| Shopfloor Matters: Labor - Management Relations in 20th Century American Manufacturing Contributor(s): Fairris, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 041512123X ISBN-13: 9780415121231 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $50.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1997 Annotation: The success of Japanese manufacturing has frequently been explained by its innovations in work organization and industrial relations at the plant level. Conversely, it is widely argued that Western countries struggle to introduce more flexible ways of working because of a prior history of industrial conflict. This book argues for a more nuanced view of US labor history. Two views of employment relations dominate: a liberal one, emphasizing mutually-advantageous institutions reforms, and a Marxist one, emphasizing conflict. Despite the differences between these two, both are necessary to understand the evolution of shopfloor relations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations |
| Dewey: 331.047 |
| LCCN: 97004318 |
| Lexile Measure: 1610 |
| Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks |
| Physical Information: 0.95" H x 6.49" W x 9.5" (1.08 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |