- A labor demonstration for an eight-hour workday at Haymarket
Square in Chicago turned into a riot when a bomb exploded.
1938
- Principle of paid holidays established in Britain.
July 1, 1939
- U.S. Employment Service (USES) published first Dictionary of
Occupational Titles.
July 2008 - Workers cut to
part-time.
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(AT&T), Barbara Rudolph (1998).
Disconnected: How Six People
from AT&T Discovered the New Meaning of Work in a Downsized
Corporate America. (New York, NY: Free Press, 214 p.).
American Telephone and Telegraph Company; Employees--United
States--Dismissal of--Case studies; Downsizing of
organizations--United States--Case studies; Corporate
culture--United States--Case studies.
Mark S. Albion (2000).
Making a Life, Making a Living:
Reclaiming Your Purpose and Passion in Business and in Life.
(New York, NY: Warner Books, 273 p.). Industrial
management--Vocational guidance; Executives; Career development;
Career changes; Self-actualization (Psychology).
Jay Anthony (1971).
Corporation Man; Who He Is, What He
Does, Why His Ancient Tribal Impulses Dominate the Life of the
Modern Corporation. (New York, NY: Random House, 304 p.).
Industrial sociology; Management; Executives.
James A. Autry (1994).
Life and Work: A Manager's Search for
Meaning. (New York, NY: Morrow, 303 p.).
Management--Philosophy; Management--Poetry; Management--Anecdotes.
Joseph E. Barbeau and William A. Stull (1990).
Learning from
Working: A Guide for Cooperative Education/internship Students.
(Cincinnati: South-Western Pub. Co., 218 p.). Education,
Cooperative--Study and teaching (Internship)--United States;
College students--Employment--United States.
Isadore Barmash (1969).
The Self-Made Man; Success and
Stress, American Style. (New York, NY: Macmillan, 367 p.).
Success in business--Case studies.
--- (1971).
Welcome to Our Conglomerate--You're Fired!
(New York, NY: Delacorte Press, 236 p.). Conglomerate
corporations--United States--Case studies; Consolidation and
merger of corporations--United States--Case studies.
Carol Batrus (9/2005).
When Elephants Fly: One Woman's Journey from Wall Street to
Zululand. (Golden, CO: Fulcrum Pub., 256 p.). Batrus,
Carol, 1951- ; International Wilderness Leadership
Foundation--Biography; Americans--South
Africa--Zululand--Biography; Rural development--South
Africa--Zululand; Zululand (South Africa)--Biography.
Stephen Beaupre, Steve Lafler (2006).
40 Hour Man. (Portland, OR: Manx Media, 244 p.). Former
Co-Publisher of the Cat-Head Comics Imprint, Editor of Buzzard
(90's preeminent comic anthology); Cartoonist Behind BugHouse,
Baja and Scalawag. Beaupre, Stephen; Work--Humor;
Work--Caricatures and cartoons.
All jobs Beaupre
has had in his life; from doing time as a miniature golf lackey,
to going bust in the internet boom; quest to find, hang onto job he
can live with.
Amanda Bennett (1990).
The Death of the Organization Man. (New York, NY: Morrow,
270 p.). Middle managers--United States; Organizational
behavior--United States.
Paul Bernstein (1997).
American Work Values: Their Origin
and Development. (Albany, NY: State University of New York
Press, 368 p.). Adjunct Professor of Management (Rochester
Institute of Technology). Work ethic--United States--History;
Industrialization--United States--History; Public welfare--United
States--History.
Stanley Bing (1992).
Crazy Bosses: Spotting Them, Serving
Them, Surviving Them. (New York, NY: Morrow, 271 p.). Gil
Schwartz (CBS-TV Public relations Executive) Managing
your boss; Executives--Psychology.
--- (2002).
Throwing the Elephant: Zen and the Art of Managing Up.
