1998.  Work Under Capitalism.  Boulder, Colo.:  Westview.  Pp. 96-112; 138-160.

Littler, Craig R.  1982.  The Development of the Labour Process in Capitalist Societies.  London:  Heinemann.  Pp. 1-47, 186-195.

Steinberg, Ronnie J.  1990.  "The Social Construction of Skill."  Work and Occupations 17:449-82.

Teixeira, Ruy and Lawrence Mishel.  1995.  "Skills Shortage or Management Shortage?"  Pp. 193-205 in David Bills (ed.), The New Modern Times.

Mishel, Lawrence and Ruy A. Teixeira.  1991.  The Myth of the Coming Labor Shortage:  Jobs, Skills, and Incomes of America's Workforce 2000.  Pp. 1-42.  Washington, D.C.:  Economic Policy Institute.

Knoke, David and Arne L. Kalleberg.  1994.  "Job Training in U.S. Organizations."  American Sociological Review 59:537-46.

Braverman, Harry.  1974.  Labor and Monopoly Capital:  The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century.  New York: Monthly Review.  Pp. 59-69, 85-151.

Edwards, Richard.  1979.  Contested Terrain:  The Transformation of the Workplace in the Twentieth Century.  New York:  Basic.  Pp. 23-36, 48-71, 90-151.

Finlay, William.  1988.  Work on the Waterfront:  Worker Power and Technological Change in a West Coast Port. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Burawoy, Michael.  1979.  Manufacturing Consent:  Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.  Pp. 13-30, 95-120, 193-203.

Oliver Williamson.  1985.  The Economic Institutions of Capitalism.  New York:  Free Press.  Pp. 206-240.

Bendix, Reinhard.  1974.  Work and Authority in Industry.  Berkeley:  University of California Press.  Pp. 1-21.

Walton, Richard E.  1985.  "From Control to Commitment in the Workplace."  Harvard Business Review.  Pp. 76-84.

Westhues, Kenneth.  1976.  "Class and Organization as Paradigms in Social Science."  American Sociologist 11 (February):38-49.
 

The Meaning of Work: April 4-15

WHARTON, Ch. 4:  Karl Marx, "Alienated Labor."

Jencks, Christopher, Lauri Perman and Lee Rainwater.  1988.  "What Is a Good Job?"  American Journal of Sociology 93:1322-57.

Gruenberg, Barry.  1980.  "The Happy Worker:  An Analysis of Educational and Occupational Differences in Determinants of Job Satisfaction."  American Journal of Sociology 86,2:247-271.

Roy, Donald.  1954.  "Efficiency and 'The Fix':  Informal Intergroup Relations in a Piecework Machine Shop."  American Journal of Sociology 60:255-266.

Hodson, Randy.  2001.  Working with Dignity, Chapter 2.  Cambridge University Press.

WHARTON, Ch. 1:  Teresa Gowan, ""Homeless Scavengers in San Francisco's Underground Economy."
WHARTON, Ch. 3:  Lillian Rubin, "Families on the Fault Line."
WHARTON, Ch. 38:  Arlie Hochschild:  "The Emotional Geography of Work and Family Life."
WHARTON, Ch. 43:  Juliet Schor:  "Exiting the Squirrel Cage."

BOOK REVIEW OPTIONS:

Robert Blauner.  1964.  Alienation and Freedom.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

John Goldthorpe et al.  1968.  The Affluent Worker: Industrial Attitudes and Behavior.  New York:  Cambridge University Press.
 

 Melvin Kohn and Carmi Schooler. 1983.  Work and Personality:  An Inquiry into the Impact of Social Stratification.  Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex.

Fine, Gary A.  1996.  Kitchens.  Berkeley:  University of California Press.

Fantasia, Rick.  1988.  Cultures of Solidarity:  Consciousness, Action, and Contemporary American Workers.  Berkeley:  University of California Press.

Roberts, Glenda.  1994.  Staying on the Line:  Blue-Collar Women in Contemporary Japan.  Honolulu:  University of Hawaii Press.

Stanley Aronowitz.  1973.  False Promises:  The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness.  New York:  McGraw-Hill.

Ospina, Sonia.  1996.  Illusions of Opportunity:  Employee Expectations and Workplace Inequality.  Albany, N.Y.:  State University of New York Press.

