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High-Touch and Here-to-Stay: Future Skills Demands in US Low Wage Service Occupations:
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This article delves more deeply into the rapidly growing non-professional service occupations in the US and the level of skills these jobs require, with the intention of creating a framework that will reorient future sociological research in this area.Abstract:
Interactive service occupations, requiring face-to-face contact, are rapidly growing in the US as they are typically not susceptible to larger trends of off-shoring and computerization. Yet convent...read more
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Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify caracteristicas relacionadas with the aprendizaje of these habilidades, that include desarrollo profesional docente, curriculo, evaluacion, programas extraescolares and extraescolate, and centros de aprendíe informal como exhibiciones and museos.
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Beyond the Creative City: Cognitive–Cultural Capitalism and the New Urbanism
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a more robust theoretical framework through which contemporary urbanization processes can be described, which shapes the peculiar logic of learning, creativity and innovation that are observed in cities today but also has many wider and deeper impacts on urban outcomes.
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Conceptualising body work in health and social care
TL;DR: The article shows how understanding work undertaken on the bodies of others as 'body work' provides a mechanism for relating work in the sphere of health and social care to that in other sectors, opening up new avenues for research.
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The Care Economy? Gender, Economic Restructuring, and Job Polarization in the U.S. Labor Market:
TL;DR: The U.S. job structure became increasingly polarized at the turn of the twenty-first century as high and low-wage jobs grew strongly and many middle wage jobs declined as discussed by the authors.
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Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels
TL;DR: Zaloom as discussed by the authors compresses Zaloom's ethnographic work to 110 pages, providing at times, a less detailed portrait than may be warranted, as a result, the book does not offer the most compelling evidence to back up some of the characterizations.
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
TL;DR: In this article, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe and provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde.
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Labor and Monopoly Capital
TL;DR: In this paper, the structure of the working class and the manner in which it had changed in the United States were investigated. But the details of this process, especially its historical turning points and the shape of the new employment that was taking the place of the old, were not clear to me, and since these things had not yet been clarified in any comprehensive fashion, there was a need for a more substantial historical description and analysis of the process of occupational change than had yet been presented in print.
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Sample size in qualitative research
TL;DR: Determining adequate sample size in qualitative research is ultimately a matter of judgment and experience in evaluating the quality of the information collected against the uses to which it will be put, the particular research method and purposeful sampling strategy employed, and the research product intended.
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A Classic of Its Time@@@Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century.
TL;DR: In this paper, Braverman analyzes the division of labour between the design and execution of industrial production, which underlies all our social arrangements, and provides insight into the labour process and the conviction to reject the reigning wisdoms of academic sociology.
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Crafting a Job: Revisioning Employees as Active Crafters of Their Work
Amy Wrzesniewski,Jane E. Dutton +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose that employees craft their jobs by changing cognitive, task, and/or relational boundaries to shape interactions and relationships with others at work, which, in turn, alters work meanings and work identity.
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