The Fabrication of Labor
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

 collapse section1—  Introduction:  The Task of Explanation
 •The Initial Test Cases
 •Culture in Labor History
 •The Ambiguity of Practice Theory
 •Taxonomies of Production
 •Practice and Subjective Meaning
 •A Look Ahead

 collapse sectionPART 1—  THE CULTURAL STRUCTURE OF THE WORKPLACE
 collapse section2—  Concepts and Practices of Labor
 •The Logic of the Weavers' Piece-Rate Scales
 •Defining Fines
 •The Circulation of Labor
 •Traders and Capitalists
 •The Strategy for Specifying Culture's Effect
 collapse section3—  The Control of Time and Space
 •Time Measurements
 •Time Jurisdiction
 •Frontiers of Discipline
 •The Partitioning of Space
 •Theory in the Mill Yard
 collapse section4—  The Cultural Location of Overlookers
 •Imagining the Overlookers' Contribution
 •Belabored Fictions
 •Forms of Authority
 •Culture's Contemporaneous Effect
 •Concluding Reflections on Part One

 collapse sectionPART 2—  PATHWAYS TO THE DEFINITION OF LABOR AS A COMMODITY
 collapse section5—  The Disjoint Recognition of Markets in Britain
 •The Codification of a Market in Products
 •The Compass of the Commodity
 •The Institutionalization of a Market in Labor
 •Adam Smith's Substance
 •The Transmission of Labor in the Age of the Factory
 •The Insincerity of the Historical Process
 collapse section6—  The Fused and Uneven Recognition of Markets in Germany
 •Corporate Regulation
 •The Recognition of Labor as a Commodity
 •Marx's Replication of Economic Theory in Germany
 •The Guilds' Residual Control Over the Supply of Labor
 •The Feudal Contribution
 •Three Conditions for the Cultural Outcome
 collapse section7—  A Conjunctural Model of Labor's Emergence in Words and Institutions
 •Northern Italy: A Preparatory Application of the Model
 •France: A Suggestive Extension
 •The Hierarchy of Motivating Conditions
 •Concluding Reflections on Part Two

 collapse sectionPART 3—  THE STRUCTURE OF THE WORKERS' COUNTERSIGNS
 collapse section8—  The Monetization of Time
 •Units of Payment and Production
 •The Influence of Concepts of Time on Strike Demands
 •Real Abstractions
 collapse section9—  Theories of Exploitation in the Workers' Movements
 •The Place of Culture in Labor Movements
 •A Puzzle in the Workers' Reception of Ideas
 •Economic Ideologies in the Workers' Movements of Britain
 •Economic Ideologies in the Workers' Movements of Germany
 •The Practical Foundations for the Reception of Ideology
 •Practical Analyses of Exploitation
 •The Labor Process as an Anchor for Culture
 collapse section10—  The Guiding Forms of Collective Action
 •Scripts on Stage and on Paper
 •The Formulation of Strike Demands
 •Overlookers' Role in Strikes
 •Concluding Reflections on Part Three
 collapse section11—  Conclusion:  Under the Aegis of Culture
 •The Explanatory Method
 •The Fetishism of Quantified Labor
 •Forms of Passage

 collapse sectionBIBLIOGRAPHY
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 •Britain
 •France
 •Germany
 collapse sectionOral Accounts
 •Britain
 •Germany (Author's Interviews)
 •Periodicals
 •Books, Articles, Dissertations
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