Halle, David.  1984.  America's Working Man.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

Juravich, Tom.  1985.  Chaos on the Shop Floor:  A Worker's View of Quality, Productivity, and Management.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press.

Tilly, Chris and Charles Tilly.  1998.  Work Under Capitalism.  Boulder, Colo.:  Westview Press.

Scott, James C.  1985.  Weapons of the Weak:  Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven, Connecticut:  Yale University Press.

Edelman, Birgitta.  1997.  Shutters at Work:  Creating a World in a Railway Yard.  Stockholm:  Studies in Cultural Anthropology.
 

SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS:

Melvin L. Kohn.  1990.  "Unresolved Issues in the Relationship Between Work and Personality."  In The Nature of Work.  New Haven, Conn.:  Yale University Press.

Roy, Donald.  1960.  "Banana time:  Job satisfaction and informal interactions."  Human Organization 18:156-68.

Shapiro-Perl, Nina.  1984.  "Resistance Strategies."  Pp. 193-208 in Remdy and Sacks (eds.) My Troubles are Going to Have Troubles With Me.

O'Brien, Gordon E.  1992.  "Changing Meanings of Work,"  Pp. 44-66 in Jean F. Hartley and Geoffrey M. Stephenson (editors),  Employment Relations: The Psychology of Influence and Control at Work.  Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell.

Kalleberg, Arne L. and Peter V. Marsden.  1993.  "Organizational Commitment and Job Performance in the U.S. Labor Force."  Pp. 235-257 in Richard L. Simpson and Ida Harper Simpson (eds.), Research in the Sociology of Work.  Vol. 5:  The Meaning of Work.  Greenwich, Conn.:  JAI.

Kalleberg, Arne and Karyn Loscocco.  1983.  "Aging, Values and Rewards:  Explaining Age Differences in Job Satisfaction."  American Sociological Review 48:78-90.
 

Labor Markets and Segmentation: April 16-22

Althauser, Robert P.  1989.  "Internal Labor Markets."  Annual Review of Sociology 15:143-61.  Palo Alto, CA:  Annual Reviews.

Granovetter, Marc.  1973.  "The Strength of Weak Ties."  American Journal of Sociology:1360-80.

Marini, Margaret Mooney and Pi-Ling Fan.  1997.  "The Gender Gap in Earnings at Career Entry."  American Sociological Review 62 (August):588-604.

Morgan, Laurie A.  1998.  "Glass-Ceiling Effect or Cohort Effect?  A Longitudinal Study of the Gender Earnings Gap for Engineers."  American Sociological Review 63 (August): 479-483.  Including "comment" and "rely."

WHARTON, Ch. 19:  Rosabeth Moss Kanter, "Numbers:  Minorities and Majorities."
WHARTON, Ch. 15:  Donald Tomaskovic-Devey:  "Sex and Racial Segregation and Pay Gaps."
WHARTON, Ch. 20:  Barbara Reskin, "The Feminization of Book Editing."
WHARTON, Ch. 22:  Joleen Kirschenman and Kathryn M. Neckerman, "The Meaning of Race for Employers."
WHARTON, Ch. 33:  Sharon M. Collins, "The Marginalization of Black Executives."

Milliken, Frances J. and Luis L. Martins.  1996.  "Searching for Common Threads:  Understanding the Multiple Effects of Diversity in Organizational Groups."  Academy of Management Review 21,2: 402-33.
 

BOOK REVIEW OPTIONS:

Bridges, William and Wayne Villemez.  1994.  The Employment Relationship.  New York:  Plenum.

Fink, Deborah.  1998.  Cutting into the Meatpacking Line:  Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press.

England, Paula.  1992.  Comparable Worth.  New York:  Aldine de Gruyter.

Harrison, Bennett.  1994.  Lean and Mean:  The Changing Landscape of Corporate Power in the Age of Flexibility.  New York:  Basic Books.

Moskos, Charles C. and John Sibley Butler.  1996.  All That We Can Be:  Black Leadership and Racial Integration in the Army.  New York:  Basic.

Reskin, Barbara F. and Patricia A. Roos.  1990.  Gender Queues, Job Queues.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press.

Williams, Bruce B.  1987.  Black Workers in an Industrial Suburb:  The Struggle Against Discrimination.  New Brunswick, N.J.:  Rutgers University Press.

Williams, Christine L.  1995.  Still a Man's World:  Men Who Do "Women's Work".  Berkeley:  University of California Press.

SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS:

Acker, Joan.  "Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies:  A Theory of Gendered Organizations."  Gender and Society 4:139-158.

Bridges, William P. Bridges and Wayne J. Villemez.  1991.  "Employment Relations and the Labor Market: Integrating Institutional and Market Perspectives."  American Sociological Review 56:748-64.

Baron, James, Frank Dobbin and P.D. Jennings.  1986.  "War and Peace:  The Evolution of Modern Personnel Administration in U.S. Industry."  American Journal of Sociology 92:350-83.

Maria Charles.  1992.  "Cross-National Variation in Occupational Sex Segregation."  American Sociological Review 57:483-502.

Barbara F. Reskin.  "Labor Markets as Queues:  A Structural Approach to Changing Occupational Sex Composition."  Pp. 170-192 in Joan Huber (ed.), Macro-Micro Linkages in Sociology.  Newbury Park, Calif.:  Sage.

Paula England and George Farkas.  1988.  "Economic and Sociological Views of Industries, Firms, and Jobs."  Pp. 331-346 in George Farkas and Paula England (eds.),  Industries, Firms, and Jobs: Sociological and Economic Approaches.  New York:  Plenum.

Bielby, William T. and James N. Baron.  1986.  "Men and Women at Work:  Sex Segregation and Statistical Discrimination."  American Journal of Sociology 91 (January):759-99.

Bills, David.  1988.  "Educational Credentials and Hiring Decisions:  What Employers Look for in Employees."  Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 7:71-97.

England, Paula, George Farkas, B. S. Kilbourne, and T. Dou.  1988.  "Explaining Occupation Sex Segregation and Wages:  Findings from a Model with Fixed Effects."  American Sociological Review  53:544-58.

Marsden, Peter, Arne L. Kalleberg, and Cynthia Cook.  1993. "Gender Differences in Organizational Commitment."  Work and Occupations 20: 368-90.

Braddock, Jomills and James McPartland.  1987.  "How Minorities Continue to Be Excluded from Equal Employment Opportunities."  Journal of Social Issues 43:5-39.
 

Unions: April 23-29

Hodson, Randy and Teresa Sullivan.  1995.  Chapter 6:  "Collective Responses to Work."  Belmont, Calif.:  Wadsworth, pp. 149-178.

FREEMAN, Ch. 1:  "How Labor Fares in Advanced Economies."

(opt.) Cornfield, Daniel.  1991.  "The U.S. Labor Movement:  Its Development and Impact on Social Inequality and Politics." Annual Review of Sociology 17:27-49.  Palo Alto, California:  Annual Reviews.

Freeman, Richard Freeman and James Medoff.  1984.  "A New Portrait of U.S. Unionism" (Pp. 3-25) and "Conclusions and Implications" (Pp. 246-251) in What Do Unions Do?  New York:  Basic.

Rogers, Joel.  1995.  "A Strategy for Labor."  Industrial Relations 34,3:367-81.

BOOK REVIEW OPTIONS:

Brody, David.  1980.  Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the Twentieth Century Struggle.  New York:  Oxford University Press.

Cornfield, Daniel B.  1989.  Becoming a Mighty Voice:  Conflict and Leadership Change in the United Furniture Workers of America.  New York: Russell Sage.

Freeman, Richard B. and James L. Medoff.  1984.  What Do Unions Do?  New York:  Basic.

Wellman, David.  1995.  The Union Makes Us Strong.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.

Mort, Jo-Ann.  2000.  Not Your Father's Union Movement.  New York:  Verso.

Heckscher, Charles C.  1988.  The New Unionism.  New York:  Basic Books.

Shostak, Arthur B.  1991.  Robust Unionism.  Ithaca, N.Y.:  School of Industrial and Labor Relations Press.

Michel, Lawrence, and Paula B. Voos (editors).  1992.  Unions and Economic Competitiveness.  Armonk, N.Y.:  M.E. Sharpe.

Turner, Lowell.  1991.  Democracy at Work:  Changing World Markets and the Future of Labor Unions.  Ithaca, N.Y.:  Cornell University Press.

Boyer, Richard O., and Herbert M. Morais.  1955.  Labor's Untold Story.  New York:  United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America.

