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Cultures of Solidarity: Consciousness, Action, and Contemporary American Workers / Edition 1

Cultures of Solidarity: Consciousness, Action, and Contemporary American Workers / Edition 1

by Rick Fantasia
Cultures of Solidarity: Consciousness, Action, and Contemporary American Workers / Edition 1
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ISBN-10:
0520067959
ISBN-13:
9780520067950
Pub. Date:
08/18/1989
Publisher:
University of California Press
ISBN-10:
0520067959
ISBN-13:
9780520067950
Pub. Date:
08/18/1989
Publisher:
University of California Press
Cultures of Solidarity: Consciousness, Action, and Contemporary American Workers / Edition 1

Cultures of Solidarity: Consciousness, Action, and Contemporary American Workers / Edition 1

by Rick Fantasia

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520067950
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 08/18/1989
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Rick Fantasia is Associate Professor of Sociology at Smith College.

Table of Contents

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
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