Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism

by Michael Burawoy

Book Overview

Since the 1930s, industrial sociologists have tried to answer the question, Why do workers not work harder? Michael Burawoy spent ten months as a machine operator in a Chicago factory trying to answer different but equally important questions: Why do workers work as hard as they do? Why do workers routinely consent to their own exploitation?

Manufacturing Consent, the result of Burawoy's research, combines rich ethnographical description...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226080382
• ISBN13: 9780226080383
• Release Date: September 1982
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"