Songs of the factory : pop music, culture, and resistance /

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"Examines the role that popular music plays in workers' culture on the factory floor. Reporting on his ethnographic fieldwork in a British factory that manufactures window blinds, Korczynski shows how workers make often-grueling assembly-line work tolerable by permeating their workday with...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Korczynski, Marek (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Music in the workplace > England > Midlands.
Popular music > Social aspects > England > Midlands.
Working class > England > Midlands > Social conditions.
Industrial sociology > England > Midlands.
Musique en milieu de travail > Angleterre > Midlands.
Musique populaire > Aspect social > Angleterre > Midlands.
Travailleurs > Angleterre > Midlands > Conditions sociales.
Sociologie industrielle > Angleterre > Midlands.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Industrial sociology.
Music in the workplace.
Popular music > Social aspects.
Working class > Social conditions.
Musik och samhälle.
Populärmusik > sociala aspekter.
Arbetarklasssen.
Industrisociologi.
England > Midlands.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Reach out, I'll be there : pop music, work and society
  • Stayin' alive at McTells
  • I've got my sisters and me : music and community
  • Music, machines, and clocks : songs and the senses of alienation
  • You can tell by the way I use my walk : music as aid to work and cultural critique of Taylorism
  • Pop songs and the hidden injuries (and joys) of class
  • Collective resistance on the shopfloor
  • Dotted lines on the shopfloor : cultural connections with collective resistance
  • Conclusion : pop music, culture, and resistance.

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