Workers' Control in America
Studies in the History of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles

A collection of essays on workers' efforts in the 19th and 20th centuries to assert control over the processes of production in US.

David Montgomery (Author)

9780521280068, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 31 August 1980

200 pages
22.8 x 15.3 x 1.6 cm, 0.27 kg

A collection of essays on workers' efforts in the 19th and 20th centuries to assert control over the processes of production in US. It describes the development of management techniques and includes discussions of various worker and union responses to unemployment.

Preface
Introduction
1. Workers' control of machine production in the nineteenth century
2. Immigrant workers and managerial reform
3. Machinists, the Civic Federation, and the Socialist Party
4. The 'new unionism' and the transformation of workers' consciousness in America, 1909–22
5. Whose standards? Workers and the reorganization of production in the United States, 1900–20
6. Facing layoffs
7. American workers and the New Deal Formula
Bibliographical essay.

Subject Areas: History of the Americas [HBJK]