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• Winner of Shortlist, 2015 Thinking Allowed Ethnography Award.

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In this groundbreaking book, Marek Korczynski not only builds on recent trends in sociology but also takes the discipline into important new directions. He interrogates how popular music can enliven and provide meaning in a monotonous workplace and, in the process, reveals crucial lessons about agency, worker control and resistance, and community. Ethnographically rich and theoretically sophisticated, Songs of the Factory strikes all the right notes. -Timothy J. Dowd, Emory University, Editor-in-Chief of Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts Songs of the Factory is an important and singular work due to its combination of ethnography, musicology, labor studies, and popular culture. This book truly engages the lived social process of the modern workplace. -Joel Dinerstein, Associate Professor of English and James H. Clark Endowed Chair in American Civilization, Tulane University, author of Swinging the Machine: Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture between the World Wars

In this groundbreaking book, Marek Korczynski not only builds on recent trends in sociology but also takes the discipline into important new directions. He interrogates how popular music can enliven and provide meaning in a monotonous workplace and, in the process, reveals crucial lessons about agency, worker control and resistance, and community. Ethnographically rich and theoretically sophisticated, Songs of the Factory strikes all the right notes. -Timothy J. Dowd, Emory University, Editor-in-Chief of Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts Songs of the Factory is an important and singular work due to its combination of ethnography, musicology, labor studies, and popular culture. This book truly engages the lived social process of the modern workplace. Marek Korczynski makes a significant musical claim: 'the musical structure of contemporary popular music' is itself an industrial product of modernity and, as such, popular songs evolved as the most suitable art form to simultaneously resist and accommodate an alienating workplace. -Joel Dinerstein, Associate Professor of English and James H. Clark Endowed Chair in American Civilization, Tulane University, author of Swinging the Machine: Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture between the World Wars

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Marek Korczynski is Chair in Sociology of Work at the Nottingham University Business School. He is author of Human Resource Management in Service Work and coauthor of Rhythms of Labour.

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