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Description for The Flight from Work
Hardcover. Goran Palm went to work incognito in one of the factories of LM Ericsson to obtain a better understanding of the life of the manual worker in a large factory. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JH. Weight in Grams: 405. Ex-libris with usual markings. Inscribed to previous owner. Fine copy in good dustwrapper showing minor shelf wear with slight sunning to spine
Goran Palm – a well-known Swedish writer and poet – went to work incognito in one of the factories of LM Ericsson. He did this to obtain a better understanding of the life of the manual worker in a large factory, and to gain from that understanding a more mature political view. Going into a factory and joining a particular work group enabled the author to see beyond the monolithic idea of the working class and to know and appreciate his fellow workers as individuals. The writing is more literary than scientific, the language is concrete, and portraits, satire and ... Read more
Goran Palm – a well-known Swedish writer and poet – went to work incognito in one of the factories of LM Ericsson. He did this to obtain a better understanding of the life of the manual worker in a large factory, and to gain from that understanding a more mature political view. Going into a factory and joining a particular work group enabled the author to see beyond the monolithic idea of the working class and to know and appreciate his fellow workers as individuals. The writing is more literary than scientific, the language is concrete, and portraits, satire and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1977
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521216685
SKU
KSS0011484
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Ref
99-1
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