Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism

by Michael Burawoy

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226080382

ISBN13:9780226080383

Release Date:September 1982

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:286 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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