Research in the Sociology of Work.

Front Cover -- Research in the Sociology of Work -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Editorial Advisory Board -- List of Contributors -- The Changing Field of Workplace Sociology: An Introduction to Volume 29 -- Note -- References -- Part I: Identity Work -- Work Identity without Steady Work: Lessons from Stage Actors -- Work Identity, Contingent Work, and Artistic Work -- Acting the Part -- Data -- I am an Actor -- Challenges to Identity -- Prospects for Making a Living -- Identity Threats -- Sacrifices -- Sustaining Identity -- The Longer Term -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- "I'm a Teacher, Not a Babysitter": Workers' Strategies for Managing Identity-Related Denials of Dignity in the Early Childhood Workplace -- Introduction -- Background -- Struggles for Control: Constraints in Interactive Service Work -- Workers' Agency: Behaviors that Transform Constraints into Resources -- Identity Processes in the Workplace -- ECE as an Occupation and the Institutional Context of Preschools -- The Study: Methods and Data -- Analysis -- Findings -- Public Daycares -- Private Daycares -- Public Dayschools -- Private Dayschools -- Discussion -- Implications for Theory and Future Research -- Implications for Policy -- Limitations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part II: Authority and Control at Work -- Job Authority and Stratification Beliefs -- Workplace Experiences and Stratification Beliefs -- Stratification Beliefs as a Consequence of Job Conditions -- Stratification Beliefs through Hierarchical Interactions -- Stratification Beliefs as a Function of Managerial Tasks -- Empirical Support and Expectations: Authority and Beliefs -- Data and Methods -- Dependent Variables -- Support for Redistributive Policy -- Functional Necessity of Inequality -- Independent Variables -- Amount of Authority Tasks.

Authority Tenure -- Other Independent Variables -- Ideology -- Workplace and Human Capital Characteristics -- Material Rewards in the Workplace -- Sociodemographic Indicators -- Analytic Strategy and Results -- Authority Tasks and Stratification Beliefs -- The Impact of Authority Task by Tenure and Context, and in the Face of Controls -- Attributing Causation to Authority Experiences -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix -- Matching Up: Producing Proximal Service in a Los Angeles Restaurant -- Introduction -- Producing Interactive Service Work -- Methods -- Match Restaurant -- Assembling Proximal Service -- Doing Proximal Service in Service Interactions -- Discussion and Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Control from on High: Cloud-Computing, Skill, and Acute Frustration among Analytics Workers in the Digital Publishing Industry -- Introduction -- Skill, Technology, and Control -- Pleasurably Immersive Technologies -- Background on Advertising-Supported Media and the Sale of Audiences -- Case Features and Methodology -- Assembling an Audience Commodity -- Separating Measurement from Interpretation -- Discussion -- Labor Process Theory and Control over Skill -- Affectively Binding Technology -- Measuring Skill -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- The Limits of Control in Service Work: Interactive Routines and Interactional Competence -- Introduction -- Controlling Employee Behavior in Frontline Service Work -- Control Strategies of Service Organizations -- Employee Control through Panoptic Surveillance -- Current Research -- Methods -- Findings -- Script Requirements -- Recognizing Interactional Contingencies -- Managing Interactional Contingencies -- Servers' Recognition of Mystery Shoppers and Mystery Shop Potential -- Table Servers -- Counter Workers -- Discussion -- Notes.

References -- Part III: Gender, Sexuality and Precarity -- The Walk-In Closet: Between "Gay-Friendly" and "Post-Closeted" Work -- Introduction -- Background -- Methods -- The Walk-In Closet: Gay Work Culture and the Limits of Post-Closeted Work -- Inside the Walk-In Closet -- Bounding the Walk-In Closet -- Ceiling -- Walls -- Floor -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Workplace Regulation of Sexual Harassment and Federal and State-Level Legal Environments -- The Legal Regulation of Workplace Rights -- Federal Legal Environment -- State-Level Legal Environment -- SH Training Program Content -- Additional Factors -- Data and Methods -- Dependent Variables -- Focal Independent Variables -- Federal Legal Environment -- State-Level Legal Environment -- Controls -- Methods -- Results -- Descriptive Results -- Multivariate Results -- SH Training Program -- Discussion and Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix -- Job Insecurity and Substance Use in the United States: Stress, Strain, and the Gendering of Precarious Employment -- Background -- The Health Consequences of Job Insecurity for Workers -- Substance Use -- Stress Process and Strain -- Job Insecurity and Substance Use -- The Gendering of Precarious Employment -- Data and Methods -- Data -- Measures -- Analytic Strategy -- Results -- Descriptive Statistics and Bivariate Associations -- Logistic Regression Models -- Supplementary Analyses of Intervening Mechanisms -- Discussion and Conclusions -- Limitations -- Future Research and Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix.

This volume includes contributions which discuss: work and identity, including the experiences of actors and teachers; authority and control at work, including insights from the hospitality and publishing industries; and issues of gender and sexuality in the workplace, including insights on sexual harassment in the workplace.

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