{"product_id":"songs-of-the-factory-marek-korczynski-9780801451546","title":"Songs of the Factory: Pop Music, Culture, and Resistance","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSongs of the Factory\u003c\/i\u003e, Marek Korczynski examines the role that popular music plays in workers' culture on the factory floor. Reporting on his ethnographic fieldwork in a British factory that manufactures window blinds, Korczynski shows how workers make often-grueling assembly-line work tolerable by permeating their workday with pop music on the radio. The first ethnographic study of musical culture in an industrial workplace, \u003ci\u003eSongs of the Factory\u003c\/i\u003e draws on socio-musicology, cultural studies, and sociology of work, combining theoretical development, methodological innovation, and a vitality that brings the musical culture of the factory workers to life. Music, Korczynski argues, allows workers both to fulfill their social roles in a regimented industrial environment and to express a sense of resistance to this social order. The author highlights the extensive forms of informal collective resistance within this factory, and argues that the musically informed culture played a key role in sustaining these collective acts of resistance. As well as providing a rich picture of the musical culture and associated forms of resistance in the factory, Korczynski also puts forward new theoretical concepts that have currency in other workplaces and in other rationalized spheres of society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marek Korczynski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 080145154X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801451546\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ILR Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/06\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Marek Korczynski","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086869377279,"sku":"9780801451546","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_06410aa5-18a6-4665-8535-65b499770c1c.jpg?v=1769097052","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/songs-of-the-factory-marek-korczynski-9780801451546","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}