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Rethinking the labor process / edited by Mark Wardell, Thomas L. Steiger, and Peter Meiksins. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY series, the new inequalities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Braverman, Harry.
- Industrial sociology.
- Division of labor.
- Employees--Effect of technological innovations on.
- Employees.
- Industrial relations.
- Sex role in the work environment.
- Management.
- Social conflict.
- Equality.
- Organizational change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 279 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c1999.
- Summary:
- "While paying tribute to Harry Braverman for launching the research field known as the labor process, this book neither eulogizes nor castigates his work. Rather, it takes stock of the field, showing its blend of qualitative and quantitative methodologies and revealing its diverse contributions to the sociology of work, organizations, and stratification. Both U.S. and British authors use this venue as an opportunity to rethink and reinvigorate the labor process field, yet they maintain an intellectual commitment to the spirit with which Braverman wrote his work. They focus on aspects central to the labor process perspective, including management strategies, technology, innovations in the workplace, the value of labor, and control and resistance."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Labor processes: moving beyond Braverman and the deskilling debate / Mark Wardell
- To control and inspire: U.S. management in the age of computer information systems and global production / Philip Kraft
- Braverman, Taylorism, and technocracy / Beverly H. Burris
- Deskilled and devalued: changes in the labor in temporary clerical work / Jackie Krasas Rogers
- Spread over time and place: redivided labor and the role of technical infrastructure / Joan Greenbaum
- Dialectics of the labor process, consumer culture, and class struggle: the contradictory development of the American automobile industry / David Garman
- Degradations of labor, cultures of cooperation, Braverman's "labor", Lordstown, and the social factory / Larry W. Isaac and Larry D. Christiansen
- Gender, occupational sex segregation, and the labor process / James A. Geschweder with assistance of Laura E. Geschwender
- Forms of the labor process and labor's share of value / Thomas L. Steiger
- Reevaluating the labor process debate / Chris Smith and Paul Thompson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-263) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4384-2329-2
- 0-585-31359-8
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