ABSTRACT

This book has reviewed the major issues, modes of analysis and empirical findings of a field of inquiry that has come to be known as ‘industrial sociology’. The content of industrial sociology continues to excite widespread interest, concerning as it does the individual in the world of work, the creation and manipulation of enormous resources through organised effort, and the very institutional fabric of a modern industrialised society itself. The focus upon respectively the individual, the organisation and the social system, is reflected in our threefold ordering of the previous chapters. Their content has demonstrated the wide sweep of industrial sociology as well as its obvious practical relevance in a society heavily dependent upon complex organisation.