Lipset, Seymour Martin, Martin A. Trow, and James S. Coleman.  1956.  Union Democracy.  Glencoe, Ill.:  Free Press.

Lipset, Seymour Martin.  1986.  Unions in Transition.  San Francisco:  ICS.

SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS:

Edwards, Richard, Paolo Garonna and Franz Todtling (eds.).  1986.  Unions in Crisis and Beyond, pp. 1-13.  Dover, Mass.:  Auburn.

Kochan, Thomas A., Harry C. Katz and Robert B. McKersie.  1986.  The Transformation of American Industrial Relations.  Chapter 3, pp. 47-80, "The Emergence of the Nonunion Industrial Relations System."  New York:  Basic.

Cornfield, Daniel.  1989.  "Union Decline and the Political Demands of Organized Labor."  Work and Occupations, 16.
 

Professionals and Managers: April 30-May 6

WHARTON, Ch. 29:  Eliot Friedson, "Formal Knowledge, Power and The Professions."

Abbott, Andrew.  1988.  The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor.  Chapters 1-4. Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, pp. 1-113.

WHARTON, Ch. 32:  Robert Jackall, "The Social Structure of Managerial Work."

(opt.) Heckscher, Charles.  1995.  White-Collar Blues:  Management Loyalties in an Age of Corporate Restructuring.  New York:  Basic.  Chs. 8 & 9, pp. 145-184.

BOOK REVIEW OPTIONS:

Abbott, Andrew Abbott.  1988.  The System of Professions:  An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

Morrill, Calvin.  1995.  The Executive Way:  Conflict Management in Corporations.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

Starr, Paul.  1984.  The Social Transformation of American Medicine.  New York: Basic.

Bosk, Charles.  1979.  Forgive and Remember.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

Bosk, Charles.  1992.  All God's Mistakes:  Genetic Counseling in a Pediatric Hospital.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

Cassell, Joan.  1991.  Expected Miracles:  Surgeons at Work.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press.

Brint, Steven Brint.  1994.  In an Age of Experts:  The Changing Role of Professionals in Politics and Public Life.  Princeton, N.J.:  Princeton University Press.

Martin, Susan Ehrlich.  1980.  Breaking and Entering:  Policewomen on Patrol.  Berkeley:  University of California Press.

Chandler, Alfred D., Jr.  1977.  The Visible Hand:  The Managerial Revolution in American Business.  Cambridge, Mass.:  Harvard University Press.

Dalton, Melville.  1959.  Men Who Manage.  New York:  Wiley.

Barnard, Chester I.  1950.  The Functions of the Executive.  Cambridge, Mass.:  Harvard University Press.

Smith, Vicki.  1990.  Managing the Corporate Interest:  Control and Resistance in an American Bank.  Berkeley:  University of California Press.

SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS:

MacDonald, Keith M.  1995.  The Sociology of the Professions.  Chapter 1.  Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage.

Starr, Paul.  1984.  The Social Transformation of American Medicine. Pp. 3-29, 79-144.  New York:  Basic.

Freidson, Eliot.  1986.  Professional Powers:  A Study in the Institutionalization of Formal Knowledge.  Pp. 20-61.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Ritzer, George and David Walczak.  1988.  "Rationalization and the Deprofessionalization of Physicians."  Social Forces, 67.

Prechel, Harland.  1994.  "Economic Crisis and The Centralization of Control over Managerial Process."  American Sociological Review 59:723-45.
 

Clerical, Service & Marginal Employment, May 7-13

Glenn, E.N. and R.L. Feldberg.  1977.  "Degraded and deskilled:  The proletarianization of clerical work."  Social Problems 25,1 October:52-64.

WHARTON, Ch. 40:  Robert Parker, "Temporary Clerical Workers."
WHARTON, Ch. 36:  Nicole Woolsey Biggart, "Family, Gender, and Business in Direct Selling Organizations.
WHARTON, Ch. 21:  Patti Giuffre and Christine Williams, "Labeling Sexual Harassment in Restaurants."
WHARTON, Ch. 26:  Robin Leidner, "Over the Counter:  McDonald's."
WHARTON, Ch. 27:  Greta Foff Paules, "'Getting' and 'Making' a Tip."
WHARTON, Ch. 28:  Judith Rollins, "Between Women:  Domestics and Their Employers."
WHARTON, Ch. 35:  M. Patricia Fernandez-Kelley and Anna Garcia, "Women in the Informal Economy of Miami and Los Angeles."
WHARTON, Ch. 16:  William Julius Wilson, "When Work Disappears:  The World of the New Urban Poor."

