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Power in the Workplace: The Politics of Production at At&T (SUNY Series in the Sociology of Work and Organizations) - Softcover

Vallas, Steven Peter

 
9780791412749: Power in the Workplace: The Politics of Production at At&T (SUNY Series in the Sociology of Work and Organizations)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0791412741 ISBN 13: 9780791412749
Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1993

Synopsis

This book presents a systematic case study of the hi-tech communications industry that reveals many trends in managerial authority in the workpace. Vallas reveals the mechanisms that enable advanced capitalist firms to achieve and maintain control over the workers they employ. He demonstrates that the spread and integration of automated technologies place lower level human labor in positions of declining power. The new regime does not deskill workers and need not lead toward what some have called electronic sweatshops. Nevertheless, Vallas concludes that increasing managerial control over production poses a major challenge to those who advocate labor participation in the management of American industries.

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About the Author

Steven Peter Vallas is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is coeditor, with Kai Erikson, of The Nature of Work: Sociological Perspectives.

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Publisher
State University of New York Press
Publication date
1993
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0791412741
ISBN 13 
9780791412749
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
270