Conventional knowledge believes that team spirit one of the operating terrible is uncommon within the usa and id politics shoulders a wide component of the blame. The Politics of id bargains a clean tackle team spirit construction and identification between America’s operating terrible through putting employees’ voices heart degree by utilizing fieldwork and in-depth interviews. The e-book presents the 1st empirical overview of long-standing theoretical debates over the influence of id politics for constructing extra solidarities that's politically suitable, theoretically wealthy, and hugely readable.

“…the author’s readability, incisiveness and use of methodological rigor ends up in a ebook that makes a massive contribution to our realizing of the way America’s operating negative understand themselves, and the consequences those perceptions can have for social motion and policy.” — magazine of Sociology and Social Welfare

“…The Politics of id … specializes in the author’s vast learn and fieldwork within the provider undefined, however the details realized will be simply utilized to a few organizing occasions and different different types of workers.” — exertions reports Journal

“O’Brien effectively cracks the long-held realizing that identification politics precludes employee solidarity.” — magazine of Politics

“Erin O’Brien’s The Politics of id pushes prior the settled oppositions to teach how a politics of identities can mobilize, instead of undermine, collective motion by way of staff. Drawing upon brilliant employee pix from wide fieldwork, the writer information in hugely readable prose how we have to imagine extra creatively if employees are to contest the indignities of the low-wage economic system unfolding earlier than us. here's a booklet that lays the basis for renewed desire and optimism in an period of employee discontent.” — Sanford F. Schram, writer of Welfare self-discipline: Discourse, Governance, and Globalization

Erin E. O’Brien is Assistant Professor of Political technological know-how on the college of Massachusetts Boston.