Our 'nameless benefactors'

[Michael Perelman]

I do not remember the man's name either, but he resigned as the president of
the small liberal arts college in either Ohio or Pennsylvania.  He also wrote a
book attacking the notion of hierarchy, which he posted on the Internet as well
as published for commercial channels.

Kelley Walker wrote:


> At 09:31 AM 4/23/01 -0700, Ian Murray wrote:
>
> >Didn't some anthro professor do what BE did a few years ago and write it
> >up for one
> >of the university press'?
> >
> >Ian
>
> I don't know of anything but Greta Foff Paules' _Dishing it Out: Power and
> Resistance among Waitresses in a New Jersey Restaurant_. If there's another
> one I'd love to know the name.  I've drawn on her work here, occasionally,
> when i've talked about how the social relations of service work pit
> employees against the customer/client, an antagonism that aligns them with
> management.  Such alignments and antagonisms are obvious in most low-level
> service sector labor, but waitress work is an interesting exception because
> of the way in which waitstaff are paid: tips give them an autonomy from
> management and that, in part, is what Paules explores. Another fun read is
> Gary Alan Fine's _Kitchens_ which is about cooks. Captured it all quite
> nicely as I saw it, and not a bad read.

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Chico, CA 95929
530-898-5321
fax 530-898-5901