(New York, NY: HarperBusiness, 201 p.). Gil Schwartz (CBS-TV
Public relations Executive). Managing your boss; Interpersonal
relations--Religious aspects--Buddhism; Zen Buddhism.
Stanley Bing (2007).
Crazy Bosses. (New York, NY: Collins, 288 p. [update of
1992 ed.]). Columnist for Fortune magazine. Managing your boss;
Executives--Psychology. Crazy bosses in all
guises: Bully, Paranoid, Narcissist, Wimp, self-destructive
Disaster Hunter.
Srully Blotnick (1984).
The Corporate Steeplechase:
Predictable Crises in a Business Career. (New York, NY: Facts
on File, 283 p.). Executives--Psychology;
Businesspeople--Psychology; Success in business.
--- (1987).
Ambitious Men: Their Drives, Dreams, and
Delusions. (New York, NY: Viking, 338 p.). Executives--United
States--Psychology; Businesspeople--United States--Psychology;
Success in business; Ambition.
eds. John Bowe, Marisa Bowe & Sabin Streeter (2000).
Gig:
Americans Talk about Their Jobs at the Turn of the Millennium.
(New York, NY: Crown, 548 p.). Working class--Interviews; Working
class--Attitudes; Occupations--Case studies; Employee attitude
surveys.
Michael Broussine & Yvonne Guerrier (1983).
Surviving as a
Middle Manager. (London, UK: Croom Helm, 220 p.). Middle
managers.
John Burnett (1994). Idle Hands: The Experience of
Unemployment, 1790-1990. (New York, NY: Routledge, 368 p.).
Unemployment--Great Britain--History; Labor market--Great
Britain--History; Great Britain--Social conditions--18th century;
Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century; Great
Britain--Social conditions--20th century.
Benjamin Cheever (2001).
Selling Ben Cheever: Back to Square
One in a Service Economy. (New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 286 p.).
Cheever, Benjamin, 1948- ; Employees--United States--Biography;
Displaced workers--United States; Working poor--United States;
Career changes--United States--Case studies; Industries--United
States; United States--Economic conditions--1981-; United
States--Social conditions--1980-.
Robin Patric Clair, Stephanie Bell, Kyle Hackbarth, Stephanie
Mathes (2008).
Why Work?: The Perceptions of a "Real Job" and the Rhetoric of
Work Through the Ages. (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue
University Press, 320 p.). Professor of Communication (Purdue
University); Senior Administrative Assistant for Urban Programming
at the Center for Special Concerns (University of Notre Dame);
Forward Observer, United States Army, in Baghdad; Relations
Assistant for the Indianapolis Colts. Work--Philosophy;
Work--History; Labor--Philosophy; Management--History;
Rhetoric--Social aspects. Contemporary cultural construction of
work; "work" in writings of Aristotle, Plato, Confucius,
St. Benedict, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B.
Du Bois, Mother Jones, Emma Goldman, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber,
Frederick Winslow Taylor, Mary Parker Follett to answer question,
"Can the concept of work be divorced from the thinker's past?"
James G. Clawson ... [et al.] (1992).
Self-Assessment and
Career Development. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 444
p. [3rd ed.]). Career development; Vocational guidance;
Self-evaluation; Job hunting.
eds. Nicholas Coles & Peter Oresick (1995).
For a Living:
The Poetry of Work. (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press,
408 p.). English Professor (University of Pittsburgh), Acting
Director, University of Pittsburgh Press, respectively. Working
class writings, American; American poetry--20th century;
Work--Poetry.
Mihaily Csikszentmihalyi and Barbara Schneider (2000).
Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work.
(New York, NY: Basic Books, 289 p.). Professors of Psychology and
Sociology (University of Chicago). Teenagers--Vocational
guidance--United States; Teenagers--Employment--United States;
Teenagers--United States--Attitudes.
Clark Davis (2000).
Company men: White-Collar Life and Corporate Cultures in Los
Angeles, 1892-1941. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 298 p.). Associate Professor of History
(California State University at Fullerton).
