Contents


Acknowledgments vii


Introduction

	Making Sense of Work in the Twenty-First Century 3
	Rick Baldoz, Charles Koeber, and Philip Kraft

Part I: Continuity and Change

	1.	Dwelling in Capitalism, Traveling Through Socialism 21
		Michael Burawoy

	2.	Do Capitalists Matter in the Capitalist Labor Process? 	Collective 
		Capacities, Group Interests, and Management Prerogatives,
		c. 1886-1904 45
		Jeffrey Haydu

Part II: Service and Service Sector Workers

	3.	Gender, Race, and the Organization of Reproductive Labor 71
		Evelyn Nakano Glenn
	4.	The Body as a Contested Terrain for Labor Control: Cosmetics
		Retailers in Department Stores and Direct Selling 83
		Pei-Chia Lan
	5.	Silent Rebellions in the Capitalist Paradise: A Brazil-Quebec
		Comparison 1o6
		Angelo Scares


Part III: Production and Industrial Workers

	6.	Flexible Despotism: The Intensification of Insecurity and
		Uncertainty in the Lives of Silicon Valley’s High-Tech
		Assembly Workers 127
		Jennifer JiHye Chun

	7.	The Challenge of Organizing in a Globalized/Flexible Industry:
		The Case of the Apparel Industry in Los Angeles 155
		Edna Bonacich

	8.	Transcending Taylorism and Fordism? Three Decades
		of Work Restructuring 179
		James Rinehart

	9.	Manufacturing Compromise: The Dynamics of Race and
		Class Among South African Shop Stewards in the 1990s 196
		Edward Webster

Part IV: Professional and Technical Workers

	10.	Globalization: The Next Tactic in the Fifty Year Struggle
		of Labor and Capital in Software Production 215
		Richard Sharpe

	11.	Controlling Technical Workers in Alternative Work Arrangements:
		Rethinking the Work Contract 236
		Peter Meiksins and Peter Whalley

	12.	Net-Working for a Living: Irish Software Developers in the
		Global Workplace 258
		Sean O Riain

		About the Contributors 283