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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454855103321

Autore

Fairris David <1955, >

Titolo

Shopfloor matters : labor-management relations in twentieth-century American manufacturing / / David Fairris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997

ISBN

1-134-80875-5

1-280-32083-4

9786610320837

0-203-43131-6

0-203-29264-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in business organization and networks.

Disciplina

331.0973

331/.047/09730904

Soggetti

Collective bargaining

Industrial relations

Industrial relations - United States - History - 2

Labor unions

Manufacturing industries

Business

Industrial relations - History - 20th century - United States

Collective bargaining - History - 20th century - United States

Labor unions - History - 20th century - United States

Manufacturing industries - History - Management - 20th Century - United States

Business & Economics

Labor & Workers' Economics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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;

Sommario/riassunto

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.