The fabrication of labor : Germany and Britain, 1640-1914 /
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| Author / Creator: | Biernacki, Richard, 1956- |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, c1995. |
| Description: | xii, 569 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies on the history of society and culture 22 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1682025 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: The Task of Explanation. The Initial Test Cases. Culture in Labor History. The Ambiguity of Practice Theory. Taxonomies of Production. Practice and Subjective Meaning. A Look Ahead
- 2. Concepts and Practices of Labor. The Logic of the Weavers' Piece-Rate Scales. Defining Fines. The Circulation of Labor. Traders and Capitalists. The Strategy for Specifying Culture's Effect
- 3. The Control of Time and Space. Time Measurements. Time Jurisdiction. Frontiers of Discipline. The Partitioning of Space. Theory in the Mill Yard
- 4. The Cultural Location of Overlookers. Imagining the Overlookers' Contribution. Belabored Fictions. Forms of Authority. Culture's Contemporaneous Effect
- 5. The Disjoint Recognition of Markets in Britain. The Codification of a Market in Products. The Compass of the Commodity. The Institutionalization of a Market in Labor. Adam Smith's Substance. The Transmission of Labor in the Age of the Factory. The Insincerity of the Historical Process
- 6. The Fused and Uneven Recognition of Markets in Germany. Corporate Regulation. The Recognition of Labor as a Commodity. Marx's Replication of Economic Theory in Germany. The Guilds' Residual Control over the Supply of Labor. The Feudal Contribution. Three Conditions for the Cultural Outcome
- 7. A Conjunctural Model of Labor's Emergence in Words and Institutions. Northern Italy: A Preparatory Application of the Model. France: A Suggestive Extension. The Hierarchy of Motivating Conditions
- 8. The Monetization of Time. Units of Payment and Production. The Influence of Concepts of Time on Strike Demands. Real Abstractions
- 9. Theories of Exploitation in the Workers' Movements. The Place of Culture in Labor Movements. A Puzzle in the Workers' Reception of Ideas. Economic Ideologies in the Workers' Movements of Britain. Economic Ideologies in the Workers' Movements of Germany. The Practical Foundations for the Reception of Ideology. Practical Analyses of Exploitation. The Labor Process as an Anchor for Culture
- 10. The Guiding Forms of Collective Action. Scripts on Stage and on Paper. The Formulation of Strike Demands. Overlookers' Role in Strikes. 11. Conclusion: Under the Aegis of Culture. The Explanatory Method. The Fetishism of Quantified Labor. Forms of Passage.