WORKPLACE ETHNOGRAPHIES

The following is a list of ethnographies about the workplace. We make no guarentee that this list is comprehensive. However, we do guarentee that you will find here many interesting and educational descriptions of the nature of work and worklife.

  • Agar, M. 1986. Independents Declared: The Dilemmas of Independent Trucking. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
  • Allen, M. 1993. Undermining the Japanese Miracle: Work and Conflict in a Coal-Mining Community.
  • Allison, Anne. 1994. Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in A Tokyo Hostess Club. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Applebaum, Herbert. 1981. Royal Blue, the Culture of Construction Workers. New York: Holt.
  • Barker, James R. 1999. The Discipline of Teamwork: Participation and Concertive Control. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Batstone, Eric, Ian Boraston, and Stephen Frenkel. 1978. The Social Organization of Strikes. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
  • Batstone, Eric, Ian Boraston and Stephen Frenkel. 1977. Shop Stewards in Action. Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell.
  • Becker, Howard, B. Geer, E.C. Hughes, and A. Strauss. 1961. Boys in White: Student Culture in Medical School. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Besser, Terry L. 1996. Team Toyota: Transplanting the Toyota Culture to the Camry Plant in Kentucky. Albany: State University of New York Press.
  • Beynon, Huw. 1975. Working for Ford. East Ardsley, England: E.P. Publishing.
  • Beynon, Huw. 1972. Perceptions of Work: Variations Within a Factory. London: Cambridge University Press.
  • Biggart, Nicole. 1989. Charismatic Capitalism: Direct Selling Organizations in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Blau, Peter M. 1963. The Dynamics of Bureaucracy: The Study of Interpersonal Relations in Two Government Agencies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Bosk, Charles. 1992. All God's Mistakes: Genetic Counseling in a Pediatric Hospital. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Bosk, Charles. 1979. Forgive and Remember. Chicago: University of Chicago.
  • Burawoy, Michael. 1979. Manufacturing Consent. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Burris, Beverly H. 1983. No Room at the Top: Underemployment and Alienation in the Corporation. New York: Praeger.
  • Butcher, David. 1980. The Trawlermen. Reading, England: Tops'l Books.
  • Butcher, David. 1979. The Driftermen. Reading, England: Tops'l Books.
  • Casey, Catherine. 1995. Work, Self and Society: After Industrialization. London: Routledge.
  • Cassell, Joan. 1991. Expected Miracles: Surgeons at Work. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  • Cavendish, Ruth. 1982. Women on the Line. Boston, MA: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
  • Chambliss, Daniel. 1996. Beyond Caring: Hospitals, Nurses, and the Social Organization of Ethics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Chapkis, Wendy. 1997. Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor. New York: Routledge.
  • Cherry, Mike. 1974. On High Steel: The Education of an Ironworker. New York: Quadrangle.
  • Chetkovich, Carol. 1997. Real Heat: Gender and Race in the Urban Fire Service. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
  • Chinoy, Ely. 1955. Automobile Workers and the American Dream. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
  • Clack, Garfield. 1967. Industrial Relations in a British Car Factory. London: Cambridge.
  • Cock, Jacklyn. 1989. Maids and Madams: Domestic Workers under Apartheid. London: Women's Press.
  • Cockburn, Cynthia. 1991. In the Way of Women: Men's Resistance to Sex Equality in Organizations. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
  • Cole, Robert E. 1971. Japanese Blue Collar: The Changing Tradition. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Constable, Nicole. 1997. Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Filipina Workers. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
  • Cressey, Peter. 1985. Just Managing: Authority and Democracy in Industry. Philadelphia: Open University Press.
  • Crosset, Todd W. 1995. Outsiders in the Clubhouse: The World of Women's Professional Golf. Albany: State University of New York Press.
  • Crozier, Michel. 1971. The World of the Office Worker (translated by David Landau). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Czarniawska, B. 1997. Narrating the Organization: Dramas of Institutional Identity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Dalton, Melville. 1959. Men Who Manage. New York: Wiley.
  • Delbridge, Rick. 1998. Life on the Line in Contemporary Manufacturing. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    Devinatz, Victor G. High Tech Betrayal: Working and Organizing on the Shop Floor. East Lansing: Michigan University Press.
