People at Work: Life, Power, and Social Inclusion in the New Economy

DeVaultCover; 978-0-8147-2003-5-text.pdf; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Ideologies of the Neoliberal Economy; "Hell on My Face": The Production of Workplace Il-literacy; Institutional Technologies: Coordinating Families and Schools, Bodies and Texts; The Promises and Realities of U.S. Microenterprise Development; Work, Disability, and Social Inclusion: The Promise and Problematics of EU Disability Policy; Part II: Mobile Bodies: Incorporation Without Inclusion; Flexible Hiring, Immigration, and Indian IT Workers' Experiences of Contract Work in the United States.;People at Work is noted sociologist Marjorie L. DeVault's groundbreaking collection of original essays on the complexities of the modern-day workplace. By focusing on the lived experiences of the worker, not as an automaton on an assembly line, but as an embodied human of flesh and bone, these essays offer important insight on the realities of the workplace, and their effects on life at home and in communities. With contributions from some of today's top scholars, each essay is a detailed case study of a different aspect of the working world. Compelling, lively, and sometimes chilling, the con.