(opt.) Tilly, Chris.  1996.  Half a Job.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press.  Chs. 4-6, pp. 47-120.

BOOK REVIEW OPTIONS:

Wells, M. J.  1996.  Strawberry Fields:  Politics, Class and Work in California Agriculture.  New York:  Cornell University Press.

Foner, Nancy.  1994.  The Caregiving Dilemma:  Work in an American Nursing Home.  Berkeley:  University of California Press.

Mars, Gerald, and Michael Nicod.  1984.  The World of Waiters.  London:  George Allen and Unwin.

Lo, Jeannie.  1990.  Office Ladies/Factory Women:  Life and Work at a Japanese Factory.  Armonk, N.Y.:  M. E. Sharpe.

Jackall, Robert.  1978.  Workers in a Labyrinth:  Jobs and Survival in a Bank Bureaucracy.  Montclair, N.J.:  Allanheld and Osmun.

Constable, Nicole.  1997.  Maid to Order in Hong Kong:  Stories of Filipina Workers.  Ithaca, NY:  Cornell University Press.

Cock, Jacklyn.  1989.  Maids and Madams:  Domestic Workers under Apartheid.  London:  Women's Press.

Burris, Beverly H.  1983.  No Room at the Top:  Underemployment and Alienation in the Corporation.  New York:  Praeger.

Biggart, Nicole.  1989.  Charismatic Capitalism:  Direct Selling Organizations in America.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

Glenn, Evelyn.  1988.  Issei, Nisei, Warbride:  Three Generations of Japanese-American Women in Domestic Service.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press.

Rollins, Judith.  1987.  Between Women:  Domestics and Their Employers.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press.

Hartmann, Heidi, Robert Kraut, and Louise Tilly.  1986.  Computer Chips and Paper Clips.

Leidner, Robin Leidner.  1993.  Fast Food, Fast Talk:  Service Work and the Routinization of Everyday Life. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Lozano, Beverly.  1989.  The Invisible Work Force:  Transforming American Business with Outside and Home-based Workers.  New York:  Free Press.

Parker, Robert E.  1994.  Flesh Peddlers and Warm Bodies:  The Temporary Help Industry and Its Workers.  New Brunswick, N.J.:  Rutgers University Press.

Schein, Virginia.  1995.  Working from the Margins:  Voices of Mothers in Poverty.

SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS:

Browning, Harley and Joachim Singelmann.  1978.  "The Transformation of the U.S. Labor Force:  The Interaction of Industry and Occupation."  Politics and Society 8:481-509.
 

Organizational Structure and Technology, May 14-20

WHARTON, Ch. 6:  Max Weber, "Bureaucracy."

Perrow, Charles.  1986.  Complex Organizations.  Chapter 1:  "Why Bureaucracy."  Pp. 1-48.  Glenview, IL:  Scott, Foresman.

Scott, W. Richard.  1998.  Organizations:  Rational, Natural, and Open Systems, 4th Edition.  Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:  Prentice-Hall.  Chs. 2-4, pp. 33-100.

Fligstein, Neil.  1987.  "The Interorganizational Power Struggle: Rise of Finance Personnel to Top Leadership in Large Corporations, 1919-1979."  American Sociological Review 52,1:44-58.

Williamson, Oliver.  1981.  "The Economics of Organizations:  A Transaction Cost Approach."  American Journal of Sociology 87,3:548-77.

Powell, Walter W.  1990.  "Neither Market Nor Hierarchy:  Network Forms of Organization."  Pp. 295-336 in Barry M. Staw and Larry L. Cummings (eds.), Research in Organizational Behavior, Vol. 12.  Greenwich, Conn:  JAI Press.

Edelman, Lauren B.  1990.  "Legal Environments and Organizational Governance:  The Expansion of Due Process in the American Workplace."  American Sociological Review 95,6 (May): 1401-40.

WHARTON, Ch. 11:  Shoshana Zuboff, "In the Age of the Smart Machine."
WHARTON, Ch. 12:  Steven Peter Vallas, "Capital, Labor, and New Technology."

