Just the Working Life

Opposition and Accommodation in Daily Industrial Life
1. Auflage 1990
ISBN: 978-0-87332-608-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Based on interviews with workers at a chemical factory, this study elicits perceptions of authority relations at work and provides information on the degree to which people see these relations as legitimate. The employees discuss safety, self-fulfillment and resistance to authority.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lendler, Marc

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments, 1 Introduction, 2 "Not a Debating Society", 3 Daily Life, 4 Industrial Non-Democracy, 5 Expectations and Frustrations, 6 The Workday Tug of War, 7 Preference and Interest, Redux, 8 Conc1usion, Appendix A, Appendix B, Bibliography, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marc Lendler received his B.A. from Antioch University in 1970. For the next eight years he worked in a variety of factories in Cincinatti, Ohio. He then went on to receive his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University. Professor Lendler has taught at Connecticut College, Mount Holyoke, and the University of Pennsylvania. He now teaches Political Science in the Social Science division at Bennington College.