  • Diamond, Timothy. 1992. Making Gray Gold: Narratives of Nursing Home Care. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • DiFazio, William. 1985. Longshoremen: Community and Resistance on the Brooklyn Waterfront. South Hadley, MA: Bergin & Garvey.
  • Dill, Bonnie Thornton. 1994. Across the Boundaries of Race and Class: An Exploration of Work and Family among Black Domestic Servants. New York: Garland.
  • Dore, Ronald. 1973. British Factory-Japanese Factory: The Origins of National Diversity in Industrial Relations. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Downey, Gary Lee. 1998. The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers. New York: Routledge.
  • Dubinskas, F. 1988. Making Time: Ethnographies of High Technology Organizations. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  • du Gay, Paul. 1996. Consumption and Identity at Work. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage.
  • Edelman, Birgitta. 1997. Shutters at Work: Creating a World in a Railway Yard. Swedish railroad workers.
  • Eisenberg, Susan. 1998. We'll Call You if We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction. Ithaca, NY: ILR/Cornell University Press.
  • Fine, Gary Alan. 1998. Morel Tales: The Culture of Mushrooming. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
  • Fine, Gary Alan. 1996. Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Fink, Deborah. 1998. Cutting into the Meatpacking Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwest. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
  • Finlay, William. 1988. Work on the Waterfront: Worker Power and Technological Change in a West Coast Port. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  • Fjellman, S. 1991. Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
  • Flowers, Amy. 1998. The Fantasy Factory: An Insider's View of the Phone Sex Industry. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Foner, Nancy. 1994. The Caregiving Dilemma: Work in an American Nursing Home. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Foster, Charles. 1969. Building with Men. London: Tavistock.
  • Fox, Renee. 1959. Experiment Perilous: Physicians and Patients Facing the Unknown. Glencoe, IL: The Free Press.
  • Fried, Mindy. 1998. Taking Time: Parental Leave Policy and Corporate Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  • Friedland, William H. 1971. Migrant: Agricultural Workers in
    America's Northeast    . New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
  • Fruin, W. Mark. 1997. Knowledge Works: Managing Intellectual Capital at Toshiba. New York: Oxford.
  • Fucini, Joseph J. and Suzy Fucini. 1990. Working for the Japanese: Inside Mazda's American Auto Plant. New York: Free Press.
  • Galinsky, Ellen. 1999. Ask the Children: What America's Children Really Think about Working Parents. New York: William Morrow.
  • Gamst, Frederick C. 1980. The Hoghead: An Industrial Ethnology of the Locomotive Engineer. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston.
  • Gardner, Burleigh and William Foote Whyte. 1945. The Man in the Middle: Position and Problems of the Foreman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Gee, James Paul. 1997. The New Work Order. Westview.
  • Geschwender, James A. 1977. Class, Race, and Worker Insurgency: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Gouldner, Alwin. 1964. Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy. New York: Free Press.
  • Gouldner, Alvin Ward. 1954. Wildcat Strike. Yellow Springs Ohio: Antioch.
  • Graham, Laurie. 1995. On the Line at Subaru-Isuzu. Ithaca, NY: Industrial and Labor Relations Press.
  • Granfield, Robert. 1992. Making Elite Lawyers. New York: Routledge.
  • Greenberg, E.S. 1986. Workplace Democracy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
  • Grenier, G.J. 1988. Inhuman Relations: Quality Circles and Anti-Unionism in American Industry. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  • Gyllenhammar, Pehr G. 1977. People at Work. Reading, MA.: Addison-Wesley.
  • Haas, J. 1987. Becoming Doctors: The Adoption of a Cloak of Competence. Greenwich, CN: JAI Press.
  • Halle, David. 1984. America's Working Man. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Hamper, Ben. 1991. Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line. New York: Warner.
  • Haraszti, Miklos. 1978. A Worker in a Worker's State. New York: Universe Books.
  • Harris, Rosemary. 1987. Power and Powerlessness in Industry. London: Tavistock.
  • Henson, Kevin D. 1996. Just a Temp. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  • Hill, Stephen. 1976. The Dockers: Class and Tradition in London. London: Heinemann.
  • Hochschild, Arlie Russell. 1997. The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work. New York: Henry Holt and Company.
