Workers' Control in America: Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles - Rilegato

Montgomery, David

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ISBN 10: 0521225809 ISBN 13: 9780521225809

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1979

Riassunto

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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Contenuti:

Preface; Introduction; 1. Workers' control of machine production in the nineteenth century; 2. Immigrant workers and managerial reform; 3. Machinists, the Civic Federation, and the Socialist Party; 4. The 'new unionism' and the transformation of workers' consciousness in America, 1909–22; 5. Whose standards? Workers and the reorganization of production in the United States, 1900–20; 6. Facing layoffs; 7. American workers and the New Deal Formula; Bibliographical essay.

Product Description:

x 189p black cloth, dustjacket, notes, bibliography, stains to come page edges, dustjacket scuffed at edges, otherwise very good

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0521225809
• ISBN 13: 9780521225809
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 208