Working sober : the transformation of an occupational drinking culture /

Americans assume that workers do not drink on the job and that, if they do, it is because they suffer from alcoholism rather than because they are conforming to occupational expectations. William J. Sonnenstuhl disagrees. He contends that some occupational cultures encourage heavy drinking. Moreover...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sonnenstuhl, William J., 1946-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR 1996.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv1nhjjw
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Drinking and Work
  • 2. Understanding the Persistence and Transformation of Intemperate Drinking Cultures
  • 3. The Sandhogs: From Occupational Identity to Community
  • 4. Sandhogging and Intemperate Drinking
  • 5. Transforming the Sandhog Drinking Culture
  • 6. From Occupational Intemperance to Temperance: Reconstructing Occupational Community.