Consent in Autoritaren Gesellschaften: Betriebliche Sozialordnungen in Russland Und China

by Martin Krzywdzinski

Anhand eines Vergleichs von russischen und chinesischen Automobilwerken untersucht das Buch, wie betriebliche Sozialordnungen in autoritaren Gesellschaften funktionieren und wie die Legitimitat der betrieblichen Regeln gesichert wird. Untersucht werden Mechanismen der Sozialisation der Beschaftigten, die Gestaltung der Anreizsysteme sowie die Verbindung von Kontrolle und Beteiligung im Betrieb. Wie die Analyse zeigt, gelingt in den chinesischen Werken die Bildung einer -eingeschworenen- betrieblichen Gemeinschaft, wahrend die russischen Werke von Konflikten und Spannungen gepragt sind. Die Entwicklung dieser unterschiedlichen betrieblichen Sozialordnungen liegt an Unterschieden der Arbeitsregulierung, der Kultur sowie auch der organisationalen Legacies in der Industrie. Durch die Analyse auf der Mikroebene tragt das Buch auch zu der Diskussion uber Bedingungen der Stabilitat autoritarer Ordnungen bei.

Genres: Sociology

350 pages, Hardcover

Published April 5, 2017

Reviews

[Dennis Murphy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Consent and Control in the Authoritarian Workplace: Russia and China Compared by Martin Kryzwdzinski is a good, mostly accessible political economy, social science book. For what it does, it is pretty good. There are a couple of Russian and Chinese companies, and through a series of interviews and other methods Martin goes around and tests a significant number of different theories about the workplace in authoritarian regimes. If you know that's what you're going to get, a pretty academic text focused on using interviews to validate and explore social science theories, you should be pretty happy with this. I'm not sure an undergrad would like this, but a graduate student could probably use this to help out in a literature review for some thesis or term paper. But, if you thought this would give you something generalizable for Chinese and Russian companies, and you have a different definition of consent and control (basically, you're unfamiliar with political economy labor and employment definitions), then you're likely to be at least a little disappointed. Its fine, but make sure to double check why you're reading the text. If you're not careful, you'll end up with something you didn't expect.

[Eve · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 stars, maybe 4.5

I had to use the audiobook because that was more available for me & the text cost too much.

This book is cool, it helps illustrate what was meant by Authoritarianism. It's very much an H.R. book, such as in Bourgeois Dictatorships to say the least. It it's the term communist instead of socialist, which is a bit mislabeled.

I agree that these countries were better under socialism than capitalism. This book gives evidence of that. IDK what the deal with China is, but in Russia they know they're getting screwed.

It's hard to tell how China is dealing. Like China seems better, yet their workers seem to have fewer options. The lower rate of protest in China seems weird. Like if you cut the hands then you'll have less sign language to say the least. But yeah, connecting to that maoist text I read yesterday, it appears the difference would be that in China they still have a lot of nationalism instead of socialism which the cpc was built on.

So I enjoyed it. I was reading to get a vibe of on the ground in these countries, what authoritarianism & consent mean, and have an idea of what my older family members might have dealt with at factories.

[Jim]

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