Casting the other : the production and maintenance of inequalities in work organizations /

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Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 228 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Management, organizations and society. Management, organizations and society.
Subject:	Sex discrimination in employment. Sex role in the work environment. Sexual division of labor. Sexual division of labor. Sex discrimination in employment. Sex role in the work environment. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11299421

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Other authors / contributors:	Czarniawska-Joerges, Barbara. Höpfl, Heather.
ISBN:	0203994221 9780203994221 0415275016 9780415275019 9780415275026 0415275024 9786610111190 6610111197 9781134477654 1134477651 9781134477609 1134477600 9781134477647 1134477643 0415275024
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-223) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Casting the Other: Maintaining Gender Inequalities in the Workplace focuses on the production and maintenance of gender inequalities in organizations. By emphasizing 'difference' as something to be managed many organizations institute the 'problem of difference', and while orgainzations pay lip-service to ideas of equality, their day-to-day practices may be unchanged and unchallenged. Discrimination of various groups such as women, immigrants and older people continues and its dynamics remain unclear, largely because of the difficulties of studying it in the field. Additionally, vari.
Other form:	Print version: Casting the other. London ; New York : Routledge, 2002 0415275016 0415275024

Table of Contents:

Casting the Other: Introduction,
1. How do statistical aggregates work? About the individual and organizational effects of general classifications
2. Gender order and disorder: the articulation of women and disorder as resources in the establishment of new medical practices
3. The construction of the female entrepreneur as the Other
4. Keeping the veil of otherness: practising disconnection
5. Construction of gender in corporations
6. Individual vs. collective action: gender inequality and women's action strategies in German and Swedish Business firms
7. Gender-neutral gender and denial of the difference
8. The Black Engel: women from the ruins of the National Board of Building
9. The business case for diversity and the 'Iron Cage'
10. Casting the native subject: ethnographic practice and the (re)production of difference

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