27 results in SearchWorks catalog (2024)

1. Work attitudes and labor market experience : evidence from the national longitudinal surveys [1978]

• Andrisani, Paul J.
• New York : Praeger, c1978.

Description

Book — xx, 263 p. ; 24 cm.

2. Work attitudes and labor market experience : evidence from the national longitudinal surveys [1978]

• Andrisani, Paul J.
• New York : Praeger, c1978.

Description

Book — xx, 263 p. ; 24 cm.

3. Where have all the robots gone? : Worker dissatisfaction in the '70s [1972]

• Sheppard, Harold L.
• New York : Free Press, [1972]

Description

Book — xxxiv, 222 p. ; 24 cm.

4. Where have all the robots gone? Worker dissatisfaction in the '70s [1972]

• Sheppard, Harold L.
• New York, Free Press [1972]

Description

Book — xxxiv, 222 p. 24 cm.

5. Working [1974]

• Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008.
• New York : Avon, 1975, c1974.

Description

Book — xxxvi, 762 p. ; 18 cm.

Summary

Men and women representing a variety of occupations, describe the daily routine of their jobs and express their grievances, aims, and dreams.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

6. A house divided : labor and white supremacy [1981]

• Mitchell, Roxanne.
• New York (Box 1744, Manhattanville P.O., New York 10027) : United Labor Press, c1981.

Description

Book — xiii, 170 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

7. Working : people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do [1974]

• Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008.
• New York : New Press, c1974.

Description

Book — xlix, 589 p. ; 21 cm.

8. Dialectic of solidarity : labor, antisemitism, and the Frankfurt School [2008]

• Worrell, Mark P.
• Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Description

Book — xvii, 347 p. ; 25 cm.

Summary

• Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Preface Introduction
• 1. Politics, Labor, and the Frankfurt School in America
• 2. Authoritarian Labor
• 3. Worker Hostility to `Jewish' Habitus
• 4. The Hatred of `Jewish' Economic Practices
• 5. Political and Social Dimensions of Worker Antisemitism
• 6. The Social Bases and Dynamics of Exterminatory Antisemitism
• 7. Theorizing American Labor Antisemitism Conclusion Appendix A: AFL and CIO Unions Represented in the ISR's Labor and Antisemitism Project Appendix B: The ISR's "Survey of Studies Prepared by the Institute" (August 1944) Appendix C: The ISR's Methods and Data Appendix D: Degree of Intensity of Prejudice and Targets of Critique Appendix E: The ISR's Contributors to the "Studies in Antisemitism" and Key Labor Study Personnel Archival Sources, Libraries, and Special Collections References Index of Names Index of Subjects.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

During World War II it appeared that American workers in uniform had all that was required to defend democracy on the battlefields yet, on the domestic front, the working class, as it turned out, was ideologically inconsistent when it came to democracy. Could battles against tyranny be won abroad only to lose the war back home? This was the question the Institute of Social Research (the famous "Frankfurt School") asked in 1944 when it embarked upon an important study of the American working class. Dialectic of Solidarity draws upon unpublished research reports of the Frankfurt School and represents a unique and multidimensional view of the political imagination of the wartime American worker and the role of antisemitism as the 'spearhead of fascism.'.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

9. Workers at risk : voices from the workplace [1984]

• Nelkin, Dorothy.
• Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1984.

Description

Book — xvii, 220 p. : form ; 24 cm.

Summary

• Introduction: The dangerous trades
• Jobs and risks
• Problems on the job
• Coping
• Recourse
• Controlling risks on the job.

Workers at Risk is a powerful and moving documentary of workers routinely exposed to toxic chemicals. Products and services we all depend on--glass bottles, computers, processed foods and fresh flowers, dry cleaning, medicines, even sculpture and silkscreened toys--are produced by workers in constant contact with more than 63,000 commercial chemicals. For many of them, the risk of death is a way of life. More than seventy of them speak here of their jobs, their health, and the difficult choices they face in coming to grips with the responsibilities, risks, fears, and satisfactions of their work. Some struggle for information and acknowledgment of their health risks; others struggle to put out of their minds the dangers they know too well. Through extensive interviews, the authors have captured in these voices that double bind of the chemical worker: If I had known that it would be that lethal, that it could give me or one of my children cancer, I would have refused to work. But it's a matter of survival and we just don't consider all these things. Meanwhile, we've got to make money to survive.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

10. The language of risk : conflicting perspectives on occupational health [1985]

• Beverly Hills : Sage Publications, c1985.

