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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of tables and boxes -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- What is this book about? -- What is identity? -- What is the meaning of 'work' in the title 'Identity at Work'? -- Theoretical approaches -- The politics of identity -- The book's structure and content -- The writer -- References -- 2. Unpaid work and unemployment -- Introduction -- The unemployed -- Unpaid work in the private sphere -- Unpaid work in the public sphere -- Conclusion -- References -- 3. Occupation and class -- Introduction

In 2001, George W. Bush created the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. The driving force behind the policy was to create a "level playing field" where faith-based organizations could compete on an equal footing with secular organizations for government funding of social aid programs. Given, on the one hand, the continuation of faith-based policy under Barack Obama and, on the other, the continued support by the vast majority of the American people for some form of such policy, the need has emerged to clearly understand what this policy is and the issues that it raises

This article argues that use of the dance analogy has potential as an heuristic device in ethnographies of work. The nature and variety of dance is explored as a way of studying movement, gendered embodiment, audience, emotion and rhythm at work. It can thus serve to provide a richly multi-dimensional view of work, while also having the potential to draw attention to the unfolding of patterns of work over time. While such an approach has much in common with classic studies of work, as well as some more recent work that emphasizes work as embodied practice, it may also open up new avenues or at least unsettle some of the dominant ways of researching work and its organization. As such it is offered as a stimulus to debate on the nature of work and its organization and how it might be undertood. There are, however, limitations to the dance analogy and these mean that the approach might be best seen as a useful complement to approaches which focus on the verbal, rather than sufficient in itself.