Skill and consent : contemporary studies in the labour process
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Skill and consent : contemporary studies in the labour process
（Critical perspectives on work and organization）
Routledge, 1992
- : hard
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: hard ISBN 9780415085854
Description
The concepts of skill and worker consent to management control are central both to labour process literature and to wider debates on the management, organization, and experience at work. Defining the nature of skills exercised in producing goods and services and ensuring that they are directed co-operatively to this end remain fundamental issues to the controllers of organizations. For workers, skill represents an important source of identity which may thereby ensure co-operation in production or, equally be defined by resisting de-skilling or substitution by other workers. At the same time, covert skills may be used to resist, detract from or consent to the experience of subordination. At the level of both worker and management practices, skill and consent are of central importance. However, no other equivalent publications have such a focus. Moreover, in explaining their historical and social construction in capitalist societies, this volume highlights their inter-relationships. Through a range of empirical studies that reflect the diversity and theoretical development of contemporary labour process literature, skill and consent are examined in relation to various issues.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Skill and Consent in the Labour Process Andrew Sturdy, David Knights and Hugh Willmott 2. Class and Gender in the Developing Consciousness of Appalachian Coal Miners Michael Yarrow 3. Technology and the Crisis of Masculinity : The Gendering of Work and Skill in the U.S. Printing Industry 1850-1920 Ava Baron 4. Industrial Discipline: Factory Regime and Politics in Lancaster Alan Warde 5. Clerical Consent: "Shifting" Work in the Insurance Office Andrew Sturdy 6. Managing Labour Relations in a Competitive Environment Mick Marchington 7. Watching the Detectives : Shop Stewards' Expectations of their Managers in the Age of Human Resources Management Peter Ackers and John Black 8. Computer Based Technology and the Emergence of New Forms of Managerial Control Michael Rosen and Jack Baroudi 9. Disciplinary Power and the Labour Process Ron Sakolsky.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415086714
Description
The concepts of skill and worker consent to management control are central both to labour process literature and to wider debates on the management, organisation, and experience at work. Defining the nature of skills exercised in producing goods and services and ensuring that they are directed cooperatively to this end remain fundamental issues to the controllers of organisations. For workers, skill represents an important source of identity which may thereby ensure cooperation in production or, equally be defined by resisting de-skilling or substitution by other workers. At the same time, covert skills may be used to resist, detract from or consent to the experience of subordination. At the level of both worker and management practices, skill and consent are of central importance.
In exploring their historical and social construction in capitalist societies, this book highlights their inter-relationships, through a range of rich empirical studies that reflect the diversity and theoretical development of contemporary labour process literature, skill and consent are examined in relation to issues such as: subjectivity and class consciousness, gender, technology and employee involvement.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Skill and Consent in the Labour Process Andrew Sturdy, David Knights and Hugh Willmott 2. Class and Gender in the Developing Consciousness of Appalachian Coal Miners Michael Yarrow 3. Technology and the crisis of masculinity : The Garderning of Work and skill in the U.S. Printing industry 1850-1920 Ava Baron 4. Industrial Discipline: Factory Regime and Politics in Lancaster Alan Warde 5. Clerical Consent: "Shifting" work in the Insurance Office Andrew Sturdy 6. Managing Labour Relations in a competative Environment Mick Marchington 7. Watching the Detectives : Shop Stewards' Expectations of their Managers in the Age of Human Resources Management Peter Ackers and John Black 8. Computer based Technology and the Emergence of New Forms of Managerial Control Michael Rosen and Jack Baroudi 9. Disciplinary Power and the labour Process Ron Sakolsky.
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