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.
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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
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Rick Fantasia is Associate Professor of Sociology at Smith College.
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