Not Work Alone, a Cross-Cultural View of Activities Superfluous to Survival

Abstract

referenced conduit through which a student can gain access to a wide ranging body of knowledgeonindustrial sociology. The weakness of the publication may be seen as two-fold. First, there is little comment about the contradictions inherent in the employment structure of a high technology industrial sector; that is to say we have a highly motivated technocratic elite in juxtaposition with a brutalized and unskilled work force whose functional relationship to production is that of being little more than an appendage to a machine. The implications this might have for organized labour on the one hand and the analytical framework for industrial sociology on the other are also ignored. The second problem that is insufficiently addressed is that posed between a broadly enfranchised work force and an increasing reserve army of disenfranchised workers faced with either permanent unemployment or sporadic and low paid occasional occupation. P. W. Smith University of Durham