Just the Working Life: Opposition and Accommodation in Daily Industrial Life. (book reviews)

This book poses an important question: why do workers accept the legitimacy of their own subordination? This question is important for Marxists because the historic inevitability of the worker's overthrow of the capitalist system seems dubious; the teleology of Hegel and Marx has become particularly awkward in the late twentieth century. The question is also important for industrial relations scholars as they wrestle over the cause of labor union decline.

Lendler briefly introduces four theoretical frameworks within which this question has been addressed: Marxism, British ...

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