Rethinking the Labor Process
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This diverse collection rethinks and reinvigorates the field of labor process.
Description
While paying tribute to Harry Braverman for launching the research field known as the labor process, this book neither eulogizes nor castigates his work. Rather, it takes stock of the field, showing its blend of qualitative and quantitative methodologies and revealing its diverse contributions to the sociology of work, organizations, and stratification. Both U. S. and British authors use this venue as an opportunity to rethink and reinvigorate the labor process field, yet they maintain an intellectual commitment to the spirit with which Braverman wrote his work. They focus on aspects central to the labor process perspective, including management strategies, technology, innovations in the workplace, the value of labor, and control and resistance.
Contributors include Beverly H. Burris, Larry Christiansen, David Gartman, James A. Geschwender, Laura E. Geschwender, Joan Greenbaum, Larry Isaac, Philip Kraft, Jacki Krasas Rogers, Chris Smith, Thomas L. Steiger, Paul Thompson, and Mark Wardell.
Mark Wardell is Associate Professor of Labor Studies and Industrial Relations and Sociology at The Pennsylvania State University; Thomas L. Steiger is Associate Professor of Sociology and Women Studies at Indiana State University; and Peter Meiksins is Associate Professor of Sociology at Cleveland State University.
Reviews
"More than any other single source, this book brings together a diverse set of authors whose work has been influenced by Harry Braverman, who have reflected on that influence, and who extend this into work reported in this new book. There is a very nice balance in the book between qualitative and more quantitative studies. This demonstrates some of the power of analysis influenced by Braverman's work. " — William W. Falk, coeditor of High Tech, Low Tech, No Tech: Recent Industrial and Occupational Change in the South