Bruce Pietrykowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 1466901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce Pietrykowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Pietrykowski |
| SIGNATURE | PIETRYKOWSKI B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan–Dearborn |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-7816-2105 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Revisiting Capitalist and Socialist Efficiency: Applications and Extensions
This article reconstructs and extends David Gordon’s distinction between capitalist and socialist efficiency as a framework for analyzing the co‐evolution of production techniques, class power, and worker subjectivity. Historical conflicts such as the Lordstown strike and new forms of algorithmic supervision in digital labor markets are used to illustrate the relevance of Gordon’s dual conception of efficiency. The article explores how workers re…
The Return to Caring Skills: Gender, Class, and Occupational Wages in the US
Feminist economics has contributed to the understanding of the economic importance of care work. Most studies find a wage penalty associated with caring occupations. This study extends the feminist research on care work beyond caring occupations by identifying specific caring skills and activities derived from the 2014 O*NET job-evaluation data. Four caring skills – (1) Assisting and Caring for Others, (2) Establishing and Maintaining Interperson…
Participatory Economic Research: Benefits and Challenges of Incorporating Participatory Research into Social Economics
Participatory action research (PAR) and community-based participatory research (CBPR) involve traditional subjects of research in the co-creation of research design, data collection, and analysis. PAR has been used in the fields of public health, education, and geography. A case study of a local economy CBPR project will be discussed. The increasing use of field and behavioral experiments in economics together with recent critiques of the ethical…
Exploring New Directions for Research in the Radical Political Economy of Consumption
The sphere of consumption and the behavior of consumers has been a neglected area of investigation by radical political economists. The production/consumption duality is examined with special reference to Marx. Postmodern Marxism is offered as an alternative with which to examine consumer activities. Furthermore, insights and methods of analysis from the social construction of technology (SCOT) and feminist theory are investigated. These approach…
Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford's Village Industries (review)
Reviewed by Bruce Pietrykowski Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford's Village Industries. By Howard P. Segal. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. Pp. xv+244. $34.95. The history of the Ford Motor Company is entwined with the complex and contradictory views of its founder Henry Ford. This interconnection is illustrated in Howard Segal's well-crafted account of Ford's endeavor to operate small parts factories by harnessing the power …
Impressions of the Third Annual International T 2 M Conference in York, England
You Are What You Eat: The Social Economy of the Slow Food Movement
Recent work by Schor revives concerns raised by Veblen and Hirsch over the destructive consequences of competitive consumption. In contrast, Twitchell argues that increased access to commodities as symbols of luxury signals a democratization of class and social status. Rather than playing the role of dupes, consumers are active co-conspirators in the creation and maintenance of luxury goods markets. While flawed, each of these perspectives has so…
Beyond the Fordist/Post-Fordist Dichotomy: Working Through The Second Industrial Divide
The publication of The Second Industrial Dividehelped to initiate a sustained inquiry into the transformation of work under industrial capitalism in the late twentieth century. The argument that the breakdown of Fordist mass production ushered in a new production paradigm in the shape of flexible systems of work organization is reexamined. The dominant role of high-volume mass production and its craft-based counterpart can continue to coexist wel…
Alfred Schutz and the Economists
Research Article| June 01 1996 Alfred Schutz and the Economists Bruce A. Pietrykowski Bruce A. Pietrykowski Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1996) 28 (2): 219–244. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-28-2-219 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite S…
On Categories and Configurations: Further Remarks on Rebuilding the American state
“Rebuilding the American State” was written in the manner of a bozzetto : it is a sketch drawn to reshape interlocking analytical and historiographical conversations and to suggest pathways joining the era of Roosevelt to the qualities and conundrums of postwar Democratic party liberalism. We underscored the key role of what might be called the long 1940s, stretching from the economic and political crisis faced by the New Deal in 1937–38 to the e…
Beyond Contested Exchange: The Importance of Consumption and Communication in Market Exchange
Current research on efficiency wages and transaction costs utilizes models of economic behavior that require a theory of market institutions. Yet the institutional structure of market exchange appears at odds with the neoclassical theory of markets under perfect competition. Both Samuel Bowles/Herbert Gintis and David Levine recognize this as a problem for traditional economic theory. Bowles and Gintis suggest that market power is a prerequisite …
Fordism at Ford: Spatial Decentralization and Labor Segmentation at the Ford Motor Company, 1920-1950
The identification of a system of flexible production, with its own spatial logic, in contrast to an older system of Fordist mass production has generated much interest among economic geographers and political economists. This distinction rests on a widely accepted and rarely questioned understanding of the constituents of Fordist mass production. The leading examples of Fordist production are the Ford Motor Company's Highland Park and River Roug…