  • Hodgeson, R. C., D. J. Levinson, and A. Zalenik. 1965. The Executive Role Constellation: An Analysis of Personality and Role Relations in Management. Boston: Harvard University Press.
  • Homans, George. 1950. The Human Group. New York: Harcourt Brace.
  • House, J.D. 1977. Contemporary Entrepreneurs: The Sociology of Residential Real Estate Agents. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press.
  • Howarth, Glennys. 1996. Last Rites: The Work of the Modern Funeral Director. Amityville, N.Y.: Baywood.
  • Hsiung, Ping-Chun. 1996. Living Rooms as Factories: Class, Gender, and the Satellite Factory Industry in Taiwan. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  • Hughes, Everett C. 1958. Men and Their Work. Glencoe, IL: Free Press.
  • Hunter, K. 1991. Doctor's Stories: The Narrative Structure of Medical Knowledge. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Huws, Ursula. 1984. The Homeworkers' New Technology and the Changing Location of White Collar Work. London: Low Pay Unit.
  • Jackall, Robert. 1997. Wild Cowboys: Urban Marauders and The Forces of Order. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Jackall, Robert. 1988. Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers. New York: Oxford University.
  • Jackall, Robert. 1978. Workers in a Labyrinth: Jobs and Survival in a Bank Bureaucracy. Montclair, NJ: Allanheld and Osmun.
  • Joffe, Carole. 1986. The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family Planning Workers. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  • Johnson, Paula J. (ed). 1988. Working the Water: The Commercial Fisheries of Maryland's Patuxent River. Charlottesville, VA: Calvert Marine Museum and the University Press of Virginia.
  • Juravich, Tom. 1985. Chaos on the Shop Floor: A Worker's View of Quality, Productivity, and Management. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  • Kamata, Satoshi. 1982. Japan in the Passing Lane. New York: Pantheon Books. Translated by Tatsuru Akimoto.
  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. 1977. Men and Women of the Corporation. New York: Basic Books.
  • Kapferer, Bruce. 1972. Strategy and Transaction in an African Factory: African Workers and Indian Management in a Zambian Town. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  • Katz, Pearl. 1999. The Scalpel's Edge: The Culture of Surgeons. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
  • Kesselman, Amy. 1990. Fleeting Opportunities: Women Shipyard Workers in Portland and Vancouver During WWII and Reconversion. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
  • Kidder, Tracy. 1985. House. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
  • Kidder, Tracy. 1981. The Soul of a New Machine. Boston: Little, Brown.
    Kleinman, Sherryl. Opposing Ambitions: Gender and Identity in an Alternative Organization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Kondo, Dorinne. 1990. Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourse of Identity in a Japanese Factory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Kunda, Gideon. 1992. Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  • Kusterer, Kenneth. 1978. Know-How on the Job: The Important Working Knowledge of 'Unskilled' Workers. Boulder, CO: Westview.
  • Latour, B. and S. Woolgar. 1986. Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Lee, Ching Kwan. 1998. Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Leidner, Robin. 1993. Fast Food, Fast Talk: Service Work and the Routinization of Everyday Life. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Linhart, Robert. 1981. The Assembly Line. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
  • Lipset, Seymour Martin, Martin A. Trow, and James S. Coleman. 1956. Union Democracy. Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press.
  • Lloyd, Timothy C. and Mullen, Patrick, B. 1990. Lake Erie Fishermen: Work Identity and Tradition. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
  • Lo, Jeannie. 1990. Office Ladies/Factory Women: Life and Work at a Japanese Factory. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, Inc.
  • Lupton, Tom. 1963. On the Shop Floor: Two Studies of Workshop Organization and Output. New York: Pergamon Press.
  • Manning, Peter. 1977. Police Work: The Social Organization of Policing. Boston: MIT Press.
  • Mansbridge, Jane. 1980. Beyond Adversary Democracy. New York: Basic.
  • Mars, Gerald and Michael Nicod. 1984. The World of Waiters. London: George Allen and Unwin.
