Title If you don't laugh you'll cry : the occupational humor of white Wisconsin prison workers / Claire Schmidt

Published Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2017] ß2017 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 269 pages) : map Series Folklore studies in a multicultural world Folklore studies in a multicultural world Contents Families, stories, and the weight of an invisible occupational culture -- Does prison make you racist? Intimate contact with strangers and expanding worldview -- Don't take your work home with you -- The value of humor: self-awareness, stress, and boredom -- Transforming outsiders into insiders -- Humor and inmate-staff relationships -- Upholding and undermining social institutions: gay jokes and Christmas in prison -- Playing the fool: resistance through humor -- Class, scapegoats, smoke, and mirrors Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-262) and index Notes Print version record Subject Prisons -- Wisconsin -- Officials and employees -- Folklore Humor in the workplace -- Wisconsin BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations. Humor in the workplace Prisons -- Officials and employees Wisconsin Genre/Form Folklore Form Electronic book ISBN 0299313530 9780299313531

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