{"product_id":"critical-study-of-work-9781566397971","title":"Critical Study Of Work","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo 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 venture beyond factory and office to examine \\u0022virtual\\u0022 workplaces, computer-era cottage work, and emotional and household labor. The settings range from Indian and Irish software factories to Brazilian supermarkets, Los Angeles sweatshops, and Taiwanese department stores. Other essays seek to make theoretical sense of increasingly de-centered production chains, fluid work relations, and uncertain employment. Individually and collectively the authors construct a new critical study of work, highlighting the connections between geography, technology, gender, race, and class. They offer an accessible and flexible approach to the study of workplace relations and production organization -- and even  the notion of work itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This volume presents innovative, comparative case studies of work and the politics of labor around the world. Moving the field of labor process studies onto new conceptual terrain, The Critical Study of Work should be required reading for anyone seeking to understand globalization and how it shapes and connects work experiences in offices, retail establishments, homes, and factories.\" -Vicki Smith, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis, and author of Crossing the Great Divide: Worker Risk and Opportunity in the New Economy \"[A]n important contribution to the literature on labor, labor relations, labor process, labor value, globalization and technology and work.\" -Anthropology of Work Review \"This edited collection will be of interest to scholars curious about the theoretical development and recent empirical research in labour process analysis... The qualitative\/ ethnographic methodologies employed in these labour process analyses yield valuable insights into the real experiences of workers confronting the forces of global market capitalism.\" -Canadian Journal of Sociology Online \"The overall quality of the contributions is outstanding and Baldoz, Koeber and Kraft deserve high marks for assembling work that will interest scholars and stimulate undergraduates and learned nonspecialists.\" -Social Forces\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Making Sense of Work in the 21st Century    Rick Baldoz, Charles Koeber, and Philip Kraft  Part I:The Global Perspective: Continuity and Change  1. Dwelling in Capitalism, Traveling Through Socialism   Michael Burawoy  2. Do Capitalists Matter in the Capitalist Labor Process? Collective Capacities, Group Interests, and Management Prerogatives, 1886-1904    Jeffery Haydu  Part II:Service and Service Sectors Workers   3. Gender, Race, and the Organization of Reproductive Labor    Evelyn Nakano Glenn  4. The Body as a Contested Terrain for Labor Control: Cosmetics Retailers in Department Stores and Direct Selling     Pei-Chia Lan  5. Silent Rebellions in Capitalist Paradise: A Brazil-Quebec Comparison    Angelo Soares  Part III: Production and Industrial Workers   6. Flexible Despotism: The Intensification of Insecurity and Uncertainty in the Lives of Silicon Valley's High-Tech Assembly Workers    Jennifer J. Chun  7.  The Challenge of Organizing in a Globalized\/Flexible Industry: The Case of the Apparel Industry in Los Angeles    Edna Bonacich  8.  Transcending Taylorism and Fordism? Three Decade of Work Restructuring    James Rinehart  9. Manufacturing Compromise: The Dynamics of Race and Class Among South African Shop Stewards in the 1990s    Edward Webster  Part IV:  Professional and Technical Workers  10. \"Globalization\": The Next Tactic in the 50-Year Struggle of Labor and Capital in Software Production    Richard Sharpe  11. Controlling Technical Workers in Alternative Work Arrangements: Rethinking the Work Contract    Peter Meiksins and Peter Whalley  12. Net-Working for a Living: Irish Software Developers in the Global Workplace    Sean O'Riain","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041364607319,"sku":"9781566397971","price":69.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781566397971.jpg?v=1750949982","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/critical-study-of-work-9781566397971","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}