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Reviewing Burawoy's Text on Manufacturing Consent

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the 1950s rolled around, there would be a change where it was thought that all the problems with capitalism were worked out. Indeed, one has to remember that at  the time, communism was considered an evil. It was the time of the cold war and capitalism was--and still is--held high as the solution to mans woes. If there were  competition, results would be good. Consumers would get the perfect product and at a reasonable cost. There would be a trickle down effect and workers would profit too. Of course,  that latter assumption that some have was not held by all. Part of the paradigm of modern capitalism includes much in the way of unions. While that is the case,  the author notes that "strikes were withering away " (1982, p.3). In other words, unionization did not necessarily alleviate the pain of capitalism for factory workers. It is true, at  least in part, that since society developed the need for unions, much of the need has diminished. Part of the reason for that is because the world is not very  concerned about manufacturing and the plight of the factory worker. With postmodernization, the working world relies on a different model than it had in the early part of the twentieth  century when workers rights were important and factory work was paramount. Today, much of the workers tasks have been replaced by machine. High technology has also replaced manufacturing to an  extent. Burawoy (1982) contends that there is less interest in the plight of the industrial worker than in previous times. The author quickly turns to Western Electric studies where  it is noted that "plant sociology" paid only scant attention to the environment (1982). He prefaces his own book as something that uses a Marxian framework (1982). Indeed, it is