Define “manufacturing consent” and describe the three strategies that Michael Buroway found management used at “Allied Corporation” to “manufacture consent.”

Please provide the best answer for the statement.


1. To manufacture consent refers to the production of values and emotions (in addition to the actual goods produced) that bind workers to their company.
2. One technique was the piece-rate pay system. The workers competed with each other to produce the highest quotas. Though the “prizes” were only minor pay raises, workers devoted a lot of time to “making out,” strategizing new ways to increase their production.
3. Another was the internal labor market. Increasing job mobility within the company gave the workers the illusion that their dead-end jobs had potential.
4. The third technique was collective bargaining. Unions gave workers the illusion that they, as individual workers, held power.

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