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Ocejo, Richard E. author.
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Skilled labor -- United States.
Bartenders -- United States -- Biography.
Distillers -- United States -- Biography.
Barbers -- United States -- Biography.
Butchers -- United States -- Biography.
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Masters of craft : o...
Masters of craft : old jobs in the new urban economy / Richard E. Ocejo.
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Ocejo, Richard E. author.
Subjects
Skilled labor -- United States.
Bartenders -- United States -- Biography.
Distillers -- United States -- Biography.
Barbers -- United States -- Biography.
Butchers -- United States -- Biography.
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
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xxi, 344 pages ; 25 cm
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9780691165493
0691165491
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments ix -- Preface. The Daily Grind xi -- Introduction. A Stroll through the Market 1 -- Part I 23 -- 1 The Cocktail Renaissance 25 -- 2 Distilling Authenticity 50 -- 3 Working on Men 76 -- 4 Show the Animal 101 -- Part II 127 -- 5 How Middle-Class Kids Want Working-Class Jobs 129 -- 6 The Science and the Art 159 -- 7 Service Teaching 190 -- 8 Getting the Job 225 -- Epilogue. Outcomes, Implications, and Concluding Thoughts 250 -- Methodological Appendix 267 -- Notes 285 -- References 323 -- Index 339.
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"In today's new economy--in which "good" jobs are typically knowledge or technology based--many well-educated and culturally savvy young men are instead choosing to pursue traditionally low-status manual labor occupations as careers. Masters of Craft looks at the renaissance of four such trades: bartending, distilling, barbering, and butchering. In this in-depth and engaging book, Richard Ocejo takes you into the lives and workplaces of these people to examine how they are transforming these once-undesirable jobs into "cool" and highly specialized upscale occupational niches--and in the process complicating our notions about upward and downward mobility through work. He shows how they find meaning in these jobs by enacting a set of "cultural repertoires," which include technical skills based on a renewed sense of craft and craftsmanship and an ability to understand and communicate that knowledge to others, resulting in a new form of elite taste-making. Ocejo describes the paths people take to these jobs, how they learn their chosen trades, how they imbue their work practices with craftsmanship, and how they teach a sense of taste to their consumers. Focusing on cocktail bartenders, craft distillers, upscale men's barbers, and whole-animal butcher shop workers in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and upstate New York, Masters of Craft provides new insights into the stratification of taste, gentrification, and the evolving labor market in today's postindustrial city."--
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