Shop Floor Culture Willis

Willis found a number of similarities between the attitudes and behaviour developed by the lads in school and those on a shop floor at work.

Shop floor culture willis.

Type chapter author s p willis date 1979 pub place london is part of book title working class culture. Shop floor culture masculinity and the wage form. Rationalization and the work culture of sales women in american department stores 1890 1960. Studies in history and theory editor s j clarke c critcher r johnson.

Studies in history and theory. This item appears on. Willis paul 1990 learning to labour. Willis argued these lads had consciously developed an anti school or counter school subculture.

The book was ground breaking in its day because it was the first major educational study to link culture and social action to. Paul willis learning to labour lads counter culture similarity between anti school counter culture and the shop floor culture of male manual workers shop floor counter culture recreated by lads who see school as a bore unless you annoy the staff fight steal avoid schoolwork etc. When willis followed the lads into their first jobs he found similarities between counter school culture and shop floor culture having a laff was just as important in the attempt to relieve boredom the lads and their fellow workers would do everything they could to control the pace of the work they had to do and relieve the boredom of it. The culture is revealed in their joking relations as well as in other office traditions.

Having a laugh was important in both situations as a means of dealing with boredom authority and repetitiveness. By being in a subculture the bottom stream pupils can raise their self esteem by gaining status in front of their peers. New york. Add to my bookmarks export citation.

As all work groups have local cultures giving greater. Shop floor culture is a matter of activity and diversion. Radical america 1978 12 41 55. Shop floor culture masculinit.

Willis examines the class context in factories by going into the factories and carrying out some ethnographic observation. The purpose of this paper to examine the impact of shop floor sf culture organizational culture oc perceived by workers and sf subcultures assessed by the competing values framework cvf on the perceived use of lean production lp practices the authors analyse questionnaires completed by workers at the single case company undergoing a commonplace lean transformation. Shop floor culture masculinity and the wage form. It is strongly influenced by notions of masculinity.

He comes up with similar findings about what he calls shop floor culture.