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.
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Many books discuss labor's struggle for better wages and fringe benefits in the twentieth century. Shopfloor Matters, however, is distinct....It is fascinating reading, and it provides a unique historical perspective that helps explain current managerial fetishes with flexibility and competitiveness....Fairris has produced a rich story....Shopfloor Matter is sophisticated, yet it would be useful for advanced seminars, labor education, labor history, and industrial relations....this book has made me rethink my previous views about the role of company unions in the development of labor-management relations and encouraged me to pay more attention to how fundamental day-to-day shopfloor conditions are to worker satisfaction.
–Eastern Economic Journal
I highly recommend this book for a number of reasons, the least of which is that it explains the inherent problems with current workplace reforms, but most of all because it provides a historical framework within which to understand the nature of these limitations. More importantly, it offers a concrete policy that addresses the current impasse in labor-management relations. Shopfloor Matters is essential reading for those teaching labor economics or labor history and for anyone interested in understanding the nature of labor-management relations today.
–Paulette Olson, Wright State University, Journal of Economic Issues
–Eastern Economic Journal
I highly recommend this book for a number of reasons, the least of which is that it explains the inherent problems with current workplace reforms, but most of all because it provides a historical framework within which to understand the nature of these limitations. More importantly, it offers a concrete policy that addresses the current impasse in labor-management relations. Shopfloor Matters is essential reading for those teaching labor economics or labor history and for anyone interested in understanding the nature of labor-management relations today.
–Paulette Olson, Wright State University, Journal of Economic Issues
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Factory workers in late-nineteenth-century America possessed numerous shopfloor discontents: cleanliness was at a minimum, lighting was horribly inadequate, ventilation was poor, and the temperature was dictated by either the nature of production or the season. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shopfloor governance, shopfloor conditions, shopfloor discontent, shopfloor rewards, shopfloor outcomes, fractional bargaining, shopfloor concerns, shopfloor power, shopfloor safety, rapid economic activity, shopfloor demands, shopfloor actions, shopfloor decision making, shopfloor rights, shopfloor presence, shopfloor issues, early depression period, industrial organizing drives, injury rate data, manufacturing injury rates, shopfloor labor, shopfloor representation, industry injury rates, rising injury rates, shopfloor production Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War, Department of Labor, General Electric, National Industrial Conference Board, Amoskeag Plan of Representation, General Motors, Kansas City, International Harvester, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Director of Conciliation, General Tire, American Federation of Labor, Appendix Table, Chrysler's Dodge Main, Don Harris, New England, President Roosevelt, Spring Hill, Strike Threatened New!
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Factory workers in late-nineteenth-century America possessed numerous shopfloor discontents: cleanliness was at a minimum, lighting was horribly inadequate, ventilation was poor, and the temperature was dictated by either the nature of production or the season. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shopfloor governance, shopfloor conditions, shopfloor discontent, shopfloor rewards, shopfloor outcomes, fractional bargaining, shopfloor concerns, shopfloor power, shopfloor safety, rapid economic activity, shopfloor demands, shopfloor actions, shopfloor decision making, shopfloor rights, shopfloor presence, shopfloor issues, early depression period, industrial organizing drives, injury rate data, manufacturing injury rates, shopfloor labor, shopfloor representation, industry injury rates, rising injury rates, shopfloor production Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War, Department of Labor, General Electric, National Industrial Conference Board, Amoskeag Plan of Representation, General Motors, Kansas City, International Harvester, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Director of Conciliation, General Tire, American Federation of Labor, Appendix Table, Chrysler's Dodge Main, Don Harris, New England, President Roosevelt, Spring Hill, Strike Threatened New!
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