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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)

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Author Biography: Merle Jacobs

Book Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword : the professionalization of work : cultures of coercive credentialism
Introduction : the professionalization of work1
Ch. 1The meaning of occupations and professions : a critical review of the intersections of race, gender, and work in contemporary society11
Ch. 2Theoretical foundations for the study of work and professions64
Ch. 3Professions and the individual : the impact of culture in the control of careers90
Ch. 4Nursing, a pink collar Ghetto? : from semi-professional to professional122
Ch. 5How the profession of nursing can achieve ethnoracial safety through transformative justice144
Ch. 6The professionalization of North American anthropology : the contrasting role models of Franz Boas and Horatio Hale165
Ch. 7Women in the criminal justice professions : stereotypes, challenges, and systemic barriers to entry and advancement192
Ch. 8Wedding planners : a case study of professionalism219
Ch. 9The complex history of credentialism251
Ch. 10Foreign credentials in Canada's multicultural society282
Ch. 11The community college con : "education that works"?336
Ch. 12The power of learning / the learning of power : the path of sociology as a profession358

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