Participant Observer: An Autobiography
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introducing Myself -- 2. Getting Started -- 3. Family Upheaval -- 4. Growing Up -- 5. High School -- 6. Travels in Europe -- 7. College Life -- 8. College Studies -- 9. The Society of Fellows -- 10. Planning My Slum Study -- 11. Learning to Be a Participant Observer -- 12. Kathleen: Discovery and Rediscovery -- 13. Rethinking and Reshaping My North End Study -- 14. Graduate Work in Chicago -- 15. Teaching Schoolteachers Sociology -- 16. Oklahoma and the Phillips Petroleum Company -- 17. Interruption -- 18. The Committee on Human Relations in Industry -- 19. From Restaurant Research to Hotel Action Research -- 20. Studying Union-Management Cooperation -- 21. Moving to Cornell -- 22. Early Years at Cornell -- 23. A Summer Encounter with Sensitivity Training -- 24. Family Crises -- 25. Sabbatical in Venezuela -- 26. Cornell: 1955-1961 -- 27. Introduction to Peru -- 28. Our Year in Peru -- 29. From Industrial to Rural Research -- 30. Political Crisis -- 31. Winding Up the Rural Research Program in Peru -- 32. Finding a New Focus -- 33. Cornell in the 1960s -- 34. From Research to Practice -- 35. Focusing on Employee Ownership -- 36. The New Systems of Work and Participation Program -- 37. Working with Congress -- 38. Becoming Professor Emeritus -- 39. Programs for Employment and Workplace Systems -- 40. Participatory Action Research -- 41. The Book That Would Not Die -- 42. Adjusting to Retirement and Aging -- References -- Index