The New Social Economy Reworking the Division of Labor

by Sayer, Andrew; Walker, Richard

• ISBN13: 9781557862808
• ISBN10: 155786280X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-07-27
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

As capitalism develops and state socialism disintegrates, divisions of labor are being reorganized, with major implications for the distribution of power in society. Yet the concept of division of labor has been one of the most neglected in contemporary political economy and social theory. Compared to class, gender or markets, it has typically been treated as a rather indifferent concept, part of the backdrop rather than one of the key forces of the economy and society. Dealing with the reworking of the division of labor in both practice and theory, and transcending the narrow boundaries of academic disciplines, the authors provide a new perspective on some of the most hotly debated issues in social science.

Author Biography

Andrew Sayer is Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Social Sciences, University of Sussex.
Richard Walker is Professor of Geography, University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Class, Gender and the Division of Labor	p. 13
The Division of Labor and Places in Production	p. 15
Class and the Control of Production	p. 20
Class and the Division of Labor	p. 24
Gender and Patriarchy: Beyond Production	p. 34
Gender, Class and the Division of Labor	p. 40
Conclusion	p. 53
The Brave New World of the Service Economy: The Expanding Division of Labor	p. 56
Products: What Comes Out	p. 59
The Labor Process: What Goes In	p. 67
Circulation: What Goes Around	p. 75
Personal Consumption: What Results?	p. 85
Social Consumption and the Infrastructure of Modern Life: Results as Preconditions	p. 93
Surplus Value: What is Extracted	p. 98
Conclusion: The Struggle for a Truly Social Economy	p. 104
The Expanding Horizons of Industrial Organization	p. 108
The Organizational Problem: Division and Integration of Labor	p. 110
The Basic Triad: Workplace, Firm and Market	p. 119
The Middle Ground: Inter-firm Alliances and Networks	p. 129
The Larger Field: Territories and States	p. 140
Organizational Dynamics and Economic Development	p. 148
Conclusion: The Political Economy of Industrial Organization	p. 159
New Developments in Manufacturing: The Just-in-Time System	p. 162
Approaching the Labor Process	p. 163
The Just-in-Case System	p. 165
The Just-in-Time System	p. 170
Just-in-Case, Just-in-Time, and Fordism	p. 178
Conclusion	p. 189
Beyond Fordism and Flexibility	p. 191
Dualistic Rhetoric and "Binary Histories"	p. 193
Beyond Fordism	p. 194
Beyond Flexibility	p. 198
Flexible Rigidities? Japanese Industrial Organization	p. 212
Conclusion	p. 221
Capitalism, Socialism, and the Social Division of Labor	p. 224
The Complexity of the Division of Labor and the Problem of Integration	p. 226
Approaches to the Division of Labor and the Problem of Integration	p. 235
Class Reductionism and the Social Division of Labor	p. 238
Control, Power, and the Social Division of Labor	p. 249
The Social Division of Labor and Socialism	p. 255
Socialist Policies in Capitalism	p. 264
Conclusion	p. 268
Bibliography	p. 271
Index	p. 301
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