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Author Edwards, Richard, 1944- author.

Title Contested terrain : the transformation of the workplace in the twentieth century / Richard Edwards.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [1979]
©1979

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 Axe Special Collections Rosen  301.55 Ed98c 1979    ---  Lib Use Only
Description ix, 261 pages ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-252) and index.
Contents Three faces from the hidden abode -- The personal touch: competitive capitalism and the simple forms of control -- Running full: the breakdown of competition -- Until the battle is fairly won: the crisis of control in the firm -- Seeing the world: corporations in monopoly capitalism -- Experiments, beginnings, and failures -- Technical control: an all-around adjustor and equalizer -- Bureaucratic control: policy no 1.1 -- Labor redivided, part I: segmented labor markets -- Labor redivided, part II: the fractions of the working class -- Capitalism or democracy? The contradictions of modern control.
Subject Working class -- United States.
Industrial organization -- United States.
Industrial sociology -- Case studies.
Industrial organization. (OCoLC)fst00971405
Industrial sociology. (OCoLC)fst00971738
Working class. (OCoLC)fst01180418
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
ISBN 0465014127
9780465014125
0465014135
9780465014132

 
    
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