Contested Terrain

By: Richards Edwards

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Paperback | 19 June 1980 | Edition Number 1

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Edward's controversial theory about the growing number of supervisory personnel argues that the decline of the individual employer and the rise of impersonal bureaucracies forced the managers to establish more controls over employees

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Preface
Three Faces from the Hidden Abode	p. 3
The Personal Touch: Competitive Capitalism and the Simple Forms of Control	p. 23
Running Full: the Breakdown of Competition	p. 37
Until the Battle Is Fairly Won: the Crisis of Control in the Firm	p. 48
Seeing the World: Corporations in Monopoly Capitalism	p. 72
Experiments, Beginnings, and Failures	p. 90
Technical Control: an All-Around Adjustor and Equalizer	p. 111
Bureaucratic Control: Policy No. 1.1	p. 130
Labor Re-Divided, Part I: Segmented Labor Markets	p. 163
Labor Redivided, Part Ii: the Fractions of the Working Class	p. 184
Capitalism or Democracy? the Contradictions of Modern Control	p. 200
Appendix	p. 217
Notes	p. 225
Bibliography	p. 244
Index	p. 253
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