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Peer Control In The Industrial Workplace, Jay R. Howard
Peer Control In The Industrial Workplace, Jay R. Howard
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This case study of Kleer Windows, a firm which manufactures doors and windows for the recreational vehicles industry argues that the influence of the work group can under certain conditions be harnessed by management in their attempts to control workers. Peer control exists when co- workers seek to monitor and influence each others level of productivity. Data were collected during three summers of ethnographic research. A comparison of the control systems utilized in the production, shipping, and receiving departments at Kleer Windows reveals that peer control is likely to stimulate, rather than inhibit, productivity when two conditions exist. First, when …
National Identities Confronting European Integration, Antonio V. Menéndez Alarcón
National Identities Confronting European Integration, Antonio V. Menéndez Alarcón
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
This article examines the relationships between cultural identification and the process of European integration. Specifically, it describes and analyzes 1) people's cultural attachments to Europe as a common social organization and 2) the connection between people's perception of European integration and the defense of a national cultural identity
Vilifying The Enemy: The Christian Right And The Novels Of Frank Peretti, Jay R. Howard
Vilifying The Enemy: The Christian Right And The Novels Of Frank Peretti, Jay R. Howard
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Peretti's novels provide a clear statement of the worldview of conservative Christians who hold the Bible to be literally true and without error. Not only is the reader presented with doctrinal positions, but the implications of those positions for life in modern society are spelled out as well. In this essay, I analyze Peretti's views of the modern world, its heroes and villains, and argue they are representative of the views of the New Christian Right (Liebman and Wuthnow) in the late 1980s and the 1990s.