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050 00 $aHF5549.5.A4$bS66 1996
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100 1 $aSonnenstuhl, William J.,$d1946-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85276199
245 10 $aWorking sober :$bthe transformation of an occupational drinking culture /$cWilliam J. Sonnenstuhl.
260 $aIthaca, N.Y. :$bILR,$c1996.
263 $a9602
300 $axiv, 143 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 123-135) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tDrinking and Work --$g2.$tUnderstanding the Persistence and Transformation of Intemperate Drinking Cultures --$g3.$tThe Sandhogs: From Occupational Identity to Community --$g4.$tSandhogging and Intemperate Drinking --$g5.$tTransforming the Sandhog Drinking Culture --$g6.$tFrom Occupational Intemperance to Temperance: Reconstructing Occupational Community.
520 $aAmericans assume that workers do not drink on the job and that, if they do, it is because they suffer from alcoholism rather than because they are conforming to occupational expectations. William J. Sonnenstuhl disagrees. He contends that some occupational cultures encourage heavy drinking. Moreover, his research suggests that the sense of community which motivates drinking can also sometimes inspire workers to break the pattern and work sober.
520 8 $aSonnenstuhl surveys drinking patterns in specific occupations, including construction, the military, railroading, and journalism, asking why such patterns have resisted efforts by both management and labor to curtail drinking from colonial times to the present. He documents the experience of workers who build tunnels and underground systems in New York City, in an occupation that traditionally encouraged its members to drink together both on the job and off.
520 8 $aKnown as sandhogs, they do strenuous, dirty work deep underground, where one worker dies for every mile of tunnel dug. In conversations with Sonnenstuhl, the sandhogs explain how they drank to sustain their courage, to show their camaraderie, and to celebrate their survival.
520 8 $a. In recent years, sandhogs have transformed their culture, supporting each other in sobriety through their own alcoholism program, in which the union served as a crucial agent of change. For these workers, drinking on the job has virtually disappeared. On the basis of their experience, Sonnenstuhl advocates a paradigm of cultural transformation to supplement the medical model of curing addicted individuals.
650 0 $aAlcoholism and employment$zUnited States$vCase studies.
650 0 $aSandhogs$xAlcohol use$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$vCase studies.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008009256
650 0 $aGroup identity$zUnited States$vCase studies.
650 0 $aDrinking of alcoholic beverages$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$vCase studies.
852 00 $bswx$hHF5549.5.A4$iS66 1996