Description

Book — 200 p. ; 23 cm.

Summary

• Introduction - Dorothy Nelkin Analyzing Risk The Political Language of Risk - Stephen Hilgartner Defining Occupational Hazards Disputed Knowledge - Michael S Brown Worker Access to Hazard Information Risk in the Press - Chris Anne Raymond Conflicting Journalistic Ideologies Ethical Conflicts in Occupational Medicine - Dorothy Nelkin The Misrule of Law at OSHA - Sheila Jasanoff Sense or Sentiment in Occupational Safety and Health Programs - Mark Sagoff.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Risk in the workplace -- occupational health -- is an increasingly visible and complex issue. Evaluating and managing workplace risks involves not only labour and management but also scientists, physicians, journalists, administrators, and policy analysts. The authors approach these diverse perspectives and political strategies by examining the 'discourse' of risk disputes. The result is a conflict model of risk that takes into account the many participants and issues that inform the risk assessment process.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

11. Workers at risk : voices from the workplace [1984]

• Nelkin, Dorothy.
• Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1984.

Description

Book — xvii, 220 p. : form ; 24 cm.

Summary

Workers at Risk is a powerful and moving documentary of workers routinely exposed to toxic chemicals. Products and services we all depend on--glass bottles, computers, processed foods and fresh flowers, dry cleaning, medicines, even sculpture and silkscreened toys--are produced by workers in constant contact with more than 63,000 commercial chemicals. For many of them, the risk of death is a way of life. More than seventy of them speak here of their jobs, their health, and the difficult choices they face in coming to grips with the responsibilities, risks, fears, and satisfactions of their work. Some struggle for information and acknowledgment of their health risks; others struggle to put out of their minds the dangers they know too well. Through extensive interviews, the authors have captured in these voices that double bind of the chemical worker: If I had known that it would be that lethal, that it could give me or one of my children cancer, I would have refused to work. But it's a matter of survival and we just don't consider all these things. Meanwhile, we've got to make money to survive.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

12. Working : people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do [1974]

• Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008.
• New York : New Press, c2004.

Description

Book — xlix, 589 p. ; 21 cm.

Summary

• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Preface 1. Who built the pyramids?
• Mike LeFevre [Steelworker]
• Preface 2. Who spreads the news?
• Billy Carpenter [Newsboy]
• Cliff Pickens [Newsboy]
• Terry Pickens [Newsboy]
• Preface 3. The mason
• Carl Murray Bates [Stonemason]
• bk. 1.
• Working the land
• Pierce Walker, farmer
• Roberto Acuna, farm worker
• Aunt Katherine Haynes, farm woman
• Joe and Susie Haynes, deep miner and his wife
• Rob Sanders, strip miner
• Hub Dillard, heavy equipment operator
• bk. 2.
• [pt. 1]. Communication
• Sharon Atkins, receptionist
• Frances Swenson, hotel switchboard operator
• Heather Lamb, telephone operator
• Jack Hunter, professor of communications
• [pt. 2]. A pecking order
• Terry Mason, airline stewardess
• Beryl Simpson, airline reservationist
• Jill Torrance, model
• Anne Bogan, executive secretary
• Roberta Victor, hook
• [pt. 3]. Did you ever hear the one about the farmer's daughter?
• Barbara Herrick, writer/producer
• [pt. 4]. The commercial
• John Fortune, copy chief
• Arny Freeman, actor
• Rip Torn, actor
• Eddie Jaffe, press agent
• Richard Mann, installment dealer
• Enid du Bois, telephone solicitor

• bk. 3.
• [pt. 1]. Cleaning up
• Nick Salerno, sanitation truck driver
• Roy Schmidt, garbage man
• Louis Hayward, washroom attendant
• Lincoln James, factory mechanic
• Maggie Holmes, domestic
• Eric Hoellen, janitor
• [pt. 2]. Watching
• Fritz Ritter, doorman
• Vincent Maher, policeman
• Renault Robinson, policeman
• Anthony Ruggiero, industrial investigator
• Jill Freedman, photographer
• Pauline Kael, film critic
• bk. 4. The demon lover
• [pt. 1]. The making
• Phil Stallings, spot-welder
• Jim Grayson, spot-welder
• Hobart Foote, utility man
• Ned Williams, stock chaser
• tom Brand, plant manager
• Wheeler Stanley, general foreman
• Gary Bryner, president, Lordstown Local, UAW
• [pt. 2]. The driving
• Booker Page, cabdriver
• Lucky Miller, cabdriver
• Will Robinson, bus driver
• Frank Decker, interstate trucker
• [pt. 3]. The parking
• Alfred Pommier, car hiker
• [pt. 4]. The selling
• Johnny Bosworth, car salesman
• bk. 5.
• [pt. 1]. Appearance
• Sam Mature, barber
• Edward and Hazel Zimmer, hair stylists
• Jean Stanley, cosmetics saleswoman
• Dr. Stephen Bartlett, dentist
• Doc Pritchard, hotel clerk
• Hots Michaels, bar pianist
• Teddy Grodowski, elevator starter
• Tim Devlin, janitor, ex-salesman
• [pt. 2]. Counting
• Nancy Rogers, bank teller
• Fred Roman, auditor
• [pt. 3]. Footwork
• Jack Spiegel, organizer
• Alice Washington, order filler, shoe factory
• John Fuller, mail carrier
• Conrad Swibel, gas meter reader
• Brett Hauser, supermarket box boy
• Babe Secoli, supermarket checker
• Thomas Rush, skycap
• Grace Clements, felter, luggage factory
• Delores Dante, waitress
• [pt. 4]. Just a housewife - Therese Carter
• Jesusita Novarro

• bk. 6.
• [pt. 1]. The quiet life
• Donna Murray, bookbinder
• Nino Guidici, pharmacist
• Eugene Russell, piano tuner
• [pt. 2]. Brokers
• Margaret Richards, realty broker
• James Carson, yacht broker
• David Reed Glover, stockbroker
• Ray Wax, stockbroker
• [pt. 3]. Bureaucracy
• Steve Carmichael, project coordinator
• Lilith Reynolds, government relations coordinator
• Diane Wilson, process clerk
• [pt. 4]. Organizer
• Bill Talcott
• bk. 7.
• [pt. 1]. The sporting life
• Eddie Arroyo, jockey
• Steve Hamilton, baseball player
• Blackie Mason, sports press agent
• Jeanne Douglas, tennis player
• Eric Nesterenko, hockey player
• George Allen, football coach
• [pt. 2]. In charge
• Ward Quaal, TV/radio executive
• Dave Bender, factory owner
• Ernest Bradshaw, audit department head, bank
• Peter Keeley, ex-boss
• Lois Keeley Novak, his daughter
• Larry Ross, ex-president of conglomerate; consultant
• [pt. 3]. Ma and Pa courage
• George and Irene Brewer
• [pt. 4]. Reflections on idleness and retirement
• Barbara Terwilliger, idleness
• Bill Norworth, retired railroad engineer
• Joe Zmuda, ex-shipping clerk

• bk. 8.
• [pt. 1]. The age of Charlie Blossom
• Charlie Blossom, copy boy
• Steven Simonyi-Gindele, publisher
• Tom McCoy, proofreader
• Ralph Werner, department store salesman
• Bud Freeman, jazz musician
• Ken Brown, executive
• Kay Stepkin, director of bakery cooperative
• Cathleen Moran, hospital aide
• [pt. 2]. Cradle to grave
• Ruth Lindstrom, baby nurse
• Rose Hoffman, public school teacher
• Pat Zimmerman, alternative school teacher
• Kitty Scanlan, occupational therapist
• Betsy DeLacy, patients' representative
• Carmelita Lester, practical nurse, old people's home
• Herbert Bach, memorial counselor
• Elmer Ruiz, gravedigger
• bk. 9.
• [pt. 1]. The quiz kid and the carpenter
• Bruce Fletcher, tree nursery attendant
• Nick Lindsay, carpenter/poet
• [pt. 2]. In search of a calling
• Nora Watson, editor
• Walter Lundquist, industrial designer
• Rebecca Sweeney, nun to naprapath
• [pt. 3]. Second chance
• Fred Ringley, ex-salesman; farmer
• Philip da Vinci, lawyer
• Sarah Houghton, librarian
• Mario Anichini, stone cutter
• [pt. 4]. Fathers and sons
• Glen Stribling, service station owner
• Dave Stribling, his son and partner
• Steve Dubi, steelworker
• Father Leonard Dubi, his son, a priest
• Jack Currier, teacher, adult education
• Harold Patrick, freight elevator operator
• Bob Patrick, policeman
• Tom Patrick, fireman.

13. Talking politics [1992]

• Gamson, William A.
• Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Description

Book — xiv, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Summary

• List of figures and tables
• Preface
• 1. Political consciousness
• 2. Conversations and media discourse
• Part I. Collective Action Frames: 3. Injustoce
• 4. Agency
• 5. Identity
• 6. Talk and action
• Part II. How People Negotiate Meaning: 7. Media, popular wisdom, and experience
• 8. Cultural resonances
• 9. Proximity and engagement
• 10. Developing political consciousness
• Appendices
• Notes
• References
• Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Those who analyze public opinion have long contended that the average citizen is incapable of recounting consistently even the most rudimentary facts about current politics; that the little the average person does know is taken strictly from what the media report, with no critical reflection; and that the consequence is a polity that is ill prepared for democratic governance. And yet social movements, comprised by and large of average citizens, have been a prominent feature of the American political scene throughout American history and have experienced a resurgence in recent years. William Gamson asks, how is it that so many people become active in movements if they are so uninterested and badly informed about issues? The conclusion he reaches in this book is a striking refutation of the common wisdom about the public's inability to reason about politics. Rather than relying on survey data, as so many studies of public opinion do, Gamson reports on his analysis of discussions among small groups of working people on four controversial issues: affirmative action, nuclear power, Arab-Israeli conflict, and the troubles in American industry. Excerps from many of these same issues have been treated in the book. In addition, Gamson analyzes how these same issues have been treated in a range of media material, from editorial opinion columns to political cartoons and network news programs, in order to determine how closely the group discussions mimic media discourse. He finds that the process of opinion formation is more complex than it has usually been depicted and that people condition media information with reflection on their own experience or that of people they know. The discussions transcribed in this book demonstrate that people are quite capable of conducting informed and well-reasoned discussions about issues, and that although most people are not inclined to become actively involved in politics, the seeds of political action are present in the minds of many. With the approptiate stimulation, this latent political consciousness can be activated, which accounts for the continual creation of new social movements.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

14. Why workingmen support the war [1918]

• Commons, John R. (John Rogers), 1862-1945
• Madison : The University, 1918.

Description

Book — 12 p. ; 18 cm.

Online

• Full text via HathiTrust

15. Nichi-Bei shain no ishiki hikaku = Japanese and American [1991]

• 日米社員の意識比較 = Japanese and American
• Kawakubo, Michiko, 1947-
• 川久保美智子, 1947-
• Shohan. 初版. - Tōkyō : Kōdansha Shuppan Sābisu Sentā, 1991. 東京 : 講談社出版サービスセンター, 1991.

Description

Book — 146 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

16. The unmaking of the American working class [2003]

• Theriault, Reg, 1924-2014
• New York : New Press ; New York : Distributed by W.W. Norton, c2003.

Description

Book — x, 211 p. ; 20 cm.

17. My job : real people at work around the world [2016]

• Skees, Suzanne, 1962-
• New York : Titletown Publishing, LLC, 2016.

Description

Book — 1 online resource (332 pages)

Summary

• Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: An Intimate Lens into Life by Andrea Atkinson; Foreword; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; 1 Makana: Slack-Key Guitar Musician, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.; 2 Arindam & Debaleena: Eco-Manufacturers, Assam, India; 3 Christina: Online Lingerie Entrepreneur, Ramallah, Palestine; INDUSTRY AND TRANSPORTATION; 4 Nga: Life-Vest Backpack Manufacturer, Hanoi, Vietnam; 5 Hannah: Recruiter-Headhunter, Tampa, Florida, U.S.; 6 Muhammad: Rickshaw Puller, Dhaka, Bangladesh; FARMING, FOOD, AND ANIMALS.

• 7 Wantay: Maasai Warrior, Ngorongoro, Tanzania8 Mayra: Coffee Coop Farmer, Managua, Nicaragua; 9 Robin: Horse Coach, Jeffersonville, Kentucky, U.S.; FINANCE AND TECHNOLOGY; 10 Matt: Google Technologist, Mountain View, California, U.S.;
• 11: Pablo: Xerox LatAm Finance Manager, Cordoba, Argentina; 12 Nik: Equity Investment Manager, Hong Kong, China 201; MUSIC & ARTS; 13 Kevin: Architect, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.; 14 Purnima: Interior Designer, Kandy, Sri Lanka; 15 Darius: Hip-Hop Artist, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.; Appendix: My Job Interview Methodology and Questions; About the Editor.

A compilation of vivid first-person accounts of people in unique jobs from a diverse range of cultures and sectors. Never before has such a collection of stories been gathered. Building upon the legacy of Studs Terkel's 1970s bestseller Working, MY JOB goes global and updated, reflecting the daily struggles and successes of working storytellers in their own distinct voices.

Online

• EBSCO Academic Comprehensive Collection

18. Working : people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do [1974]

• Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008, author.
• New York : New Press, [2004]

Description

Book — xlix, 589 pages ; 21 cm

Summary

"Men and women representing a variety of occupations, describe the daily routine of their jobs and express their grievances, aims, and dreams."-- Provided by publisher.

19. Dialectic of solidarity : labor, antisemitism, and the Frankfurt School [2008]

• Worrell, Mark P.
• Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Description

Book — 1 online resource (xvii, 347 pages) Digital: data file.

Summary

• Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Preface Introduction
• 1. Politics, Labor, and the Frankfurt School in America
• 2. Authoritarian Labor
• 3. Worker Hostility to `Jewish' Habitus
• 4. The Hatred of `Jewish' Economic Practices
• 5. Political and Social Dimensions of Worker Antisemitism
• 6. The Social Bases and Dynamics of Exterminatory Antisemitism
• 7. Theorizing American Labor Antisemitism Conclusion Appendix A: AFL and CIO Unions Represented in the ISR's Labor and Antisemitism Project Appendix B: The ISR's "Survey of Studies Prepared by the Institute" (August 1944) Appendix C: The ISR's Methods and Data Appendix D: Degree of Intensity of Prejudice and Targets of Critique Appendix E: The ISR's Contributors to the "Studies in Antisemitism" and Key Labor Study Personnel Archival Sources, Libraries, and Special Collections References Index of Names Index of Subjects.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

During World War II it appeared that American workers in uniform had all that was required to defend democracy on the battlefields yet, on the domestic front, the working class, as it turned out, was ideologically inconsistent when it came to democracy. Could battles against tyranny be won abroad only to lose the war back home? This was the question the Institute of Social Research (the famous "Frankfurt School") asked in 1944 when it embarked upon an important study of the American working class. Dialectic of Solidarity draws upon unpublished research reports of the Frankfurt School and represents a unique and multidimensional view of the political imagination of the wartime American worker and the role of antisemitism as the 'spearhead of fascism.'.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

Online

• EBSCO Academic Comprehensive Collection

20. We're still here : pain and politics in the heart of America [2019]

• Silva, Jennifer M., author.
• New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Description

Book — 1 online resource

Summary

• Introduction Chapter One: From the New Deal to Trump America Chapter Two: Forgotten Men Chapter Three: The Coalminer's Granddaughter Chapter Four: In Search of Redemption Chapter Five: Something We Never Had Chapter Six: Democracy Denied? Conclusion References.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

The economy has been brutal to American workers for several decades. The chance to give one's children a better life than one's own-the promise at the heart of the American Dream-is withering away. In turn, "deaths of despair" such as drug overdoses, suicides, and cirrhosis of the liver are rising among the working class. The 2016 elections threw into sharp relief how little we know about how working-class people translate their grievances into politics. In We're Still Here, Jennifer M. Silva tells a deep, multi-generational story of pain and politics that will endure long after Trump and the elections of 2016. Drawing on over 100 interviews with black, white, and Latino working-class residents of a declining coal town in Pennsylvania, Silva proposes that the key to understanding the puzzle of working-class politics is to understand how the decline of the American Dream is lived and felt. In the post-industrial age, the routines and rhythms of traditional working-class life such as manual labor, unions, marriage, church, and social clubs have diminished. Moreover, the institutions that have historically mediated between individual, personal struggles and broader, collective political coalitions have become active sites of betrayal. In this void, individual strategies for coping with pain, and finding personal redemption, have themselves become sources of political stimulus and reaction among the working class. In the coal region, understanding how generations of Democratic voters come to reject the social safety net and often politics altogether requires moving beyond simple partisanship into a maze of addiction, joblessness, family disruption, violence, and trauma. How working-class men and women put the pieces back together - if they do at all-will have grave consequences for the future of American democracy. We're Still Here provides powerful, on the ground evidence of the remaking of working-class identity and politics that will spark new tensions but also open up the possibility for shifting alliances and new possibilities.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

Online

• Oxford Scholarship Online