Index

Professional Work: Knowledge, Power and Social Inequalities

ISBN: 978-1-80043-211-6, eISBN: 978-1-80043-210-9

ISSN: 0277-2833

Publication date: 15 October 2020

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(2020), "Index", Gorman, E.H. and Vallas, S.P. (Ed.) Professional Work: Knowledge, Power and Social Inequalities (Research in the Sociology of Work, Vol. 34), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 249-253. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0277-283320200000034015

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INDEX

Note: Page numbers followed by “n” indicate end notes.

Advice, Information, and Referral (AIR)
, 41

Advisory jurisdiction
, 153

African-Americans
, 125, 129–130

American Evaluation Association (AEA)
, 183

American professional workers
, 35

Amicable relations with management
, 232, 237

Articulation work
, 12, 14

Asian Advantage mechanisms
, 86

average racial differences in elite educational credentials
, 90–91

average racial differences in referrals
, 91–92

differential treatment by employers
, 92–93

at InGen by hiring stage
, 97–98

parallel mechanisms
, 90–93

Asian-Americans
, 125, 129–130

Assignment rotation systems
, 122–123

Autonomy
, 3, 12

place of work in professional experiences of
, 16–17

Blacks
, 89–93

Bureaucratic control
, 224

Capital-labor accord
, 222

‘Change-score’ model
, 140n13

Chemistry game
, 40, 54

Class
, 212–215

Client capture
, 171–173

evidence
, 176–179

navigating
, 179–188

Clients, impurity in
, 150, 154–158

Collaboration
, 13, 15

College-educated professionals
, 39

Commitment to organisational goals
, 232

Consent-oriented controls
, 222–223

Contested terrain
, 225

Contingency search firms
, 88, 92

Controls
, 230

forms of
, 240

Coordination
, 15

Coproduction
, 156

Corporate

accountancy
, 173

bankruptcy
, 153

clients
, 155

Covert effort restriction
, 234, 238

Craft production
, 234

Cross-national

comparison
, 34, 36

differences in networking experiences
, 49–53

similarities in networking experiences
, 44–49

Cultural differences
, 55

‘Cultural machinery’ of professional work
, 149

Danish labour market
, 37

De-commodification
, 36

Decision-making, workers’ involvement in
, 227, 234, 238

Declining profit rates
, 222

Democratisation
, 161–162

Demographic characteristics
, 231

Dependent variables
, 233–234

Digital technologies
, 2–3

Direct supervision
, 225

Dirty work
, 147

Discretion-limiting controls
, 223

Discretionary work effort
, 232

supervision
, 238

Dissatisfaction
, 226

Divorce lawyers
, 154

Early responsibility policies
, 121–122

Economic

capital
, 204

recession
, 222

Education
, 86–93

attribution of racial differences in callbacks to racial differences in
, 101–103

establishing racial differences in
, 98–101

Effective formal mentoring
, 121

Elite professional firms
, 116

cultivating competence in professional firms
, 118–119

data and methods
, 124–130

developmental initiatives and minority success
, 119–123

findings
, 130–136

length of partnership track
, 124

Elite(s)
, 196

average racial differences in elite educational credentials
, 86–87, 90–91

unpaid labour
, 198–199

women’s labour
, 201–202

women’s unpaid labour
, 195

Emotional labour
, 5, 34, 56n1, 174–175, 185–187

Employee referrals
, 90–91

Employers
, 222–225, 241

Employment practices
, 117, 119

Equal employment opportunity policy
, 128

Ethics
, 158

Evaluation
, 170

client capture
, 172–173

data and methods
, 175–176

and knowledge work
, 173–174, 187–188

negotiating power and inequality at work
, 174–175

results
, 176–188

Evaluative thinking
, 170

Evaluators
, 170, 176, 184

positionality and practices
, 171

Experimental

design
, 54

study
, 53–54

Expert knowledge
, 3

Expertise
, 1–3, 5, 148

impurity in
, 150–152

Facilitative supervision
, 225

Financialisation
, 222

Firms
, 222, 241

‘First-level’ articulation work
, 14

Food shopping
, 214

Fordist production methods
, 224

Formal knowledge
, 151

Formal mentoring programmes
, 121–122, 138

Formal training programmes
, 122–123, 138

‘Fractional logit’ method
, 130

Frustrated scholars
, 68

Functional flexibility
, 225

Gender
, 212–215

Gendered expertise
, 152

Giant Public University (GPU)
, 63

Globalisation
, 222

Healthcare providers
, 26

High-status professionals
, 148

Higher education
, 62

Hiring screening
, 86–93

Homosocial reproduction
, 87

Human capital, investment in
, 226, 234, 238

‘Husbands’ recognition of work and worth
, 210–212

In-house counsel
, 160

Income
, 60–61

in household
, 65–67

primary income
, 66–67

secondary income
, 65–66

and social status of professions
, 4

Independent variables
, 233–234

InGen
, 93–97

Insecurity
, 228

Institute of Medicine’s report
, 12

Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship programme (IGERT programme)
, 175

Intellectual jurisdiction
, 153

Internal labour markets (ILMs)
, 224, 226

Interstitial fields
, 153

Intraprofessional status
, 149

Intrinsic rewards
, 232, 237

Investment in human capital
, 226, 234, 238

Job insecurity
, 223–225, 227–229, 239–240

Job satisfaction

among non-standard professional workers
, 61–63

importance of pathway to position
, 67–68

income in household
, 65–67

methods
, 63–65

of nonstandard professional workers
, 60

of NTT faculty
, 61

privileged frustrated scholars
, 72–73

privileged teachers
, 69–72

struggling frustrated scholars
, 75–76

struggling teachers
, 73–75

typology of NTT Faculty
, 68–69

university-level descriptive statistics
, 64

Job searching
, 34, 36, 38–39, 53

Jobseekers training to network in United States and Denmark
, 40–44

Jurisdictions, impurity in
, 150, 152–154

Justice
, 227

Knowledge
, 2

work
, 173–174, 187–188

Labor of lifestyle
, 197, 203

Labour process
, 223–227, 235–239

Latinxs
, 89–93, 125, 129–130

Law firms
, 116, 118, 123–125

Lawyers
, 116, 123, 125, 128

Layoffs
, 223, 234–235, 239

Legal jurisdictions
, 154

Legitimacy
, 227

Locum tenens physicians
, 62

Manufacturing discontent

analytic strategy
, 235

current study
, 229–230

data
, 230–231

job insecurity
, 223–225, 227–229, 239–240

labour process
, 223–227, 235–239

measurement
, 232–235

unstandardised coefficients from regression models
, 236

variables, scale components, codes, and descriptive information
, 233

worker orientations
, 225–229

workplace behaviour
, 225–229

Marginal expertise
, 151

Marxist-feminist approaches
, 196–198

‘Meritocratic’ elites
, 202–205

Minority recruitment practices
, 128

Moral entrepreneur
, 155

Multidisciplinary practice (MDP)
, 151

National Association for Law Placement (NALP)
, 124–125

National Research Training grants (NRT grants)
, 171, 175–176

National Science Foundation (NSF)
, 171

Neo-natal intensive care unit (NICU)
, 5, 13, 18–19, 28

Networking
, 33

cross-national differences in networking experiences
, 49–53

cross-national similarities in networking experiences
, 44–49

experiences
, 35

methodology and sample
, 38–40

strategic comparison of United States and Denmark
, 36–38

training jobseekers to network in United States and Denmark
, 40–44

Non-tenure-track positions (NTT positions)
, 60

typology of NTT Faculty
, 68–69

Nonprofessional issues
, 154

Nonstandard

job satisfaction among non-standard professional workers
, 61–63

nonprofessional jobs
, 60

work arrangements
, 60

Numeric flexibility
, 225

Nurse practitioners (NPs)
, 19, 23–25

OLS regression
, 235

On-line distance learning
, 4

Opt-out revolution
, 196

Organisational/organisations

behaviour
, 119

change
, 13, 16, 18

employment practices
, 138

impurity in
, 150, 158–160

restructuring
, 18

sociology
, 119

Parsonian ‘client-type thesis’
, 149

Particularistic manipulation hypothesis
, 90

Partners
, 120

Partnership track length
, 127

Physician-patient partnership
, 12

Physicians
, 25–26

Political mobilisation
, 162

Politics, impurity in
, 150, 160–162

Primary income
, 66–67

Principal Investigators (PIs)
, 171, 182

Privileged frustrated scholars
, 72–73

Privileged teachers
, 69–72

Process of coordination
, 13

Professional autonomy
, 12, 17, 27, 28n1

Professional engagement in articulation work
, 13

data and methods
, 18–20

findings
, 20–26

place of work in professional experiences of autonomy
, 16–17

Professional ethics
, 149

Professional expertise
, 150, 183–185

Professional firms
, 123–124

cultivating competence in
, 118–119

Professional impurities

in clients
, 154–158

in expertise
, 150–152

in jurisdictions
, 152–154

in organisations
, 158–160

in politics
, 160–162

from purity to impurities
, 148–150

Professional jurisdictions
, 154

Professional knowledge
, 2

Professional nonstandard jobs
, 61

Professional occupations
, 6

Professional purity
, 28–29n2

thesis
, 148–149, 156

Professional regression
, 148

Professional service firms
, 138

Professional work
, 79

structural and institutional changes in
, 2–5

‘Professional’ women at home
, 199–201

Professionalisation
, 149

Professionalism
, 148, 150

Professionals
, 147, 172

Professions
, 148, 171–173, 175

Project-term contracts
, 180

Psychiatrists
, 153

Psychiatry
, 153

Public Flagship University (PFU)
, 63

Public service orientation
, 4

Purity
, 148–149

impurity in
, 150

Queuing theory
, 128

Race
, 117, 123

Racial and ethnic inequality
, 84

Rationing services
, 179–181

Reciprocity
, 227

Referrals
, 86

attribution of racial differences in callbacks to racial differences in
, 101–103

average racial differences in
, 87–88, 91–92

establishing racial differences in
, 98–101

Registered nurses (RN)
, 20–23

Reproductive labor
, 196–198, 214

Research on labour process
, 222

Respiratory therapists (RTs)
, 19

Return on Investment (ROI)
, 181

Rules
, 226, 234–235, 240

Science/Technology/Engineering and Math (STEM)
, 181

Second-level articulation work
, 14

Secondary income
, 65–66

Seemingly unrelated estimation (SUEST)
, 97

Self-indulgence
, 208–209

Service orientation
, 1

Silicon Valley high technology companies
, 84

differences in recruiter treatment by applicant race
, 103–106

findings
, 97–106

mechanisms of White and Asian Advantage
, 86–93

research setting, data, and analytic strategy
, 93–97

Skill development
, 118

expressions of commitment to
, 123

Social class structures
, 216n8

Sociology
, 173

State mediation
, 181–183

Street-level bureaucrats
, 174

Structural shifts
, 18–19

Struggling frustrated scholars
, 75–76

Struggling teachers
, 73–75

Supervision
, 225, 234–235

Symbiotic exchange
, 156–157

Teachers
, 67–68

Technical control
, 224

Technology
, 234–235, 240

effects
, 226

Temporary employment
, 223, 234–235, 239–240

Temporary workers
, 241

Tenure-track positions
, 60

Third-level articulation work
, 14

Unemployment
, 50

Unpaid labour
, 212–215

elite
, 198–199

Marxist-feminists and reproductive labour
, 197–198

‘professional’ women at home
, 199–201

Upper-class women
, 200–201

Violations
, 157

Wage-earning status
, 63

White Advantage mechanisms
, 86

average racial differences in elite educational credentials
, 86–87

average racial differences in referrals
, 87–88

differential treatment by employers
, 89–90

at InGen by hiring stage
, 97–98

White collar
, 234

Work

avoiding self-indulgence
, 208–209

legitimating rhetorics of
, 205–209

real work
, 206–208

Worker(s)
, 222, 225, 228, 241

orientations
, 225–229

Workplace

autonomy
, 17

inequality
, 138

relationships
, 231

Workplace behaviour
, 225–229, 231

covert effort restriction
, 238

discretionary work effort supervision
, 238