Condensed capitalism
Subtitle: Campbell Soup and the pursuit of cheap production in the twentieth century
By: Daniel Sidorick.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780801447266
Subjects: Campbell Soup Company -- History; Soup industry -- New Jersey -- Camden -- History; Soup industry -- Employees -- Labor unions -- New Jersey -- Camden -- History; Industrial relations -- New Jersey -- Camden -- History; Production management -- New Jersey -- Camden -- History
Description: "The first in-depth history of the Campbell Soup Company and its workers, Condensed Capitalism is also a broader exploration of strategies that companies have used to keep costs down besides relocating to cheap labor havens: lean production, flexible labor sourcing, and uncompromising anti-unionism. Daniel Sidorick's study of a classic firm that used these methods for over a century has, therefore, special relevance in current debates about capital mobility and the shifting powers of capital and labor." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Making Campbell's Soup : Camden, 1869-1935; title: Bedaux, discipline, and radical unions; title: World War II and the transformation of the workforce; title: The fight to save Local 80; title: The UPWA's social unisonism versus William Beverly Murphy; title: 1968 : the strike for unity; title: Waiting for the end.