All the livelong day : the meaning and demeaning of routine work

Author(s)

• Garson, Barbara

Bibliographic Information

All the livelong day : the meaning and demeaning of routine work

Barbara Garson

（Penguin books）

Penguin Books, 1994

Rev. and updated ed

Description and Table of Contents

Description

"Ranks with some of the best work ever done on labor in the United States."-The Village Voice.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Whistle While You Work 1. Charlie Chaplin Factories Ping-Pong Tuna Fish Lip Gloss Unions: Organizing and Demoralizing 2. Progress Lordstown Lumber: A Means to an End Mink and Medicine Division of Labor/Division of Laborers 3. Paper Clerical Typing at the Kennel Club 4. Computers: Back to the Future The Supervisor Inside the Machine Blue Shield: "Your Claim Is Being Processed" Quotas: What's Countable May Not Be What Counts Use My Real Name Elayne and Spell it with a Y Isolation Resistance Conclusion: It Could Be Different

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Details

• NCID: BA71932635
• ISBN:
  • 0140234918
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 271 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HD8072.5
  • DC20 : 305.5/62/0973
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Working class -- United States -- Interviews
  • LCSH : Work
  • LCSH : Clerks -- Effect of automation on
  • LCSH : Professional employees -- Effect of automation on
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00474814