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FROM BANANA TIME TO JUST-IN-TIME: POWER AND RESISTANCE AT WORK

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 1999

TIM MAY
TIM MAY
Affiliation:
School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History and Institute for Social Research, University of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester, M5 4WT, England
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Abstract

Following debates within this journal regarding the absence of adequate studies of resistance in the contemporary fields of industrial sociology and organisational behaviour, this paper seeks to understand its reasons and consequences. Through an examination of the history of approaches to the study of power and resistance at work, the grounds for this debate are considered and illuminated. The paper then suggests how this debate might be taken forward through developing the ideas of tactics and strategies and episodic and dispositional power.

Keywords

discretionpowerresistancestrategiestactics
Type
Research Article
Information
Sociology , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , November 1999 , pp. 767 - 783
Copyright
© 1999 BSA Publications Ltd

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