Masters of Craft (eBook)

Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy

Richard E. Ocejo (Autor)

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2017
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8486-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Richard E. Ocejo is associate professor of sociology at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His books include Upscaling Downtown: From Bowery Saloons to Cocktail Bars in New York City (Princeton).

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How educated and culturally savvy young people are transforming traditionally low-status manual labor jobs into elite taste-making occupationsIn today's new economy-in which "e;good"e; 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 "e;cool"e; 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 "e;cultural repertoires,"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.4.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 15 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Advocacy group • African Americans • Agribusiness • Agriculture • American Express • Apéritif and digestif • Aqua Vitae • Artist • Artistry (cosmetics) • asshole • authenticity • Bacon • barbering • barbers • barbershops • Barley • Bars • Bartender • bartenders • bartending • bathtub gin • BeEF • blue-collar worker • Bottle • Boutique • Brand Ambassador • Brillo Pad • butcher • butchering • Butchers • butcher shops • Carbonated water • Career • cashiers • Chelsea Market • Chemical burn • cigarette • Classic cocktail • classic cocktails • Cocktail • cocktail bartenders • Cocktail glass • cocktail world • Commodity • common occupations • communication skills • Community of Practice • confidence • confident behavior • confident performance • Consumer goods • Consumers • Contraction (grammar) • cooking • Corn beer • Corn Whiskey • Corrugated galvanised iron • Cost • Craft Cocktails • craft distilleries • Craftsmanship • Crêpe • Cuisine • Cultural Knowledge • cultural omnivorousness • cultural repertoires • Customer • Customers • Dinner • Distillation • Distilling • Division of Labour • drinking public • Economics • educational program • Emotional Labor • Empathy • Employment • Engineering • Entrepreneurship • Ethanol • everyday workplaces • Explanation • Facet • feedlot • Fermentation • Fertilizer • First Book • Food • foodie • foodie community • foodie movement • food industry • Freelancer • full-time • Funding • Gangs of New York • Gentrification • gentrified neighborhoods • Glossary • Granary • grocery store • Guideline • Hairstyle • Handicraft • handmade products • hip tastes • ideal masculine image • Ideology • income • industrial city • Infrastructure • ingredient • Institution • insurance • Interpersonal communication • Jerky • Jose Cuervo • Latin American cuisine • Lighting • light manufacturing • liqueur • liquor store • Loading dock • Local • Local food • Logic • loin • long hair • Lower East Side • Lower Manhattan • low-status occupation • Lunch • male behavior • Manhattan (cocktail) • manhood • manual labor • manual labour • Manufacturing • Marketing • Masculinity • Mash ingredients • Mass production • meat • meat industry • Men • mental labor • Microbrewery • Monoculture • negroni • New Economy • nightlife industry • NY1 • Occupation • occupational aesthetic • Occupational Safety and Health • old fashioned • Oreo • Organic product • pasture • Pegu Club (cocktail) • Personal life • Pizza • Plastic • Pomade • pork • postindustrial cities • pot still • Primal cut • Princeton University Press • Prohibition in the United States • Quantity • Rack of lamb • Ragù • Ranch • receptionist • Recipe • Rectified spirit • Rectum • refrigerator • Restaurant • Restaurant Group • Retail • retail workers • Retard (pejorative) • Rye whiskey • salary • savvy consumers • self-made man • Sensor • shaving • Shirt • shopping experience • Shoulder tender • Single Malt Whisky • skilled peformance • Skin fade • Small Businesses • Social Class • Social distance • Speakeasy • specialty food • Standing rib roast • Steak • Steak tartare • straight razor • Street Food • styrofoam • supermarket • Swizzle stick • Syrup • Tales of the Cocktail • Taste • Tasting room • T-Bone Steak • Technology • The Village Voice • Thought • tom collins • Top sirloin • towel • tray • Trucker hat • Unemployment • Unisex • urbane alternatives • Urban Economy • urban luxuries • urban village • Vermouth • vodka • water bottle • Whisky • Whole Foods Market • Winery • Work Ethic • Workforce • workplace • World War II • Writing • year • young urbanites
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8486-1 / 1400884861
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8486-5 / 9781400884865