Technology, Control, and the Social Organization of Work at a British Hardware Firm, 1791-1891
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2211092 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William G Staples (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 62-88 |
| Publication date | 1987-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/228706 |
| OpenAlex | W2039481585 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 13 |
This paper examines the social relations of production at a British metal-trades firm throughout the 19th century. The case study reveals the existence of two distinct political apparatuses, or regimes, identified in provious literature, that govern production relations. The first regime, between 1791 and 1867, is described as patriarchal because production is organized around adult, male, internal subcontactors and their families. In the second period, roughly 1868-91, the regime is characterized as paternalistic since it attempts to align the interests of capital and worker through family, work, and community life. The analysis uncovers social and economic forces that undermined the system of internal subcontracting and patriarchy and fostered paternalism. Emerging paternalism shaped the struggles over the introduction of new technologies that formed the basis for the real subordination of labor to capital
Capital (architecture) · Capital accumulation · Control (management) · Economic system · Economics · Human capital · Management · Market economy · Paternalism · Patriarchy · Period (music) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Production (economics) · Relations of production · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Subordination (linguistics) · Work (physics) · Engineering · Gender Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law
Technocracy and the transformation of organizational control
Reconciling commodities and personal relations in industrial society
Steel and the State
Social aspects of abstraction
Unionization Matters
Capital Dependence, Business Political Behavior, and Change to the Multilayered Subsidiary Form
Social aspects of abstraction
In the Interest of the State
Corporate Form and the State
Capitalist Development, the Labor Process, and the Law
The theory of capitalist development
As sociology meets history
The development of the labour process in capitalist societies
Contradictions of the Welfare State
Labor and Monopoly Capital
Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Job Segregation by Sex
Between the Labor Process and the State
Voting for Ford
Kenrick's in Hardware
Labouring Men
Central Problems in Social Theory
Industry and Labour
| Citations per year | 0.27 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1989 - 2007 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |