Matt Vidal, Reader in Sociology and Political Economy, Loughborough University London
Matt Vidal is Reader in Sociology and Political Economy in the Institute for International Management, Loughborough University London. He is author of Organizing Prosperity (with David Kusnet) and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx (with Paul Prew, Tomás Rotta and Tony Smith) and Comparative Political Economy of Work (with Marco Hauptmeier). He has published over twenty articles or book chapters on work, human resource management, employment relations, labor markets, comparative political economy, and social theory. He holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
I. The Problem 1. The Problem of Labor Management 2. Lean Management and Employee Involvement II. Theory 3. A Theory of Organizational Political Economy III. Analysis 4. The Postfordist Field in American Manufacturing 5. Four Approaches to Lean Production 6. Routine Politics of Production I: Quality Not Quantity 7. Routine Politics of Production II: The Workforce Contradiction 8. Routine Politics of Production III: The Management Contradiction 9. Lean Workplace Regimes: Valorization Logics and Organizational Logics IV. Conclusion 10. Capitalist Management and Routine Inefficiency
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