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LABOR, EDITED BY TECHNOLOGY, RICK BALDOl, AND CHARLES KOEBER, GLOBAL PROD IONM8teri81 AND PHILIP KRAFT The Critical Study of Work CopyrightedMaterial CopyrightedMaterial The Critical Study of Work Labor, Technology, and Global Production EDITED BY Rick Baldoz, Charles Koeber, and Philip Kraft TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS PHILADELPHIA CopyrightedMaterial TempleUniversityPress,Philadelphia19122 Copyright©2001 byTempleUniversity Allrightsreserved Published2001 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica i§Thepaperused inthispublicationmeetstherequirementsoftheAmerican NationalStandardfor InformationSciences-PermanenceofPaperforPrinted LibraryMaterials,ANSIZ39-48-1984 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Thecriticalstudyofwork: labor,technology,andglobalproduction / editedby RickBaldoz,CharlesKoeber,and PhilipKraft. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferences. ISBN1-56639-797-9(cloth:alk.paper)-ISBN1-56639-798-7(pbk.:alk. paper) 1. Workingclass-History-20thcentury. 2. Workenvironment-History 20thcentury. 3. Technologicalinnovations-History-20thcentury. I. Baldoz, RiCk,196<)- II. Koeber,Charles,1967- III. Kraft, Philip,1944- HD4854.C75 2001 331--dC21 00-057726 CopyrightedMaterial Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction MakingSenseofWork in theTwenty-FirstCentury 3 Rick Baldoz, Charles Koeber,andPhilipKraft Part I: Continuity and Change 1. DwellinginCapitalism,TravelingThroughSocialism 21 Michael Burawoy 2. DoCapitalistsMatterin the CapitalistLaborProcess? Collective Capacities, Group Interests,and ManagementPrerogatives, c. 1886-1904 45 JeffreyHaydu Part II: Service and Service Sector Workers 3. Gender, Race, and the OrganizationofReproductive Labor 71 Evelyn Nakano Glenn 4. The Bodyas a ContestedTerrain for LaborControl: Cosmetics Retailersin DepartmentStores and DirectSelling 83 Pei-Chia Lan 5. SilentRebellions in the CapitalistParadise: A Brazil-Quebec Comparison 106 Angelo Soares CopyrightedMaterial VI CONTENTS Part III: Production and Industrial Workers 6. Flexible Despotism: TheIntensification ofInsecurityand Uncertaintyin the Lives ofSilicon Valley'sHigh-Tech Assembly Workers 127 JenniferJiHye Chun 7. TheChallengeofOrganizingin a Globalized/Flexible Industry: TheCaseofthe ApparelIndustry in Los Angeles 155 Edna Bonacich 8. TranscendingTaylorism and Fordism? Three Decades ofWork Restructuring 179 James Rinehart 9. ManufacturingCompromise: The DynamicsofRace and Class AmongSouthAfrican ShopStewardsin the 1990S 196 Edward Webster Part IV: Professional and Technical Workers 10. "Globalization": TheNextTactic in the FiftyYearStruggle ofLaborand Capital in SoftwareProduction 215 Richard Sharpe 11. ControllingTechnical Workersin AlternativeWork Arrangements: Rethinking the WorkContract 236 PeterMeiksins andPeter Whalley 12. Net-Workingfor a Living: IrishSoftware Developersin the Global Workplace 258 Sean 6 Riain About the Contributors 283 CopyrightedMaterial Acknowledgments Everybookis a collaboration, none more so than a collection ofessays bya dozen or so authors. We are grateful to ourcollaborators for their patience and their readi ness to revise. Thanksgoalso to Mike Ames and to all the people at TempleUniver sityPresswhohelped producethebook. Theessayswereinspiredbytheconference "Work, Difference, and Social Change: Two Decades After Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital," which was organized by the editors and held at theStateUniver sityofNewYorkatBinghamtoninMay1998.InthateffortwewerejoinedbyPhoebe Godfrey, Carol Jansen, and Reiko Koide. Neither the conference nor this collection would havebeen possiblewithout them. We are happy to acknowledge the crucial early support we received from the Ray GlassSocietyand the Conversationsin the DisciplineProgramoftheStateUniversity ofNewYork.Wewouldliketoaddourindividualacknowledgmentsaswell. RickBal dozisgratefultohismother,DesneBaldoz,whoofferedunequivocalsupportthrough outher life. Healso thanksJimGeschwenderand MartinMurrayfor their adviceand encouragement. ChuckKoeber thanks his partner,Jerri, and his parents, Williamand Valerie, for their loveand support. He thanksNicoleMcFaddenand Brenda Henman for their editorial assistance. Nancy Zimmet and Sarah Zimmet have sustained and challenged PhilKraftthroughthis projectand all the othersthathavemattered. CopyrightedMaterial vii CopyrightedMaterial Introduction CopyrightedMaterial
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