Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.
Physical Description:
xii, 230 p. : ill.
General Note:
Based on a field study of a French aeronautic plant, Pierreville (pseudonym), which manufactures airplane engines.
Contents:
The persistence of organizational gray zones -- The motivations and the setting -- Revisiting social systems in organizations -- The side production of homers in factories -- The Pierreville plant: setting and status divides -- The findings -- Retirement homers: an entry into the community -- Homers gone wrong: delimiting the gray zone -- Shades of homer meanings: occupational variations -- The rise and fall of craftsmanship -- Trading in hidden identity incentives -- The implications -- Organizational gray zones as identity distillers -- Identities, control, and moralities -- Appendix A: Data and methods -- Appendix B: Position in the field.
