Towards a Sociology of Artisans: Continuities and Discontinuities in Comparative PerspectiveAshgate, 2001 - 219 pages This book elicits and identifies the permanent characteristics of arisans by analyzing their variegated careers. At the same time it upholds the stratum's embeddedness in concrete social contexts and sets of relations. The book is unique in that it moves beyond ad hoc discussions of artisans by providing a theoretical understanding of the artisans stratum as a distinct social structure. For this purpose an explicitly comparative perspective is adopted in scrutinizing approaches to the study of the artisans and a set of empirical cases. Among the perspectives surveyed, the ways Marxists have confronted artisans are explored, while more contemporary sociological approaches to their study are also taken up. Empirical cases range from instances of artisans before the advent of modernity, at the time of capitalism's establishment and in the contemporary period, both in the centre (Third Italy) and semi-periphery (Greece). The author completes the discussion by bringing in factors such as artisans' basic structure, the context and timing of their emergence, agency and the conjuncture into a discussion of the stratum's survival and resurgence in late modernity. |
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Page 111
... small businesses . These were perceived as having no future . Destined to wither away altogether as a socio - economic category , they were dubbed ' transitional ' . Those that had not yet gone under were considered a residue from a ...
... small businesses . These were perceived as having no future . Destined to wither away altogether as a socio - economic category , they were dubbed ' transitional ' . Those that had not yet gone under were considered a residue from a ...
Page 125
... small businesses with new technologies and currents of thought , and enhanced the ideological status of ' smallness ' which by now has begun to have a positive significance . The upshot of all this was an intensification of earlier ...
... small businesses with new technologies and currents of thought , and enhanced the ideological status of ' smallness ' which by now has begun to have a positive significance . The upshot of all this was an intensification of earlier ...
Page 132
... small firms has relevance for the purposes of the present study . Industrial relations in small firms have been ... businesses and , as discussed earlier , it gave its own imprint of ' enterprise culture ' ( Curran and Blackburn 1991 : 179-82 ) ...
... small firms has relevance for the purposes of the present study . Industrial relations in small firms have been ... businesses and , as discussed earlier , it gave its own imprint of ' enterprise culture ' ( Curran and Blackburn 1991 : 179-82 ) ...
Contents
Some Historical Precedents | 7 |
SimpleCommodity | 43 |
Lineaments of SimpleCommodity Production | 69 |
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