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Introduction: Beyond the Assembly-Line

In: The Other Car Workers

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  • Erol Kahveci

    (Cardiff University)

  • Theo Nichols

    (Cardiff University)

Abstract

In his 1936 film Modern Times Charlie Chaplin plays a shipyard worker, a department store night watchman, a singing waiter and a prisoner — but it is the idea of the assembly-line worker struggling against the dehumanising effects of the machine that most people probably remember. For much of the post-war period, this idea was captured in the social sciences by two concepts above all others: ‘alienation’ and ‘Fordism’. It might well be claimed that this is what the leading and most-read works of industrial sociology used to be about.

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  • Erol Kahveci & Theo Nichols, 2006. "Introduction: Beyond the Assembly-Line," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Other Car Workers, chapter 1, pages 1-11, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-20938-1_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230209381_1
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