Work in Global and Historical Perspective16 Power At

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There is an ongoing struggle for control in the workplace, mostly silent, sometimes overt, between working men and women (with more or less formal "freedom") and those employing them. The frontiers of control are constantly shifting, with managers trying to increase their power over subordinates and workers trying to maintain or expand their relative autonomy. The case studies in this volume cover three centuries and different parts of the world. Still, together they demonstrate that power at work results from complex interrelations: between technological innovations and the ways in which they are implemented; between standards of social segmentation beyond the company’s premises, and management strategies of utilizing labour power which may weaken or reinforce differences and competition among workers; and between politics in production, which shape the relations between capital and labour on the shopfloor, and state politics of production that are linked to broader developments in economy and society.

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Pages: 353, Edition: 1, Hardcover, de Gruyter Oldenbourg