Executives--California--Los Angeles--History; White collar
workers--California--Los Angeles--History; Corporate
culture--California--Los Angeles--History.
"Company man" as pivotal actor in the saga of modern American
history.
George de Mare, with Joanne Summerfield (1976).
Corporate
Lives: A Journey into the Corporate World. (New York, NY: Van
Nostrand Reinhold, 202 p.). Executives--United States--Biography;
Corporations--United States.
Hope Dlugozima, James Scott, and David Sharp (1996).
Six
Months Off: How To Plan, Negotiate, and Take the Break You Need
without Burning Bridges or Going Broke. (New York, NY: Holt,
252 p.). Leave of absence; Sabbatical leave.
Richard Donkin (2001).
Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Evolution of Work. (London,
UK: Texere, 374 p.). Labor--History; Work--History; Labor--Great
Britain--History; Labor--United States--History; Industrial
relations--Great Britain--History; Industrial relations--United
States--History; Labor movement--Great Britain--History; Labor
movement--United States--History.
Barbara Ehrenreich (2005).
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream.
(New York, NY: Metropolitan Books, 256 p.). Displaced
workers--United States; White collar workers--United States; Job
hunting--United States; Downward mobility (Social
sciences)--United States.
Joseph Epstein (1980).
Ambition, the Secret Passion.
(New York, NY: Dutton, 312 p.). Success in business;
Ambition--United States; United States--Social conditions.
John P. Fernandez (1987).
Survival in the Corporate
Fishbowl: Making It into Upper and Middle Management.
(Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 314 p.). Industrial
sociology--United States; Discrimination in employment--United
States; Executives--United States; Office politics--United States;
Quality of work life--United States.
Martha I. Finney, Deborah A. Dasch. (1991).
A Heritage of
Service: The History of Temporary Help in America.
(Alexandria, VA: National Association of Temporary Services, 116
p.). Temporary employment--United States--History.
Robert H. Frank (1985).
Choosing the Right Pond: Human
Behavior and the Quest for Status. (New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 306 p.). Professor of Economics (Cornell
University). Economics; Welfare economics; Wages; Social status.
Jill Andresky Fraser (2001).
White-Collar Sweatshop: The Deterioration of Work and Its Rewards
in Corporate America. (New York, NY: Norton, 278 p.).
White collar workers--United States; Work environment--United
States.
Howard Gardner, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and William Damon
(2001).
Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet. (New
York, NY: BasicBooks, 304 p.). Job satisfaction; Quality of work life;
Work ethic; Professional ethics.
Barbara Garson (1988).
The
Electronic Sweatshop: How
Computers Are Transforming the Office of the Future into the
Factory of the Past. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 288 p.).
Office practice--Automation; Business--Data processing;
Clerks--Effect of automation on.; Professional employees--Effect
of automation on.
--- (1994).
All the Livelong Day: The Meaning and Demeaning
of Routine Work. (New York, NY: Penguin, 271 p. [rev. and
updated]). Working class--United States--Interviews; Man-woman
relationships--United States--History--19th century; Work;
Clerks--Effect of automation on; Professional employees--Effect of
automation on.
Jonathan Gershuny (2000).
Changing Times: Work and Leisure
in Postindustrial Society. (New York, NY: Oxford University
Press, 304 p.). Economics--Sociological aspects;
Work--Sociological aspects; Leisure--Sociological aspects;
Time--Sociological aspects.
Adrian Gostick and Scott Christopher (2008).
The Levity Effect: Why It Pays To Lighten Up. (Hoboken,
NJ: John Wiley, 240 p.). Humor in the workplace.
Power of humor,
fun in business world: 1) lighthearted leaders
earn more on average than peers; 2)
entertaining workplaces have more loyal employees, customers;
3) humorous employees are vastly more likely to
get promoted--especially to senior-level jobs; 4) "Great" companies
consistently earn significantly higher marks for "fun."
