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Author Fairris, David, 1955-

Title Shopfloor matters : labor-management relations in twentieth-century American manufacturing / David Fairris
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge studies in business organizations and networks ; 5
Routledge studies in business organization and networks ; 5.
Contents Chapter 1 FROM EXIT TO VOICE IN SHOPFLOOR GOVERNANCE -- chapter 2 THE AMOSKEAG PLAN OF REPRESENTATION -- chapter 3 THE RISE OF AN EMPOWERED SHOPFLOOR VOICE -- chapter 4 LABOR-MANAGEMENT DISPUTES IN MEAT PACKING, 1936-41 -- chapter 5 INSTITUTIONALIZATION AND DECLINE IN WORKERS' SHOPFLOOR POWER -- chapter 6 POSTWAR COLLECTIVE-BARGAINING AGREEMENTS -- chapter 7 CONTEMPORARY EXPERIMENTS WITH NEW SYSTEMS OF SHOPFLOOR GOVERNANCE -- chapter 8 A VISIT TO SATURN -- chapter 9 THE FUTURE OF US SHOPFLOOR GOVERNANCE
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Industrial relations -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Collective bargaining -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Labor unions -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Manufacturing industries -- United States -- Management -- History -- 20th century
Collective bargaining -- History -- 20th century
Labor Unions -- history -- 20th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Collective bargaining
Industrial relations
Labor unions
Manufacturing industries -- Management
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Electronic books.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0203292642
9780203292648
0203431316
9780203431313
041512123X
9780415121231
9781134808755
1134808755
9781134808700
1134808704
9781134808748
1134808747
9781138981867
1138981869
Other Titles Labor-management relations in twentieth-century American manufacturing