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Shopfloor matters : labor-management relations in twentieth-century American manufacturing / David Fairris.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fairris, David, 1955- author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in business organization and networks.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collective bargaining.
- Industrial relations.
- Industrial relations--United States--History - 2.
- Labor unions.
- Manufacturing industries.
- Business.
- Industrial relations--United States--History--20th century.
- Collective bargaining--History--20th century--United States.
- Labor unions--United States--History--20th century.
- Manufacturing industries--History--Management--20th Century--United States.
- Local Subjects:
- Collective bargaining.
- Industrial relations.
- Industrial relations--United States--History - 2.
- Labor unions.
- Manufacturing industries.
- Business.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Labor-management relations in twentieth-century American manufacturing
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book offers not only a comprehensive analysis of the changing nature of shopfloor labor-management relations in the large firms of this century, it also supplies empirical evidence of the effect of changes on productivity.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; FROM EXIT TO VOICE IN SHOPFLOOR GOVERNANCE; THE AMOSKEAG PLAN OF REPRESENTATION; THE RISE OF AN EMPOWERED SHOPFLOOR VOICE; LABOR-MANAGEMENT DISPUTES IN MEAT PACKING, 1936 41; INSTITUTIONALIZATION AND DECLINE IN WORKERS' SHOPFLOOR POWER; POSTWAR COLLECTIVE-BARGAINING AGREEMENTS; CONTEMPORARY EXPERIMENTS WITH NEW SYSTEMS OF SHOPFLOOR GOVERNANCE; A VISIT TO SATURN; THE FUTURE OF US SHOPFLOOR GOVERNANCE; Appendix tables; Data appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-80875-5
- 1-280-32083-4
- 9786610320837
- 0-203-43131-6
- 0-203-29264-2
- 9780203431313
- OCLC:
- 264503049
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