Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism - Couverture souple

Burawoy, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226080382 ISBN 13 : 9780226080383

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1982

Synopsis

Since the 1930s, industrial sociologists have tried to answer the question, Why do workers not work harder? Michael Burawoy spent ten months as a machine operator in a Chicago factory trying to answer different but equally important questions: Why do workers work as hard as they do? Why do workers routinely consent to their own exploitation?

Manufacturing Consent, the result of Burawoy's research, combines rich ethnographical description with an original Marxist theory of the capitalist labor process. Manufacturing Consent is unique among studies of this kind because Burawoy has been able to analyze his own experiences in relation to those of Donald Roy, who studied the same factory thirty years earlier. Burawoy traces the technical, political, and ideological changes in factory life to the transformations of the market relations of the plant (it is now part of a multinational corporation) and to broader movements, since World War II, in industrial relations.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Michael Burawoy is associate professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the co-editor (with Theda Skocpol) of Marxist Inquiries: Studies of Labor, Class, and States, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1982
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226080382
• ISBN 13: 9780226080383
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 286
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