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Shunters at work : creating a world in a railway yard / Birgitta Edelman.
- Title
- Shunters at work : creating a world in a railway yard / Birgitta Edelman.
- Author
- Edelman, Birgitta
- Publication
- Stockholm : Dept. of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University : [Distributed by Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1997.
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Details
- Description
- 336 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Series Statement
- Stockholm studies in social anthropology ; 37
- Uniform Title
- Stockholm studies in social anthropology 37.
- Subject
- Note
- Originally presented as the author's doctoral dissertation, Stockholm University.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-327) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hagalund -- 3. Shunting -- The Organization of Work -- 4. Modes of Cooperation and Planning -- 5. The Creation of Group Feeling -- Entry to the Shunting Yard -- 6. The Process of Incorporation -- Learning About 'Us' and 'Them' -- 7. Communicating Through Learning -- The Arts of Expressing, Impressing and Oppressing -- 8. The New Organization -- 9. Space, Time, and the Changing Perspectives of Work -- 10. Summary.
- ISBN
- 9171536043
- OCLC
- 37816893
- SCSB-10278441
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library