Owner of My Soul: The Exercise of Disciplining Power in Modern Industrial Societies according to Michel Foucault

Reviews Michel Foucault's work on the structure & forms of power in contemporary Western society. At issue is the situation of the worker in the modern industrial city in terms of being subject to the rule of enterprise, law, & the factory & its machines. Technology's influences on the individual's control of time & space are discussed, focusing on the acceleration of the former & the compression of the latter. David Harvey's (1992) observations on the postmodern condition & M. G. Druck's (1995) study of new forms of production in Salvador, Brazil, elaborate on Foucault's notions of industrial rule. 7 References. D. Bajo