David Fairris

Shopfloor Matters

Labor - Management Relations in 20th Century American Manufacturing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 343g
• ISBN-13: 9781138981867
• ISBN-10: 1138981869
• Artikelnr.: 49782487

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