Bureaucracy and the Labor Process The Transformation of U. S. Industry, 1860-1920

Name: Bureaucracy and the Labor Process The Transformation of U. S. Industry, 1860-1920
Price: 7.81 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780853455431

ISBN-10: 0853455430

ISBN-13: 9780853455431

Edition: 1980

Authors: Dan Clawson

List price: $20.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $23.85

Marketplace

5 new & used from $7.81

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

This book makes the argument, supported by rich and extensive historical research into original sources, that it is possible to revolutionize work so that it can be, in the author's words, "satisfying, creative, and stimulating at the same time that it is materially productive: we can have material abundance along with interesting work." Rather than argue the issue in the abstract, Clawson investigates the development of industrial management in the late nineteenth-century United States, when inside contracting and the craft system dominated production. He examines the way in which the imposition of the factory system increased the capitalists' control over the labor process, and describes…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 1980
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Publication date: 1/1/1980
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English