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Class acts : an anthropology of service workers and their union

Title
Class acts : an anthropology of service workers and their union / E. Paul Durrenberger and Suzan Erem.
Author
Durrenberger, E. Paul, 1943-
Publication
Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, [2005], ©2005.

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Erem, Suzan.
Description
xv, 216 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Service industries workers > Labor unions > United States > Case studies
  • Labor unions > United States > Sociological aspects > Case studies
  • Service industries workers > United States > Case studies
  • Social classes > United States
  • Working class > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-210) and index.
Contents
1. Taking it on the road -- 2. What a union looks like -- 3. Being a union rep -- 4. The anthropology of it -- 5. Disaster -- 6. Ritual - here, there, and everywhere -- 7. Getting a raise -- 8. The boss over a barrel - the worker's boycott -- 9. That'll teach you - cognition and practice -- 10. What does change people's minds? -- 11. Sifting through the remains -- 12. Translating anthropology - the proposal -- 13. Riding with Tiny -- 14. A day in the life - hurry up and wait -- 15. We smell a rat -- 16. The study explodes -- 17. Report to the local -- 18. The aftermath -- 19. An old song -- Epilogue : what class struggle?
ISBN
  • 1594510822 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1594510830 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2004028686
OCLC
  • ocm57185596
  • SCSB-5175386
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries