Masters of Craft : Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy
In today's new economy in which "good" jobs are typically knowledge or technology based many well-educated and culturally savvy young people are instead choosing to pursue traditionally low-status manual labor occupations as careers. Masters of Craft looks at the renaissance of four s...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press
[2017].
Princeton : 2017. |
| Accés en línia: | Accès Université Orléans et IFPM |
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed May. 17, 2017) La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de 369 p. Cyberlibris (ScholarVox) Corpus Psychologie Sociologie |
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| Sumari: | In today's new economy in which "good" jobs are typically knowledge or technology based many well-educated and culturally savvy young people are instead choosing to pursue traditionally low-status manual labor occupations as careers. Masters of Craft looks at the renaissance of four such trades: bartending, distilling, barbering, and butchering.In this in-depth and engaging book, Richard Ocejo takes you into the lives and workplaces of these people to examine how they are transforming these once-undesirable jobs into "cool" and highly specialized upscale occupational niches and in the process complicating our notions about upward and downward mobility through work. He shows how they find meaning in these jobs by enacting a set of "cultural repertoires," which include technical skills based on a renewed sense of craft and craftsmanship and an ability to understand and communicate that knowledge to others, resulting in a new form of elite taste-making. Ocejo describes the paths people take to these jobs, how they learn their chosen trades, how they imbue their work practices with craftsmanship, and how they teach a sense of taste to their consumers.Focusing on cocktail bartenders, craft distillers, upscale men's barbers, and whole-animal butcher shop workers in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and upstate New York, Masters of Craft provides new insights into the stratification of taste, gentrification, and the evolving labor market in today's postindustrial city |
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| Descripció de l’ítem: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed May. 17, 2017) La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de 369 p. Cyberlibris (ScholarVox) Corpus Psychologie Sociologie |
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| ISBN: | 9781400884865 |
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