Shopfloor politics and job controls : the post-war engineering industry

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Shopfloor politics and job controls : the post-war engineering industry

edited by Michael Terry and P.K. Edwards

Blackwell, 1988

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Bibliography: p. [235]-241

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This book provides an analysis of some of the vexed questions in industrial relations. The case studies from the post war engineering industry in Britain touch on the issues of shop floor job controls, relations between shop stewards and union members and the effect of workplace practices on productivity. The significance of the subject, the period and the industry selected will need little justification for students of British industrial relations.

Table of Contents

  • General Editors' Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Shop Steward Organization: Coventry Precision Tools, 1945-72 3. The Changing Face of Conflict: Shop Floor Organization at Longbridge, 1939-80
  • 4. Management Control and Labour Quiescence: Shop Floor Politics at Alfred Herbert's, 1945-80
  • 5. Craft Unionism, Job Controls and Management Strategy: Premier Metals, 1955-80
  • 6. From "Making It Pay" to "Getting the Day In": Job Controls and Shop Steward Leadership Among Semi-Skilled Engineering Workers
  • 7. Wage strategy, Redundancy and Shop Stewards in the Coventry Motor Industry
  • 8. Conclusions.

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