Workers' Control in America

Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles

By: David Montgomery

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Paperback | 17 November 1980

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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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Non-Fiction Economics Labour Economics Business & Management Management & Management Techniques History Regional & National History History of the Americas Industry & Industrial Studies Industrial Relations, Health & Safety Industrial Relations

Preface
Introduction
Workers' control of machine production in the nineteenth century
Immigrant workers and managerial reform
Machinists, the Civic Federation, and the Socialist Party
The 'new unionism' and the transformation of workers' consciousness in America, 1909-22
Whose standards? Workers and the reorganization of production in the United States, 1900-20
Facing layoffs
American workers and the New Deal Formula
Bibliographical essay
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Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles

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