Community at work: Working within an occupational community.
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Title
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Community at work: Working within an occupational community.
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Identifier
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AAI9946138
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identifier
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9946138
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Creator
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Baumann, John R.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
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Date
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1999
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Sociology, General | Sociology, Industrial and Labor Relations
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Abstract
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This dissertation explores the experience of work and workplace community for the bar staff of the Jazz Club, where I have previously worked and conducted both participant-observation and interview-based research. My specific aim is to conduct a descriptive analysis of the Jazz Club as a workplace or local occupational community through an exploration of these workers' expressions and interpretations of the nature, meaning and social impact of their work and their workplace. In particular I examine a issues concerning the staffs' experience of the blurring of the traditional boundaries between work and non-work or leisure and the workplace as an occupational community. The central concepts informing this research include workplace or occupational community, culture, social roles, and role conflict/strain.;There are three pails to this dissertation. Part A consists of Chapters 1, 2 and 3. Chapter 1 provides a brief introduction, while Chapter 2 contains a discussion of the methods of data collection and analysis I used in the conduct of this research. In Chapter 3, I develop the conceptual framework for my analysis of the experiences of work and workplace community at the Jazz Club, which is built around the concept of an "occupational community". I both provide an overview of the concept of an occupational community as well as develop a specific analytical framework for its application to my study of the Jazz Club. The main data and analytic sections of the dissertation make up Part B, consisting of Chapters 4 and 5. In these chapters, I pull together the concept of an occupational community and my data---the experiences of work and community at the Jazz Club---as revealed through my participate observation at the club and interviewing with the staff. Specifically, I explore the Jazz Club as an occupational community vis a vis "issues of social identity" (including themes of membership, friendship, involvement and self-image) and "issues of social organization of the work-place and the work". Part C consists of a summary and conclusions, where I discuss the implications of the preceding analysis for the study of work and occupational or workplace communities.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