  • Marsh, Robert M. and Hiroshi Mannari. 1976. Modernization and the Japanese Factory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • Martin, Susan Ehrlich. 1980. Breaking and Entering: Policewomen on Patrol. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • McCarl, Robert. 1985. The District of Columbia's Fire Fighters' Project: A Case Study in Occupational Folklife. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
  • McNally, Fiona. 1979. Women for Hire. New York: St. Martin.
  • Mers, Gilbert. 1988. Working the Waterfront: The Ups and Downs of A Rebel Longshoreman. Austin: University of Texas Press.
  • Milkman, Ruth 1997. Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Miller, Gale. 1997. Becoming Miracle Workers: Language and Meaning in Brief Therapy. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
  • Miller, Gale. 1991. Enforcing the Work Ethic: Rhetoric and Everyday Lie in a Work Incentive Program. Albany: State University of New York Press.
  • Millman, Marcia. 1976. The Unkindest Cut: Life in the Backrooms of Medicine. New York: Morrow.
  • Morrill, Calvin. 1995. The Executive Way: Conflict Management in Corporations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Nash, J. 1989. From Tank Town to High Tech: The Clash of Community and Industrial Cycles. New York: State University of New York Press.
  • Nichols, Theo. 1977. Living with Capitalism: Class Relations and the Modern Factory. London: Routledge.
  • Nippert-Eng, Christena E. 1996. Home and Work: Negotiating Boundaries through Everyday Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Ogasawara, Yoko. 1998. Office Ladies and Salaried Men: Power, Gender, and Work in Japanese Companies. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
  • Ong, Aihwa. 1987. Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia. Albany: State University of New York Press.
  • Orbach, Michael. 1977. Hunters, Seamen and Entrepreneurs. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Orr, Julian. 1996. Talking about Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job. New York: Cornell University Press.
  • Ospina, Sonia. 1996. Illusions of Opportunity: Employee Expectations and Workplace Inequality. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.
  • Ouellet, Lawrence J. 1994. Petal to the Metal: The Work Lives of Truckers. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  • Palm, Goran. 1977. The Flight from Work. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
  • Park, K. 1997. The Korean American Dream: Immigrants and Small Business in New York City. New York: Cornell University Press.
  • Paules, Greta Foff. 1991. Dishing it Out: Power and Resistance among Waitresses in a New Jersey Restaurant. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  • Perry, Stewart E. 1978. San Francisco Scavengers: Dirty Work and the Pride of Ownership. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Pfeffer, Richard M. 1979. Working for Capitalism. New York:
    Columbia University Press.
  • Pierce, Jennifer. 1995. Gender Trials: Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Pilcher, William W. 1972. The Portland Longshoremen: A Dispersed Urban Community. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.
  • Pine, Vanderlyn R. 1965. Caretaker of the Dead: The American Funeral Director. New York: Irvington.
  • Pollert, Anna. 1981. Girls, Wives, Factory Lives. London: MacMillan.
  • Power-Waters, Brian. 1980. Margin for Error? None. Chestertown, MD: Pierce.
  • Rabinow, P. 1996. Making PCR: A Story of Biotechnology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Ram, Monder. 1994. Managing to Survive: Working Lives in Small Firms. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Reiter, Ester. 1992. Making Fast Food: From the Frying Pan into the Fryer. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.
    Rinehart, James W., Christopher Huxley and David Robertson. 1997. Just Another Car Factory? Lean Production and Its Discontents. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
  • Roberson, James. 1998. Japanese Working Class Lives: An Ethnographic Study of Factory Workers. London: Routledge.
  • Roberts, Glenda. 1994. Staying on the Line: Blue-Collar Women in Contemporary Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
  • Rollins, Judith. 1985. Between Women: Domestics and Their Employers. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  • Rosenblum, Jonathan D. 1998. Copper Crucible: How the Arizona Miners' Strike of 1983 Recast Labor-Management Relations in America. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press.
  • Rubinstein, Jonathan. 1973. City Police. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  • Russell, Bob. 1999. More with Less: Work Reorganization in the Canadian Mining Industry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Rutten, Rosanne. 1982. Women Workers of Hacienda Milagros. Amsterdam: Universiteit van Amsterdam.
  • Salahuddin, Ameena. 1989. Factory Work: Is It Worth It? Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
  • Sanders, Michael S. 1999. The Yard: Building a Destroyer at the Bath Iron Works. New York: Harper Collins.
