Shopfloor Matters: Labor-Management Relations in Twentieth-Century American Manufacturing

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This book analyses the changing institutional arrangements of shop floor governance in 20th century American manufacturing and considers the impact of these institutional arrangements on shop floor outcomes such as labour productivity and workplace health and safety. Building on the work of labour historians, industrial relations scholars, and institutional labour economists, the book offers not only a comprehensive analysis of the changing nature of shop floor labour-management relations in the large manufacturing firms of this century, it also supplies empirical evidence of the effect of these institutional changes on labour productivity growth and injury rates. No other study has dealt with the broad sweep of shop floor governance during the 20th century, paid as careful attention to the process by which shop floor institutional arrangements changed over these years, or offered hard evidence on the relationship between changing shop floor institutions and changing shop floor outcomes. David Fairris is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Riverside. He has published widely in professional journals on the subject of working conditions and shop floor labour-management relations. This is his first book.

Author / Editor: David Fairris

Category: Economics

ISBN: 0203431316

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