WORKING CLASS COMMUNITY OF INFORMAL RESISTANCE: A THEORETICAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF BROOKLYN LONGSHOREMEN ON THE GUARANTEED ANNUAL INCOME.

Title: WORKING CLASS COMMUNITY OF INFORMAL RESISTANCE: A THEORETICAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF BROOKLYN LONGSHOREMEN ON THE GUARANTEED ANNUAL INCOME.
Identifier: AAI8203275
identifier: 8203275
Creator: DIFAZIO, WILLIAM.
Contributor: George Fischer
Date: 1981
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Sociology, Industrial and Labor Relations
Abstract: This study describes changes that occur in the daily life of workers when they are separated from the workplace. The study explores how Brooklyn longshoremen on the Guaranteed Annual Income (GAI) maintain working class community.;The GAI enables longshoremen with high seniority who have been displaced from full-time work because of automation to work rarely and yet receive a full annual salary. These senior longshoremen whom I have studied receive income without the obligation to work.;This study demonstrates that longshoremen and workers in genral can better be understood in terms of the dialectic of resistance and accommodation or in the same vein of informal versus formal resistance. For these senior longshoremen the GAI in place of work does not lead to apathy or degradation as social scientists expect but to the transformation of everyday community from workplace to its fringe in the hiring hall or beyond the workplace to the neighborhood.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.
Program: Sociology

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