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.
Author(s): David H Fairris
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 256
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
INTRODUCTION......Page 16
FROM EXIT TO VOICE IN SHOPFLOOR GOVERNANCE......Page 32
THE AMOSKEAG PLAN OF REPRESENTATION......Page 62
THE RISE OF AN EMPOWERED SHOPFLOOR VOICE......Page 72
LABOR-MANAGEMENT DISPUTES IN MEAT PACKING, 1936 41......Page 104
INSTITUTIONALIZATION AND DECLINE IN WORKERS' SHOPFLOOR POWER......Page 114
POSTWAR COLLECTIVE-BARGAINING AGREEMENTS......Page 154
CONTEMPORARY EXPERIMENTS WITH NEW SYSTEMS OF SHOPFLOOR GOVERNANCE......Page 161
A VISIT TO SATURN......Page 183
THE FUTURE OF US SHOPFLOOR GOVERNANCE......Page 190
Appendix tables......Page 206
Data appendix......Page 213
Notes......Page 219
Bibliography......Page 234
Index......Page 245
