 | Songs of the Factory: Pop Music, Culture, and Resistance Subjects: Music in the workplace -- England -- Midlands; Popular music -- Social aspects -- England -- Midlands; Working class -- England -- Midlands -- Social conditions; Industrial sociology -- England -- Midlands; Marek Korczynski reports on his ethnographic fieldwork in a British factory to show how workers make often-grueling assembly-line work tolerable by permeating their workday with pop music on the radio. Marek Korczynski is Chair in Sociology of Work at the Nottingham University Business School. He is coauthor of On the Front Line , also from Cornell, and Rhythms of Labour and author of Human Resource Management in Service Work . |
