Understanding Industrial Organisations: Theoretical Perspectives in Industrial SociologyRoutledge, 1992 - 280 pages Understanding 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 180
... capital required , mechanisation , and the subordination of the worker to much greater and more detailed control by the capitalist employer ( Marx 1976 , 645 , 1019–38 ) . The attempts by capitalist employers to maximise surplus value ...
... capital required , mechanisation , and the subordination of the worker to much greater and more detailed control by the capitalist employer ( Marx 1976 , 645 , 1019–38 ) . The attempts by capitalist employers to maximise surplus value ...
Page 181
... capital , to reduce the costs of production and increase the rate at which they extracted surplus value . The alternative was to be forced out of business by competitors who could undercut them . Thus the developments discussed above ...
... capital , to reduce the costs of production and increase the rate at which they extracted surplus value . The alternative was to be forced out of business by competitors who could undercut them . Thus the developments discussed above ...
Page 191
... capital accumulation as the fundamental dynamic . . . in capitalist societies ' ( Elger 1982 , 23 ) . Elger , how- ever , has criticised Braverman for a failure adequately to locate this compulsion to control and has argued that there ...
... capital accumulation as the fundamental dynamic . . . in capitalist societies ' ( Elger 1982 , 23 ) . Elger , how- ever , has criticised Braverman for a failure adequately to locate this compulsion to control and has argued that there ...
Contents
Systems thinking | 39 |
Context contingency and choice | 89 |
Orientation and action | 126 |
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