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Collective Mobilization in Changing Conditions: Worker Collectivity in a Turbulent Age

Autor Jonas Axelsson, Jan Ch. Karlsson, Egil J. Skorstad
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 aug 2020
This book presents the first published account in English of Sverre Lysgaard's theory of the ‘worker collectivity’ – a theory of an informal protective organisation among subordinate employees, which so far has been unknown outside Scandinavia.


Lysgaard’s theory espouses that workers collectively form a buffer against management to protect themselves from the technical/economic power, which controls their working lives. The authors have returned to the same Norwegian factory Lysgaard studied in the 1950s to carry out ethnographic fieldwork in the 1980s and 2010s, and investigate the changing nature of the production, labour processes and management strategies. Through analysis that extends over 50 years of factory life, this research documents shifting power relations between workers and employers during times of changing institutional structures, globalisation, and worker solidarity. A revised version of the theory is also presented as an answer to some of the uncovered deficiencies in the original framework. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of the sociology of work, labour studies, business management and organisation studies.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030191924
ISBN-10: 3030191923
Pagini: 207
Ilustrații: XIII, 207 p. 10 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2019
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1. Introduction: Theoretical Contexts of the Theory of the Worker Collectivity.- Part 1. Factory Life and the Worker Collectivity 2. Lysgaard’s Theory of the Worker Collectivity.- 3. Lysgaard in Anglo-Saxony: A Comparison of Theories.- 4. The Life and Times of the Worker Collectivity Over Sixty Years.- Part 2. Developments of the Theory of the Worker Collectivity 5. The Human System, the Person and Human Nature. - 6. Infiltrating the Technical/Economic System.- 7. The Economic System: Transmitting Inexorability.- 8. A Lysgaardian Theory of the Worker Collectivity. 

Notă biografică

Jonas Axelsson is Lecturer in the Department of Working Life Science, Karlstad University Sweden.
Jan Ch. Karlsson is Professor Emeritus at Østfold University College, Norway.
Egil J. Skorstad is Professor Emeritus at Østfold University College, Norway.


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This book presents the first published account in English of Sverre Lysgaard's theory of the ‘worker collectivity’ – a theory of an informal protective organisation among subordinate employees, which so far has been unknown outside Scandinavia.

Lysgaard’s theory espouses that workers collectively form a buffer against management to protect themselves from the technical/economic power, which controls their working lives. The authors have returned to the same Norwegian factory Lysgaard studied in the 1950s to carry out ethnographic fieldwork in the 1980s and 2010s, and investigate the changing nature of the production, labour processes and management strategies. Through analysis that extends over 50 years of factory life, this research documents shifting power relations between workers and employers during times of changing institutional structures, globalization, and worker solidarity. A revised version of the theory is alsopresented as an answer to some of the uncovered deficiencies in the original framework. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of the sociology of work, labour studies, business management and organisation studies.


Caracteristici

Analyses a production facility, its workers, management, and the internal/external factors from three distinct vantage points in time Provides an in-depth look at how western institutions might adopt or adjust labour processes to be more like that of the Scandinavia model Forms part of a tradition of ethnographic studies of workplaces, part of a revival of attentiveness to narratives of factory life