Objectivism, Relativism and the Importance of Rhetoric for Marxist Economics
The revolution in social thought which has taken place in anthropology, sociology, history, literature and even law has been squelched in economics by both neoclassicals and Marxists. It is the purpose of this essay to show that aspects of contemporary poststructuralist and feminist theory are considerably more compatible with Marxian and neo-Marxian theory than with neoclassical thought. More important, we argue that these poststructuralist and …
Consuming Culture: Postmodernism, Post-Fordism, and Economics
(1994). Consuming Culture: Postmodernism, Post-Fordism, and Economics. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 62-80
Rebuilding the American State: Evidence from the 1940s
From the vantage point of a critical moment in the history of statebuilding in the United States, we wish to take a fresh look at questions about the resources and wherewithal of the national state. Within modern American political science, a focus on state capacity is at least as old as the landmark essay by Woodrow Wilson on “The Study of Administration” and as current as the important scholarly impulse that has revived interest in the state at…
You Are What You Eat: The Social Economy of the Slow Food Movement
Recent work by Schor revives concerns raised by Veblen and Hirsch over the destructive consequences of competitive consumption. In contrast, Twitchell argues that increased access to commodities as symbols of luxury signals a democratization of class and social status. Rather than playing the role of dupes, consumers are active co-conspirators in the creation and maintenance of luxury goods markets. While flawed, each of these perspectives has so…
Rebuilding the American State: Evidence from the 1940s
From the vantage point of a critical moment in the history of statebuilding in the United States, we wish to take a fresh look at questions about the resources and wherewithal of the national state. Within modern American political science, a focus on state capacity is at least as old as the landmark essay by Woodrow Wilson on “The Study of Administration” and as current as the important scholarly impulse that has revived interest in the state at…
Alfred Schutz and the Economists
Research Article| June 01 1996 Alfred Schutz and the Economists Bruce A. Pietrykowski Bruce A. Pietrykowski Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1996) 28 (2): 219–244. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-28-2-219 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite S…
The Return to Caring Skills: Gender, Class, and Occupational Wages in the US
Feminist economics has contributed to the understanding of the economic importance of care work. Most studies find a wage penalty associated with caring occupations. This study extends the feminist research on care work beyond caring occupations by identifying specific caring skills and activities derived from the 2014 O*NET job-evaluation data. Four caring skills – (1) Assisting and Caring for Others, (2) Establishing and Maintaining Interperson…
Beyond the Fordist/Post-Fordist Dichotomy: Working Through The Second Industrial Divide
The publication of The Second Industrial Dividehelped to initiate a sustained inquiry into the transformation of work under industrial capitalism in the late twentieth century. The argument that the breakdown of Fordist mass production ushered in a new production paradigm in the shape of flexible systems of work organization is reexamined. The dominant role of high-volume mass production and its craft-based counterpart can continue to coexist wel…
Consuming Culture: Postmodernism, Post-Fordism, and Economics
(1994). Consuming Culture: Postmodernism, Post-Fordism, and Economics. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 62-80
Beyond Contested Exchange: The Importance of Consumption and Communication in Market Exchange
Current research on efficiency wages and transaction costs utilizes models of economic behavior that require a theory of market institutions. Yet the institutional structure of market exchange appears at odds with the neoclassical theory of markets under perfect competition. Both Samuel Bowles/Herbert Gintis and David Levine recognize this as a problem for traditional economic theory. Bowles and Gintis suggest that market power is a prerequisite …
Fordism at Ford: Spatial Decentralization and Labor Segmentation at the Ford Motor Company, 1920-1950
The identification of a system of flexible production, with its own spatial logic, in contrast to an older system of Fordist mass production has generated much interest among economic geographers and political economists. This distinction rests on a widely accepted and rarely questioned understanding of the constituents of Fordist mass production. The leading examples of Fordist production are the Ford Motor Company's Highland Park and River Roug…
Rebuilding the American State: Evidence from the 1940s
From the vantage point of a critical moment in the history of statebuilding in the United States, we wish to take a fresh look at questions about the resources and wherewithal of the national state. Within modern American political science, a focus on state capacity is at least as old as the landmark essay by Woodrow Wilson on “The Study of Administration” and as current as the important scholarly impulse that has revived interest in the state at…
Objectivism, Relativism and the Importance of Rhetoric for Marxist Economics
The revolution in social thought which has taken place in anthropology, sociology, history, literature and even law has been squelched in economics by both neoclassicals and Marxists. It is the purpose of this essay to show that aspects of contemporary poststructuralist and feminist theory are considerably more compatible with Marxian and neo-Marxian theory than with neoclassical thought. More important, we argue that these poststructuralist and …
Consuming Culture: Postmodernism, Post-Fordism, and Economics
