Analyses a production facility, its workers, management, and the internal/external factors from three distinct vantage points in time- Provides an in-depth look at how western institutions might adopt or adjust labour processes to be more like that of the Scandinavia model- Forms part of a tradition of ethnographic studies of workplaces, part of a revival of attentiveness to narratives of factory life.

Auteur

Jonas Axelsson is Lecturer in the Department of Working Life Science, Karlstad University Sweden.

Jan Ch. Karlsson is Professor Emeritus at Østfold University College, Norway.

Egil J. Skorstad is Professor Emeritus at Østfold University College, Norway.

Contenu

Introduction: Theoretical Contexts of the Theory of the Worker Collectivity.- Part 1. Factory Life and the Worker Collectivity 2. Lysgaard's Theory of the Worker Collectivity.- 3. Lysgaard in Anglo-Saxony: A Comparison of Theories.- 4. The Life and Times of the Worker Collectivity Over Sixty Years.- Part 2. Developments of the Theory of the Worker Collectivity 5. The Human System, the Person and Human Nature. - 6. Infiltrating the Technical/Economic System.- 7. The Economic System: Transmitting Inexorability.- 8. A Lysgaardian Theory of the Worker Collectivity.