Cultures of Solidarity - Consciousness, Action, and Contemporary American Workers

Informationen zum Autor Rick Fantasia is Associate Professor of Sociology at Smith College. Klappentext "I would rate this book near the top of whatever scales measure importance. Good! strong! first-rate! unusually worthy! original-these are the adjectives that come to my mind."-Kai Erikson! Yale University "This is a powerful and important book. It will challenge and educate specialists in the areas of the sociology and history of unions and social movements and the sociology of organizations."-Michael Schwartz! SUNY! Stony Brook Zusammenfassung A commonplace assumption about American workers is that they lack class consciousness. This perception has baffled social scientists! demoralized activists! and generated a significant literature on American exceptionalism. In this provocative book! a young sociologist takes the prevailing assumptions to task and sheds new light upon this very important issue. In three vivid case studies Fantasia explores the complicated! multi-faceted dynamics of American working-class consciousness and collective action. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Part One: Theoretical Directions and the Historical Terrain 1. Culture and Consciousness in Action 2. Corporate Action and the Bounds of Solidarity Part Two: Contemporary Expressions of Consciousness and Action 3· The Internal Dynamics of Wildcat Strikes: Routinization and Its Discontents 4· Union Organizing and Collective Interaction: "Like a Thief in the Night" 5· The Strike as Emergent Culture: Community and Collective Action 6. The Limits and Possibilities of Trade Union Action Appendix The Measures Taken: Some Notes on Methodology Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Rick Fantasia, Fantasia Rick
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.08.1989
• EAN: 9780520067950
• ISBN: 978-0-520-06795-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Industrial Relations, United States of America, USA, Sociology: work & labour, Sociology: work and labour, Industrial relations, occupational health and safety, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General