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Outside of criminology and the rare studies of total institutions in the organizational literature, the prison has held little interest for sociologists. Certainly, it has never been a topic of mainstream research on work and organizations. By choosing the prison as a case study for understanding the processes through which work and work organizations themselves are gendered, I have made a seemingly unconventional choice, one that places my research far afield of the traditional realm of organization studies. What I hope to demonstrate, however, is that the prison - a quite literal iron cage - has much to tell us about the dynamics of gender in cages of the more figurative Weberian variety.
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Britton, D.M. (2003). Gendering in organizations: Lessons from the prison and other iron cages. In: Pasero, U. (eds) Gender — from Costs to Benefits. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-80475-4_10
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