Manufacturing Consent - Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism

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.

Product details

• Authors: Burawoy, Michael Burawoy, Burawoy Michael
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.1982
• EAN: 9780226080383
• ISBN: 978-0-226-08038-3
• No. of pages: 286
• Dimensions: 14 mm x 22 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 425 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Labour / income economics, Industrial Relations, Labour Economics, Sociology: work & labour, Central / national / federal government policies, Sociology: work and labour, Industrial relations, occupational health and safety, Central government policies, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies