Contested Terrain

by Richard C. Edwards

The controversial study by a young radical economist of the transformation of the workplace-- where today impersonal bureaucracies legitimate hierarchies and enhance the employer's control over the worker.

Genres: Labor, Sociology, Economics, Nonfiction

272 pages, Paperback

First published June 19, 1980

Reviews

[Loni]

This was a super informative read but my god was it dense. I am in no way an academic (I am literally just a girl in her room) so I had to fight for every crumb of knowledge this book wanted to feed me, which isn't always what you want from your go-to leisure activity. Nevertheless, I have a significantly broader understanding of how labor movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries led to the current capitalistic nightmare-scape that is 2022, so I'd call that a success. Or like, 75% of a success, which is a passing grade!

[Lulu · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is probably only of interest to people REALLY in to labor history and the machinations of the the military/industrial complex during the twentieth century. I've read it about 20 times and never get tired of it -- but then again -- it is what I study.