Songs of the Factory : Pop Music, Culture, and Resistance /

In Songs of the Factory, Marek Korczynski examines the role that popular music plays in workers' culture on the factory floor. Reporting on his ethnographic fieldwork in a British factory that manufactures window blinds, Korczynski shows how workers make often-grueling assembly-line work tolera...

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Main Author: Korczynski, Marek (Author)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2015]
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t 1. Reach Out I'll Be There: Pop Music, Work, and Society --   |t 2. Stayin' Alive at McTells --   |t 3. I Got All My Sisters with Me: Music and Community --   |t 4. Music, Machines, and Clocks: Songs and the Senses of Alienation --   |t 5. You Can Tell by the Way I Use My Walk: Music as Aid to Work and Critique of Taylorism --   |t 6. Pop Songs and the Hidden Injuries (and Joys) of Class --   |t 7. Collective Resistance on the Shop Floor --   |t 8. Dotted Lines on the Shop Floor: Cultural Connections with Collective Resistance --   |t 9. Conclusion: Pop Music, Culture, and Resistance --   |t Appendix: An Ethnography of Working and of Musicking --   |t References --   |t Index 
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