BOOK REVIEW OPTIONS:

Perrow, Charles.  1986.  Complex Organizations:  A Critical Essay.  3d ed.  Glenview, Ill.:  Scott, Foresman.

Williamson, Oliver.  1985.  The Economic Institutions of Capitalism.  New York:  Free Press.

Scott, W. Richard.  1998.  Organizations:  Rational, Natural, and Open Systems, 4th Edition.  Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:  Prentice-Hall.

Burris, Beverly H.  1993.  Technocracy at Work.  New York:  State University of New York Press.

Noble, David.  1984.  Forces of Production:  A Social History of Industrial Automation.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf.

Walsh, John.  1993.  Supermarkets Transformed:  Understanding Organizational and Technological Innovations.  New Brunswick, N.J.:  Rutgers University Press.

Zuboff, Shoshana.  1988.  In the Age of the Smart Machine.  New York:  Basic.

Hirschman, Albert O.  1970.  Exit, Voice, and Loyalty:  Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations and States.  Cambridge, Mass.:  Harvard University Press.

Clegg, Stewart R.  1990.  Modern Organizations:  Organization Studies in the Postmodern World.  London:  Sage.

Thomas, Robert J.  1994.  What Machines Can't Do.  Berkeley:  University of California Press.

Simonds, Wendy.  1996.  Abortion at Work:  Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic.  New Brunswick, NJ:  Rutgers University Press.

SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS:

Baron, James and William Bielby.  1986.  "The Proliferation of Job Titles in Organizations."  Administrative Science Quarterly 31:561-86.

Scott, W. Richard.  1998.  Organizations:  Rational, Natural, and Open Systems, 4th Edition.  Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:  Prentice-Hall.  Chs. 8-10.

Walsh, John.  1989.  "Technological Change and the Division of Labor."  Work and Occupations 16:165-83.

Kelley, Maryellen.  1990.  "New Process Technology, Job Design and Work Organization."  American Sociological Review 55:191-208.
 

Intl' Comparisons and Globalization, May 21-27

Dohse, Knuth, Ulrich Jurgens, and Thomas Malsch.  1985.  "From 'Fordism' to 'Toyotism'?  The social organization of the labor process in the Japanese automobile factory."  Politics and Society 14,2:115-45.

Lillrank, Paul, and Noriaki Kano.  1989.  Continuous Improvement:  Quality Circles in Japanese Industry.  Chapter 1:  "What is Quality Control Circle Activity?"  Pp. 11-40.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies.

Lincoln, James R.  1990.  "Japanese Organization and Organization Theory."  Pp. 255-294 in B. M. Staw and L. L. Cummings (eds.), Research in Organizational Behavior, vol. 12.  Greenwich, Conn:  JAI Press.

FREEMAN, Ch. 4:  Joel Rogers and Wolfgang Streeck, "Workplace Representation Overseas:  The Works Councils Story."

FREEMAN, Ch. 6:  David Card and Richard B. Freeman, "Small Differences That Matter:  Canada Vs. the United States."

Stark, David.  1986.  "Rethinking Internal Labor Markets:  New Insights from a Comparative Perspective."  American Sociological Review 51 (August):492-504.

BOOK REVIEW OPTIONS:

Perrucci, Robert.  1994.  Japanese Auto Transplants in the Heartland:  Corporatism and Community.  New York:  Aldine de Gruyter.

Hsiung, Ping-Chun.  1996.  Living Rooms as Factories:  Class, Gender, and the Satellite Factory Industry in Taiwan.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press.

Cole, Robert.  1971.  Japanese Blue Collar:  The Changing Tradition.  Berkeley:  University of California Press.

Jacoby, Sanford M. (editor).  1995.  The Workers of Nations:  Industrial Relations in a Global Economy.  New York:  Oxford University Press.

Lee, Ching Kwan.  1998.  Gender and the South China Miracle:  Two Worlds of Factory Women.  Berkeley:  University of California Press.

Lincoln, James R. and Arne L. Kalleberg.  1990.  Culture, Control, and Commitment.  London:  Cambridge University Press.

Haraszti, Miklos.  1978.  A Worker in a Worker's State.  New York:  Universe Books.

Abegglen, James and George Stalk.  1985.  The Japanese Corporation.  New York:  Basic.

