Work and politics : the division of labor in industry / Charles F. Sabel.
Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge studies in modern political economiesPublisher: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982Description: xiii, 304 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0521230020
- 9780521230025
- Work and politics : The division of labour in industry
- 306.36 22
- HD6955 .S17 1982
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306.36 NOO The realities of work : experiencing work and employment in contemporary society / | 306.36 ORR Work, family, and leisure : uncertainty in a risk society / | 306.36 RET Rethinking work : time, space and discourse / | 306.36 SAB Work and politics : the division of labor in industry / | 306.36 SAL Working / | 306.36 SAL Class and the corporation / | 306.36 SEN The culture of the new capitalism / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-291) and index.
1. Workers and world views -- 2. The structure of the labor market -- 3. Careers at work -- 4. Interests, conflicts, classes -- 5. The end of Fordism?.
"Work and Politics develops a historical and comparative sociology of workplace relations in industrial capitalist societies. Professor Sabel argues that the system of mass production using specialized machines and mostly unskilled workers was the result of the distribution of power and wealth in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Great Britain and the United States, not of an inexorable logic of technological advance. Once in place, this system created the need for workers with systematically different ideas about the acquisition of skill and the desirability of long-term employment. Professor Sabel shows how capitalists have played on naturally existing division in the workforce in order to match workers with diverse ambitions to jobs in different parts of the labor market. But he also demonstrates the limits, different from work group to work group, of these forms of collaboration."--Publisher description.
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