"In this sparkling book, Michel Anteby challenges managerial images
of polished efficient organizations that relegate employees'
personal relations and private goals to a controlled periphery. As
he focuses a skilled ethnographer's attention on the production of
unauthorized personal objects within a French aeronautical factory,
Anteby gradually reveals a profound truth about paid labor for
others: workers make labor contracts bearable for themselves by
creating space for their own creativity and relations to fellow
workers."--Viviana Zelizer, author of "The Purchase of Intimacy"
""Moral Gray Zones" is superb. Rich, judicious, and well
written, this trenchant portrayal of how control really gets done,
moves the sociology of meaning forward."--Harrison White, author of
"Identity and Control"
""Moral Gray Zones" brings classical mid-twentieth-century
social theory into the twenty-first century. This lively look at a
dying trade--craft workers in the modern factory--has relevance to
almost any work world today. In fine detail, Anteby makes it clear
that beneath surface performance contracts and economic exchanges
at work lies a rich if hidden interaction in which laborers seek
dignity and respect for what they do from coworkers and managers.
That they succeed more often than not makes for a terrific tale of
considerable interest--dramatically and theoretically. A marvelous
book."--John Van Maanen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"The book channels the spirit of industrial sociology of the
1950s, when students of work and organization encountered the shop
floor up close and came away understanding how everyday behaviors
formed the woof and warp of industrialization's socialfabric.
Anteby's use of the production of homers for understanding
relations between workers and managers is ingenious."--Stephen R.
Barley, Stanford University
"An accessible good read, "Moral Gray Zones" makes a distinct
contribution toward the understanding of informal structures,
situated moralities, occupational cultures, and systems of
control."--Peter V. Marsden, Harvard University
""Moral Gray Zones" is first-rate qualitative organizational
analysis. Effectively organized and cogently argued, I was
impressed by Anteby's marshalling of diverse streams of evidence.
The extension of his ideas through the vast literature on multiple
occupations is particularly stimulating."--Calvin Morrill,
University of California, Irvine
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