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Skill and consent : contemporary studies in the labour process

Title
  1. Skill and consent : contemporary studies in the labour process / edited by Andrew Sturdy, David Knights, and Hugh Willmott.
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  1. London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.

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Additional authors
  1. Sturdy, Andrew.
  2. Knights, David.
  3. Willmott, Hugh.
Description
  1. xi, 263 pages; 23 cm
Summary
  1. Through a range of empirical studies that reflect the development of contemporary labour process literature, skill and consent are examined in relation to various issues. This book explains their historical and social construction in capitalist societies, and highlights their inter-relationships.
Series statement
  1. Critical perspectives on work and organization
Uniform title
  1. Critical perspectives on work and organization
Subject
  1. Industrial relations
  2. Industrial sociology
  3. Personnel management
  4. Quality of work life
  5. Skilled labor
  6. Labor discipline
  7. Personnel Management
  8. Employee Discipline
  9. industrial relations
  10. Industrial relations
  11. Industrial sociology
  12. Labor discipline
  13. Personnel management
  14. Quality of work life
  15. Skilled labor
  16. Arbeitsbedingungen
  17. Arbeitsbeziehungen
  18. Arbeitsprozess
  19. Geschichte
  20. Qualifikation
  21. Soziale Anpassung
  22. Aufsatzsammlung
  23. work
  24. labour relations
  25. skill
  26. employees attitude
  27. occupational sociology
  28. case study
  29. coal mining
  30. social class
  31. women workers
  32. men
  33. production management
  34. human relations
  35. printing industry
  36. technological change
  37. skill obsolescence
  38. manufacturing
  39. discipline
  40. clerical worker
  41. work organization
  42. work attitude
  43. competitiveness
  44. trade union
  45. workers participation
  46. workplace communication
  47. shop steward
  48. computerization
  49. management strategy
  50. Relations professionnelles
  51. Sociologie du travail
  52. Ouvriers qualifiés
  53. Discipline du travail
  54. travail
  55. relations de travail
  56. qualifications
  57. attitude des salariés
  58. sociologie du travail
  59. étude de cas
  60. houillère
  61. classe sociale
  62. travailleuses
  63. hommes
  64. gestion de la production
  65. relations humaines
  66. imprimerie
  67. changement technologique
  68. obsolescence des qualifications
  69. industries manufacturières
  70. personnel administratif
  71. organisation du travail
  72. attitude à l'égard du travail
  73. compétitivité
  74. syndicat
  75. participation des travailleurs
  76. communication au niveau du travail
  77. délégué du personnel
  78. informatisation
  79. stratégie de gestion
  80. trabajo
  81. relaciones laborales
  82. calificación
  83. actitud de los trabajadores
  84. sociología ocupacional
  85. estudio de casos
  86. minas de carbón
  87. clase social
  88. trabajadoras
  89. hombres
  90. administración de la producción
  91. relaciones humanas
  92. industrias gráficas
  93. cambio tecnológico
  94. obsolescencia de calificaciones
  95. industrias manufactureras
  96. disciplina
  97. personal administrativo
  98. organización del trabajo
  99. actitud hacia el trabajo
  100. competitividad
  101. sindicato
  102. participación de los trabajadores
  103. comunicación en el trabajo
  104. representante de los trabajadores
  105. computerización
  106. estrategia de gestión
  107. Großbritannien
  108. USA
  109. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  110. USA
  111. Etats-Unis
  112. Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord
  113. Estados Unidos
  114. Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte
Genre/Form
  1. conference paper.
  2. bibliography.
  3. document de conférence.
  4. bibliographie.
  5. documento de conferencia.
  6. bibliografía.
Contents
  1. Introduction: Skill and Consent in the Labour Process / Andrew Sturdy, David Knights and Hugh Willmott -- 1. Class and Gender in the Developing Consciousness of Appalachian Coal-Miners / Michael Yarrow -- 2. Technology and the Crisis of Masculinity: The Gendering of Work and Skill in the US Printing Industry, 1850-1920 / Ava Baron -- 3. Industrial Discipline: Factory Regime and Politics in Lancaster / Alan Warde -- 4. Clerical Consent: 'Shifting' Work in the Insurance Office / Andrew Sturdy -- 5. Managing Labour Relations in a Competitive Environment / Mick Marchington -- 6. Watching the Detectives: Shop Stewards' Expectations of their Managers in the Age of Human Resource Management / Peter Ackers and John Black -- 7. Computer Based Technology and the Emergence of New Forms of Managerial Control / Michael Rosen and Jack Baroudi -- 8. Disciplinary Power and the Labour Process / Ron Sakolsky.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.