The Industrialization of Building' and Contradictions between Site Workers

Jan Ch. Karisson
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Jan Ch. Karisson: Gothenburg University and University of Karistad

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 1982, vol. 3, issue 3, 309-346

Abstract: The building industry is approaching manufacturing industry when it comes to technology and work organization. This is a process commonly called 'the industrialization of building'. With this development the contradictions between site workers are changing. The traditional craft hierarchy is becoming less rigid and a new hierarchy of the best paid jobs is taking shape. Against this background I analyze the consequences of these changes for the site workers' main social weapons in their contradiction to management: the trade unions and work cultures.

Date: 1982
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X8233005

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