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Working for capitali$m
- Title
- Working for capitali$m / Richard M. Pfeffer.
- Author
- Pfeffer, Richard M.
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, 1979.
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Details
- Description
- x, 395 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "For seven months Richard Pfeffer wore this badge as an employee of 'Blancs', a large piston-ring factory, where he experienced first-hand the grinding routine, petty humiliations, and distorted human relations that are synonymous with daily industrial life. Working for Capialis$m is his account of this experience -- a scathing indictment that probes the very basis of American society"--Cover.
- Alternative Title
- Working for capitalism
- Subject
- Working class > Maryland > Baltimore > Case studies
- Factory system > Maryland > Baltimore > Case studies
- Industrial relations > Maryland > Baltimore > Case studies
- Capitalism
- Liberalism
- Marxian school of sociology
- liberalism
- Capitalism
- Factory system
- Industrial relations
- Liberalism
- Marxian school of sociology
- Working class
- Industriearbeit
- Fallstudiensammlung
- Arbeid
- Working class > Maryland > Baltimore > Case studies
- Factory system > Maryland > Baltimore > Case studies
- Industrial relations > Maryland > Baltimore > Case studies
- Maryland > Baltimore
- USA
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- Case studies.
- Études de cas.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Part I. The work process. -- 1. Looking for a job -- 2. Being broken in : the first two weeks -- 3. The dictates of the production system -- 4. Doin' time : working men's and women's attitudes toward work and time -- 5. Workplace authoritarianism: Part 1.: Management -- Part II. Workers and the union -- 6. Workplace authoritarianism, Part 2: The union -- 7. The union in action and inaction : the bargain -- 8. On the shop floor : what a bargain! -- 9. Activists and organizing -- 10. Union elections : the democratic formalities -- Conclusion to Parts I and II: Liberalism and dictatorship -- Part III. Work and the capitalist system : six books considered -- 11. The books and the problem of understanding : a reintroduction -- 12. What is work like -- 13. The whys of work and what to do about it -- 14. Work and advanced capitalism : the objective world -- 15. Liberalism and the destructive shaping of our consciousness : the subjective world -- 16. Unions, policemen for the bosses -- 17. Working again : liberal versus Marxian understandings -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 0231044267
- 9780231044264
- 0231044275
- 9780231044271
- LCCN
- 78023345
- OCLC
- ocm04494305
- 4494305
- SCSB-521530
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library