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Competition and Control At Work
Competition and Control At Work
ISBN: 9780262580533
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 9, 1981
Taking the underlying competition of interests between worker and employer as his starting point, Hill documents the evolution of new forms of managerial organization designed to enhance and legitimate the employer's control over the worker.
Strategic Pragmatism
The Culture of Singapore's Economics Development Board
ISBN: 9780262534048
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 17, 1996
foreword by Lester Thurow Per capita income in Singapore has gone from $500 to more than $20,000 in a little over twenty-five years. Edgar Schein, a social psychologist with a long and celebrated research...
Front Stage, Backstage
The Dramatic Structure of Labor Negotiations
ISBN: 9780262519052
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 17, 1994
In this carefully detailed and rigorous study of the social processes of labor negotiations, the author uncovers the pressures and motivations felt by negotiators, showing why the bargaining process persists largely in its traditional form despite frequent calls for change.
The Workplace Within
Psychodynamics of Organizational Life
ISBN: 9780262581011
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 24, 1990
In this revealing study, Larry Hirschhorn examines the rituals, or social defenses, organizations develop to cope with change. Using extended ease studies from offices, factories, and social services,...
Symbolic Communication
Signifying Calls and the Police Response
ISBN: 9780262514705
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 1, 2003
This first major empirical work on the semiotics of social action goes a long way toward answering substantive, theoretical and pragmatic questions on how codes actually operate in a specific social...
The Mediators
ISBN: 9780262610421
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 21, 1985
This is a study of what mediators actually do across agencies. The cases and settings suggest that mediator practice tends to follow predictable patterns in terms of roles, strategies, and relations...
Disorganized Crime
Illegal Markets and the Mafia
ISBN: 9780262680486
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 21, 1985
Winner of the 9984 Leslie T. Wilkins Award for the best book in criminology and criminal justice. Bookmaking, numbers, and loansharking are reputed to be major sources of revenue for organized crime,...
Sons of the Machine
Case Studies of Social Change in the Workplace
ISBN: 9780262192439
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 30, 1986
Sons of the Machine offers a humane and cogent look at industrial culture in Latin America.
Industrial Democracy at Sea
ISBN: 9780262192217
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 19, 1983
The book presents the accounts of three American merchant seamen who were taken on as crew members for the course of a voyage from the Pacific Northwest to Europe.
Control in the Police Organization
Control in the Police Organization
ISBN: 9780262160902
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 3, 1983
Looking behind the facade of tightly structured tables of organization and chains of command, this group of studies addresses the key question of how the police go about policing themselves in the real...
Competition and Control At Work
Competition and Control At Work
ISBN: 9780262580533
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 9, 1981
Taking the underlying competition of interests between worker and employer as his starting point, Hill documents the evolution of new forms of managerial organization designed to enhance and legitimate the employer's control over the worker.
Strategic Pragmatism
The Culture of Singapore's Economics Development Board
ISBN: 9780262534048
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 17, 1996
foreword by Lester Thurow Per capita income in Singapore has gone from $500 to more than $20,000 in a little over twenty-five years. Edgar Schein, a social psychologist with a long and celebrated research...
Front Stage, Backstage
The Dramatic Structure of Labor Negotiations
ISBN: 9780262519052
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 17, 1994
In this carefully detailed and rigorous study of the social processes of labor negotiations, the author uncovers the pressures and motivations felt by negotiators, showing why the bargaining process persists largely in its traditional form despite frequent calls for change.
The Workplace Within
Psychodynamics of Organizational Life
ISBN: 9780262581011
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 24, 1990
In this revealing study, Larry Hirschhorn examines the rituals, or social defenses, organizations develop to cope with change. Using extended ease studies from offices, factories, and social services,...
Symbolic Communication
Signifying Calls and the Police Response
ISBN: 9780262514705
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 1, 2003
This first major empirical work on the semiotics of social action goes a long way toward answering substantive, theoretical and pragmatic questions on how codes actually operate in a specific social...
The Mediators
ISBN: 9780262610421
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 21, 1985
This is a study of what mediators actually do across agencies. The cases and settings suggest that mediator practice tends to follow predictable patterns in terms of roles, strategies, and relations...
Disorganized Crime
Illegal Markets and the Mafia
ISBN: 9780262680486
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 21, 1985
Winner of the 9984 Leslie T. Wilkins Award for the best book in criminology and criminal justice. Bookmaking, numbers, and loansharking are reputed to be major sources of revenue for organized crime,...
Sons of the Machine
Case Studies of Social Change in the Workplace
ISBN: 9780262192439
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 30, 1986
Sons of the Machine offers a humane and cogent look at industrial culture in Latin America.
Industrial Democracy at Sea
ISBN: 9780262192217
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 19, 1983
The book presents the accounts of three American merchant seamen who were taken on as crew members for the course of a voyage from the Pacific Northwest to Europe.
Control in the Police Organization
Control in the Police Organization
ISBN: 9780262160902
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 3, 1983
Looking behind the facade of tightly structured tables of organization and chains of command, this group of studies addresses the key question of how the police go about policing themselves in the real...