Miriam Goodman (1996).
Commercial Traveler: Poems.
(Truro, MA: Garden Street Press, 60 p.). Poems about the world of
work.
David M. Gordon (1996).
Fat and Mean: The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the
Myth of Managerial "Downsizing". (New York, NY: Martin
Kessler Books, 320 p.). Radical Economist (New School for Social
Research). Industrial management--United States;
Bureaucracy--United States; Corporations--United States;
Downsizing of organizations--United States; Wages--United States;
Labor productivity--United States.
Joanne Gordon (2005).
Be Happy at Work: 100 Women Who Love Their Jobs, and Why.
(New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 327 p.). Contributing Editor
(Forbes). Women employees--Job satisfaction; Women
employees--Interviews.
--- (2006).
Career Bliss: Secrets from 100 Women Who Love Their Work.
(New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 334 p.). Contributing Editor
(Forbes). Women employees--Job satisfaction; Women
employees--Interviews. Happy 100 - a diverse
group of women who love their jobs unequivocally.
William Graebner (1980).
A History of Retirement: The
Meaning and Function of an American Institution, 1885-1978.
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 293 p.). Retirement--United
States.
Francis Green (2006).
Demanding Work: The Paradox of Job Quality in the Affluent Economy.
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 252 p.). Professor of
Economics (University of Kent in Canterbury, England). Quality of
work life; Job satisfaction; Work--Social aspects.
What individuals, firms, unions, and
governments can do to counter declining job quality.
Steven Greenhouse (2008).
The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker. (New
York, NY: Knopf, 384 p.). Labor and Workplace Correspondent (The
New York Times). Industrial relations--United
States--History--21st century; Working class--United
States--Economic conditions--21st century; Middle class--United
States--Economic conditions--21st century; Industrial
policy--United States--History--21st century; Equality--United
States; United States--Economic policy--21st century.
Wages have stagnated, health and pension
benefits have grown stingier, job security has shriveled; why so many corporations squeeze workers;
how economic, business, political, social trends have fueled squeeze; how
massive layoffs of factory and office workers, Wall Street’s
demands for ever-higher profits has damaged social contract
between employers, employees over last three decades, replaced by
startling contradiction: corporate profits, economic growth,
worker productivity have grown strongly while worker pay has
languished, Americans face ever-greater pressures to work harder,
longer.
Leland Gregory (2004).
Idiots at Work: Chronicles of
Workplace Stupidity. (Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Pub.,
240 p.). Work; workplace--humor.
Jack L. Groppel with Bob Andelman (2000).
The Corporate
Athlete: How to Achieve Maximal Performance in Business and Life.
(New York, NY: Wiley, 293 p.). Success in business--Health
aspects; Executives--Health and hygiene; Businesspersons--Health
and hygiene; Performance--Health aspects; Physical fitness;
Nutrition; Job stress; Job stress; Performance--Health aspects;
Executives--Health and hygiene; Success in business--Health
aspects; Business people--Health and hygiene.
Bernard Haldane; with a foreword by Peter F. Drucker (1996).
Career Satisfaction and Success: A Guide to Job and Personal
Freedom. (Indianapolis, IN: JIST Works, 297 p. [rev, enl.
ed.]). Job satisfaction; Success.
Charles B. Handy (1998).
The Hungry Spirit : Beyond
Capitalism : A Quest for Purpose in the Modern World. (New
York, NY: Broadway Books, 267 p.). Capitalism--Moral and ethical
aspects; Values; Individualism.
--- (1999).
Waiting for the Mountain to Move : Reflections
on Work and Life. (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 153 p.
[orig. pub. in 1992]). Meditations; Christian Life.
F.T. Haner, Steven K. Keiser, Donald J. Puglisi and Margaret
Pyle Hassert, editor (1976).
Introduction to Business: Concepts
and Careers. (Cambridge, MA: Winthrop Publishers, 564 p.).
Business; Vocational guidance.
F. A. (Floyd Arthur) Harper (1957). Why Wages Rise. (New
York, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, 124 p.).
Wages--United States.
Charles Heckscher (1995).
White-Collar Blues: Management
Loyalties in an Age of Corporate Restructuring. (New York, NY:
Basic Books, 224 p.). Chairman of Labor Studies and Employment
Relations Department (Rutgers). Corporate reorganizations;
Employee loyalty.
Steven Heine (2005).
White Collar Zen: Using Zen Principles To Overcome Obstacles and
Achieve Your Career Goals. (New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 198 p.). Professor of Religious Studies and
History, Director, Institute for Asian Studies, Director,
Institute for Judaic and Near Eastern Studies (Florida
International University). Management--Religious
aspects--Buddhism; Leadership--Religious aspects--Buddhism;
Business--Religious aspects--Buddhism; Interpersonal
relations--Religious aspects--Buddhism; Organizational
behavior--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
Linda A. Hill (1992).
Becoming a Manager: Mastery of a New
Identity. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 331 p.).
Career changes; Management. Setting the stage -- Reconciling
expectations -- Moving toward a managerial identity -- Exercising
authority -- Managing subordinates' performance -- Gaining
self-knowledge -- Coping with the stresses and emotions --
Critical resources for the first year -- Easing the
transformation.
Robert M. Hochheiser (1987). How To Work for a Jerk.
(New York, NY: Vintage Books, 227 p.). Managing your boss.
Arlie Russell Hochschild (1997).
The Time Bind: When Work
Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work. (New York, NY:
Metropolitan Books, 316 p.). Sociologist. Dual-career
families--United State; Work and family--United States; Sex
role--United States; Working mothers--United States.
Harvey A. Hornstein (1996).
Brutal Bosses and Their Prey.
(New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 172 p.). Retired Professor
(Columbia). Employees--Abuse of; Executives--Professional ethics;
Cruelty; Hostility (Psychology).
--- (2003).
The Haves and the Have Nots: The Abuse of Power
and Privilege in the Workplace-- and How To Control It. (Upper
Saddle River, NJ: Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 177 p.).
Leadership; Leadership--Moral and ethical aspects; Organizational
behavior; Supervision of employees.
Hank Johnson (1990).
The Corporate Dream: Making It Big in
Business. (New York, NY: Carol Pub. Group, 218 p.).
Spiegel--Case studies; Success in business--United States--Case
studies.
Tim Johnston with Laura Lorber and Perri Capell (2003).
Diary of a Job Search: One Man's Journey from Unemployment to a
New Career. (Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 193 p.). Job
hunting--United States.
Robert L. Jolles Jolles; foreword by F.W. Sanzenbacher (2006).
The Way of the Road Warrior: Lessons in Business and Life from the
Road Most Traveled. (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 256
p.). President of Jolles Associates, Inc., Independent Training
Consulting Firm. Business travel.
Insights
on the sometimes difficult balancing act between work, travel, and
family.
Alice Kessler-Harris (2003).
Out to Work: A History of
Wage-Earning Women in the United States. (New York, NY: Oxford
University Press, 414 p. [20th anniversary ed.]).
Women--Employment--United States--History; Working class
women--United States--History.
Barbara Killinger (1992).
Workaholics: The Respectable
Addicts. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 236 p.). Workaholism;
Workaholics--Family relationships.
Jon King (2004).
Seven Months Deep. (Omaha, NE: iUniverse, 152 p.). Job
hunting--Case studies.
Compiled by Allen Klein (2006).
WorkLaughs: Quips, Quotes, and Anecdotes About Making a Buck.
(New York, NY: Gramercy Books, 128 p.). Work--Quotations, maxims,
etc. ; Work--Humor. Funny side of many
aspects of the workplace .
Kathy Kolbe (1993).
Pure Instinct: Business’ Untapped Resource. (New York, NY:
Times Books, 347 p/). Creative ability in business' Success in
business; Employee motivation; Achievement motivation.
John N. Kotre, Ph.D. (1999).
Make It Count: How To Generate
a Legacy that Gives Meaning to Your Life. (New York, NY: Free
Press, 246 p.). Adulthood--Psychological aspects;
Adulthood--Psychological aspects--Case studies; Children and
adults; Children and adults--Case studies; Generativity.
John P. Kotter (1982).
The General Managers.
(New York, NY: Free Press, 221 p.). Executives--United
States--Case studies; Executive ability--Case studies.
Angel Kwolek-Folland (1994).
Engendering Business: Men and
Women in the Corporate Office, 1870-1930. (Baltimore, MD:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 256 p.). Businesswomen--United
States--History--19th century; Businesswomen--United
States--History--20th century; Sexual division of labor--United
States--History--19th century; Sexual division of labor--United
States--History--20th century; Man-woman relationships--United
States--History--19th century; Man-woman relationships--United
States--History--20th century.
Paul Leinberger, Bruce Tucker (1991).
The New
Individualists: The Generation after The Organization Man.
(New York, NY: HarperCollins, 454 p.). Whyte, William.
Organization man; Individualism--United States; Baby boom
generation--United States; Organizational behavior--United States;
Social ethics; United States--Social conditions--1945-.
Patrick Lencioni (2007).
The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Management Fable About
Helping Employees Find Fulfillment in Their Work. (San
Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 272 p.). President of The Table Group.
Job satisfaction; Career development; Employee motivation.
Three elements that make work miserable --
irrelevance, immeasurability, anonymity; keys to make any job more
fulfilling; benefits of managing for job fulfillment within
organizations (increased productivity, greater retention,
competitive advantage).
Steve Lessard and Bill Baldwin (2000).
Netslaves: True Tales
of Working the Web. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 246 p.).
Internet industry--Employees--Interviews; Computer
industry--Employees--Interviews; Internet (Computer
network)--Social aspects; World Wide Web (Information retrieval
system)--Social aspects; Information society.
Robert Levering (1988).
A Great Place To Work: What Makes
Some Employers So Good, and Most So Bad. (New York, NY: Random
House, 312 p.). Personnel management--United States; Job
satisfaction--United States; Quality of work life--United States;
Work environment--United States.
Sydney Lewis (2000).
Help Wanted: Tales from the First Job
Front. (New York, NY: New Press, 310 p.). Job hunting; Work;
Youth--Employment; Youth--Attitudes.
Harvey Mackay (2004).
We Got Fired!: --And It's the Best
Thing That Ever Happened to Us. (New York, NY: Ballantine
Books, 368 p.). Employees--Dismissal of--Case studies; Job
hunting--Case studies; Vocational guidance.
Nancy MacLean (2006).
Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Work Place.
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 454 p.). Professor of
History and African American Studies (Northwestern University).
Discrimination in employment--United States; Sex discrimination in
employment--United States; Minorities--United States;
Segregation--United States. Struggle to
achieve racial and sexual equality in the workplace in the last 50
years.
Nikki Mandell (2002).
The Corporation as Family: The Gendering of Corporate Welfare,
1890-1930. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina
Press, 208 p.). Assistant Professor of History (University of
Wisconsin-Whitewater). Industrial welfare--History.
Tom Markert (2005).
You Can't Win a Fight with Your Boss: And 55 Other Rules for
Success. (New York, NY: HarperBusiness, 160 p.). Global
Chief Marketing and Client Service Officer (ACNielsen). Career
development--Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Success in
business--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
How do I work with my boss?
Dr. Alan Angus McLean (1986). High Tech Survival Kit:
Managing Your Stress. (New York, NY: Wiley, 98 p.).
Psychiatrist. High technology--Psychological aspects; Stress
(Psychology).
Dr. Alan Angus McLean and Graham C. Taylor (1958). Mental
Health in Industry. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 262 p.).
