• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Bureaucracy and the Labor Process: The Transformation of U. S. Industry, 1860-1920

Bureaucracy and the Labor Process: The Transformation of U. S. Industry, 1860-1920

Paperback

Business GeneralManagementSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0853455430
ISBN13: 9780853455431
Publisher: Monthly Review Pr
Published: Jan 1 1980
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This book makes the argument, supported by rich and extensive historical research into original sources, that it is possible to revolutionize work so that it can be, in the author's words, satisfying, creative, and stimulating at the same time that it is materially productive: we can have material abundance along with interesting work. Rather than argue the issue in the abstract, Clawson investigates the development of industrial management in the late nineteenth-century United States, when inside contracting and the craft system dominated production. He examines the way in which the imposition of the factory system increased the capitalists' control over the labor process, and describes the impact of modern technology on the class struggle, concluding that the struggle is very much alive and remains the only means by which to bring about a future socialist organization of work.

18 different editions

Also available

Also in

Business General