From Capitalism to Capitalism via Socialism: The Odyssey of a Marxist Ethnographer, 1975–1955

International Labor and Working-Class History

Volumn 50, Issue , 1996, Pages 77-99

  Burawoy, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0030508022     PISSN: 01475479     EISSN: 14716445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0147547900013223     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Perhaps the most well-known class maps are those of Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital (New York, 1974)
2. Erik Wright, Classes (London, 1985)
3. Class Counts: Comparative Studies in Class Analysis (Cambridge, 1996).
4. For my debate with Wright, see Erik Wright et al. The Debate on Classes (London, 1989), chap. 2.
5. Most obviously there is the tradition bequeathed by E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class (London, 1963), and a huge literature on new social movements pioneered by Charles Tilly, Alain Touraine, and others.
6. I developed my critique of class as “effect” in commentaries on the work of Adam Przeworski, especially his Capitalism and Social Democracy (Cambridge, 1985).
7. For this debate see Terrell Carver and Paul Thomas, Rational Choice Marxism (New York, 1995), chaps. 5–7.
8. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish (New York, 1977)
9. Foucault, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, ed. Colin Gordon (New York, 1978).
10. There is a voluminous literature on the Western Electric studies, but the major source for the research and its results is Fritz Jules Roethlisberger and William Dickson, Management and the Worker (Cambridge, 1939).
11. See Donald Roy. “Efficiency and the Fix: Informal Intergroup Relations in a Piecework Machine Shop.” American Journal of Sociology 60 (19,S4):255–266
12. Roy. “Quota Restriction and Goldbricking in a Machine Shop.” American Sociological Review 51 (19,52): 158–168
13. Tom Lupton. On the Shop Floor (Oxford. 1963).
14. Michael Burawoy, Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism (Chicago, 1979). This book was heavily influenced by Gramsci and by the French structuralist Marxism of Louis Althusser and Nicos Poulantzas.
15. Donald Roy, “Restriction of Output in a Piecework Machine Shop.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1952.
16. Antonio Gramsci. Selections from the Prison Notebooks (New York. 1971). 277–318.
17. Miklos Haraszti. A Worker in a Worker's State (Harmondsworth. 1977).
18. Michael Burawoy. The Politics of Production: Factory Regimes Under Capitalism and Socialism (London. 1985). chap. 4.
19. I had also studied a different type of despotism—colonial despotism—in the Zam-bian copper mines. Based on four years of fieldwork from 1968 to 1972.1 analyzed the uneven persistence of colonial despotism even after the attainment of political independence. See Burawoy. The Politics of Production, chap. 5.
20. chapter 2. For brilliant elaborations of this comparative approach showing the links between factory politics and wider struggles, see Richard Biernacki's comparison of the nineteenth-century textile industry in England and Germany. The Fabrication of Labor (Berkeley. 1995).
21. Jeffrey Haydu's comparisons of metal workers in England and the United States at the turn of the century. Between Craft and Class (Berkeley. 1988).
22. Burawoy, The Politics of Production, chap. 3.
23. This point is elaborated in detail by Paul Johnston. Success While Others Fail (Ithaca. 1994).
24. Michael Burawoy and Janos Lukacs. The Radiant Past: Ideology and Reality in Hungary's Road 10 Capitalism (Chicago. 1992). chap. 2.
25. Bravcrman. Labor and Monopoly Capital. Braverman argued that a distinctive dynamic of monopoly capitalism was the managerial expropriation of skill, or what he called the separation of conception and execution. This now-classic work has been subjected to intense criticism, but my studies of socialist production vindicate his delineation of the specificity of the capitalist labor process.
26. Burawoy and Lukacs, The Radiant Past, chap. 3.
27. The Radiant Past, chap. 4.
28. The Radiant Past, chap. 5.
29. On VGMKs, see David Stark. “Rethinking Internal Labor Markets: New Insights from a Comparative Perspective.” American Sociological Review 51 (1986):492–504.
30. For an excellent example of how to problematize both factory politics and global politics, see Linda Fuller, Work and Democracy in Socialist Cuba (Philadelphia. 1992). Fuller shows how Cuba's politics of decentralization in the late 1960s led to greater democratization of production politics, and how this in turn fed back into global politics.
31. Michael Burawoy and Kathryn Hendley, “Between Perestroika and Privatization: Divided Strategies and Political Crisis in a Soviet Enterprise.” Soviet Studies 44 (1992):371–402.
32. Michael Burawoy and Pavel Krotov, “The Soviet Transition from Socialism to Capitalism: Worker Control and Economic Bargaining in the Wood Industry,” American Sociological Review 57 (1992): 16–38.
33. Michael Burawoy, “State and Economic Involution: Russia Through a Chinese Lens,” World Development 24 (1996):1105–1117.
34. Michael Burawoy and Pavel Krotov, “The Economic Basis of Russia's Political Crisis,” New Left Review 198 (1993):49–70.
35. Michael Burawoy and Pavel Krotov, “Russian Miners Bow to the Angel of History,” Antipode 27 (1995):115–136.
36. Here I am indebted to Georg Konrad and Ivan Szelenyi's classic The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power (New York, 1979).
37. Georg Lukács, History and Class Consciousness (Cambridge, 1971).
38. This view of the history of Marxism is elaborated in Michael Burawoy, “Marxism as Science: Historical Challenges and Theoretical Growth,” American Sociological Review 55 (1990):775–793.