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Title The sociology of industry / S.R. Parker [and others]
Edition 4th ed
Published London : Allen & Unwin, 1981

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Description 1 online resource (208 pages)
Series Studies in sociology ; 1
Studies in sociology ; 1
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction to Fourth Edition; Industrial Sociology: Perspectives and Models; The Economy: Structure and Change; Industry and Education; Industry and the Family; Industry and Social Stratification; Industry, the Community and the Polity; Organisations; Approaches to Workplace Behaviour; Shopfloor Strategies and Reactions to Change; Management; Organised Interest Groups; Occupations, Changes and their Consequences; Work Involvement and its Alternatives; The Subjective Experience of Work; Questions of Procedure and Identity
Summary This book is addressed mainly to students of sociology who are especiallyinterested in its application to the 'world of work'. It is intended as anintroduction, but assumes that the reader is not completely unfamiliar withsociological approaches to the study of society. The purpose of this book istwofold: to synthesise the growing body of relevant empirical material, and toshow how sociological theory at different levels of analysis applies to the threeinterrelated aspects of the subject-matter. These three inter-related aspectsconstitute the three sections of the book
Analysis Industries Sociological perspectives
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Industrial sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Industrial sociology
Form Electronic book
Author Parker, Stanley, 1927-
ISBN 0203985850
9780203985854