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Manufacturing Consent
Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism
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Michael Burawoy
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1982
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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.
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.
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Preface
ix - 1 From Sociology to Marxism
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One The Demise of Industrial Sociology
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Two Toward a Theory of the Capitalist Labor Process
13 - 2 Changes in the Labor Process
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Three From Geer Company to Allied Corporation
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Four Thirty Years of Making Out
46 - 3 The Production of Consent
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Five The Labor Process as a Game
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Six The Rise of an Internal Labor Market
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Seven Consolidating an Internal State
109 - 4 The Relative Autonomy of the Labor Process
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Eight The Labor Process in a Recession
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Nine The Labor Process and Worker Consciousness
135 - 5 The Motors of Change
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Ten Struggles on the Shop Floor
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Eleven Class Struggle and Capitalist Competition
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Twelve From Competitive to Monopoly Capitalism
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Appendix Comparative Perspective: Change and Continuity in the Zambian Mining Industry
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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Keywords for this book
labor; monopoly; capitalism; capitalist; exploitation; workforce; workers; industrial; science; scientific; scientists; factory; ethnography; ethnographic; marxist; philosophy; philosophical; theory; explanation; donald roy; analysis; research; academic; scholarly; wwii; world war ii; wartime; postwar; technology; political; politics; ideological; sociology; jobs; career; change; corporation; corporate; autonomy; recession; finance; economic
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