Cheats at work : an anthropology of workplace crime

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Cheats at work : an anthropology of workplace crime

Gerald Mars

Dartmouth, 1994

  • : pbk

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注記

Originally published: London ; Boston : Allen & Unwin, 1982

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-234) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This reprint draws from the fields of management, criminology and the social sciences to explore workplace cheating, or occupational crime. The book avoids psychological explanations of workplace behaviour and instead focuses on the pattern of regularities in kinds of cheating.

目次

  • Part 1 Who gets what, how and from where?: a classification of occupations and their associated fiddles
  • hawk jobs - the small businessman's story, slipping the organization's yoke, time and its manipulation, time, time investment and personal ratings, status and statelessness, moonlighters and breakaways
  • donkey jobs - the supermarket checkout girl's story, time-cycles and rule-bending, speeding up and slowing down, false collusion, repetition and excess, sabotage and control
  • wolfpack jobs - the dustcart crew, dock pilferage, access and support, group controls on limits
  • vulture jobs - the speciality salesman of photocopying machines, training for vulture fiddlers, co-operation and competition, scapegoats, crackdowns and cycles of control, the trained vulture
  • fiddle factors and fiddle-proneness - passing trade, exploiting expertise, gatekeepers, triadic occupations, special efforts/skills, control systems, ambiguity, the conversion and smuggling of goods, anonymity and scale. Part 2 The wider implications: fiddling as crime - big stealing and little stealing, coping with fiddling - the split self, trust relations in obtaining and distributing groups, drinking and its role in distribution, the vocabulary of fiddle groups and the vocabulary of the law, control
  • some implications for industrial relations - resistance to change - attempts at staying loose in a tightening world, individual contracts, total rewards and core and peripheral workers, uncovering covert institutions - the outsider's dilemma, listening to the "music" of fiddlers - some implications for management and unions
  • some economic and political implications - alternative work - the social and black economies in context, cash and cashlessness, economic planning and policy, economic planning and the small business sector, taxation policies and erosion of the tax base, citizens' perceptions of their civic role, what should be done?.

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