Author : Charles F. Sabel
Release : 1984-04-27
Genre : Political Science
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Work and Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Work and Politics write by Charles F. Sabel. This book was released on 1984-04-27. Work and Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 the need for workers with systematically different ideas about the acquisition of skill and the desirability of long-term employment. Professor Sabel shows how capitalists have played on naturally existing division in the workforce in order to match workers with diverse ambitions to jobs in different parts of the labor market. But he also demonstrates the limits, different from work group to work group, of these forms of collaboration.