Labour Process Theory

DAVID KNIGHTS is a Senior Lecturer in the Manchester School of Management at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. He has conducted research into industrial relations, equal opportunities for ethnic minorities and sex discrimination in recruitment. He has published in sociology and management journals. He is co-author of 'Managing the Multi-Racial Workforce' and co-editor of a number of books on the labour process.HUGH WILLMOTT is a Lecturer in the Manchester School of Management at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. His recent research has been on ESRC funded studies of accounting regulation and the strategic development of the personnel specialism. He has published in a wide range of social science journals and is co-editor of a number of books on the labour process.

• Notes on the Contributors Introduction The Labour Process Debate: A Theoretical Review 1974-1988; C.R.Littler Crawling from the Wreckage: The Labour Process and the Politics of Production; P.Thompson Understanding the Conflict in the Labour Process: The Logic and Autonomy of Struggle; P.K.Edwards Labour and the Labour Process; M.Wardell Managerial Strategies, Activists, Techniques and Technology: Towards a Complex Theory of the Labour Process; A.Friedman A Ghost in the Machine?: The State and the Labour Process in Theory and Practice; D.Strinati Gender and the Labour Process: A Reassessment; J.West Fragmented Labours; G.Burrell Subjectivity, Power and the Labour Process; D.Knights Subjectivity and the Dialects of Praxis: Opening up the Core of Labour Process Analysis; H.Willmott Index