Introduction

PART I. WORK WITH THE BODY

Stripping Women: Workers' Control in Strip Clubs

Kim Price

The Relationship Between Persona and Self in Exotic Dancers' Experience of Privacy

Alissa C. Perrucci

Slingin' Ink or Scratching Skin? Producing Culture and Claiming Legitimacy Among Fine Art Tattooists

D. Angus Vail

The Curious History of the Toxics Use Reduction Planner

Richard Campbell

Eve Spangler

Negotiating Gendered Occupational Barriers: The Case of Women in Funeral Service

Georganne Rundblad

PART II. WORK WITH THE MIND

Out of House, Out of Mind: The Negotiated Work of Editorial Freelancing

Debra Osnowitz

Simultaneous Interpreters: A Good Profession for Women?

Hannah Schiller Wartenberg

The Career Mobility of U.S. Engineers: Stability and Change During the 1970s and 1980s

Joyce Tang

Jerry A. Jacobs

Zhongwen Lai

PART III. WORK WITH THE SOUL

The Commissioned Lay Pastor in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.): A Preliminary Examination of a New Occupational Category

Deborah J. Kapp

The Effects of Organizational Variation in the Employment Relationship on Gender Discrimination in Denominational Labor Markets

Patricia M.Y. Chang

Liturgical Problems and the Liturgist: On the Consequences of a New Occupation in the Catholic Church

Michael J. McCallion

David R. Maines

Parole Agents or Hazardous Waste Collectors? Parole Agent's Responses to Deskilling and Routinization

Grant Boyken

Gender and Work Behind Bars: Female Corrections Officers

Dana M. Britton

Biographical Sketches of Contributors