On the Track of the Worker Collectivity

Jan Ch. Karlsson, Egil J. Skorstad and Jonas Axelsson

SAGE Open, 2015, vol. 5, issue 2, 2158244015575635

Abstract: In the 1950s, the Norwegian sociologist Sverre Lysgaard investigated social relations at a pulp and paper mill, the result of which was his theory of the “worker collectivity.†This is an informal defense organization among subordinate employees against a company’s work organization and goals. Our research group returned to the same plant, which until 2012 was still a pulp and paper mill, with two questions in mind: Was the worker collectivity still present at the plant? What had happened since Lysgaard’s study when it came to the preconditions for the existence of the worker collectivity?

Keywords: industrial relations; Norway; resistance; worker collectivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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