Beyond survival : wage labor in the late twentieth century

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Beyond survival : wage labor in the late twentieth century

Cyrus Bina, Laurie M. Clements, and Chuck Davis, editors

(Labor and human resources series)

M.E. Sharpe, 1996

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This text uses an innovative approach to the dynamics of labour's decline and proposes policy initiatives necessary for its revitalization. The book emphasises the need for restructuring of capitalism on a global scale and challenges traditional economic and industrial relations wisdom.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction-Beyond Survival: Toward the Revitalization of Labor
  • Chapter 1 Wage Labor and Global Capital: Global Competition and Universalization of the Labor Movement, Cyrus Bina, Chuck Davis
  • Chapter 2 Labor and Today's Global Economic Crisis: A Historical View, David C. Ranney
  • Chapter 3 Political Entrepreneurialism: Deregulation, Privatization, and the "Reinvention of Government", Laurie Clements
  • Chapter 4 The Swedish Model: From the Cradle to the Grave?, Norman Eiger
  • Chapter 5 Labor Relations and the Social Structure of Accumulation: The Case of U.S. Coal Mining, Michele I. Naples
  • Chapter 6 Shop Floor Relations: The Past, Present, and Future of Mass Production, David Fairris
  • Chapter 7 An Alternative Strategy: Lessons from the UAW Local 6 and the FE, 1946-52, Victor G. Devinatz
  • Chapter 8 Lean and Mean: Work, Locality, and Unions, Philip Garrahan, Paul Stewart
  • Chapter 9 The Future Is Already Here: Deskilling of Work in the "Office of the Future", Vernon Mogensen
  • Chapter 10 Management Resistance to Change: A Case of Computer Information Systems, Elaine Bernard
  • Chapter 11 Legal Challenges Against Plant Closings: Eminent Domain, Labor, and Community Property Rights, David Schultz

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