What workers want / Richard B. Freeman and Joel Rogers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freeman, Richard B. (Richard Barry), 1943-

Contributor:

Rogers, Joel, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Job satisfaction--United States.

Job satisfaction.

Employees.

United States.

Employees--United States--Attitudes.

Physical Description:

xi, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : ILR Press : Russell Sage Foundation, 1999.

Summary:

How would a typical American workplace be structured if the employees could design it? According to Richard B. Freeman and Joel Rogers, it would be an organization run jointly by employees and their supervisors, one where disputes between labor and management would be resolved through independent arbitration. Their groundbreaking book--based on the most extensive workplace survey in the last twenty years--provides a comprehensive account of employees' attitudes about participation, representation, and regulation on the job.

More than anything, the authors find, workers want their voices to be heard. They desire a greater role in the workplace and have strong ideas about how their involvement could improve not just their lot but also their companies' fortunes. Many nonunion workers favor the formation of unions, and virtually all union workers strongly support their union. Most employees support the creation of labor-management committees--to which workers would elect their representatives--to run the organization and settle conflicts.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Ask the People Who Live There 1

Chapter 2 Finding Out What Workers Want 15

Chapter 3 What Workers Want and Why They Don't Have It 39

Chapter 4 How Workers Judge Unions 65

Chapter 5 How Workers Judge Management 90

Chapter 6 How Workers Judge Government Regulations 117

Chapter 7 If Workers Could Choose 140

Appendix A Wave 1 of the WRPS: Structure and Methodology 157

Appendix B Wave 1 of the WRPS: Questionnaire 159

Appendix C Wave 2 of the WRPS: Structure and Methodology 183

Appendix D Wave 2 of the WRPS: Materials 185

Appendix E Wave 2 of the WRPS: Questionnaire 190.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-219) and index.

ISBN:

0801435838

0801485630

OCLC:

39679160