Sociology, Work and Industry
| Author | : Tony Watson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 2002-09-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1134784805 |
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Sociology Of Industry
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The Sociology of Industry
| Author | : Richard Brown |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 219 |
| Release | : 2005-08-02 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1134999364 |
This book provides an excellent introduction to the sociology of industry. It comprises of three sections, which in turn address: the relation between industry and other sub-systems or institutions in society; the internal structure of industry and the roles people play within that structure; the social actions of individuals and groups within an organisational structure. It is an excellent resource for students of sociology who have an interest in its application to the ‘world of work’.
The Big Rig
| Author | : Steve Viscelli |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2016-04-12 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0520962710 |
Long-haul trucks have been described as sweatshops on wheels. The typical long-haul trucker works the equivalent of two full-time jobs, often for little more than minimum wage. But it wasn’t always this way. Trucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States. The Big Rig explains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurred, and how companies achieve a compliant and dedicated workforce despite it. Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews and years of extensive observation, including six months training and working as a long-haul trucker, Viscelli explains in detail how labor is recruited, trained, and used in the industry. He then shows how inexperienced workers are convinced to lease a truck and to work as independent contractors. He explains how deregulation and collective action by employers transformed trucking’s labor markets--once dominated by the largest and most powerful union in US history--into an important example of the costs of contemporary labor markets for workers and the general public.
Work and Politics
| Author | : Charles F. Sabel |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 1982-07-30 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521230025 |
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.
The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilization
| Author | : Elton Mayo |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 148 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780415175326 |
This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.
Manufacturing Consent
| Author | : Michael Burawoy |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 2012-10-15 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 022621771X |
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.
Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Society
| Author | : Ronald Inglehart |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 503 |
| Release | : 2018-06-05 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 069118674X |
Economic, technological, and sociopolitical changes have been transforming the cultures of advanced industrial societies in profoundly important ways during the past few decades. This ambitious work examines changes in religious beliefs, in motives for work, in the issues that give rise to political conflict, in the importance people attach to having children and families, and in attitudes toward divorce, abortion, and homosexuality. Ronald Inglehart's earlier book, The Silent Revolution (Princeton, 1977), broke new ground by discovering a major intergenerational shift in the values of the populations of advanced industrial societies. This new volume demonstrates that this value shift is part of a much broader process of cultural change that is gradually transforming political, economic, and social life in these societies. Inglehart uses a massive body of time-series survey data from twenty-six nations, gathered from 1970 through 1988, to analyze the cultural changes that are occurring as younger generations gradually replace older ones in the adult population. These changes have far-reaching political implications, and they seem to be transforming the economic growth rates of societies and the kind of economic development that is pursued.
Sociology, Work and Organisation
| Author | : Tony Watson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 423 |
| Release | : 2011-09-19 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1136646876 |
Sociology, Work and Organisation builds on the five popular and successful editions of Sociology, Work and Industry. The new text is outstanding in how effectively it explains the value of using the sociological imagination to understand the nature of institutions of work, organisations, occupations, management and employment and how they are changing in the 21st century. The book combines intellectual depth with accessible language and a user-friendly layout. It is unrivalled in the breadth of its coverage and its authoritative overview of both traditional and emergent themes in the sociological study of work and organisation. It explains the basic logic of the sociological analysis of work and the way work is organised, whilst also providing an appreciation of the different theoretical traditions which the subject draws upon. It fully considers: the direction and implication of trends in technological change, globalisation, labour markets, work organisation, managerial practices and employment relations the extent to which these trends are intimately related to changing patterns of inequality in modern societies and to the changing experiences of individuals and families the ways in which workers challenge, resist and make their own contributions to the patterning of work and shaping of work institutions. Key features include: a new sign-posting system which integrates material and brings out themes which run through the various chapters; ‘key issue’ guides and summaries with each chapter; and the identifying of key concepts throughout the book, which are then brought together in an unrivalled glossary and concept guide at the end.
Industrial Sociology
| Author | : Maria Hirszowicz |
| Publisher | : New York : St. Martin's Press |
| Total Pages | : 303 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780312415600 |
'Industrial Sociology' presents, in a systematic format, many of the most important empirical studies on the various dimensions of industrial society and assesses their validity for theoretical generalization. It covers a wide body of material and develops topics such as industrialization and the nature of industrial society, the consequences of technology for division of labor and workers, small groups in industry, work motivation, the rise of large corporations and professional managers, the working class, trade unions, industrial conflict, and industrial democracy.
Energy and Electricity in Industrial Nations
| Author | : Allan Mazur |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2013-04-17 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1136207392 |
Energy is at the top of the list of environmental problems facing industrial society, and is arguably the one that has been handled least successfully, in part because politicians and the public do not understand the physical technologies, while the engineers and industrialists do not understand the societal forces in which they operate. In this book, Allan Mazur, an engineer and a sociologist, explains energy technologies for nontechnical readers and analyses the sociology of energy. The book gives an overview of energy policy in industrialised countries including analysis of climate change, the development of electricity, forms of renewable energy and public perception of the issues. Energy is a key component to environment policy and to the workings of industrial society. This novel approach to energy technology and policy makes the book an invaluable inter-disciplinary resource for students across a range of subjects, from environmental and engineering policy, to energy technology, public administration, and environmental sociology and economics.
