Workers' Attitudes and Technology (Cambridge Papers in Sociology, Series Number 2) - Softcover

Wedderburn, Dorothy; Crompton, Rosemary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521097118 ISBN 13: 9780521097116

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1972

Synopsis

First published in 1922, this volume aimed to contribute to our understanding of the complexities which shape attitudes and behaviour at work. Based on material obtained from a survey of workers employed by a single firm - who operate production systems as widely as different as continuous-flow chemical production and yarn spinning - this book highlights features of the production system which are crucial in influencing attitudes and behaviour within the work setting. Through a comparison of craftsmen and semi-skilled workers, it also illustrates the influence of differences of expectations upon work attitudes and behaviour. The authors reject any approach which could be called technologically determinist but nonetheless seek to show that a comparative approach to the study of behaviour in organizations may still fruitfully take as its starting-point technology and the systems of control which are devised for the planning and execution of the task.

About this title

Book Description:

First published in 1922, this volume contributes to our understanding of the complexities which shape attitudes and behaviour at work. Based on material obtained from a survey of workers employed by a single firm, it highlights features of the production system which are crucial in influencing attitudes and behaviour within the work setting.

About the Author:

Rosemary Crompton is Professor of Sociology at City University, London. Her previous publications include Restructuring Gender Relations and Employment (1999), Class and Stratification (1998), Women and Work in Modern Britain (1997) and Gendered Jobs and Social Change (1990). She is a past editor of Work, Employment and Society.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0521097118
• ISBN 13: 9780521097116
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176