Michael Burawoy

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Michael Burawoy

Michael Burawoy (born June 15, 1947 ) is a British sociologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley .

Life

His degrees were a BA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge , England (1968), an MA in Sociology from the University of Zambia (1972) and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago (1976).

From 1976 he taught as Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, from 1982 as Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin – Madison , and at the Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley. Since 1988 he has been a full professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.

He was the 95th President of the American Sociological Association (2004) and was elected President of the International Sociological Association for the 2010-14 period .

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With his book Manufacturing Consent he stimulated the Labor Process Debate initiated by Harry Braverman , because he opposed Braverman's interpretation that the capitalist work process is structured unilaterally by management , the empirical research-based thesis that “production politics ”, from the design and The result of the work process depends on, and is mutually determined by “power games” between management and workers. In the Marxist understanding, the management of work has the problem of transforming the bought labor into work done. Since this transformation process requires a (tacit or explicit) consent of the employees to the orders of the management, it comes to open or covert negotiation processes, which Burawoy calls "power games" and "production politics".

Web links

Fonts (selection)

  • The Color of Class on the Copper Mines: From African Advancement to Zambianization (1972)
  • Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism (1979)
  • The contours of production politics (1984)
  • The Politics of Production: Factory Regimes Under Capitalism and Socialism (1985)
  • The Radiant Past: Ideology and Reality in Hungary's Road to Capitalism (1992) With János Lukács.
  • Public Sociology: Public sociology against market fundamentalism and global inequality . Edited by Brigitte Aulenbacher and Klaus Dörre with an afterword by Hans-Jürgen Urban . Beltz Juventa, Weinheim / Basel 2015, ISBN 978-3-7799-3047-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Berger : Why do the workers work? Neo-Marxist and neo-Turkish declarations . In: Zeitschrift für Soziologe 24. Jg./1995, 407–421.
personal data
SURNAME Burawoy, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1947