James Stitt

Joint Industrial Councils in British History

Inception, Adoption, and Utilization, 1917-1939

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Produktbeschreibung

Joint Industrial Councils: Inception, Adoption, and Utilization, 1917-1939 is a study of how a WWI proposal for permanent improvement in labor-management relations came about, why the target industries ignored it, and how it found a purpose in the second-tier industries for which it was not originally intended. The press, social reformers, academics, and various business interests touted JICs as the beginning of worker control of industry, while skilled trade unions saw them as a plot to harm workers' interests. Their eventual modest use was directed to needs within individual industrial enterprises and not to more global missions, such as the remaking of British industry in general. But successful JICs undertook serious issues that management and unions needed to address, such as wage rates, retirement plans for workers, and safety-related concerns. Moreover, the level of labor-management understanding in JIC industries improved to the point that these industries suffered no strikes in the inter-war period; the conditions of employment for the workers improved; and productivity increased.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9780313324611
• ISBN-10: 0313324611
• Artikelnr.: 21057792

Autorenporträt

James Stitt grew up on the Connecticut coast and lives today with his family in Minnesota. His education is in physics and biology with minors in history and archaeology. His literary works explore the intuitive and unconscious knowledge of the ancients, who for millennia have understood life in the context of celestial movements, seasons, and cycles of birth, death, and rebirth. The myths they created perpetuated experiential knowledge for future generations. Unfortunately, we have lost many of those stories that have sustained the people of the earth for thousands of years. Stitt hopes to reintroduce these myths and their collective relationships across cultures within the context of engaging, approachable fiction.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Government Control of Industry Dilution of Labor Could Wartime
Industrial Change Beget Permanent Reform? Creation of the Joint Industrial
Council Plan How the Whitley Report Became Public Initial Joint Industrial
Council Adoption Why Few JICs were Created What Did the Industrial JICs Do?
Glossary Notes Bibliography Index