Table of Contents

Introduction: Emerging Conceptions of Work, Management, and The Labor Market; Steven Vallas  Chapter 1. Linkedin or Linkedout? How Social Networking Sites are Reshaping The Labor Market; Ofer Sharone Chapter 2. Dealing with Downsizing: New Organizational Careers in Financial Services after The Great Recession; Corey Pech  Chapter 3. Neo-Normative Control And Value Discretion In Interactive Service Work: A Case Study; Sarah Jenkins and Rick Delbridge  Chapter 4. Engineering Medicine: The Deployment of Lean Production in Healthcare; Will Attwood and Sara Babb  Chapter 5. Doing More with Less: Intensive Care and the Logic of Flexible Teamwork; Jason Rodriquez   Chapter 6. Race, Recession, and Social Closure in the Low-Wage Labor Market: Experimental and Observational Evidence; Michael Vuolo, Christopher Uggen and Sarah Lageson  Chapter 7. Workforce Downsizing and Shareholder Value Orientation among Executive Managers at Large U.S. Firms; Taekjin Shin

About the Author

Steven Vallas is Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University, USA, where he teaches contemporary social theory and the sociology of work. He is the author of numerous books and articles on a wide array of topics, including the shifting nature of authority relations at work, racial and ethnic boundaries among employees, the commercialization of the life sciences, and the disruptions that new technologies provoke within the firm. Most recently, he is the author of Work: A Critique (Polity, 2012) and co-editor of The SAGE Handbook of Resistance (2016), with David Courpasson.

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Sociologists explore the changing economic landscape, its impact on the meaning of work, and the way authority relations are shifting with the rise of neo-liberal capitalism. They consider such aspects as dealing with downsizing: new organizational careers in financial services after the Great Recession, neo-normative control and value discretion in interactive service work: a case study, engineering medicine: the deployment of lean production in healthcare, and workforce downsizing and shareholder value orientation among executive managers at large US firms.
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