Most of the author's career was spent in executive practice, nearly forty years in the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT & T).
This book is a cultural critique of labor and globalization that considers whether one can represent the other. The cultural representation of labor is a challenge in how globalization is understood. Workers may be everywhere in the world but cultural correlatives are problemati…
Labor in culture, or, Workers of the world(s)
This book is a cultural critique of labor and globalization that considers whether one can represent the other. The cultural representation of labor is a challenge in how globalization is understood. Workers may be everywhere in the world but cultural correlatives are problemati…
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition, by David Shulman -- Foreword, by George H. Hildebrand -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Managers on Paper -- 3 Power Struggles in the Line -- 4 Relations Between Staff and Line -…
This is a classic study of how managers interpret and engage problems as they are experienced and felt at various pionts and levels in factories and businesses.
Working in Restructured Workplaces addresses contradictory influences in contemporary workplace restructuring, its impact on workers' lives, and the direction and nature of future changes in the workplace. This authentic collection of sociological thought and research consists o…