Peter Meiksins
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 87075 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Peter Meiksins |
| PRENOMES | Peter |
| SOBRENOME | Meiksins |
| ASSINATURA | MEIKSINS P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | SUNY Geneseo |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 131 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Putting Work in Its Place
Most books on the subject of work focus on the increased amount of time Americans spend on the job. Peter Meiksins and Peter Whalley address the counter-trend, examining the difficult path traversed by people who choose to work less than the standard, forty-hour week. Their fascinating investigation of alternative work arrangements speaks directly to the concerns of all workers who must balance career with other commitments.Through interviews wit…
Socialism and democracy
The untimely death of Ellen Meiksins Wood on January 14, 2016 deprived the Left of one of its most original voices. Following Meiksins Wood’s own approach to political theory, we consider her work about the contradictory relationship between capitalism and democracy, and her commitment to a political program that led beyond capitalism towards a genuinely democratic society, in the context of her life and times
Leaving Science
This study investigates gender differences in the postdisplacement experience of nonacademic science and engineering (S&E) workers. Using a pooled sample created from the Displaced Worker Surveys conducted between 1994 and 2008, it finds that (1) this S&E work force is particularly vulnerable to job loss and potential career disruption; (2) displaced female S&E workers are more likely than comparable male workers to exit the work force, a gender …
HRM, Technical Workers and the Multinational Corporation
This book is the first major in-depth study of the impact of contemporary management practices on a rapidly expanding set of white-collar occupations, namely technical workers. It investigates whether HRM schemes such as employee appraisals and performance related pay have transformed technical work to such an extent that it can no longer be described as a 'service contract'. The book contains detailed examination of the nature of managerial cont…
School Principal
Putting Work in Its Place
Most books on the subject of work focus on the increased amount of time Americans spend on the job. Peter Meiksins and Peter Whalley address the counter-trend, examining the difficult path traversed by people who choose to work less than the standard, forty-hour week. Their fascinating investigation of alternative work arrangements speaks directly to the concerns of all workers who must balance career with other commitments. Through interviews wi…
Greening the Corporation
List of tables * Acronyms and Abbreviations * Acknowledgements * Preface * Environmental Challenges and Corporate Responses * Corporate Management of Environmental Challenges * An Analysis of Two Corporations with a Traditional Corporate Culture * An Analysis of Two Corporations with a 'Social-environmental' Corporate Culture * Greening the Corporation: Shades of Green * Endnotes * References * Index
Putting Work in Its Place
Whither Labor Studies? Lessons From Two Recent Studies
Divergent Paths
In the contemporary uncertain labour market situation, the tradition of upward mobility, or the chance for all workers to improve their earnings, may be a thing of the past in the United States of America (USA). In a competitive economic environment, many companies that once offered the opportunity for advancement to workers, have reinvented themselves as leaner enterprises with more flexible work forces. This publication presents empirical resea…
Place, Space, and the New Labour Internationalisms
Place, Space and the New Labour Internationalisms. Introduction: Place, Space and the New Labour Internationalisms: Beyond the Fragments? Peter Waterman and Jane Wills. 1. New Developments in Trade Union Internationalism:. Trade Union Internationalism in the Age of Seattle: Peter Waterman. Southern Unionism and the New Labour Internationalism: Rob Lambert and Eddie Webster. Rethinking the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and its I…
Doing Engineering
The Changing Shape of Work
Confronting the Time Bind
Socialists have long contended that capitalism produces distinctive and undesirable structures of time. Marx argued that capitalism created an ineluctable downward pressure on wages, forcing workers to work long hours in order to earn enough to sustain themselves. By the same token, lengthening the working day was one of the ways by which employers could increase the production of surplus-value. Marx's son-in-law, Paul Lafargue, added that capita…
Engineers as Executives
360 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE factories: increasing production means increasing losses even more. So the firms limp along with underutilized production, performing dismally. The idea of importing flexible specialization may sound attractive, but as Bagchi concludes, it is not likely to succeed without a supporting telecommunications infrastructure, a network of firms capable of supplying one another’s needs, freedom from misguided centr…
