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Managing Overflow in Affluent Societies
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
“It is simply too much” is a common complaint of the modern age. This book looks at how people and institutions deal with overflow - of information, consumption or choices. The essays explore the ways in which notions of overflow – framed in terms of excess and abundance or their implicit...
Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
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Casting the Other
The Production and Maintenance of Inequalities in Work Organizations
Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
Casting the Other: Maintaining Gender Inequalities in the Workplace focuses on the production and maintenance of gender inequalities in organizations. By emphasizing 'difference' as something to be managed many organizations institute the 'problem of difference', and while orgainzations pay...
Published May 1st 2002 by Routledge