| Description |
xxiv, 314 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-314). |
| Contents |
Introduction / Andrew Zimbalist -- Industrialization of computer programming : from programing to "software production" / Philip Kraft -- Social choice in machine design : the case of automatically controlled machine tools / David F. Noble -- Proletarianizing clerical work : technology and organizational control in the office / Evelyn Nakano Glenn and Roslyn L. Feldberg -- Carpentry : the craft and trade / Bob Reckman -- Technology and the labor process in the printing industry / Andrew Zimbalist -- San Francisco waterfront : the social consequences of industrial modernization / Herb Mills -- Work relations in the coal industry : the handloading era, 1880-1930 / Keith Dix -- Labor process in coal mining : struggle for control / Michael Yarrow -- Origins of the assembly line and capitalist control of work at Ford / David Gartman -- Roots of power : employers and workers in the electrical products industry / Jeremy Brecher -- Person and machine in a New England factory / Susan Di Giacomo Mulcahy and Robert R. Faulkner -- Insurance : a clerical work factory / Maarten de Kadt -- Fighting the piece-rate system : new dimensions of an old struggle in the apparel industry / Louise Lamphere -- Piece rate : class struggle on the shop floor. Evidence from the costume jewelry industry in Providence, Rhode Island / Nina Shapiro-Perl. |
| Subject |
Working class -- United States -- Case studies.
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Working class. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Subject |
Machinery in the workplace -- United States -- Case studies.
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Machinery in the workplace. |
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Division of labor -- Case studies.
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Division of labor. |
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Industrial sociology -- Case studies.
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Industrial sociology. |
| Indexed Term |
Division of labor Case studies |
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Industrial sociology Case studies |
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Machinery in the workplace United States Case studies |
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Working class United States Case studies |
| Genre/Form |
Fallstudiensammlung.
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Case studies.
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| Added Author |
Zimbalist, Andrew S.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Case studies on the labor process. New York : Monthly Review Press, ©1979 (OCoLC)654668238 |
| ISBN |
0853455198 (paperback) |
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085345518X |
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9780853455189 |
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9780853455196 (paperback) |
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