Work and Politics: The Division of Labour in Industry

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Modern Political Economies Series)

by Charles F. Sabel

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Work and Politics develops a historical and comparative sociology of workplace relations in industrial capitalist societies. Professor Sabel argues that the system of mass production using specialized machines and mostly unskilled workers was the result of the distribution of power and wealth in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Great Britain and the United States, not of an inexorable logic of technological advance. Once in place, this system created...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521319099

ISBN13:9780521319096

Release Date:April 1984

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:320 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Business & Investing Cultural Economics Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Popular Economics Social Science Social Sciences

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