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

Montgomery, David

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ISBN 10: 0521280060 ISBN 13: 9780521280068

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1980

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.

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Book by Montgomery David

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0521280060
• ISBN 13: 9780521280068
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 200