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Carrie Lane

Carrie Lane
Associate Professor of American Studies

Email: clane@fullerton.edu
Office: UH-413
Phone: (657) 278-7359

Dept. of American Studies
California State Univ., Fullerton
Fullerton, CA 92834-6868

Office Hours:
-Spring 2012: Tuesday & Thursday 11:30am-12:30pm, and by appointment


Courses Usually Taught
  • AMST 201 - Introduction to American Studies
  • AMST 301 - American Character
  • AMST 320 - Women in American Society
  • AMST 350 - Seminar in Theories and Methods of American Studies
  • AMST 401T - American Culture through Ethnography
  • AMST 410 - The Office: White-Collar Work in American Culture
  • AMST 411 - Doing Fieldwork in American Studies
  • AMST 423 - The Search for Community
  • AMST 502T - Ethnography and American Culture


Research Interests and Publications

Publications

A Company of One: Individualism, Insecurity, and the New World of White-Collar Unemployment (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011)

"'If the shoe ain’t your size, it ain’t gonna fit': Ideologies of Professional and Marital Instability among US White-Collar Workers," Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 12/13 (2010): 37-54.  

“Man Enough to Let My Wife Support Me: How Changing Models of Career and Gender Are Reshaping the Experience of Unemployment,” American Ethnologist 36.4 (2009).

“Teaching Work to Workers,” Anthropology News 46.9 (December 2005): 59.

“Like Exporting Baseball to Japan: US Tech Workers Respond to Offshoring,” Anthropology of Work Review 25.3-4 (November 2005): 18-26.

“Work and Unemployment in the Global Labor Market,” Anthropology News 46.3 (March 2005): 21.

Book Reviews

Review of Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress by Candacy Taylor, Anthropology of Work Review (2011; in press). 

Review of Headhunters: Matchmaking in the Labor Market by William Finlay and James E. Coverdill, Anthropology of Work Review 24.1-2 (2003): 35-36.              

Review of Minding the Store and Quest for the Best by Stanley Marcus, Journal of South Texas 16.1 (2003): 119-121.                                                 

Review of Temps: The Many Faces of the Changing Workplace by Jackie Krasas Rogers, Anthropology of Work Review 22.2 (2001): 32-33.

 

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