Rick Fantasia 
Cultures of Solidarity [PDF ebook] 
Consciousness, Action, and Contemporary American Workers

A commonplace assumption about American workers is that they lack class consciousness. This perception has baffled social scientists, demoralized activists, and generated a significant literature on American exceptionalism. In this provocative book, a young sociologist takes the prevailing assumptions to task and sheds new light upon this very important issue. In three vivid case studies Fantasia explores the complicated, multi-faceted dynamics of American working-class consciousness and collective action.

Tabella dei contenuti

Preface


Part One: Theoretical Directions and the Historical Terrain

1. Culture and Consciousness in Action

2. Corporate Action and the Bounds of Solidarity


Part Two: Contemporary Expressions of Consciousness

and Action

3· The Internal Dynamics of Wildcat Strikes: Routinization

and Its Discontents

4· Union Organizing and Collective Interaction: ‘Like a

Thief in the Night’

5· The Strike as Emergent Culture: Community and

Collective Action

6. The Limits and Possibilities of Trade Union Action


Appendix

The Measures Taken: Some Notes on Methodology

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Circa l’autore

Rick Fantasia is Associate Professor of Sociology at Smith College.