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Labour Process Theory

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. David Knights

    1. UMIST, Manchester, UK

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  2. Hugh Willmott

    1. UMIST, Manchester, UK

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Part of the book series: Studies in the Labour Process (SLP)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • David Knights, Hugh Willmott
    Pages 1-45

  3. The Labour Process Debate: A Theoretical Review 1974–88

    • Craig R. Littler
    Pages 46-94

  4. Crawling from the Wreckage: The Labour Process and the Politics of Production

    • Paul Thompson
    Pages 95-124

  5. Understanding Conflict in the Labour Process: The Logic and Autonomy of Struggle

    • P. K. Edwards
    Pages 125-152

  6. Labour and Labour Process

    • Mark Wardell
    Pages 153-176

  7. Managerial Strategies, Activities, Techniques and Technology: Towards a Complex Theory of the Labour Process

    • Andrew Friedman
    Pages 177-208

  8. A Ghost in the Machine?: The State and the Labour Process in Theory and Practice

    • Dominic Strinati
    Pages 209-243

  9. Gender and the Labour Process: A Reassessment

    • Jackie West
    Pages 244-273

  10. Fragmented Labours

    • Gibson Burrell
    Pages 274-296

  11. Subjectivity, Power and the Labour Process

    • David Knights
    Pages 297-335

  12. Subjectivity and the Dialectics of Praxis: Opening up the Core of Labour Process Analysis

    • Hugh Willmott
    Pages 336-378

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 379-386
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How are we to make sense of the way work is organised and controlled? To what extent is its design the result of technological demands, the interests of capital or processes of negotiation and struggle? In recent years labour process analysis, revived by Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital , has been most influential in shaping our thinking about this question. With contributions from leading authorities in the field, this book reviews the contribution of the labour process theory to the study of work organisation. Providing a fresh response to criticisms of 'Bravermania' and lost momentum, the volume explores the theoretical foundations of labour process analysis and suggests new directions for its development

Editors and Affiliations

  • UMIST, Manchester, UK

    David Knights, Hugh Willmott

About the editors

DAVID KNIGHTS is a Senior Lecturer in the Manchester School of Management at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. He has conducted research into industrial relations, equal opportunities for ethnic minorities and sex discrimination in recruitment. He has published in sociology and management journals. He is co-author of 'Managing the Multi-Racial Workforce' and co-editor of a number of books on the labour process.

HUGH WILLMOTT is a Lecturer in the Manchester School of Management at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. His recent research has been on ESRC funded studies of accounting regulation and the strategic development of the personnel specialism. He has published in a wide range of social science journals and is co-editor of a number of books on the labour process.

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