Industrial Sociology

In Industrial Sociology, members of the French school of la sociologie du travail look back on the development of the discipline and analyse the main issues and debates which have characterized it. Defining industrial sociology in the broadest sense, to include the sociology of work and economic sociology, the book examines the contributions of a wide range of scholars such as Georges Friedmann and Alain Touraine. The intellectual development of the discipline, the political context in which this development took place and the tensions between different conceptions of sociology are also discussed.

This new translation, edited with a substantial introduction by Michael Rose, makes more accessible the work of this important and pioneering tradition.