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Work and Politics: The Division of Labour in Industry

By Charles F. Sabel

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1984
ISBN
9780511571572, 0521319099, 0521230020, 0511571577, 9780521230025, 9780521319096
LCC
HD6955 .S17 1982
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5761378 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Modern Political Economies
Pages
320\318
Topic
Economy
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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