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Workers, Managers, and Technological Change

Emerging Patterns of Labor Relations

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  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. Daniel B. Cornfield

    1. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

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Part of the book series: Springer Studies in Work and Industry (SSWI)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Workers, Managers, and Technological Change

      • Daniel B. Cornfield
      Pages 3-24

  3. Toward Unilateral Managerial Control?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. Microchips and Macroharvests

      • Robert J. Thomas
      Pages 27-45

    3. The Eclipse of Craft

      • Arne L. Kalleberg, Michael Wallace, Karyn A. Loscocco, Kevin T. Leicht, Hans-Helmut Ehm
      Pages 47-71

    4. Technology and Control of the Labor Process

      • Gordon Betcherman, Douglas Rebne
      Pages 73-89

    5. Technological Change and Labor Relations in the United States Postal Service

      • Vern Baxter
      Pages 91-110

    6. Office Automation, Clerical Workers, and Labor Relations in the Insurance Industry

      • Daniel B. Cornfield, Polly A. Phipps, Diane P. Bates, Deborah K. Carter, Trudie W. Coker, Kathleen E. Kitzmiller et al.
      Pages 111-134

    7. Computerized Instruction, Information Systems, and School Teachers

      • Kent D. Peterson
      Pages 135-151

    8. Technology, Air Traffic Control, and Labor-Management Relations

      • Arthur B. Shostak
      Pages 153-172

  4. Toward Labor-Management Cooperation?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
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    2. Changing Technologies and Consequences for Labor in Coal Mining

      • Richard A. Couto
      Pages 175-202

    3. Conflict, Cooperation, and the Global Auto Factory

      • Michael Indergaard, Michael Cushion
      Pages 203-228

    4. Technological Change, Market Decline, and Industrial Relations in the U.S. Steel Industry

      • Dennis A. Ahlburg, Ann E. Carey, Bruce A. Lundgren, Sandra L. Barrett, Lawrence D. Anderson
      Pages 229-245

    5. Computer-Based Automation and Labor Relations in the Construction Equipment Industry

      • Gerald Gordon, Sally Moulton, Tom Wachtell, John Francis, Ashraf Zahedi
      Pages 247-262

    6. The Impact of Technological Change on Labor Relations in the Commercial Aircraft Industry

      • Arthur R. Schwartz, James D. Abrams, Adria M. Anuzis, John P. Byrne, Tracy Elsperman, Allison Haines et al.
      Pages 263-280

    7. Technological Change in the Public Sector

      • David Lewin
      Pages 281-309

    8. Deregulation, Technological Change, and Labor Relations in Telecommunications

      • Dick Batten, Sara Schoonmaker
      Pages 311-327

  5. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 329-329
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About this book

Workers, Managers, and Technological Change: Emerging Patterns of Labor Relations contributes significantly to an important subject. Technological change is one of the most powerful forces transforming the American industrial relations In fact, the synergistic relationships between technology and indus­ system. trial relations are so complex that they are not well or completely understood. We know that the impact of technology, while not independent of social forces, already has been profound: it has transformed occupations, creating new skills and destroying others; altered the power relationships between workers and managers; and changed the way workers learn and work. Tech­ nology also has made it possible to decentralize some economic activities out of large metropolitan areas and into small towns, rural areas, and other coun­ tries. Most important, information technology makes it possible for interna­ tional corporations to operate on a global basis. Indeed, some international corporations, especially those based in the United States, are losing their national identities, detaching the welfare of corporations from that of particu­ lar workers and communities. Internationalization, facilitated by information technology, has trans­ formed industrial relations systems. A major objective of the traditional American industrial relations system was to take labor out of competition.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

    Daniel B. Cornfield

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Workers, Managers, and Technological Change

  • Book Subtitle: Emerging Patterns of Labor Relations

  • Editors: Daniel B. Cornfield

  • Series Title: Springer Studies in Work and Industry

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1821-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-9018-6Published: 14 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-1821-7Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 384

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Business and Management, general, Political Science, Sociology, general

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