Bücher der Reihe Current Research on Occupations and Professions

Discusses research on occupations and professions. This title covers such topics as: rural Chinese household workers in Beijing; immigration, tradition, community and gender; the professionalization of real estate sales work; and, legal practice boundaries.

Contains in-depth or comparative case studies of specific occupations in America and other countries. This volume gives special emphasis to unusual occupations and unusually organized occupations. It includes analyses of tattoo artists, exotic dancers, sex workers, traveling nurses, catholic liturgists, marginalized computer workers, and others.