David Fairris

Shopfloor Matters

Labor - Management Relations in 20th Century American Manufacturing

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Building on the work of labor historians, industrial relations scholars, and institutional labor economists, this book offers not only a comprehensive analysis of the changing nature of shopfloor labor-management relations in the large manufacturing firms of this century, it also supplies empirical evidence of the effect of these institutional changes on labor productivity growth and injury rates. No other study has dealt with the broad sweep of shopfloor governence during the twentieth century, paid as careful attention to the process by which shopfloor institutional arrangements changed over these years, or offered hard evidence on the relationship between changing shopfloor institutions and changing shopfloor outcomes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 165mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780415121231
• ISBN-10: 041512123X
• Artikelnr.: 21482533

Autorenporträt

David Fairris is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Riverside. He has published widely in professional journals on the subject of working conditions and shopfloor labor-management relations.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION A brief account of Shopfloor Matters; The contributions of
Shopfloor Matters 1 FROM EXIT TO VOICE IN SHOPFLOOR GOVERNANCE 2 THE
AMOSKEAG PLAN OF REPRESENTATION 3 THE RISE OF AN EMPOWERED SHOPFLOOR VOICE
4 LABOR-MANAGEMENT DISPUTES IN MEAT PACKING, 1936-41 5 INSTITUTIONALIZATION
AND DECLINE IN WORKERS' SHOPFLOOR POWER 6 POSTWAR COLLECTIVE-BARGAINING
AGREEMENTS 7 CONTEMPORARY EXPERIMENTS WITH NEW SYSTEMS OF SHOPFLOOR
GOVERNANCE 8 A VISIT TO SATURN 9 THE FUTURE OF US SHOPFLOOR GOVERNANCE