People at Work

Marjorie L. DeVault is Professor of Sociology at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She is the author of Liberating Method: Feminism and Social Research and Feeding the Family: The Social Organization of Caring as Gendered Work.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Marjorie L. DeVault Ideologies of the Neoliberal Economy "Hell on My Face" Nancy Jackson and Bonnie Slade Institutional Technologies Alison I. Griffith and Lois Andre'-Bechely The Promises and Realities of U.S. Microenterprise Development Nancy C. Jurik Work, Disability, and Social Inclusion Rannveig Traustado'ttir Mobile Bodies Flexible Hiring, Immigration, and Indian IT Workers' Experiences of Contract Work in the United States Payal Banerjee Economic Restructuring and the Social Regulation of Citizenship in the Heartland Nancy A. Naples Part III The Fictional Worlds of "Unencumbered Workers" 7 Training for Low-Wage Work Brenda Solomon 8 Women's Lives, Welfare's Time Limits Ellen K. Scott and Andrew S. London 9 Personal Responsibility in Professional Work Catherine Richards Solomon 10 "Use What You Have, Be Thankful You Have It" Katrina Arndt Part IV Fiscal Discipline 11 Exploring Problematics of the Personal-Responsibility Welfare State Frank Ridzi 12 The "Textualized" Student Yvette Daniel 13 (Dis)continuity of Care Marie Campbell Conclusion Marjorie L. DeVault* References Contributors Index

"DeVault's brilliant introduction transforms our understanding of work in contemporary North America. The collection as a whole, particularly the institutional ethnographies, expand and deepen her re-vision. A magnificent volume!" - Dorothy E. Smith,of Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People "DeVault has successfully organized these very diverse papers into a coherent collection that examines the way the everyday experiences of people are shaped by wider systems . . . the book is eminently readable and it makes a valuable contribution to professional as well as scholarly literature." (Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare)