The Employee : : A Political History / / Jean-Christian Vinel.
In the present age of temp work, telecommuting, and outsourcing, millions of workers in the United States find themselves excluded from the category of "employee"-a crucial distinction that would otherwise permit unionization and collective bargaining. Tracing the history of the term since...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and Culture in Modern America
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION. "A Man Can't Serve Two Masters"
- PART I. The Struggle for Harmony
- CHAPTER 1. The "Employé"
- CHAPTER 2. Struggling Against Class
- CHAPTER 3. The Sociology of Harmony
- PART II. The Battle for Loyalty
- CHAPTER 4. Is a Foreman a Worker?
- CHAPTER 5. The Other Side of Industrial Pluralism
- CHAPTER 6. Loyalty Ascendant
- CHAPTER 7. The Wages of Textualism
- EPILOGUE. Looking for Respect
- Notes
- Index of Cases
- General Index
- Acknowledgments