Sociology, Work and Industry
Author: Tony Watson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 1134784805
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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The Big Rig
Author: Steve Viscelli
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2016-04-12
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0520962710
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Long-haul trucks have been described as sweatshops on wheels. The typical long-haul trucker works the equivalent of two full-time jobs, often for little more than minimum wage. But it wasn’t always this way. Trucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States. The Big Rig explains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurred, and how companies achieve a compliant and dedicated workforce despite it. Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews and years of extensive observation, including six months training and working as a long-haul trucker, Viscelli explains in detail how labor is recruited, trained, and used in the industry. He then shows how inexperienced workers are convinced to lease a truck and to work as independent contractors. He explains how deregulation and collective action by employers transformed trucking’s labor markets--once dominated by the largest and most powerful union in US history--into an important example of the costs of contemporary labor markets for workers and the general public.
Sociology, Work and Industry
Author: Tony J. Watson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780415321662
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this new edition, Tony Watson explains how the discipline of sociology can contribute to our wider understanding of the variety of work practices and institutions which exist in modern societies.
A Sociology of Work in Industry
Author: Alan Fox
Publisher:
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →UK. Theoretical study of occupational sociology - covers values and definitions of work and discusses the evolution of labour relations, management attitudes, leadership, workers adaptation patterns, employees attitudes, group dynamics, joint consultation, labour disputes, etc. Annotated bibliography pp. 194 to 216.
The Sociology of Industry
Author: Stanley Robert Parker
Publisher:
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Composite work on occupational sociology - covers social implications of the industrial structure, and includes papers on industry and education, industry and the family, industry and the social structure, industrial management, human relations and the work group, technological change and automation, industrial interest groups, labour mobility, work and leisure, etc. Selected bibliography pp. 172 to 176, and references.
Sociology, Work and Industry
The Sociology of Industry
Author: Richard Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-08-02
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1134999356
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides an excellent introduction to the sociology of industry. It comprises of three sections, which in turn address: the relation between industry and other sub-systems or institutions in society; the internal structure of industry and the roles people play within that structure; the social actions of individuals and groups within an organisational structure. It is an excellent resource for students of sociology who have an interest in its application to the ‘world of work’.
Work and Industry
Author: Arne L. Kalleberg
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-11-11
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1489935207
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Work occupies a pivotal role in the daily activities and over the course of a lifetime of members of modern societies. In anticipation, work influ ences education and training; it has much to do with shaping current earned income and status in the community; and in retrospect, it influ ences retirement income and activities. It is a powerful force affecting personal associations. In our society work is deeply encased in moral and religious values: As Poor Richard says, A Life of Leisure and a Life of Laziness are two Things. Do you imagine that Sloth will afford you more Comfort than Labour? No, for as Poor Richard says: ... Industry gives Comfort, and Plenty and Respect. Study to show thyself approved unto God a workman that needeth not to be ashamed. But few words have as many different meanings and nuances as "work": to forge or to shape, to stir or to knead, to solve, to exploit, to practice trickery for some end, to excite or to provoke, to persuade or to influence, to toil, and the like. A need for precision in meaning is requisite with respect to work, not only in common discourse, but, even more so, in scholarly communication.
Sociology, Work and Industry
Author: Tony Watson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-02-24
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 1134356196
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the fourth edition of this successful and popular text, Tony Watson explains how the discipline of sociology contributes to our wider understanding of the variety of work practices and institutions, which exist in modern society. The new edition outlines both what has been achieved historically and what is currently being achieved by the sociological study of work, as well presenting a range of concepts, models and other theoretical ideas that students and researchers can apply to the study of work. Subjects covered include: * how working patterns have changed, and continued to change since the industrial revolution * work organizations * innovations in the structuring of work activities at the enterprise level * the occupational aspects of the organization of work in changing societies * how people experience and cope with the pressures, insecurities and inequalities of a restructured world of work * how challenge and resistance influence the shaping of work in an ever-changing world. Fully updated throughout, this book includes an all-new chapter on the distinctiveness of the sociological perspective along with guidance on the research and analysis of work. It will be essential reading for anybody studying the sociology of work and organizations.
Work and Authority in Industry
Author: Richard Bendix
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-07-24
Total Pages: 808
ISBN-13: 1351298941
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Work and Authority in Industry analyzes how the entrepreneurial class responded to the challenge of creating, and later managing, an industrial work force in widely differing types of industrial societies: the United States, England, and Russia. Bendix's penetrating re-examination of an aspect of economic history largely taken for granted was first published in 1965. It has become a classic. His central notion, that the behavior of the capitalist class may be more important than the behavior of the working class in determining the course of events, is now widely accepted. The book explores industrialization, management, and ideological appeals; entrepreneurial ideologies in England's early phase of industrialization; entrepreneurial ideologies in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russia; the bureaucratization of economic enterprises; and the American experience with -industrialization. This essential text will interest those in the fields of political science, industrial relations, management studies, as well as comparative sociologists and historians.
