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100 1 _aFINE, Gary Alan
_929045
245 1 0 _aJustifying work :
_boccupational rhetorics as resources in restaurant kitchens
260 _aIthaca :
_bJohnson Graduate School of Management,
_cMarch 1996
520 3 _aOccupations often have been defined as belonging to a particular class of work, linked to a single occupational rhetoric. In contrast, I argue here that most occupations are segmented in terms of divisions among workers, among work tasks, and among occupational identities. I present evidence from an ethnographic study of restaurant cooks to demonstrate that workers rely on a variety of occupational rhetorics as resources to define their work and their identity. I claim that cooks draw on the alternative rhetorics of profession, art business, and labor to shape how they think of themselves as workers. The paper shows that occupational identity is socially, temporally, and spatially situated, raising the question of when particular rhetorical strategies will be relied upon
773 0 8 _tAdministrative Science Quarterly
_g41, 1, p. 90-115
_dIthaca : Johnson Graduate School of Management, March 1996
_xISSN 00018392
_w
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_cNatália
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_cCarolina
999 _aConvertido do Formato PHL
_bPHL2MARC21 1.1
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