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Books--Description
Trevor
Blackwell and Jeremy Seabrook,
Talking Work: An Oral History. London: Faber &
Faber, 1996. Various British working-class experiences.
Ronald
Blythe, Akenfield. Portrait of an English Village.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969.
John
Burnett, ed. Annals of Labour.
Autobiographies of British working-class people 1920-1920.
Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1974.
Lee
Braude, Work and Workers.
New York: Praeger, 1975.
Alasdair
Clayre, Work and Play: Ideas and Experiences of Work and
Leisure.
New York: Harper & Row, 1974.
John
D. Cooke et al., The Experience of Work:
A Compendium and Review of 249 Measures and their Use.
Orlando: Academic Press, 1981.
Kai
Erikson and Steven Peter Vallas, eds.,
The Nature of Work. Sociological Perspectives.
New Haven: Yale, 1990.
Richard
H. Hall, Dimensions of Work.
Beverly Hills: Sage, 1986.
Craig
R. Littler, ed., The Experience of Work. New
York:
St. Martin's, 1985. Social-scientific descriptions.
David
Meakin, Man and Work. Literature and Culture
in Industrial Society.
New York: Holmes & Meier, 1976. Good bibliography.
George
Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1957. Working
reality of England in the Depression.
Daniel
T. Rodgers, The Work Ethic in Industrial America.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
Studs
Terkel, Working: People Talk About What They Do All
Day and How They Feel About
What They Do. New York: Pantheon, 1973.
Keith
Thomas, ed. The Oxford Book of Work. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1999.
Adriano
Tilgher, Work, What It Has Meant to Men through the Ages,
trans. Dorothy Fisher.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1930.
Donald
J. Treiman, Occupational Prestige in Comparative Perspective.
New York: Academic Press, 1977. Questionnaire data
from the 1960's on the social rank of many occupations in
many countries around the world. There is some newer
data in Chap. 9 of Robert A. Rothman, ed., Working:
Sociological Perspectives. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall,1987.
Sandra
Wallman, ed., Social Anthropology of Work. London:
Academic Press, 1979. A range of useful papers.
Simone
Weil, La condition ouvrière.
Paris: Gallimard, 1951.
(Compiled:
May 2000)
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