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Waving, Not Drowning: Explaining and Exploring the Resilience of Labor Process Theory

verfasst von: Paul Thompson, Chris Smith

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Labor Process Theory (LPT) in its modern post—Braverman (1974) form has for over 30 years influenced, to varying degrees and in different places, industrial sociology, industrial relations, labor history and organizational analysis. From the early 1980s it became the dominant approach to the study of work and the workplace in the United Kingdom and remains influential there, and in parts of Europe, Australasia and Canada. What accounts for this intellectual durability? Institutional supports such as an annual international conference (now in its 27^th year) and a large scale publishing program (21 volumes in various ‘labor process’ series) have helped. But LPT has had to have had something to say and a capacity for both innovation and resilience, as for over three decades it has been deployed and expanded to produce critical perspectives on trends in global workplace developments. In some countries, notably the United States, it retained a narrow commentary on skill formation and destruction, but in Europe and Australasia especially, it has been the key touchstone for theorizing workplace reforms and innovation. …

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Titel: Waving, Not Drowning: Explaining and Exploring the Resilience of Labor Process Theory
verfasst von: Paul Thompson
Chris Smith
Publikationsdatum: 01.09.2009
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal / Ausgabe 3/2009
Print ISSN: 0892-7545
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-3378
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10672-009-9116-4

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