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Rachel Sherman

Sociology

#2016

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#2252

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#669

USA Rank

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Rachel Sherman 's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology Brown University

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According to Wikipedia, Rachel Sherman is an associate professor of sociology at the New School for Social Research. Her first book, Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels , analyzes how workers, guests, and managers in luxury hotels make sense of and negotiate class inequalities that marked their relationships. Her second book, Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence , explores the lived experience of privilege among wealthy and affluent parents in New York City.

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Rachel Sherman 's Published Works

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Breaking the Iron Law of Oligarchy: Union Revitalization in the American Labor Movement1 (2000) (601)
Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels (2006) (86)
Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence (2017) (76)
Producing the superior self (2005) (71)
From state introversion to state extension in Mexico: Modes of emigrant incorporation, 1900-1997 (1999) (47)
Conflicted cultivation: Parenting, privilege, and moral worth in wealthy New York families (2017) (37)
Uneasy Street (2019) (35)
Beyond interaction (2011) (32)
The Production of Distinctions: Class, Gender, and Taste Work in the Lifestyle Management Industry (2011) (31)
‘A very expensive ordinary life’: consumption, symbolic boundaries and moral legitimacy among New York elites (2018) (29)
“Time Is Our Commodity” (2010) (25)
MADE IN THE USA, IMPORTED INTO BRITAIN: THE ORGANIZING MODEL AND THE LIMITS OF TRANSFERABILITY (2003) (13)
"Better than your mother": Caring labor in luxury hotels (2002) (6)
14. Caring or Catering? Emotions, Autonomy, and Subordination in Lifestyle Work (2019) (5)
Making Care Count: A Century of Gender, Race, and Paid Care Work (2013) (5)
Rethinking the Ethnographic Local (2006) (4)
Against Accumulation: Class Traitors Challenge Wealth and Worth (2021) (3)
Chapter 3. "Organize or Die": Labor's New Tactics and Immigrant Workers (2019) (2)
The Effects of Physical Activity on Inappropriate Behaviors of School-Aged Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (2019) (2)
The Good Temp. By Vicki Smith and Esther B. Neuwirth. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 2008. Pp. viii+235. $29.95. (2010) (1)
Anxieties of Entitlement (2020) (0)
Behind the Scenes with the One Percent: Primates of Park Avenue: A Memoir and The Nanny Chronicles of Hollywood (2016) (0)
Customers, Workers, and Leverage in Service Sector Organizing (2016) (0)
Appendix A: Methods (2019) (0)
6. Producing Entitlement (2019) (0)
ConclusionClass, Culture, And The Service Theater (2007) (0)
Facility of Merit Winners, 1997. (1997) (0)
The Contradictions of ‘Entitlement’: Elite Common Sense about Merit and Moral Worth (2018) (0)
2. Managing Autonomy (2019) (0)
Appendix B: Hotel Organization (2019) (0)
Working Hard or Hardly Working? Elite Stay-at-home-moms and the Labor of Lifestyle (2016) (0)
Spatial Revitalization: "Recovering" the Public Spaces of Abasto and Puerto Madero in Buenos Aires (2012) (0)
Freelancing Expertise: Contract Professionals in the New Economy (2012) (0)
Local lifestyles: Renovation and rhetorics of need in elite New York families (2014) (0)
5. Reciprocity, Relationship, And Revenge (2019) (0)
The Art of Conversation: The Museum and the Public Sphere in Tino Sehgal’s This Progress (2014) (0)
4. Recasting Hierarchy (2019) (0)
IntroductionLuxury Service And The New Economy (2007) (0)
Book Review: Mark Edmundson, Why Teach? In Defense of a Real Education (2014) (0)
Particle Dynamics in a Gravitationally Variable Argon DC Glow Discharge Dusty Plasma (2008) (0)
Using Silica Dust to Obtain a Three-Dimensional Analysis of a Dusty Plasma Part II (2009) (0)
Nutrition in Early Life .J. B. Morgan and J. W. T. Dickerson (editors) Chichester: Wiley. 2003. Pp 374. £34.95 paperback. ISBN 0471 496243. (2003) (0)
Labor, Lifestyle, and the “Ladies Who Lunch”: Work and Worth Among Elite STAY-AT-HOME Mothers (2020) (0)
Uneasy Street: Privilege, Ambivalence and Moral Worth Among Wealthy and Affluent New Yorkers (2016) (0)
1. “Better Than Your Mother”: The Luxury Product (2019) (0)
Conflicted cultivation: Parenting, privilege, and moral worth in wealthy New York families (2016) (0)
Privilege at Play: Class, Race, Gender and Golf in Mexico. HugoCerón‐Anaya. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 217 pp. (2022) (0)
And Like You I Am Very Miserable (2013) (0)
Unions in a Globalized Environment: Changing Borders, Organizational Boundaries, and Social Roles (review) (2003) (0)
Unions in a Globalized Environment: Changing Borders, Organizational Boundaries, and Social Roles.Edited by Bruce Nissen. M.E. Sharpe, 2002. 293 pp. Cloth, $65.95; paper, $24.95 (2003) (0)
Appendix C: Jobs, Wages, And Nonmanagerial Workers In Each Hotel: 2000–2001 (2019) (0)

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