• DOI:10.2307/2095908
Corpus ID: 147407555

IS WORKER SOLIDARITY UNDERMINED BY AUTONOMY AND PARTICIPATION? PATTERNS FROM THE ETHNOGRAPHIC LITERATURE*

@article{Hodson1993ISWS,
  title={IS WORKER SOLIDARITY UNDERMINED BY AUTONOMY AND PARTICIPATION? PATTERNS FROM THE ETHNOGRAPHIC LITERATURE*},
  author={R. Hodson and S. Welsh and Sabine Rieble and C. Jamison and S. Creighton},
  journal={American Sociological Review},
  year={1993},
  volume={58},
  pages={398}
}

R. Hodson, S. Welsh, +2 authors S. Creighton

Published 1993

Sociology

American Sociological Review

Solidarity is workers' chief protection against abusive management as well as a mediating factor against the ravages of meaningless work. Researchers interested in workers' well-being have suggested that increased worker autonomy and participation in the labor process may undermine worker solidarity. Available answers to this question have been difficult to confirm because of the nature of the data required. Ethnographic methods are able to probe deeply inside a workplace to ascertain levels of… CONTINUE READING

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