Ebook: Critical Study Of Work

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Making Sense of Work in the Twenty-First Century; Part I: Continuity and Change; 1. Dwelling in Capitalism, Traveling Through Socialism; 2. Do Capitalists Matter in the Capitalist Labor Process? Collective Capacities, Group Interests, and Management Prerogatives, c. 1886-1904; Part Ii: Service and Service Sector Workers; 3. Gender, Race, and the Organization of Reproductive Labor; 4. The Body as a Contested Terrain for Labor Control: Cosmetics Retailers in Department Stores and Direct Selling.;Two broad developments reshaped work at the end of the twentieth century. The first was the implosion of the Soviet Union and the worldwide triumph of market capitalism. The second was the increasing use of computer-based production technologies and management command-and-control systems. How do we make sense of these important developments. The editors have assembled a collection of provocative, original essays on work and workplaces throughout the world that challenge the current celebration of globalization and new technologies. Building on labor process analysis, individual case studies ven.