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Factory system
About: Factory system is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 228 publications have been published within this topic receiving 8325 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the global factory is analyzed within a Coasean framework with particular attention to ownership and location policies using methods that illustrate its power in the global system, and a strategy of upgrading or the establishment of new global factories under the control of focal firms from emerging countries.
385 citations
TL;DR: The authors argues that such a thesis misreads history and is essentially ideological, arguing that the employer, who added nothing to technical efficiency, used specialization of tasks to divide labor and impose himself as boss, thereby creating an artificial, unproductive role.
Abstract: If employers make so much money, why don't workers hire machines and expertise and make the money instead? This question has generated a large body of writing, including Stephen Marglin's much-cited article “What Do Bosses Do?” Marglin draws on history to argue that the employer, who added nothing to technical efficiency, used specialization of tasks to divide labor and impose himself as boss, thereby creating an artificial, unproductive role. These arrangements were embodied in domestic industry and were reinforced when employers turned to the factory system as a more effective disciplinary mode. This article argues that such a thesis misreads history and is essentially ideological.
212 citations
211 citations
Book•
1 Jan 1985
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of the history of the textile industry and its role in the Industrial Revolution, including women, children, and work in textile production, as well as the role of women in this process.
Abstract: Introduction Part One Manufacture and the Economy 1. Current Perspectives and New Departures 2. Industries 3. Models of Industrial Transition 4. Agriculture, Resources, Environment 5. Industrial Decline 6. Trade, Consumption and Manufacturing 7. Women, Children and Work Part Two - Paths to the Industrial Revolution 8. Machines and Manual Labour 9. The Rise of the Factory System 10. The Textile Industries: Organizing Work 11. Textile Industries: Technologies 12. The Metal and Hardware Trades
197 citations
Book•
1 Jan 1980
TL;DR: Clayson as mentioned in this paper investigates the development of industrial management in the late nineteenth-century United States, when inside contracting and the craft system dominated production, and examines the way in which the imposition of the factory system increased the capitalists' control over the labor process, and describes the impact of modern technology on the class struggle.
Abstract: This book makes the argument, supported by rich and extensive historical research into original sources, that it is possible to revolutionize work so that it can be, in the author's words, "satisfying, creative, and stimulating at the same time that it is materially productive: we can have material abundance along with interesting work." Rather than argue the issue in the abstract, Clawson investigates the development of industrial management in the late nineteenth-century United States, when inside contracting and the craft system dominated production. He examines the way in which the imposition of the factory system increased the capitalists' control over the labor process, and describes the impact of modern technology on the class struggle, concluding that the struggle is very much alive and remains the only means by which to bring about a future socialist organization of work.
177 citations
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