Blue-Collar Stratification (eBook)

Autoworkers in Four Countries

William Humbert Form (Autor)

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2015
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6845-2 (ISBN)

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In studying the impact of industry on class organization, social scientists have assumed that the effects of technological advance increase with time and that, as technology molds, dehumanizes, and alienates workers, the pressure mounts to change the system through political action. William H. Form tests these assumptions in his study. The author considers whether workers have more to do with one another as societies industrialize, whether they become more involved in organizations, and whether these involvements become distinctively similar, creating an organizational basis for a solidary working-class movement. To examine these questions, he chooses four countries (India, Argentina, Italy, and the U.S.) that vary in the extent of their industrial development. He then compares samples of skilled, semiskilled, and unskilled workers in order to ascertain how specific technologies to which they have been exposed affect their behavior in systems such as the work group, union, party, neighborhood, and nation.Originally published in 1976.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Maschinenbau
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Absenteeism • activism • Agriculture • Anomie • Artisan • Assembly Line • Bargaining unit • blue-collar worker • Business failure • Civilization • civil service • collective bargaining • communism • Comparative Research • Competition • Dearness allowance • decentralization • developed country • Developing Country • dichotomy • distrust • dual economy • Economic Inequality • Economic Power • economic problem • Economics • Employment • employment agency • Factory • factory system • Finding • foreign ownership • Human Resources • Ideology • income • Independent union • industrialisation • Industrial relations • Industrial society • Industrial sociology • Industrial Technology • Industry • Italian economic miracle • Italians • Job Evaluation • job interview • job satisfaction • Joseph LaPalombara • Jute • labor relations • Labour movement • left-wing politics • light industry • living wage • Local union • Longevity • manual labour • Manufacturing • Marxism • Mass production • National Affairs • New Nation (United States) • Occupational prestige • of education • Pal's • Pay scale • political capital • political socialization • Politics • private sector • public utility • quality control • Rurality • Secondary labor market • Secondary sector of the economy • seniority • shortage • Skilled Labor • skilled worker • slowdown • Small Business • Social Class • Social Movement • Society • Socioeconomics • Socioeconomic Status • standard of living • Supervisor • Technology • Trade association • Trade Union • Unemployment • Union democracy • urbanization • vertical integration • wage • welfare • Workforce • Working Class • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6845-9 / 1400868459
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6845-2 / 9781400868452