Quota Restriction and Goldbricking in a Machine Shop Donald Roy

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Quota Restriction and Goldbricking in a Machine Shop Author(s): Donald Roy Source: American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 57, No. 5, The Sociological Study of Work (Mar., 1952), pp. 427-442 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2772323 . Accessed: 07/01/2015 12:25 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. . The University of Chicago Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to American Journal of Sociology. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 197.158.228.28 on Wed, 7 Jan 2015 12:25:33 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions QUOTA RESTRICTION AND GOLDBRICKING IN A MACHINE SHOP DONALD ROY ABSTRACT When the production is it behaviorof industrialworkers examinedby participantobservation, is seen thatloafing thejob maynotbe thesimplelineofinactivity on thatsomestudents thesubjecthave thought of it. Close scrutiny the particulars "soldiering"in one piecework of of machineshop revealed that groupadherenceto a "bogey" was but one of severalkindsof outputrestriction the repertoire machineoperain of tivesand that the workgroupwas restricting production day in and day out. Review,XII (June, I947), 27I-78; Wilbert Moore, 2 I haveomitted some daysofwork September, in occasioned reorby American I945, becauseof irregularities Sociology," Issuesin Industrial "Current ganization theshopat thattime. of XII I947), 65I-57.

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