Sons of the Machine: Case Studies of Social Change in the Workplace

by Charles H. Savage and George E. F. Lombard

Sons of the Machineoffers a humane and cogent look at industrial culture in Latin America. Through first-hand studies of the processes of social change at three Colombian factories it counters both literary and academic notions of "industrial man." It is a book that grew from Charles Savage's frustration and deep curiosity about the alienation among men and of men from their work in the oilfields of South America in the 1950s. Turning away from the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262192438
• ISBN13: 9780262192439
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.