the university of chicago press sep 1982 (5 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Since the 1930s, industrial sociologists have tried to answer the question, Why do workers not work harder Michael Burawoy spent ten months as a machine operator in a Chicago factory trying to answer different but equally important questions: Why do workers work as hard as they do Why do workers routinely consent to their own exploitation 'Manufacturing Consent,' the result of Burawoy's research, combines rich ethnographical description with an original Marxist theory of the capitalist labor process. 'Manufacturing Consent' is unique among studies of this kind because Burawoy has been able to analyze his own experiences in relation to those of Donald Roy, who studied the same factory thirty years earlier. Burawoy traces the technical, political, and ideological changes in factory life to the transformations of the market relations of the plant (it is now part of a multinational corporation) and to broader movements, since World War II, in industrial relations.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Alexis de Tocqueville possessed one of the most fertile sociological imaginations of the nineteenth century. For more than 120 years, his uncanny predictive insight has continued to fascinate thinkers, and his writings have continued to influence our interpretations of history and society. His analyses of many issues remain relevant to current social and political problems. In this volume John Stone and Stephen Mennell bring together for the first time selections from the full range of Tocqueville's writings, selections that illustrate the depth of his insight and analysis.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What Is Taoism traces, in nontechnical language, the history of the development of this often baffling doctrine. Creel shows that there has not been one 'Taoism,' but at least three, in some respects incompatible and often antagonistic. In eight closely related papers, Creel explicates the widely used concepts he originally introduced of 'contemplative Taoism,' 'purposive Taoism,' and 'Hsien Taoism.' He also discusses Shen Pu-hai, a political philosopher of the fourth century B.C.; the curious interplay between Confucianism, Taoism, and 'Legalism' in the second century B.C.; and the role of the horse in Chinese history.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Critics will always disagree, but, maintains Wayne Booth, their disagreement need not result in critical chaos. In Critical Understanding, Booth argues for a reasoned pluralism--a criticism more various and resourceful than can be caught in any one critic's net. He relates three noted pluralists--Ronald Crane, Kenneth Burke, and M. H. Abrams--to various currently popular critical approaches. Throughout, Booth tests the abstractions of metacriticism against particular literary works, devoting a substantial portion of his discussion to works by W. H. Auden, Henry James, Oliver Goldsmith, and Anatole France.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In what constitutes a landmark in the field of national accounts, Raymond W. Goldsmith gives detailed estimates of the nation's assets and liabilities year by year from 1953 through 1975 and for the benchmark years of 1900, 1929, and 1980. Special features of this work include presentation of data sector by sector, which casts light on the changing roles of financial institutions, and Goldsmith's expression of data in the form of ratios rather than in absolute dollar values, a device that makes the material both more informative and easier to absorb. The most comprehensive and extensive study of national wealth ever attempted, 'The National Balance Sheet' will be a rich resource for researchers and users of national accounts.