ABSTRACT
It is in fact only recently that studies of everyday forms of resistance by American and British workers have led to a drastic reappraisal of the often-repeated conventional wisdom that workers in these countries lack 'class consciousness'. The major impediment to the study of working-class consciousness in whatever country has been the lack of theoretical elaboration of the concept itself, particularly by those of a narrowly orthodox Marxist persuasion. Time/Efficiency bargaining is a closely related form of resistance and may be seen in the workers characteristic and frequently successful attempts to bamboozle the time and motion men, the planner and the job-setter. Sabotage therefore is linked with the other forms of resistance to the differential reward inherent in a capitalist labour process. When discussing forms of psychological resistance to the labour process, it is difficult to disentangle motive and intention from unconscious or dimly apprehended action and reaction.
