Working for tips in restaurants: problematic aspects of the achievement principle

In capitalist economies, wages are rationalized by the achievement principle. Managers do the assessing. In restaurants, tips are the main reward of a server's performance. Customers do the assessing. In both cases, there are problematic assumptions that there can be just and ascriptive-free criteria for assessing performance or "capable" authorities for those assessments. Tipping makes those assumptions even more problematic because of the transfer of the assessing authority to the customer.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts - MA

Level thesis:degree_level

master's

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Grantor dc:publisher

University of British Columbia

Year dc:date

1992

Author dc:creator

• Tavares, Tony

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• For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.

Language dc:language

eng

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2033

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oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/2033