1st Edition

Workers, Unions and the State

By Graham Wootton Copyright 1966
    188 Pages
    by Routledge

    188 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 1998. This is Volume XV of the eighteen in the Sociology of Work and Organization series. This book provides a discussion of when and why workers turn into unionists, the view of industrial responsibility and civic virtue initially written in 1965.

    Part 1 Workers into Unionists; Chapter 1 Are the Unions Irresponsible?; Chapter 2 The Workers’ Root-Needs and Dispositions; Chapter 3 The Idea of a Factory; Chapter 4 Frustration ‘Without Hope’; Chapter 5 Primary Groups in the Factory; Chapter 6 Management’s Image of the Worker; Chapter 7 Shaping the Worker’s Character; Chapter 8 Workers into Unionists; Chapter 9 The Problem Stated; Part 2 Towards Industrial Responsibility; Chapter 10 ‘Free but Responsible’ Groups; Chapter 11 Autonomous Groups in Practice; Part 3 Towards Civic Virtue; Chapter 12 Education for Civic Virtue; Chapter 13 Institutions for Civic Virtue; Chapter 14 A Song Unfinished;

    Biography

    Graham Wootton Warborough, Oxford, Medford and Brookline, Massachusetts.