Psychiatrist. Medicine, Industrial; Mental health; Psychology,
Industrial. Seminal work, in lay terms, on how corporate managers
can foster well-being in the workplace.
John McPhee (1997).
Irons in the Fire. (New York, NY:
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 215 p.). Collection of seven New Yorker
essays in analysis of men (and women) at work.
G. J. Meyer (1995).
Executive Blues: Down and Out in
Corporate America. (New York, NY: Franklin Square Press, 245
p.). Meyer, G. J., 1940- ; Executives--Dismissal of--United
States--Case studies; Job security--United States--Case studies;
Middle aged persons--Employment--United States--Case studies;
Corporate culture--United States--Case studies.
C. Wright Mills (1951).
White Collar; The American Middle
Classes. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 378 p.).
Middle class--United States; White collar workers--United States.
Wilbert E. Moore (1975).
The Conduct of the Corporation.
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 292 p. [orig. pub. 1962]).
Corporations; Corporations--United States; Organization;
Industrial sociology.
William J. Morin and James C. Cabrera (1991).
Parting
Company: How To Survive the Loss of a Job and Find Another
Successfully. (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 387
p. [2nd ed.]). Chairman, Vice Chairman, Drake Beam Morin.
Employees--Dismissal of; Executives--Dismissal of; Job hunting.
ed. John Murphy, Sheila E. Murphy and John G. Sperling (1991).
The Literature of Work : Short Stories, Essays, and Poems / by
Men and Women of Business. (Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix
Press, 314 p.). American literature -- 20th century; Work in
literature.
Gary Namie and Ruth Namie (2000).
The Bully at Work: What
You Can Do To Stop the Hurt and Reclaim Your Dignity on the Job.
(Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 287 p.). Bullying in the workplace.
Jacob Needleman (1991).
Money and the Meaning of Life.
(New York, NY: Doubleday, 321 p.). Philosophy Professor (San
Francisco State). Wealth--Religious aspects; Spiritual life.
Jerry Newman (2006).
My Secret Life on the McJob: Lessons from Behind the Counter
Guaranteed to Supersize Any Management Style. (New York,
NY: McGraw-Hill, 240 p.). University Distinguished Teaching
Professor (State University of New York at Buffalo). Fast food
restaurants--United States; Fast food restaurants--Social aspects;
Restaurant management. College professor went undercover as bottom-rung
worker for the biggest names in fast food; each restaurant's respective manager determined
climate of work environment.
Ed. with introduction by Nancy A. Nichols; foreword by Rosabeth
Moss Kanter (1994).
Reach for the Top: Women and the Changing
Facts of Work Life Harvard Business Review, 185 p.). Women
executives--United States; Sex role in the work
environment--United States; Sex discrimination in
employment--United States; Women--Employment--United States.
Christena E. Nippert-Eng (1996).
Home and Work: Negotiating
Boundaries through Everyday Life. (Chicago, IL: University of
Chicago Press, 325 p.). Organizational sociology; Work and family;
Corporate culture; Social psychology.
Michael Novak (1996).
Business as a Calling: Work and the
Examined Life. (New York, NY: Free Press, 246 p.). George
Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion and Public Policy (American
Enterprise Institute in Washington). Work ethic.
Meaning of work as a vocation.; should be
more than just a job -- it should be a calling; how to make a life
through making a living.
Wayne E. Oates (1971).
Confessions of a Workaholic: The
Facts About Work Addiction. (New York, NY: World Pub. Co., 112
p.). Professor of Psychiatry/Behavioral Sciences (University of
Louisville). Workaholism. Invented the word "workaholic".
--- (1978).
Workaholics: Make Laziness Work for You.
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 132 p.). Professor of
Psychiatry/Behavioral Sciences (University of Louisville).
Workaholics; Workaholism.
Vance O. Packard (1962).
The Pyramid Climbers. (New
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