New Forms of Work Organization
Subtitle: The Challenge for North American Unions
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: September 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780802073983
Subjects: Economics, Finance, Business and Industry; Sarnia; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Politics / Current Events; Business/Economics; Trade-unions; Industrial relations; Case studies; Ontario; Work
First sentence: A major achievement of the industrial age was the perfection of an organizational form, the technocratic bureaucracy (Trist 1981) which was suited to a world of mass production, standardized products, mechanization, and a poorly educated labour force.