Downsizing, Flexibility and Teams, May 28-June 3

WHARTON, Ch. 17:  David M. Gordon,  "The Wage Squeeze."
FREEMAN, Ch. 2:  Richard B. Freeman and Lawrence F. Katz, "Rising Wage Inequality:  The United States Vs. Other Advanced Countries.
WHARTON, Ch. 13:  Ruth Milkman, "Labor and Management in Uncertain Times."
FREEMAN, Ch. 5:  Rebecca Blank, "Does a Larger Social Safety Net Mean Less Economic Flexibility?"
FREEMAN, Ch. 7:  "Lessons for the United States."

(opt.) Rifkin, Jeremy.  1994.  The End of Work.  Pp.3-41, 221-235.  New York:  Putnam.

(opt.) Block, Fred.  1990.  Postindustrial Possibilities:  A Critique of Economic Discourse.  Chapter 7.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, pp. 189-218.

WHARTON, Ch. 41:  Vicki Smith, "Participative Work Arrangements in a White-Collar Service Occupation."

Appelbaum, Eileen and Rosemary Batt.  1994.  The New American Workplace: Transforming Work Systems in the United States.  Ithaca, New York:  ILR Press.  Pp. 14-54, 161-169.

Rothschild, Joyce and Marjukka Ollilainen.  1999.  "Obscuring But Not Reducing Managerial Control:  Does TQM Measure up to Democracy Standards?"  Economic and Industrial Democracy 20:583-624.
 

BOOK REVIEW OPTIONS:

Barker, James R.  1999.  The Discipline of Teamwork:  Participation and Concertive Control.  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage.

Cole, Robert E.  1989.  Strategies for Learning:  Small-Group Activities in American, Japanese, and Swedish Industry.  Berkeley:  University of California Press.

Rinehart, James W., Christopher Huxley and David Robertson.  1997.  Just Another Car Factory?  Lean Production and Its Discontents.  Ithaca, N.Y.:  Cornell University Press.

Parker, Mike.  1985.  Inside the Circle:  A Union Guide to QWL.  Boston, Mass.:  South End Press.

Besser, Terry L.  1996.  Team Toyota:  Transplanting the Toyota Culture to the Camry Plant in Kentucky.  Albany:  State University of New York Press.

Lillrank, Paul, and Noriaki Kano.  1989.  Continuous Improvement:  Quality Circles in Japanese Industry.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies.

Pfeffer, Jeffrey.  1998.  The Human Equation:  Building Profits by Putting People First.  Boston:  Harvard Business School Press.

Block, Fred.  1990.  Postindustrial Possibilities:  A Critique of Economic Discourse.

Rifkin, Jeremy.  1994.  The End of Work:  The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era.  New York:  Putnam.

Drucker, Peter F.  1993.  Post-Capitalist Society.  New York:  Harper Business.

Harrison, Bennett.  1994.  Lean and Mean:  The Changing Landscape of Corporate Power in the Age of Flexibility.  New York:  Basic Books.

Gordon, David M.  1996.  Fat and Mean:  The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the Myth of Managerial Downsizing.  New York:  Martin Kessler.

Grenier, Guillermo J.  1988.  Inhuman Relations:  Quality Circles and Anti-Unionism in American Industry.  Philadelphia, PA:  Temple University Press.

Piore, Michael J. and Sabel, Charles F.  1984.  The Second Industrial Divide:  Possibilities for Prosperity.  New York:  Basic Books.

Dudley, Kathryn.  1994.  The End of the Line:  Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial America.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

Bridges, William.  1994.  Job Shift:  How To Prosper in a Workplace Without Jobs.  New York:  Addison-Wesley.

Aronowitz, Stanley and William DeFazio.  1994.  The Jobless Future:  Sci-Tech and the Dogma of Work.  Minneapolis, MN:  University of Minnesota Press.

SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS:

Shaiken, Harley, Steven Lopez and Isaac Mankita.  1997.  "Two Routes to Team Production:  Saturn and Chrysler Compared."  Industrial Relations 36,1:17-45.

Bluestone, Barry, and Bennett Harrison.  1982.  The Deindustrialization of America.  Chs. 1 and 7.  New York:  Basic Books.

Special issue on "Worker Participation," Work and Occupations, vol. 15, November 1988.
 
 

Final Projects due by 5:00 P.M. on Wednesday of finals week.