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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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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This is a wonderful book on the breakdown of workers control over both the shop floor and the production process in the United States. The story begins in the post-civil war era when skilled/craft produciton still held sway. Via the influence of craft unions (most notably Gompers' American Federation of Labor and its numerous national unions) workers in many industries (Montgomery focuses heavily on machinists here) were able to hold great influence over the production process. Due to their high level of skill, and knowledge of their craft - generated a kind of structural leverage - craft unions were able to develop "cooperative" relationship with captial. However, between the 1880s and the 1900s increasing capital competition led to an employer offensive on worker's influece of the production process as a means of reducing costs, gaining control over the workplace, and augmenting profits. Their main aim was then to take the knowledge of the produciton process that the workers possessed and rationalize it - that is break it down into simple units, deskilling the particular work of the given craft...and the story goes on.
This is a higly recommended piece of labor history, one that would be well read in addition to Harry Braverman's "Labor and Monopoly Capital."
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"In an industrial establishment which employs say from 500 to 1,000 workmen, there will be found in many cases at least twenty to thirty different trades," wrote Frederick Winslow Taylor in his famous critique of the practices of industrial management which were then in vogue: The workmen in each of these trades have had their knowledge handed down to them by word of mouth... Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
metal trades employers, sympathetic strikes, metal polishers, shop committees, machine tenders, shop management, seniority principle, shop drive, iron molders, new unionism, sympathy strikes, managerial reform, iron rollers, shoe workers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Civic Federation, Iron Age, Mitchell Papers, Record Group, New Deal, New Jersey, World War, National Archives, Murray Hill, Remington Arms, Democratic Party, National War Labor Board, Bethlehem Steel, John Mitchell, Shop Management, Case File, Department of Labor, Illinois Central, Knights of Labor, Saposs Papers, American Trade Unionism, New Orleans, New England New!
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"In an industrial establishment which employs say from 500 to 1,000 workmen, there will be found in many cases at least twenty to thirty different trades," wrote Frederick Winslow Taylor in his famous critique of the practices of industrial management which were then in vogue: The workmen in each of these trades have had their knowledge handed down to them by word of mouth... Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
metal trades employers, sympathetic strikes, metal polishers, shop committees, machine tenders, shop management, seniority principle, shop drive, iron molders, new unionism, sympathy strikes, managerial reform, iron rollers, shoe workers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Civic Federation, Iron Age, Mitchell Papers, Record Group, New Deal, New Jersey, World War, National Archives, Murray Hill, Remington Arms, Democratic Party, National War Labor Board, Bethlehem Steel, John Mitchell, Shop Management, Case File, Department of Labor, Illinois Central, Knights of Labor, Saposs Papers, American Trade Unionism, New Orleans, New England New!
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