Includes bibliographical references.

Work identity without steady work: lessons from stage actors / Robin Leidner -- I'm a teacher, not a babysitter: workers' strategies for managing identity-related denials of dignity in the early childhood workplace / Jennifer Nelson, Amanda Lewis -- Job authority and stratification beliefs / George Wilson, Vincent Roscigno -- Matching up: producing proximal service in a Los Angeles restaurant / Eli Wilson -- Control from on high: cloud-computing, skill, and acute frustration among analytics workers in the digital publishing industry / Michael Siciliano -- The limits of control in service work: interactive routines and interactional competence / Brian Ott -- The walk-in closet: between "gay-friendly" and "post-closeted" work / David Orzechowicz -- Workplace regulation of sexual harassment and federal and state-level legal environments / Julie Kmec, C. Hirsh, Sheryl Skaggs -- Job insecurity and substance use in the United States: stress, strain, and the gendering of precarious employment / Andrew Fullerton, Michael Long, Kathryn Anderson.

Research in the Sociology of Work (RSW) is a twice yearly publication that examines current issues related to the sociology of work. The series provides a comprehensive collection of research focused on the social, economic, political and cultural aspects of work and labour. This volume includes contributions which discuss: work and identity, including the experiences of actors and teachers; authority and control at work, including insights from the hospitality and publishing industries; and issues of gender and sexuality in the workplace, including insights on sexual harassment in the workplace.

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