This book owes its inception and much of its organization to the writer's experience in teaching a course on "Industrial Sociology" for several years at The Pennsylvania State College. In bringing together materials for that course it became evident that modern industry has rarely been viewed as a complex social organization and pattern of relations; and in the few outstanding cases that such a view has been taken the "internal" structure of industry has not been set within the society with which it is in constant interaction. Despite numerous guides and handbooks for selecting employees or conducting industrial relations, as well as numerous texts on the formal structure of industrial management and the history of labor organizations, the functioning of the structure as a whole has received scant attention. It is this latter point of view that is emphasized in the present treatment. It is intended less to supplant than to supplement the various "standard" treatments of industrial organization and industrial relations. The view that prompts this work is that the social aspects of modern industrial organization are of the most practical sort. They are as real, and their effects as crucial, as the engineer's equations and the accountant's ledgers. The presentation has been made as compact as clarity and the range of subject-matter seemed to allow. This has been done in the interests of busy industrial and union executives and informed laymen who may find the book useful, as well as of students who must encompass many specialties and hope for a useful integration. Social scientists may find the book a suggestive summary of scattered materials. An unusually extensive list of references is appended to each chapter, in which as in the text an attempt is made to bridge fields too rarely brought together.

This book provides an excellent introduction to the sociology of industry. It comprises of three sections, which in turn address: the relation between industry and other sub-systems or institutions in society; the internal structure of industry and the roles people play within that structure; the social actions of individuals and groups within an organisational structure. It is an excellent resource for students of sociology who have an interest in its application to the ‘world of work’.

Report on the contribution of occupational sociology to the study of labour relations problems in the UK - includes the nature of the business organization, trade unionism, and the influence of the organisation on employee behaviour.

Composite work on occupational sociology - covers social implications of the industrial structure, and includes papers on industry and education, industry and the family, industry and the social structure, industrial management, human relations and the work group, technological change and automation, industrial interest groups, labour mobility, work and leisure, etc. Selected bibliography pp. 172 to 176, and references.

Textbook on occupational sociology and organizational behaviour - includes chapters on industrial enterprise and social stratification, management, employees attitudes, social structures, interest groups, human relations, community relations, job satisfaction, motivation, job involvement, labour mobility, leisure, etc. Annotated bibliography.

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.