There Is a Better Way or Gendering Organizational Analysis

There Is a Better Way: A New Economic Agenda

Author: John Grieve Smith

In this comprehensively updated second edition of his critical analysis of Labour's government, John Grieve Smith argues that if Labour is to break the neoliberal, Thatcherite mould and achieve its long-standing objective of a fairer society, it must adopt radically different policies.

In analysing Labour's shift to the right, John Grieve Smith examines the economic history of the government's current policies. He then considers Labour's approach to the problems of economic and social policy, including the continued erosion of social security benefits and the need for higher and more progressive taxation if the quality of health and education services is to be improved.

Many of these issues are a common feature of economic policy throughout the Western world, and the greatest challenge of coming decades is to develop more effective international institutions in economic and other fields. In this context, John Grieve Smith also debates the future of the EU, and proposes a program of major reforms of the global financial system, in order to make both developing and industrialized countries less vulnerable to unstable financial markets.

This lively and controversial book is a timely contribution to the debate of the future of New Labour.

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Gendering Organizational Analysis

Author: Peta Tancred

"This book offers some of the most forward-looking work available on the topics of gendered organizations and the interrelationship of gender and race. . . . In Gendering Organizational Analysis, one may get a glimpse of the broader domain of gender in organizations, an area infrequently reflected in research conducted in the United States. . . . Gendering Organizational Analysis is not simply applicable to the organizations of others. It also offers insight on the gendering of the institutions within which knowledge is produced." --Academy of Management Review "Gendering Organizational Analysis makes a distinct contribution. . . . The collection succeeds in demonstrating 'that gender makes an overwhelming difference to organizational reality'. . . . Gendering Organizational Analysis is most useful for its accessibility. I will use this book to teach undergraduates in organizational studies. . . . It would also be a useful addition to courses emphasizing the interdisciplinary contributions of gender and feminist studies." --Contemporary Sociology What impact do gender issues have on organizational structure and performance? Why should gender matter in organizational settings? And, how can we better understand organizations through a recognition of women's roles within them? In Gendering Organizational Analysis, the editors approach these questions from a variety of perspectives--structural and post-structural, social, psychological, interactionist, radical, and post-modernist. Contributors examine the core issue of how race and ethnicity are intertwined with gender in organizational settings and outline the concrete differences this issue makes in male-dominated work settings. Theypropose that numerous errors have been made in interpreting organizational operations because traditional approaches to organizational theory are ethnic- and gender-blind. Bringing together the top thinkers and writers on this crucial topic, Gendering Organizational Analysis will interest students and professionals in management, organizational studies, women's studies, sociology, and public administration.

Table of Contents:

	Preface	vii
	Introduction	1
Part I.	Organizational Analysis: A Critique	9
1.	Differential Recruitment and Control: The Sex Structuring of Organizations	15
2.	Room for Women: A Case Study in the Sociology of Organizations	31
3.	Gender and Organizations: A Selective Review and a Critique of a Neglected Area	46
Part II.	Toward Feminism as Radical Organizational Analysis	67
4.	Sex and Organizational Analysis	71
5.	Organization, Gender, and Culture	93
6.	A Feminist Perspective on State Bureaucracy	112
Part III.	From Theory to Application: Explorations in Feminist Organizational Analysis	129
7.	Sex Ratios, Sex Role Spillover, and Sex at Work: A Comparison of Men's and Women's Experiences	133
8.	Women Managers' Perceptions of Gender and Organizational Life	151
9.	"The Clerking Sisterhood": Rationalization and the Work Culture of Saleswomen in American Department Stores, 1890-1960	167
10.	Merit and Gender: Organizations and the Mobilization of Masculine Bias	185
Part IV.	Contemporary Voices	197
11.	An/Other Silent Voice? Representing "Hispanic Woman" in Organizational Texts	201
12.	Using the "F" Word: Feminist Theories and the Social Consequences of Organizational Research	222
13.	Re-Visioning Women Manager's Lives	235
14.	Gendering Organizational Theory	248
	References	261
	Name Index	291
	Subject Index	294
	About the Contributors	303