Masters of Craft : : Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy /

Masters of Craft : : Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy / / Richard E. Ocejo.

How educated and culturally savvy young people are transforming traditionally low-status manual labor jobs into elite taste-making occupationsIn today's new economy-in which "good" jobs are typically knowledge or technology based-many well-educated and culturally savvy young men are i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Ocejo, Richard E.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 15 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface. The Daily Grind
  • Introduction. A Stroll through the Market
  • Part I
  • 1. The Cocktail Renaissance
  • 2. Distilling Authenticity
  • 3. Working on Men
  • 4. Show the Animal
  • Part II
  • 5. How Middle- Class Kids Want Working- Class Jobs
  • 6. The Science and the Art
  • 7. Service Teaching
  • 8. Getting the Job
  • Epilogue. Outcomes, Implications, and Concluding Thoughts
  • Methodological Appendix
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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