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 174
An emphasis on the labour process was congruent with these develop- ments in that it too focused attention on the organisation of work at the point of production ; the analysis offered by Braverman , however , had the advantage in this ...
An emphasis on the labour process was congruent with these develop- ments in that it too focused attention on the organisation of work at the point of production ; the analysis offered by Braverman , however , had the advantage in this ...
Page 191
For example , Braverman , like Marx , saw the pressures for in- creasing control over the labour process as arising directly from ' the imperatives of capital accumulation as the fundamental dynamic ... in capitalist societies ' ( Elger ...
For example , Braverman , like Marx , saw the pressures for in- creasing control over the labour process as arising directly from ' the imperatives of capital accumulation as the fundamental dynamic ... in capitalist societies ' ( Elger ...
Page 197
There is an alternative to the direct control of the labour process which Braverman saw as reaching its full development in the form of Scientific Manage- ment ; in appropriate circumstances managements can secure and retain control in ...
There is an alternative to the direct control of the labour process which Braverman saw as reaching its full development in the form of Scientific Manage- ment ; in appropriate circumstances managements can secure and retain control in ...
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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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