Authors: Merle Jacobs (Editor), Stephen E Bosanac E
ISBN-13: 9781897160121, ISBN-10: 1897160127
Format: Paperback
Publisher: de Sitter Publications
Date Published: November 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
This book contributes to the overall question of the professionalization of work through detailed theoretical analysis and qualitative research techniques. Readers will explore how race, gender, and class intersect with one's profession and how inequality is situated in the work space. The text will aid in the construction of a reflexive and comprehensive learning environment that is both accessible and pertinent in the contemporary context without negating the importance of historical and foundational theoretical underpinnings.
University and college professors alike will find this book a valuable teaching tool because of its multifaceted approach to the material through practical and current considerations of the contemporary workplace. Further, undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers interested in the fields of work and labor studies, industrial psychology, social psychology, gender studies, race studies, and cultural studies will find this book to be a valuable resource.
Foreword : the professionalization of work : cultures of coercive credentialism | ||
Introduction : the professionalization of work | 1 | |
Ch. 1 | The meaning of occupations and professions : a critical review of the intersections of race, gender, and work in contemporary society | 11 |
Ch. 2 | Theoretical foundations for the study of work and professions | 64 |
Ch. 3 | Professions and the individual : the impact of culture in the control of careers | 90 |
Ch. 4 | Nursing, a pink collar Ghetto? : from semi-professional to professional | 122 |
Ch. 5 | How the profession of nursing can achieve ethnoracial safety through transformative justice | 144 |
Ch. 6 | The professionalization of North American anthropology : the contrasting role models of Franz Boas and Horatio Hale | 165 |
Ch. 7 | Women in the criminal justice professions : stereotypes, challenges, and systemic barriers to entry and advancement | 192 |
Ch. 8 | Wedding planners : a case study of professionalism | 219 |
Ch. 9 | The complex history of credentialism | 251 |
Ch. 10 | Foreign credentials in Canada's multicultural society | 282 |
Ch. 11 | The community college con : "education that works"? | 336 |
Ch. 12 | The power of learning / the learning of power : the path of sociology as a profession | 358 |