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Contributing Authors Include Adriano Tilgher, Conrad M. Arensberg,
Nancy C. Morse And Many Others.
In studying the impact of industry on class organization, social
scientists have assumed that the effects of technological advance
increase with time and that, as technology molds, dehumanizes, and
alienates workers, the pressure mounts to change the system through
political action. William H. Form tests these assumptions in his
study. The author considers whether workers have more to do with
one another as societies industrialize, whether they become more
involved in organizations, and whether these involvements become
distinctively similar, creating an organizational basis for a
solidary working-class movement. To examine these questions, he
chooses four countries (India, Argentina, Italy, and the U.S.) that
vary in the extent of their industrial development. He then
compares samples of skilled, semiskilled, and unskilled workers in
order to ascertain how specific technologies to which they have
been exposed affect their behavior in systems such as the work
group, union, party, neighborhood, and nation. Originally published
in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
In studying the impact of industry on class organization, social
scientists have assumed that the effects of technological advance
increase with time and that, as technology molds, dehumanizes, and
alienates workers, the pressure mounts to change the system through
political action. William H. Form tests these assumptions in his
study. The author considers whether workers have more to do with
one another as societies industrialize, whether they become more
involved in organizations, and whether these involvements become
distinctively similar, creating an organizational basis for a
solidary working-class movement. To examine these questions, he
chooses four countries (India, Argentina, Italy, and the U.S.) that
vary in the extent of their industrial development. He then
compares samples of skilled, semiskilled, and unskilled workers in
order to ascertain how specific technologies to which they have
been exposed affect their behavior in systems such as the work
group, union, party, neighborhood, and nation. Originally published
in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
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