The Public Turn: From Labor Process to Labor Movement

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO
Author/s Michael Burawoy
Publishing Year 2011 Issue 2011/123
Language Italian Pages 17 P. 15-31 File size 312 KB
DOI 10.3280/SL2011-123002
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The year 1974 marked a rupture in the study of labor. It was the year in wHarry Braverman’s Labor and Monopoly Capital was published, making a break with a moribund industrial sociology. It was a rupture inspired by the resurgence of Marxism, critical of the euphoric sociology of the 1950s. Since 1974, labor studies have undergone a mutation, shifting their focus fhich rom the examination of the labor process to an engagement with the labor movement. What explains this in light of the continuing assault on labor and the decline of overall union density? The answer lies with the transformation of the labor movement itself - the demise of the old industrial, business unionism and the growing strength of New Labor with its orientation to the service sector, to immigrant and vulnerable workers, and its invention of novel organizing strategies. In New Labor, sociologists have found a new public.

Keywords: Labor process, labor movement, public sociology

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Michael Burawoy, La svolta pubblica: dal processo lavorativo al movimento operaio in "SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO " 123/2011, pp 15-31, DOI: 10.3280/SL2011-123002