Work Authority in Industry
The Happy Demise of the Ideal Type
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2107902 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katharyne Mitchell (0000-0001-9238-7318, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 679-694 |
| Publication date | 1992-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500018041 |
| OpenAlex | W2050387063 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
Recent dramatic changes in the social and political organization of Eastern Europe and what was the Soviet Union have led to a widespread reformulation of certain generic terms that have long plagued comparative scholarship. Similarly, with the destruction of the monolithic Berlin Wall has come the imperative to deconstruct monolithic terms, such as communism or traditionalism, which have often obfuscated difference and negated geographical and historical specificity. In this essay, and in the spirit of laying to rest the ghost of the ideal type, I compare the work and authority relations in Chinese and Soviet factories in the 1960s and 1970s. When the differing variables that coalesced to form distinctive patterns of labor relations in these two countries during those years are more clearly understood, it will be possible to discuss the current patterns of change with greater accuracy. In addition, when the essentially structuralist constraints of an overarching communist type are loosened, it is also possible to reintroduce actors into the dialectic and to enrich the comparison with finer social and historical detail
Communism · Demise · Dialectic · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics) · Ideal type · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Traditionalism · Law · Russia and Soviet political economy · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Soviet and Russian History
Work and Authority in Industry
Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung
Classes, Power and Conflict. Classical and Contemporary Debates
China's Early Industrialization
Ideology and Organization in Communist China
Labour turnover and job satisfaction
Soviet Neotraditionalism
Emigrant Entrepreneurs
The Soviet Worker
The Russian Revolution
The Soviet Economic System
Reforming the Soviet Economy
Labour and Employment in the USSR
Mythologies of Work
Between the Labor Process and the State
An Organizational Approach to the Study of Political Culture in Marxist-Leninist Systems
Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective
Beyond Mass Production
Karl Marx and the Satanic Mills
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2000 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |