Moral Gray Zones : : Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant / / Michel Anteby.

Anyone who has been employed by an organization knows not every official workplace regulation must be followed. When management consistently overlooks such breaches, spaces emerge in which both workers and supervisors engage in officially prohibited, yet tolerated practices--gray zones. When discove...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 5 halftones. 4 line illus. 1 table.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Table
  • Preface
  • Introduction. The Persistence of Organizational Gray Zones
  • Part One. The Motivations and the Setting
  • 1. Revisiting Social Systems In Organizations
  • 2. The Side Production Of Homers In Factories
  • 3. The Pierreville Plant: Setting and Status Divides
  • Part Two. The Findings
  • 4 Retirement Homers: An Entry into the Community
  • 5. Homers Gone Wrong: Delimiting the Gray Zone
  • 6. Shades of Homer Meanings: Occupational Variations
  • 7. The Rise and Fall of Craftsmanship
  • 8. Trading in Identity Incentives
  • Part Three. The Implications
  • 9. Organizational Gray Zones as Identity Distillers
  • 10. Identities, Control, And Moralities
  • Appendix A. Data and Methods
  • Appendix B. Position In The Field
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index