Managing the modern workplace productivity, politics and workplace culture in postwar Britain
Title:
Managing the modern workplace productivity, politics and workplace culture in postwar Britain
Author:
Melling, Joseph.
ISBN:
9780754680963
Publication Information:
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 169 p.) : ill.
Series:
Studies in labour history
Studies in labour history (Ashgate (Firm))
Contents:
Cover; Contents; Studies in Labour History General Editor's Preface; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Preface; 1 Workplace Cultures and Business Performance: British Labour Relations and Industrial Output in Comparative Perspective; 2 Fordism and the Foreman: Labour Relations and Supervisory Trade Unionism in the American and British Automobile Industries, c. 1939-1970; 3 An Easy Life in a Railway Factory: Piecework and Shopfloor Bargaining at Swindon Locomotive Works, 1948-1963.
Abstract:
Managing the Modern Workplace is a collection of interdisciplinary essays tackling issues of private and public management and its effects on productivity and workplace relations in modern Britain. It challenges received views on the politics of post-war labour, and brings fresh insights into the study of both private and public sector workplaces.
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