| Work and Politics: The Division of Labour in Industry Revised Edition Contributor(s): Sabel, Charles F. (Author), Berger, Suzanne (Editor), Hirschman, Albert (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521319099 ISBN-13: 9780521319096 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1984 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science |
| Dewey: 306 |
| LCCN: 81018085 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Modern Political Economies |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6" W x 9" (1.04 lbs) 320 pages |
