Matt Vidal

Management Divided

Contradictions of Labor Management

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Produktbeschreibung

One of the central dynamics shaping organizations is a contradiction managers face between ensuring workforce discipline and harnessing worker creativity. In this rich study of American manufacturing, Matt Vidal offers a theory of 'organizational political economy', integrating concepts from organization theory into a classical Marxist framework.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 165mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 762g
• ISBN-13: 9780198795278
• ISBN-10: 0198795270
• Artikelnr.: 66145229

Autorenporträt

Matt Vidal is Reader in Sociology and Political Economy in the Institute for International Management, Loughborough University London. He is author of Organizing Prosperity (with David Kusnet) and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx (with Paul Prew, Tomás Rotta and Tony Smith) and Comparative Political Economy of Work (with Marco Hauptmeier). He has published over twenty articles or book chapters on work, human resource management, employment relations, labor markets, comparative political economy, and social theory. He holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Inhaltsangabe

I. The Problem
1: The Problem of Labor Management
2: Lean Management and Employee Involvement
II. Theory
3: A Theory of Organizational Political Economy
III. Analysis
4: The Postfordist Field in American Manufacturing
5: Four Approaches to Lean Production
6: Routine Politics of Production I: Quality Not Quantity
7: Routine Politics of Production II: The Workforce Contradiction
8: Routine Politics of Production III: The Management Contradiction
9: Lean Workplace Regimes: Valorization Logics and Organizational Logics
IV. Conclusion
10: Capitalist Management and Routine Inefficiency