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 176
This involves the worker entering into a continuing relationship with the capitalist employer and working under his or her direction : The labour process , when it is the process by which the capitalist consumes labour - power ...
This involves the worker entering into a continuing relationship with the capitalist employer and working under his or her direction : The labour process , when it is the process by which the capitalist consumes labour - power ...
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The attempts by capitalist employers to maximise surplus value by maintaining or extending the length of the working day ... which result as workers resist , are central to Marx's understanding of the labour process under capitalism .
The attempts by capitalist employers to maximise surplus value by maintaining or extending the length of the working day ... which result as workers resist , are central to Marx's understanding of the labour process under capitalism .
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This led him to look at the different situations of different firms within any one capitalist society . ... competitive pressures are felt unequally , and this difference is increased with the development of monopoly capitalism .
This led him to look at the different situations of different firms within any one capitalist society . ... competitive pressures are felt unequally , and this difference is increased with the development of monopoly capitalism .
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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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