Workers' Control in America
Subtitle: Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 31, 1980
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780521280068
Subjects: American history; United States; Industrial relations; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - General; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; History / United States / General; Labor and laboring classes; Political Science-Labor & Industrial Relations - General; History; Labor unions; Working class
First sentence: "In an industrial establishment which employs say from 500 to 1,000 workmen, there will be found in many cases at least twenty to thirty different trades," wrote Frederick Winslow Taylor in his famous critique of the practices of industrial management which were then in vogue: The workmen in each of these trades have had their knowledge handed down to them by word of mouth...