Manufacturing Consent Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism

Name: Manufacturing Consent Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism
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ISBN: 9780226080383

ISBN-10: 0226080382

ISBN-13: 9780226080383

Edition: 1982

Authors: Michael Burawoy

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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…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/15/1982
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 286
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface



From Sociology to Marxism



The Demise of Industrial Sociology



Toward a Theory of the Capitalist Labor Process



Changes in the Labor Process



From Geer Company to Allied Corporation



Thirty Years of Making Out



- The Production of Consent



The Labor Process as a Game



The Rise of an Internal Labor Market



Consolidating an Internal State



The Relative Autonomy of the Labor Process



The Labor Process in a Recession



The Labor Process and Worker Consciousness



The Motors of Change



Struggles on the Shop Floor



Class Struggle and Capitalist Competition



From Competitive to Monopoly Capitalism Appendix Comparative Perspective: Change and Continuity in the Zambian Mining Industry


Notes


Bibliography


Index