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Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism
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Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism Hardback - 1980

by Michael Burawoy

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From the publisher

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.

First line

An account of the demise of industrial sociology must examine trends in sociology and their relationship to changes in capitalism.

Details

  • Title Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism
  • Author Michael Burawoy
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 286
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL
  • Publication date January 1980
  • ISBN 9780226080376 / 0226080374
  • Weight 1.42 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.26 x 6.25 x 0.9 in (23.52 x 15.88 x 2.29 cm)
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Industrial sociology - Case studies, Marxian school of sociology
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 79010188
  • Dewey Decimal Code 301.55

About the author

Michael Burawoy is associate professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the co-editor (with Theda Skocpol) of "Marxist Inquiries: Studies of Labor, Class, and States," also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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