Book ; Online: Michael Burawoy on sociology and the workplace
(Social Science Bites)
2016
Abstract: About this Podcast: Industrial sociologist Michael Burawoy has conducted extensive ethnographic ...
Series title | Social Science Bites |
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Abstract | About this Podcast: Industrial sociologist Michael Burawoy has conducted extensive ethnographic observation into the world of production, immersing himself in a multiplicity of workplaces from copper mines in post-colonial Zambia to a rubber factory in Soviet Moscow. Burawoy's research has focused on the attitudes and behaviours of workers, scrutinizing the hegemonic organization of work and how managers manufacture consent. Focusing primarily on socialist production, Burawoy has also challenged conservative sociologists in their own back garden, working in South Chicago as a machine operator to gain insight into the experience of workers under capitalist production.In this podcast Burawoy provides some specific lessons and broader points pertaining to his observational research and various factory experiences. Having brought a production-based Marxist perspective throughout his research, Burawoy attests to how expectations in research can be defied, how anomalies can present and challenge frameworks, and how frameworks must shift in accordance with contextual dynamics. "I am definitely going with a Marxist perspective and it definitely affects what I look for," he says. "But it doesn't necessarily affect what I actually see." |
Keywords | Capitalism. ; Industrial sociology/Research. ; Marxian economics. ; Production (Economic theory) ; Work environment/Social aspects. |
Language | English |
Dates of publication | 2016-2016 |
Size | 1 online resource. |
Document type | Book ; Online |
ISBN | 1526459817 ; 9781526459817 |
Database | NAL-Catalogue (AGRICOLA) |
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