occupational communities

the traditional working-class communities formed where industries are able to provide stable employment to workforces. Some such industries (e.g. coalmining, shipbuilding) are concentrated in particular neighbourhoods, others (e.g. printing newspapers) involve unsocial hours. LOCKWOOD characterized the kind of worker found in occupational communities as ‘traditional proletarian’. see CLASS IMAGERY.

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Due to comparative based approach in different occupational communities the present study is of particular importance and interest.

Health education interventions should be imposed to reduce transmission and reinfection in the studied occupational communities. This study will serve as a benchmark for successive post-intervention surveys and analysis.

Prevalence of Potentially Important Intestinal Pathogenic Protozoan Parasitic Infections in Different Occupational Groups of Swat, Pakistan

While access to informal channels of communication are a benefit of communities of practice, at StatNet the benefit is unique in that participants access channels of informal communication across organizations, but also across and within occupational communities. This cross-group communication builds community.

KNOWLEDGE BY ASSOCIATION: COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE IN PUBLIC MANAGEMENT

Although Ubisoft keeps track of its occupational communities, none of the firm's knowing communities are formally organized; they are not official entities with clear-cut boundaries.

Knowing communities in the front end of innovation: a videogame developer nurtures and engages with its knowing communities to fuel the front end of innovation

The argument has a long tradition in sociological research, both in studies on strike propensity (the notorious 'isolated mass' (6)), and on 'occupational communities', more specifically those of miners.

'Little Moscows' revisited. What we can learn from French and German cases

Work is a social activity, and the creation of occupational communities is one of its most important consequences, often helping to cement the ideological power of employers and thereby to frustrate union efforts to improve the quality of work itself (see Richards 2008 for a recent case study).

David A. Spencer. The Political Economy of Work

These are essentially 'occupational communities' (Van Maanen and Barley 1984).

Managing intersecting R&D social communities: a comparative study of European 'knowledge incubators' in Japanese and American firms

My own understanding of this phenomenon came about from seeing more clearly that cultures arise in whole occupational communities and that, therefore, parts of organizations are as much a reflection of the occupational backgrounds and experiences of some of their members as they are of their own unique organizational histories (Van Maanen and Barley, 1984).

Culture: the missing concept in organization studies

The emergence of occupational communities and communities of practice around new technology is but one illustration of this trend.

Technological Change at Work, 2d ed

Van Maanen & Barley [39] suggest that it may take more sense to view careers in terms of occupational communities rather than organization.

MIS careers-a theoretical perspective

Besides these, The Nature of Work also includes essays by Rose Coser (sex equity), Lewis Coser (forced labor), Cynthia Epstein (occupational communities), Arthur Stinchcombe (occupational communities), Stanton Wheeler (avocations), Eliot Freidson (volunteer work), Theda Skocpol (work and welfare), Rosabeth Kanter (workplace participation), and Amitai Etzioni and Paul Jargowsky (high-tech jobs).

The Nature of Work: Sociological Perspectives

To account for the contrasting political strategies of unions in the two industries, Marks examines three sets of factors: the effects of labor market conditions on the ability of different groups of workers to sustain their occupational communities and defend their place in the division of labor against technological innovation and market shifts; how international variations in legal environemtns, or different degrees of state repression, shaped the ideological orientations of unions as well as their relations with political parties; and the effects of "organizational revolution," which led to the rise of national unions and the politicization of industrial relations at the turn of the century.

Unions in Politics: Britain, Germany, and the United States in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries