"Labor History's "Synthesis Debate

Sociological Interventions

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10487196
AutoresJerry Lembcke (College of the Holy Cross, autor de correspondencia), Jerry Lee Lembcke (Department of Sociology Holy Cross College Worcester, MA 01610)
Año1995
Volumen59
Número2
Páginas137-173
Fecha de publicación1995-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaScience & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0036-8237 • E-ISSN: 1943-2801
EditorialGuilford Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/003682379505900202
OpenAlexW3217682921
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas63

This article is concerned with the crisis in U. S. labor studies. It argues that the anti-institutionalist thrust of labor studies since the late 1960s has fragmented the field and that recent attempts to find a new synthesis have failed because certain theoretical premises of the anti-institutionalist trend have gone unrecognized. The article identifies the essentially Weberian premises of the "new" labor history and argues that those influences have carried over into labor process studies. Recent work in class analysis is proposed as a framework capable of unifying the field

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