Collective Mobilization in Changing Conditions
Worker Collectivity in a Turbulent Age
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Beschreibung
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.
- 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.
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
Autor*in
Jonas Axelsson
Themen in »Collective Mobilization in Changing Conditions«
labour processes factory life Sverre Lysgaard Mill workers Norway