- 238 pages
- English
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About this book
Originally published in 1982 and now reissued with a new Preface by Stephen Wood the contributors of this book discuss the issues surrounding the organization of labour. They use insights from industrial sociology, historical research and Marxist-Feminist debates. In particular they stress that work organization cannot be seen simply as a reflection of the strategy of an omniscient management; any examination of it must involve product and labour markets, technology, trade unionism and, above all, the way in which production systems are jointly created out of the interrelationship between management and workforces. The Degradation of Work? asks if there has been a general de-skilling and routinization of jobs and if 'skilled' jobs are really any different from semi-skilled or unskilled ones.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- New Preface to the Reissue of 2024.
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Braverman, capital accumulation and deskilling
- 3 The sexual division of labour and the labour process: a critical assessment of Braverman
- 4 Taylorism, responsible autonomy and management strategy
- 5 Skilled manual workers in the labour process, 1856-1964
- 6 Skill and the survival of apprenticeship
- 7 Deskilling and changing structures of control
- 8 Beyond deskilling: skill, craft and class
- 9 The deskilling of clerical work: Rosemary Crompton and Stuart Reid
- 10 Destruction or redistribution of engineering skills? The case of numerical control
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index