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Exploitation Or Fun?: The Lived Experience Of Teenage Employment In Suburban America, Yasemin Besen-Cassino
Exploitation Or Fun?: The Lived Experience Of Teenage Employment In Suburban America, Yasemin Besen-Cassino
Department of Sociology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Objectivist scholars characterize typical teenage jobs as “exploitive”: highly routinized service sector jobs with low pay, no benefits, minimum skill requirements, and little time off. This view assumes exploitive characteristics are inherent in the jobs, ignoring the lived experience of the teenage workers. This article focuses on the lived work experience of particularly affluent, suburban teenagers who work in these jobs and explores the meaning they create during their everyday work experience. Based on a large ethnographic study conducted with the teenage workers at a national coffee franchise, this article unravels the ways in which objectivist views of these “bad …
Labor Struggles, New Social Movements, And America's Favorite Pastime: New York Workers Take On New Era Cap Company, Victoria Carty
Labor Struggles, New Social Movements, And America's Favorite Pastime: New York Workers Take On New Era Cap Company, Victoria Carty
Sociology Faculty Articles and Research
Contemporary economic globalization, which is driven and regulated primarily by multinational corporations, has a direct impact on workers' lives. Trade agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) tend to be controlled by corporate interests in the wealthy, industrialized nations. Those countries set the agenda to protect the interests of foreign investors and facilitate the mobility of capital, but they do little to protect the interests of labor. In response, workers in both the global North and South have been forced to rely on their own individual efforts to protect themselves against unfair labor practices. This article presents …
Labor And Social Citizenship In Colonial And Postcolonial Modernity: South African Perspectives In A Continental Context, Franco Barchiesi
Labor And Social Citizenship In Colonial And Postcolonial Modernity: South African Perspectives In A Continental Context, Franco Barchiesi
Franco Barchiesi
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Commodification, Economic Restructuring, And The Changing Urban Geography Of Labor In Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Case Of Gauteng Province, 1991-2001, Franco Barchiesi
Commodification, Economic Restructuring, And The Changing Urban Geography Of Labor In Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Case Of Gauteng Province, 1991-2001, Franco Barchiesi
Franco Barchiesi
No abstract provided.