Understanding Industrial Organisations: Theoretical Perspectives in Industrial SociologyUnderstanding Industrial Organizations critically reviews the approaches developed by industrial sociologists to analyze industrial organizations. It outlines four general perspectives on organizations - systems thinking, contingency approach, the action approach and labour process for a more adequate sociology of organizations. The book provides a clear, relevant and important contribution to the sociology of organizations. |
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Page 166
The single most important event which led to a change in this situation was the publication of Braverman's Labor and Mono- poly Capital in 1974. Although its limitations are better appreciated and more widely acknowledged now than they ...
The single most important event which led to a change in this situation was the publication of Braverman's Labor and Mono- poly Capital in 1974. Although its limitations are better appreciated and more widely acknowledged now than they ...
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altogether in terms of which Braverman would have approved . Indeed there have always been industrial sociologists who were sceptical of the importance accorded to Braverman's book ( see Eldridge 1983 ) or who saw ' the revived Marxist ...
altogether in terms of which Braverman would have approved . Indeed there have always been industrial sociologists who were sceptical of the importance accorded to Braverman's book ( see Eldridge 1983 ) or who saw ' the revived Marxist ...
Page 188
In the extensive discussions which have followed the publication of Braverman's book two related themes have been ... whether Braverman was right to identify Scientific Management as the only or the predominant strategy available to ...
In the extensive discussions which have followed the publication of Braverman's book two related themes have been ... whether Braverman was right to identify Scientific Management as the only or the predominant strategy available to ...
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Contents
Systems thinking | 35 |
Context contingency and choice | 97 |
Orientation and action | 126 |
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| Title | Understanding Industrial Organisations: Theoretical Perspectives in Industrial Sociology |
| Author | Richard K. Brown |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Routledge, 1992 |
| ISBN | 0415017815, 9780415017817 |
| Length | 280 pages |
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