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Gerald Mars

Gerald Mars is a British social anthropologist who works across disciplines to understand the nature and problems of modern industrial society. His work draws on the grid-group theory of Mary Douglas, on his fieldwork in Canada, Britain, Israel, and the former Soviet republics, and on his own experience. His work has often centred on workplace crime, and his best-known book, still often discussed, is Cheats at Work (1982).

Major writings
• 1976 (with P. Mitchell) : Room for Reform? A case study on industrial relations in the hotel industry. Open University Press • 1979 (with D. Bryant, P. Mitchell) : Manpower Problems in Hotels and Restaurants. Saxon House • 1982 : Cheats at Work: an anthropology of workplace crime. Allen & Unwin • 1983 (with Y. Altman) : "How a Soviet Economy Really Works" in M. Clarke, ed., Corruption. Frances Pinter • 1984 (with Michael Nicod) : The World of Waiters: an anthropology of an occupation. Allen & Unwin • 1986 (with Y. Altman) : "The Cultural Bases of Soviet Central Asia's Second Economy" in Central Asian Survey vol. 5 no. 3/4 • 1988 : "Hidden Hierarchies in Israeli Kibbutzim" in J. G. Flanagan, S. Rayner, eds, Rules, Decisions and Inequality in Egalitarian Societies (Aldershot: Avebury) pp. 98–112 • 1993 (editor, with Valerie Mars) : Food, Culture, and History: proceedings of the London Food Seminar • 2000 (editor) : Risk Management. 2 vols. Ashgate • 2001 (editor) : Workplace Sabotage. Ashgate • 2001 (editor) : Occupational Crime. Ashgate • 2003 (with Mary Douglas) : "Terrorism: a positive feedback game" in Human Relations vol. 56 pp. 763–786 • 2008 : "Food, Family and Tradition in North Italy: the rise and fall of a Michelin-starred family restaurant" in David Berris, David Sutton, eds., The Restaurants Book: ethnographies of where people eat. Berg • 2008 (editor with Perri 6) : The Institutional Dynamics of Culture: the new Durkheimians. 2 vols. Ashgate • 2013 : Locating Deviance: crime, change, and organizations. Ashgate • 2015 : Becoming an Anthropologist: A Memoir and a Guide to Anthropology [autobiographical] == Notes and references ==
Notes and references
• Yochanan Altman, ed., "Advances in cultural theory: in honour of Gerald Mars". Special section in Journal of Organizational Change Management vol. 28 no. 5 (2015). Contains 5 papers: • Y. Altman, "Editorial: Advances in cultural theory: in honour of Gerald Mars" Online free access • Taran Patel, "Crossing disciplinary, epistemological and conceptual boundaries in search of better cultural sense-making tools", pp. 728–748 • Y. Altman, Claudio Morrison, "Informal economic relations and organizations", pp. 749–769 • Perri 6, "Quiet unintended transitions? Neo-Durkheimian explanation of institutional change", pp. 770–790 • Ikechukwu Umejesi, Michael Thompson, "Fighting elephants, suffering grass: oil exploitation in Nigeria", pp. 791–811 • Gerald Mars, Becoming an Anthropologist. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. • Edward W. Sieh, "Employee Theft: an examination of Gerald Mars and an explanation based on equity theory" in Freda Adler, William S. Laufer, eds., New Directions in Criminological Theory (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1993) pp. 95–111 • L. Thornthwaite, P. McGraw, "Still 'Staying Loose in a Tightening World?' Revisiting Gerald Mars' Cheats at Work" in Alison Barnes, Lucy Taksa, eds., Rethinking Misbehaviour and Resistance in Organizations (Emerald Group Publishing, 2012) pp. 29–56 == External links ==
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