(1994). Consuming Culture: Postmodernism, Post-Fordism, and Economics. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 62-80
On Categories and Configurations: Further Remarks on Rebuilding the American state
“Rebuilding the American State” was written in the manner of a bozzetto : it is a sketch drawn to reshape interlocking analytical and historiographical conversations and to suggest pathways joining the era of Roosevelt to the qualities and conundrums of postwar Democratic party liberalism. We underscored the key role of what might be called the long 1940s, stretching from the economic and political crisis faced by the New Deal in 1937–38 to the e…
Beyond Contested Exchange: The Importance of Consumption and Communication in Market Exchange
Current research on efficiency wages and transaction costs utilizes models of economic behavior that require a theory of market institutions. Yet the institutional structure of market exchange appears at odds with the neoclassical theory of markets under perfect competition. Both Samuel Bowles/Herbert Gintis and David Levine recognize this as a problem for traditional economic theory. Bowles and Gintis suggest that market power is a prerequisite …
Fordism at Ford: Spatial Decentralization and Labor Segmentation at the Ford Motor Company, 1920-1950
The identification of a system of flexible production, with its own spatial logic, in contrast to an older system of Fordist mass production has generated much interest among economic geographers and political economists. This distinction rests on a widely accepted and rarely questioned understanding of the constituents of Fordist mass production. The leading examples of Fordist production are the Ford Motor Company's Highland Park and River Roug…
Alfred Schutz and the Economists
Research Article| June 01 1996 Alfred Schutz and the Economists Bruce A. Pietrykowski Bruce A. Pietrykowski Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1996) 28 (2): 219–244. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-28-2-219 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite S…
Beyond the Fordist/Post-Fordist Dichotomy: Working Through The Second Industrial Divide
The publication of The Second Industrial Dividehelped to initiate a sustained inquiry into the transformation of work under industrial capitalism in the late twentieth century. The argument that the breakdown of Fordist mass production ushered in a new production paradigm in the shape of flexible systems of work organization is reexamined. The dominant role of high-volume mass production and its craft-based counterpart can continue to coexist wel…
You Are What You Eat: The Social Economy of the Slow Food Movement
Recent work by Schor revives concerns raised by Veblen and Hirsch over the destructive consequences of competitive consumption. In contrast, Twitchell argues that increased access to commodities as symbols of luxury signals a democratization of class and social status. Rather than playing the role of dupes, consumers are active co-conspirators in the creation and maintenance of luxury goods markets. While flawed, each of these perspectives has so…
Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford's Village Industries (review)
Reviewed by Bruce Pietrykowski Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford's Village Industries. By Howard P. Segal. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. Pp. xv+244. $34.95. The history of the Ford Motor Company is entwined with the complex and contradictory views of its founder Henry Ford. This interconnection is illustrated in Howard Segal's well-crafted account of Ford's endeavor to operate small parts factories by harnessing the power …
Impressions of the Third Annual International T 2 M Conference in York, England
Exploring New Directions for Research in the Radical Political Economy of Consumption
The sphere of consumption and the behavior of consumers has been a neglected area of investigation by radical political economists. The production/consumption duality is examined with special reference to Marx. Postmodern Marxism is offered as an alternative with which to examine consumer activities. Furthermore, insights and methods of analysis from the social construction of technology (SCOT) and feminist theory are investigated. These approach…
Participatory Economic Research: Benefits and Challenges of Incorporating Participatory Research into Social Economics
Participatory action research (PAR) and community-based participatory research (CBPR) involve traditional subjects of research in the co-creation of research design, data collection, and analysis. PAR has been used in the fields of public health, education, and geography. A case study of a local economy CBPR project will be discussed. The increasing use of field and behavioral experiments in economics together with recent critiques of the ethical…
The Return to Caring Skills: Gender, Class, and Occupational Wages in the US
Feminist economics has contributed to the understanding of the economic importance of care work. Most studies find a wage penalty associated with caring occupations. This study extends the feminist research on care work beyond caring occupations by identifying specific caring skills and activities derived from the 2014 O*NET job-evaluation data. Four caring skills – (1) Assisting and Caring for Others, (2) Establishing and Maintaining Interperson…
Revisiting Capitalist and Socialist Efficiency: Applications and Extensions
This article reconstructs and extends David Gordon’s distinction between capitalist and socialist efficiency as a framework for analyzing the co‐evolution of production techniques, class power, and worker subjectivity. Historical conflicts such as the Lordstown strike and new forms of algorithmic supervision in digital labor markets are used to illustrate the relevance of Gordon’s dual conception of efficiency. The article explores how workers re…
Sociology (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Neoclassical economics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political economy (5 works)