The Social Drama of Daily Work
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The Social Drama of Daily Work

A Manual for Historians

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eBook - ePub

The Social Drama of Daily Work

A Manual for Historians

About this book

Part manifesto, part manual, this book offers historians of all levels both subject and approach. The subject is work. In every place-time people made and sold objects – and struggled with annoying customers or government regulation. They healed clients – and wanted to bolster their prestige and keep out interlopers. Studying work allows historians to delve into the experiences of non-elite groups using texts, images, or objects. The wide-ranging approach is based on the Chicago-school sociology of occupations, which starts from the premise that work isn't just a job: it's a drama created by people making decisions that shape and are shaped by their place-time. Packed with examples from Ming Chinese apothecaries to twentieth-century New York City doormen, this book is a must for those who want to enliven their study of the past by examining how people spent most of their days and lives: at work.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
Topic
History
eBook ISBN
9781040795309
Subtopic
Social History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction
  9. Why Study Work?
  10. Why Use the Sociology of Occupations?
  11. What Counts as Work?
  12. Works Cited
  13. Chapter 1 Technique and Object of Technique
  14. Splitting, Lumping, and Bundling
  15. Example: Blacksmiths
  16. A Rough Typology
  17. Technique and the Body
  18. Workshop, Body, Self
  19. Works Cited
  20. Chapter 2 The Players in the Social Drama of Work
  21. Clients
  22. Colleagues
  23. Coworkers
  24. What about the Boss?
  25. Hierarchy within the Occupation
  26. Works Cited
  27. Chapter 3 Dirty Work
  28. Pollution and Social Distaste
  29. Messy Work Practitioners Don't Mind
  30. Status Pain
  31. Unpredictability and Status Pain
  32. Works Cited
  33. Chapter 4 The Path into the Occupation
  34. Sorting Workers on the Path into the Occupation
  35. Social Mobility and Its Discontents
  36. Apprenticeship 868 Table of Contents
  37. Example: The Conversion of Nursing Students
  38. Commitment and the Game
  39. The Path Out of the Occupation
  40. Works Cited
  41. Chapter 5 Self-Regulation and Public Relations (Code and Policy)
  42. Policy
  43. Code
  44. Code and Technique
  45. Works Cited
  46. Chapter 6 Social Authority (License and Mandate)
  47. License
  48. Mandate
  49. Example: Jazz Musicians
  50. Works Cited
  51. Chapter 7 Technique and Danger (Guilty Knowledge)
  52. Symbols of Distinction
  53. Flavors of Guilty Knowledge
  54. Example: Master Jacques of the Journeymen's Companies
  55. The Dilemma of Routine and Emergency
  56. Fraud and Corruption
  57. Works Cited
  58. Chapter 8 Mistakes at Work
  59. Flow and Error
  60. Mistakes, Colleagues, and Coworkers
  61. Danger and Charisma
  62. Mistakes at Work Create Culture
  63. Example: Mistakes in !Kung San Hunting
  64. Works Cited
  65. Chapter 9 Pace and Discipline
  66. The Assembly Line and the Anthropologist
  67. Rethinking Pace
  68. The Group and the Pace
  69. Works Cited
  70. Chapter 10 The Family Workshop
  71. Works Cited
  72. Conclusion
  73. Stonemasons in Early Modern Italy
  74. Why Study History through the Social Drama of Work?
  75. Works Cited
  76. Index

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