Class acts
Subtitle: an anthropology of service workers and their union
By: E. Paul Durrenberger and Suzan Erem.
Contributors: Erem, Suzan.
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Boulder
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781594510823; 9781594510830
Subjects: Service industries workers -- Labor unions -- United States -- Case studies.; Labor unions -- United States -- Sociological aspects -- Case studies.; Service industries workers -- United States -- Case studies.; Social classes -- United States.; Working class -- United States.; Services (Industrie) -- Personnel -- Syndicats -- États-Unis -- Cas, Études de.; Syndicats -- États-Unis -- Aspect sociologique -- Cas, Études de.; Services (Industrie) -- Personnel -- États-Unis -- Cas, Études de.; Classes sociales -- États-Unis.; Travailleurs -- États-Unis.
Genres: Case studies.; Cas, Études de.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-210) and index.
Table of contents: value: Taking it on the road; value: What a union looks like; value: Being a union rep; value: The anthropology of it; value: Disasters; value: Ritual-here, there, and everywhere; value: Getting a raise; value: The boss over a barrel-the workers' boycott; value: That'll teach you-cognition and practice; value: What does change people's minds?; value: The stories: what we went through to learn it; value: Sifting through the remains; value: Translating anthropology-the proposal; value: Riding with Tiny; value: A day in the life-hurry up and wait; value: We smell a rat; value: The study explodes; value: Report to the local; value: The aftermath; value: An old song.