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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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Reach Out I'll Be There: Pop Music, Work, and Society
- 2. Stayin' Alive at McTells
- 3. I Got All My Sisters with Me: Music and Community
- 4. Music, Machines, and Clocks: Songs and the Senses of Alienation
- 5. You Can Tell by the Way I Use My Walk: Music as Aid to Work and Critique of Taylorism
- 6. Pop Songs and the Hidden Injuries (and Joys) of Class
- 7. Collective Resistance on the Shop Floor
- 8. Dotted Lines on the Shop Floor: Cultural Connections with Collective Resistance
- 9. Conclusion: Pop Music, Culture, and Resistance
- Appendix: An Ethnography of Working and of Musicking
- References
- Index