Managing the Modern Workplace: Productivity, Politics and Workplace Culture in Postwar Britain

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ISBN: 9780754608745 | 0754608743
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/28/2008

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Managing the Modern Workplace is a collection of interdisciplinary essays tackling issues of private and public management and its effects on productivity and workplace relations in modern Britain. It challenges received views on the politics of post-war labour, and brings fresh insights into the study of both private and public sector workplaces.

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Preface
Workplace cultures and business performance
British labour relations and industrial output in comparative perspective
Fordism and the foreman: labour relations and supervisory trade unionism in the American and British automobile industries, c. 1939-1970
An easy life in a railway factory: piecework and shop floor bargaining at Swindon locomotive works, 1948-63
The economics and politics of technical change under public ownership: the British gas industry in the 1950s and 1960s
Technological change and gender in the labour policies of British retail banks, 1945-70
Waiting for Thatcher? Trade unionism, Labour politics and shop floor bargaining in postwar Britain
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Managing the Modern Workplace: Productivity, Politics and Workplace Culture in Postwar Britain

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