ISBN:
9780043011294
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (219 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Sociology of Industry
DDC:
301.55
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book is addressed mainly to students of sociology who are especiallyinterested in its application to the 'world of work'. It is intended as anintroduction, but assumes that the reader is not completely unfamiliar withsociological approaches to the study of society. The purpose of this book istwofold: to synthesise the growing body of relevant empirical material, and toshow how sociological theory at different levels of analysis applies to the threeinterrelated aspects of the subject-matter. These three inter-related aspectsconstitute the three sections of the book
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction to Fourth Edition; Industrial Sociology: Perspectives and Models; The Economy: Structure and Change; Industry and Education; Industry and the Family; Industry and Social Stratification; Industry, the Community and the Polity; Organisations; Approaches to Workplace Behaviour; Shopfloor Strategies and Reactions to Change; Management; Organised Interest Groups; Occupations, Changes and their Consequences; Work Involvement and its Alternatives; The Subjective Experience of Work; Questions of Procedure and Identity
Description / Table of Contents:
Industrial Sociology and Industrial SocietyBibliography; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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