Author : Alan Fox
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,10 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Industrial relations
ISBN :
Report on the contribution of occupational sociology to the study of labour relations problems in the UK - includes the nature of the business organization, trade unionism, and the influence of the organisation on employee behaviour.
Author : Michael Burawoy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,28 MB
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 022621771X
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.
Author : Tony Watson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,5 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134784805
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Sokratis M. Koniordos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,6 MB
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351750704
This title was first published in 2001. A comparative sociological examination of artisans, exploring historical examples and theoretical references to the stratum. The book also investigates empirical case studies and analyzes the variegated careers of contemporary artisans.
Author : Daniel B. Cornfield
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 33,83 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 146150659X
The advent of transnational economic production and market integration compels sociologists of work to look beyond traditional national boundaries and build an international sociology of work in order to effectively address the human, scientific, and practical challenges posed by global economic transnationalism. The purpose of this volume is to promote transnational dialogue about the sociology of work and help build a truly international discipline in this field.
Author : Guido Gili
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,1 MB
Release : 2024-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1040262805
Why does hope appear in certain epochs and places, only at other times to disappear from people’s lives and from society as a whole? This book addresses hope from a sociological perspective, offering a theoretical framework and a set of concepts to consider a range of questions. With attention to who the historical bearers of hope are, and which social groups are most inclined towards hope and why. It also considers the objects and goals towards which their hope is directed and the conditions under which hope is easier. An enquiry into the relationship between hope and social, cultural, economic and political conditions, this volume redirects the sociological gaze towards the discovery of social experiences in which hope resurrects and contributes to the imagination of a new social world. It will therefore appeal to scholars of sociology and social theory with interests in the emotions, social practices and social movements.
Author : Cynthia L. Negrey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 39,47 MB
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0745660584
Work Time is a sociological overview of a complex web of relations that shapes much of our experience of work and life yet often goes without critical examination. Cynthia Negrey examines work time past and present, exploring structural economic change and the gender division of labor to ask: what are the historical, cultural, public policy, and business sources of current work-time practices? Topics addressed include work-time reduction in the US culminating in the 40-hour statute of 1938, recent trends in annual and weekly hours, overtime, part-time work, temporary employment, work-family integration, and international comparisons. She focuses on the US in a global context and explores how a new political economy of work time is taking shape. This book brings together existing knowledge from sociology, anthropology, history, labor economics, and family studies to answer its central question and will change the way upper-level students think about the time we devote to work.
Author : Bob Carter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 20,1 MB
Release : 2009-12-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135169063
All phases of education from pre-school to post-compulsory, in virtually all parts of the world, have experienced unprecedented reform and restructuring in recent years. Restructuring has largely been driven by a global agenda that has promoted the development of human capital as the key to economic competitiveness in the global market. This book adopts an inter-disciplinary approach drawing not only on education research but also from the fields of industrial sociology, management studies and labour process theory to locate the reform agenda within a wider picture relating to teachers, their professional identities and their experience of work. In doing so the book draws on critical perspectives that seek to challenge orthodox policy discourses relating to remodelling. Illustrating of how education policy is shaped by discourses within the wider socio-political environment and how unionization and inter-organizational bargaining between unions exerts a decisive, but often ignored, influence on policy development at both a State and institutional level, this book is a must read for anyone researching or studying employment relations.
Author : Paul Stewart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 26,76 MB
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319932063
This book explores the key conceptual features of the development of the Sociology of Work (SoW) in Europe since 1945, using eleven country case studies. An original contribution to our understanding of the trajectory of the SoW, the chapters map the current state of the theoretical background of the sub-discipline's development to broader socio-political and economic changes, traced across a heterogeneous set of national contexts. Different definitions of the SoW in each country often reflect variations in the focus of analysis, and these chapters link the subject definition and focus to other social science disciplines, the state, as well as social class interests and ideologies. The book contends that the ways in which the sub-discipline makes sense of changes in work is itself a response to the type of society in which the sub-discipline is practiced, whether in the post-war social democratic West, the Soviet East, or today's societies, dominated by variant forms of neo-liberalism. It will be of use to scholars and students interested in the transnational history of the discipline of sociology, with a specific focus on the nexus between the sociology of labour, ideology, economics and politics.
Author : Bruce E. Kaufman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780913447888
Developing a strong theoretical base for research and practice in industrial relations and human resource management has to date remained a largely unfulfilled challenge. This text presents contributions from 15 scholars, developing their perspectives on work and the employment relationship.
