Manufacturing Consent - by Michael Burawoy (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Since the 1930s, industrial sociologists have tried to answer the question, Why do workers not work harder?
- About the Author: Michael Burawoy is associate professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley.
- 286 Pages
- Social Science, Sociology
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Book 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.From the Back Cover
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?About the Author
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.Dimensions (Overall): 8.51 Inches (H) x 5.54 Inches (W) x .65 Inches (D)
Weight: .7 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 286
Genre: Social Science
Sub-Genre: Sociology
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Michael Burawoy
Language: English
Street Date: September 15, 1982
TCIN: 1006088851
UPC: 9780226080383
Item Number (DPCI): 247-03-7898
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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