Blue-Collar Stratification : Autoworkers in Four Countries /
Form, William Humbert
Blue-Collar Stratification : Autoworkers in Four Countries / William Humbert Form. - 1 online resource (360 p.) - Princeton Legacy Library ; 1724 .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Technology and the Social Integration of the Working Class -- 2. Four Nations, Four Cities, and Four Factories -- 3. Stratal Origins and Destinations -- 4. Community Origins, Industrial Discipline, and Urban Adaptation -- 5. Technology, Machines, and Worker Behavior -- 6. AutoworkersandTheirMachines -- 7. Autoworkers and Their Unions -- 8. Technology, Unions, and Political Ideology -- 9. Linking Systems for Working-Class Movements -- 10. Internal Stratification of the Working Class -- 11. The Social Construction of Anomie -- 12. Technology, Participation, and Stratification -- Appendices -- References -- Author Index -- Backmatter
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In studying the impact of industry on class organization, social scientists have assumed that the effects of technological advance increase with time and that, as technology molds, dehumanizes, and alienates workers, the pressure mounts to change the system through political action. William H. Form tests these assumptions in his study. The author considers whether workers have more to do with one another as societies industrialize, whether they become more involved in organizations, and whether these involvements become distinctively similar, creating an organizational basis for a solidary working-class movement. To examine these questions, he chooses four countries (India, Argentina, Italy, and the U.S.) that vary in the extent of their industrial development. He then compares samples of skilled, semiskilled, and unskilled workers in order to ascertain how specific technologies to which they have been exposed affect their behavior in systems such as the work group, union, party, neighborhood, and nation.Originally published in 1976.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691617213 9781400868452
10.1515/9781400868452 doi
Automobile industry workers.
Industrial sociology.
Machinery in the workplace.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Automobile Industry.
HD8039.A8
301.44/42
Blue-Collar Stratification : Autoworkers in Four Countries / William Humbert Form. - 1 online resource (360 p.) - Princeton Legacy Library ; 1724 .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Technology and the Social Integration of the Working Class -- 2. Four Nations, Four Cities, and Four Factories -- 3. Stratal Origins and Destinations -- 4. Community Origins, Industrial Discipline, and Urban Adaptation -- 5. Technology, Machines, and Worker Behavior -- 6. AutoworkersandTheirMachines -- 7. Autoworkers and Their Unions -- 8. Technology, Unions, and Political Ideology -- 9. Linking Systems for Working-Class Movements -- 10. Internal Stratification of the Working Class -- 11. The Social Construction of Anomie -- 12. Technology, Participation, and Stratification -- Appendices -- References -- Author Index -- Backmatter
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In studying the impact of industry on class organization, social scientists have assumed that the effects of technological advance increase with time and that, as technology molds, dehumanizes, and alienates workers, the pressure mounts to change the system through political action. William H. Form tests these assumptions in his study. The author considers whether workers have more to do with one another as societies industrialize, whether they become more involved in organizations, and whether these involvements become distinctively similar, creating an organizational basis for a solidary working-class movement. To examine these questions, he chooses four countries (India, Argentina, Italy, and the U.S.) that vary in the extent of their industrial development. He then compares samples of skilled, semiskilled, and unskilled workers in order to ascertain how specific technologies to which they have been exposed affect their behavior in systems such as the work group, union, party, neighborhood, and nation.Originally published in 1976.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691617213 9781400868452
10.1515/9781400868452 doi
Automobile industry workers.
Industrial sociology.
Machinery in the workplace.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Automobile Industry.
HD8039.A8
301.44/42