  • Santino, Jack. 1989. Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle: Stories of Black Pullman Porters. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
  • Savage, C. H. 1986. Sons of the Machine. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Schrank, Robert. 1983. Industrial Democracy at Sea: Authority and Democracy on a Norwegian Freighter. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Seider, Maynard, 1984. A Year in the Life of a Factory. San Pedro, CA: Singlejack Books.
  • Simonds, Wendy. 1996. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
  • Smigel, Erwin O. 1969. The Wall Street Lawyer: Professional Organizational Man? New York: Free Press.
  • Smith, Chris. 1987. Technical Workers: Class, Labour and Trade Unionism. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
  • Smith, Vicki. 1990. Managing in the Corporate Interest: Control and Resistance in an American Bank. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Spencer, Charles. 1977. Blue Collar: An Internal Examination of the Workplace. Chicago: Lakeside Press.
  • Spradley, James P. and Brenda J. Mann. 1975. The Cocktail Waitress: Woman's Work in a Man's World. New York: Wiley.
  • Stross, Randall E. 1999. eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work. Crown Business.
  • Sudnow, David. 1967. Passing On: The Social Organization of Dying. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
  • Swerdlow, Marian. 1998. Underground Women: My Four Years as a New York City Subway Conductor. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  • Theriault, Reg. 1978. Longshoring on the San Francisco Waterfront. San Pedro, CA: Singlejack Books.
  • Thomas, Robert. 1994. What Machines Can't Do: Politics and Technology in the Industrial Enterprise. Berkeley: University of California.
  • Thomas, Robert. 1985. Citizenship, Gender, and Work: Social Organization of Industrial Agriculture. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Travers, Max. 1997. The Reality of Law: Work and Talk in a Firm of Criminal Lawyers. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate.
  • Traweek, S. 1988. Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physics. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
  • Tucker, James. 1999. The Therapeutic Corporation. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Turner, Steve. 1980. Night Shift in a Pickle Factory. San Pedro, CA: Singlejack Books.
  • Vecsey, George. 1974. One Sunset a Week: The Story of a Coal Miner. New York: E.P. Dutton.
  • Wajcman, Judy. 1983. Women in Control: Dilemmas of a Workers' Co-operative. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press.
  • Walker, Charles R. [1977] 1957. Toward the Automatic Factory: A Case Study of Men and Machines. New Haven, CN: Yale University Press.
  • Walker, Charles R., and Robert H. Guest. 1952. The Man on the Assembly Line. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
  • Walker, Charles R., Robert H. Guest and Arthur N. Turner. [1987] 1956. The Foreman on the Assembly Line. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
  • Walsh, John. 1993. Supermarkets Transformed. Rutgers/Rose Monograph. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
  • Warner, W. L. and J. L. Low. 1947. The Social System of the Modern Factory. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Watson, Tony. 1994. In Search of Management. London: Routledge.
  • Wedderburn, Dorothy. 1972. Workers' Attitudes and Technology. London: Cambridge University Press.
  • Wells, M. J. 1996. Strawberry Fields: Politics, Class and Work in California Agriculture. New York: Cornell University Press.
  • Westwood, Sallie. 1982. All Day, Every Day: Factory and Family in the Making of Women's Lives. London: Pluto Press.
  • Whyte, William Foote. 1961. Men at Work. Homewood, Ill.: Dorsey.
  • Whyte, William Foote. 1948. Human Relations in the Restaurant Industry. New York: McGraw Hill.
  • Williams, Bruce B. 1987. Black Workers in an Industrial Suburb: The Struggle Against Discrimination. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
  • Williams, Claire. 1981. Open Cut: The Working Class in an Australian Mining Town. Boston, MA: Allen and Unwin.
  • Wolcott, Harry F. 1973. The Man in the Principal's Office. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
  • Zavella, P. 1987. Women's Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
  • Zell, Deone. Changing by Design: Organizational Innovation at Hewlett-Packard. Cornell/ILR.
  • Zimmer, Lynn. 1986. Women Guarding Men. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Zussman, Robert. 1992. Medical Ethics and the Medical Profession. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Zussman, Robert. 1985. Mechanics of the Middle Class: Work and Politics among American Engineers. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.