Research Catalog

Title

Cheats at work : an anthropology of workplace crime / Gerald Mars.

Author

Mars, Gerald

Publication

Aldershot, Hants., England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Dartmouth, c1994.

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Details

Subject

• White collar crimes
• Commercial crimes
• Business anthropology

Genre/Form

• bibliography.
• bibliographie.
• bibliografía.

Note

• Originally published: London ; Boston : Allen & Unwin, 1982.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-234) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Foreword / James Cornford -- Preface / Mary Douglas -- Introduction: Cheats at Work -- 1. A Classification of Occupations and their Associated Fiddles -- 2. Hawk Jobs. The Small Businessman's Story. Slipping the Organisation's Yoke. Time and its Manipulation. Time, Time Investment and Personal Ratings. Status and Statelessness. Moonlighters and Breakaways -- 3. Donkey Jobs. The Supermarket Checkout Girl's Story. Time-Cycles and Rule-Bending. Speeding Up and Slowing Down. False Collusion. Repetition and Excess. Sabotage and Control -- 4. Wolfpack Jobs. The Dustcart Crew. Dock Pilferage. Access and Support. Group Controls on Limits -- 5. Vulture Jobs. The Speciality Salesman of Photocopying Machines. Training for Vulture Fiddlers. Co-operation and Competition. Scapegoats, Crackdowns and Cycles of Control. The Trained Vulture -- 6. Fiddle Factors and Fiddle-Proneness. Passing Trade. Exploiting Expertise. Gatekeepers. Triadic Occupations. Special Efforts/Skills. Control Systems. Ambiguity.
• The Conversion and Smuggling of Goods. Anonymity and Scale -- 7. Fiddling as Crime. Big Stealing and Little Stealing. Coping with Fiddling: the Split Self. Trust Relations in Obtaining and Distributing Groups. Drinking and its Role in Distribution. The Vocabulary of Fiddle Groups and the Vocabulary of the Law. Control -- 8. Some Implications for Industrial Relations. Resistance to Change: Attempts at Staying Loose in a Tightening World. Individual Contracts, Total Rewards and Core and Peripheral Workers. Uncovering Covert Institutions: the Outsider's Dilemma. Listening to the 'Music' of Fiddlers: Some Implications for Management and Unions -- 9. Some Economic and Political Implications. Alternative Work: the Social and Black Economies in Context. Cash and Cashlessness. Economic Planning and Policy. Economic Planning and the Small Business Sector. Taxation Policies and Erosion of the Tax Base. Citizens' Perceptions of their Civic Role. What Should Be Done?

ISBN

• 1855213796 (HB)
• 1855215284 (PB)

LCCN

^^^94000364^

OCLC

• 29702836
• SCSB-10331741

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library