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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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Masters of Craft
• Author: Richard E. Ocejo
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 368
• EAN: 9780691165493
• ISBN: 9780691165493
• ID: 15401255
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 662 g
• Dimensions: 167 × 244 × 31 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. May 2017

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