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Working for capitali$m

Title
  1. Working for capitali$m / Richard M. Pfeffer.
Published by
  1. New York : Columbia University Press, 1979.
Author
  1. Pfeffer, Richard M.

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Description
  1. x, 395 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "For seven months Richard Pfeffer wore this badge as an employee of 'Blancs', a large piston-ring factory, where he experienced first-hand the grinding routine, petty humiliations, and distorted human relations that are synonymous with daily industrial life. Working for Capialis$m is his account of this experience -- a scathing indictment that probes the very basis of American society"--Cover.
Alternative title
  1. Working for capitalism
Subject
  1. Working class > Maryland > Baltimore > Case studies
  2. Factory system > Maryland > Baltimore > Case studies
  3. Industrial relations > Maryland > Baltimore > Case studies
  4. Capitalism
  5. Liberalism
  6. Marxian school of sociology
  7. liberalism
  8. Capitalism
  9. Factory system
  10. Industrial relations
  11. Liberalism
  12. Marxian school of sociology
  13. Working class
  14. Industriearbeit
  15. Fallstudiensammlung
  16. Arbeid
  17. Working class > Maryland > Baltimore > Case studies
  18. Factory system > Maryland > Baltimore > Case studies
  19. Industrial relations > Maryland > Baltimore > Case studies
  20. Maryland > Baltimore
  21. USA
Genre/Form
  1. Case studies
  2. Case studies.
  3. Études de cas.
Contents
  1. Part I. The work process. -- 1. Looking for a job -- 2. Being broken in : the first two weeks -- 3. The dictates of the production system -- 4. Doin' time : working men's and women's attitudes toward work and time -- 5. Workplace authoritarianism: Part 1.: Management -- Part II. Workers and the union -- 6. Workplace authoritarianism, Part 2: The union -- 7. The union in action and inaction : the bargain -- 8. On the shop floor : what a bargain! -- 9. Activists and organizing -- 10. Union elections : the democratic formalities -- Conclusion to Parts I and II: Liberalism and dictatorship -- Part III. Work and the capitalist system : six books considered -- 11. The books and the problem of understanding : a reintroduction -- 12. What is work like -- 13. The whys of work and what to do about it -- 14. Work and advanced capitalism : the objective world -- 15. Liberalism and the destructive shaping of our consciousness : the subjective world -- 16. Unions, policemen for the bosses -- 17. Working again : liberal versus Marxian understandings -- Epilogue.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Includes index.