Moral Gray Zones is an important book for scholars of organizations to be aware of and read, especially to continue building empirical knowledge of the subterranean administration and underlife of workplaces... Moral Gray Zones is argued well, accessible and does what very good research should do
advance knowledge in a field for others to evaluate, contest, affirm and advance.
David Shulman, ... Read moreContemporary Sociology Scholars of organizational deviance will ... find it to be particularly illuminating. Moral Gray Zones would be apposite for a senior, undergraduate level course as it makes both substantive and theoretical contributions to our understanding of gray zones in organizations.
Dale Spencer, Canadian Journal of Sociology The deep and lucid writing style and clear structure of the book make it enjoyable reading... The book is recommended reading for sociologists and business scholars alike who are interested in organization studies, and more specifically in workplace studies. It will be of particular interest to scholars and graduate and undergraduate students in the fields of the sociology of work, organizational sociology, sociology of occupations and professions and also economic sociology. The book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the social system of production, the interface between vertical and horizontal forms of work, and of the centrality of creativity and self expression even in large bureaucracies.
Asaf Darr, ASQ Review I recommend this book to anyone interested in workplace behavior and worker control and for use in undergraduate and graduate courses on work
not only for what it reveals about organizational gray zones but also for what it offers students: opportunities to apply Anteby's logic to what they have observed in their own workplaces and to use what they know about industrial segments, occupational divides, gender segregation, and other topics to answer some of these questions for themselves.
Martha Crowley, Work and Occupations Moral Gray Zones is a sophisticated and thought-provoking work... [T]he book should be of great interest to those studying status-ordering in organizations, the informal organization of work, or the intermingling of identity and control.
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