Workers' Control in America: Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor StrugglesCambridge University Press, 1979 - 189 pagina's A collection of essays on workers' efforts in the 19th and 20th centuries to assert control over the processes of production in US. It describes the development of management techniques and includes discussions of various worker and union responses to unemployment. |
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Workers control of machine production in the nineteenth century | 9 |
The autonomous craftsman | 11 |
Union work rules | 15 |
Mutual support | 18 |
Immigrant workers and managerial reform | 32 |
Immigrants and industry | 34 |
Piecework wages | 37 |
Immigrant response to scientific management | 40 |
Worker response to rationalized industry | 101 |
Whose standards? Workers and the reorganization of production in the United States 190020 | 113 |
Standardization of tasks | 114 |
Laborers and machine tenders | 117 |
Incentive pay | 122 |
Bridgeport | 127 |
Conclusions | 134 |
Facing layoffs Coauthor Ronald Schatz | 139 |
Machinists the Civic Federation and the Socialist Party | 48 |
The Murray Hill Agreement | 49 |
The Open Shop Drive | 57 |
Union leadership and the Civic Federation | 63 |
Toward the cooperative commonwealth | 67 |
Socialist Conservative factionalism | 74 |
Conclusion | 82 |
The new unionism and the transformation of workers consciousness in America 190922 | 91 |
Strike decade | 93 |
Control strikes | 98 |
Seniority | 140 |
Unemployment relief | 144 |
Seniority and Black unemployment | 149 |
American workers and the New Deal formula | 153 |
Four sources of employers control | 156 |
The New Deal formula | 161 |
Washington and the workplace | 169 |
Bibliographical essay | 181 |
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