Engineering Labour
Engineers as Executives
Engineering Labour
Same As It Ever Was? The Structure of the Working Class
There is a story you will hear told over and over again in sympathetic commentary on the contemporary American labor movement: The American labor movement has declared its intent to organize, once again, the American working class. After decades of stagnation and decline, and faced with the virtual extinction of private sector unionism, organized labor has finally realized that it needs to return to the aggressive organizing tactics that were the…
Engineering Labour
Is the social status of an engineer the same in Britain as in the US or Japan? Engineers, often perceived as central agents of industrial capitalism, occupying roughly the same social status and performing similar functions in the capitalist enterprise. What the essays in this volume reveal, however, is that engineers are trained and organized quite distinctly in different national contexts. The book includes case studies of engineers in six majo…
Work, New Technology, and Capitalism
The spread of computers and electronic means of communication has clearly transformed contemporary workplaces. Computers now sit on the desks of virtually all office-based workers, linking them to one another through local area networks (LAN's), electronic mail, and complex information systems. Employees whose jobs involve significant amounts of travel are increasingly armed with an electronic arsenal of laptops, handheld computers, pagers, and c…
Trabalho e capital monopolista para os anos 90
A publicação do livro de Harry Braverman Trabalho e capital monopolista, em 1974, foi sem dúvida um dos acontecimentos intelectuais mais importantes dos últimos vinte anos. O livro rapidamente se firmou como leitura obrigatória entre a esquerda, tomando-se uma das mais citadas obras contemporâneas da literatura marxista (apenas equiparado, talvez, por A formação da classe operária inglesa, de E. P. Thompson). Além disso, Trabalho e capital monopo…
System, Society and Dominance Effects in Cross-National Organisational Analysis
Current cross-national organisational theory remains tied to stark polarisation between convergence and divergence, universal and relative, frames of analysis. Attempts at synthesis between these forces allow for, but do not always explain, why the organisation of work should be constantly pressured to conform to one particular `best practice'. Our approach examines three sources of external influence on work organisation practices: (i) the econo…
Organizing Engineering Work
This article analyzes the organization of engineering work in six industrial capitalist countries. It identifies four major models for the organization of engineering work; the engineering profession did not succeed in achieving professional 'closure' in any of the six countries under review. A review of the historical evolution of the organization of engineering work in each of the six countries reveals that engineering has been shaped by a comp…
Why American engineers aren't unionized
System, Society and Dominance Effects in Cross-National Organisational Analysis
Current cross-national organisational theory remains tied to stark polarisation between convergence and divergence, universal and relative, frames of analysis. Attempts at synthesis between these forces allow for, but do not always explain, why the organisation of work should be constantly pressured to conform to one particular `best practice'. Our approach examines three sources of external influence on work organisation practices: (i) the econo…
Professional Autonomy and Organizational Constraint
Recent discussions of the professions agree on the centrality of autonomy to professionalism but disagree whether organizational employment is consistent with the maintenance of professionals' traditional autonomy. This article analyzes autonomy in the engineering profession with a view to discovering both whether engineers are able to maintain high levels of autonomy in an organizational context and whether autonomy is as central to job satisfac…
Scientific management and class relations
Organizing Engineering Work
This article analyzes the organization of engineering work in six industrial capitalist countries. It identifies four major models for the organization of engineering work; the engineering profession did not succeed in achieving professional 'closure' in any of the six countries under review. A review of the historical evolution of the organization of engineering work in each of the six countries reveals that engineering has been shaped by a comp…
Trabalho e capital monopolista para os anos 90
A publicação do livro de Harry Braverman Trabalho e capital monopolista, em 1974, foi sem dúvida um dos acontecimentos intelectuais mais importantes dos últimos vinte anos. O livro rapidamente se firmou como leitura obrigatória entre a esquerda, tomando-se uma das mais citadas obras contemporâneas da literatura marxista (apenas equiparado, talvez, por A formação da classe operária inglesa, de E. P. Thompson). Além disso, Trabalho e capital monopo…
The "Revolt of the Engineers" Reconsidered
Recent scholarship on the history of American engineers has focused on the years surrounding World War I as crucially important to the formation of the modern engineering profession. This is hardly surprising, since these were the years during which the so-called revolt of the engineers (to use Edwin Layton's phrase) took place. Mechanical and civil engineers in particular seemed to be searching for a redefinition of their place in society, to be…
What Do Engineers Want? Work Values, Job Rewards, and Job Satisfaction
This article reexamines the classical distinction between professional and organizational work orientations for the case of engineers. Based on data from a survey questionnaire mailed to a sample of 800 engineers in the Rochester, New York, area in 1986, it argues that the two orientations are not opposites. Instead, it is possible to score high on measures of both orientations, or to score low on both. The result is a more complex, fourfold typo…
A Critique of Wright's Theory of Contradictory Class Locations
Leaving Science
This study investigates gender differences in the postdisplacement experience of nonacademic science and engineering (S&E) workers. Using a pooled sample created from the Displaced Worker Surveys conducted between 1994 and 2008, it finds that (1) this S&E work force is particularly vulnerable to job loss and potential career disruption; (2) displaced female S&E workers are more likely than comparable male workers to exit the work force, a gender …
Why American engineers aren't unionized
Beyond the Boundary Question
Class politics, once the unquestioned centre of the socialist project, has became the object of intense controversy. There have been many reasons for this startling development—the appearance of the so-called new social movements and the continued failure of traditional Left parties to effect fundamental social change are just
Beyond Class? A Reply to Chantal Mouffe
In her article, Working Class Hegemony and the Struggle for Socialism, Chantal Mouffe calls for a redefinition of the socialist project. The traditional Marxist argument that the working class must be the hegemonic force within any socialist movement should, she contends, be reexamined and discarded
School Principal
Confronting the Time Bind
Socialists have long contended that capitalism produces distinctive and undesirable structures of time. Marx argued that capitalism created an ineluctable downward pressure on wages, forcing workers to work long hours in order to earn enough to sustain themselves. By the same token, lengthening the working day was one of the ways by which employers could increase the production of surplus-value. Marx's son-in-law, Paul Lafargue, added that capita…
Professionalism and Conflict
Journal Article Professionalism and Conflict: The Case of the American Association of Engineers Get access Peter Meiksins Peter Meiksins State University of New York, Geneseo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 19, Issue 3, Spring 1986, Pages 403–421, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/19.3.403 Published: 01 March 1986
Social Class and the Division of Labour
Productive and Unproductive Labor and Marx's Theory of Class
This paper attempts to clarify some of the confusion surrounding Marx's discussion of productive and un productive labor. It begins with a brief exposition of Marx's definitions of these concepts and then moves to a consideration of their more controversial aspects. Par ticular attention is paid to the problem of service workers and commercial wage-labor, and Mandel's and Poulant zas's writings on these subjects are reviewed and criticiz ed. Fina…
Delivering Primary Health Care
German Engineers
Scientific management and class relations
Beyond Class? A Reply to Chantal Mouffe
In her article, Working Class Hegemony and the Struggle for Socialism, Chantal Mouffe calls for a redefinition of the socialist project. The traditional Marxist argument that the working class must be the hegemonic force within any socialist movement should, she contends, be reexamined and discarded
Social Class and the Division of Labour
Controlling Unlawful Organizational Behavior
Beyond the Boundary Question
Class politics, once the unquestioned centre of the socialist project, has became the object of intense controversy. There have been many reasons for this startling development—the appearance of the so-called new social movements and the continued failure of traditional Left parties to effect fundamental social change are just
Professionalism and Conflict
Journal Article Professionalism and Conflict: The Case of the American Association of Engineers Get access Peter Meiksins Peter Meiksins State University of New York, Geneseo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 19, Issue 3, Spring 1986, Pages 403–421, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/19.3.403 Published: 01 March 1986
The "Revolt of the Engineers" Reconsidered
Recent scholarship on the history of American engineers has focused on the years surrounding World War I as crucially important to the formation of the modern engineering profession. This is hardly surprising, since these were the years during which the so-called revolt of the engineers (to use Edwin Layton's phrase) took place. Mechanical and civil engineers in particular seemed to be searching for a redefinition of their place in society, to be…
A Critique of Wright's Theory of Contradictory Class Locations
Eduacation for the Industrial World
Professional Autonomy and Organizational Constraint
Recent discussions of the professions agree on the centrality of autonomy to professionalism but disagree whether organizational employment is consistent with the maintenance of professionals' traditional autonomy. This article analyzes autonomy in the engineering profession with a view to discovering both whether engineers are able to maintain high levels of autonomy in an organizational context and whether autonomy is as central to job satisfac…
What Do Engineers Want? Work Values, Job Rewards, and Job Satisfaction
This article reexamines the classical distinction between professional and organizational work orientations for the case of engineers. Based on data from a survey questionnaire mailed to a sample of 800 engineers in the Rochester, New York, area in 1986, it argues that the two orientations are not opposites. Instead, it is possible to score high on measures of both orientations, or to score low on both. The result is a more complex, fourfold typo…
Engineering Culture
Review of Engineering Culture - Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation, by G. Kunda
Organizing Engineering Work
This article analyzes the organization of engineering work in six industrial capitalist countries. It identifies four major models for the organization of engineering work; the engineering profession did not succeed in achieving professional 'closure' in any of the six countries under review. A review of the historical evolution of the organization of engineering work in each of the six countries reveals that engineering has been shaped by a comp…
Why American engineers aren't unionized
System, Society and Dominance Effects in Cross-National Organisational Analysis
Current cross-national organisational theory remains tied to stark polarisation between convergence and divergence, universal and relative, frames of analysis. Attempts at synthesis between these forces allow for, but do not always explain, why the organisation of work should be constantly pressured to conform to one particular `best practice'. Our approach examines three sources of external influence on work organisation practices: (i) the econo…
Work, New Technology, and Capitalism
The spread of computers and electronic means of communication has clearly transformed contemporary workplaces. Computers now sit on the desks of virtually all office-based workers, linking them to one another through local area networks (LAN's), electronic mail, and complex information systems. Employees whose jobs involve significant amounts of travel are increasingly armed with an electronic arsenal of laptops, handheld computers, pagers, and c…
Trabalho e capital monopolista para os anos 90
A publicação do livro de Harry Braverman Trabalho e capital monopolista, em 1974, foi sem dúvida um dos acontecimentos intelectuais mais importantes dos últimos vinte anos. O livro rapidamente se firmou como leitura obrigatória entre a esquerda, tomando-se uma das mais citadas obras contemporâneas da literatura marxista (apenas equiparado, talvez, por A formação da classe operária inglesa, de E. P. Thompson). Além disso, Trabalho e capital monopo…
Engineering Labour
Same As It Ever Was? The Structure of the Working Class
There is a story you will hear told over and over again in sympathetic commentary on the contemporary American labor movement: The American labor movement has declared its intent to organize, once again, the American working class. After decades of stagnation and decline, and faced with the virtual extinction of private sector unionism, organized labor has finally realized that it needs to return to the aggressive organizing tactics that were the…
Engineering Labour
Is the social status of an engineer the same in Britain as in the US or Japan? Engineers, often perceived as central agents of industrial capitalism, occupying roughly the same social status and performing similar functions in the capitalist enterprise. What the essays in this volume reveal, however, is that engineers are trained and organized quite distinctly in different national contexts. The book includes case studies of engineers in six majo…
The Changing Shape of Work
Confronting the Time Bind
Socialists have long contended that capitalism produces distinctive and undesirable structures of time. Marx argued that capitalism created an ineluctable downward pressure on wages, forcing workers to work long hours in order to earn enough to sustain themselves. By the same token, lengthening the working day was one of the ways by which employers could increase the production of surplus-value. Marx's son-in-law, Paul Lafargue, added that capita…
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