Work Under Capitalism
1st Edition
Published on 5. March 2019
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-367-21407-4 (ISBN)
Description
Work Under Capitalism synthesizes recent institutionalist and Marxist ideas about the organization of production, situating production within a social context. Starting with the transaction rather than the individual, it builds upon a coherent theory and applies it to a wide range of experience, from household labour to transformations of health c
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
641 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-21407-4 (9780367214074)
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Person
Chris Tilly is associate professor of regional economic and social development at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Charles Tilly is Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University.
Content
How to Work Things Out -- Worlds of Work -- Cotton, Coal, and Clinics -- An Analytical Frame -- Employers at Work -- Workers and Other Actors -- How Work Has Changed, How Work Changes -- Varied Work, Segmented Work -- Inequality at Work: Hiring -- Inequality at Work: Wages and Promotion -- Contention at Work -- Conclusions