Beyond Survival: Wage Labour and Capital in the Late Twentieth Century

by Cyrus Bina, Laurie M. Clements, Chuck Davis

Overview

This text uses an innovative approach to the dynamics of labour's decline and proposes policy initiatives necessary for its revitalization. The book emphasises the need for restructuring of capitalism on a global scale and challenges traditional economic and industrial relations wisdom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781563245152
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/31/1995
Series:	Labor and Human Resources Series
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1570L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Bina, Cyrus; Clements, Laurie M.; Davis, Chuck

Table of Contents

Introduction—Beyond Survival: Toward the Revitalization of Labor; Chapter 1 Wage Labor and Global Capital: Global Competition and Universalization of the Labor Movement, Cyrus Bina, Chuck Davis; Chapter 2 Labor and Today’s Global Economic Crisis: A Historical View, David C. Ranney; Chapter 3 Political Entrepreneurialism: Deregulation, Privatization, and the “Reinvention of Government”, Laurie Clements; Chapter 4 The Swedish Model: From the Cradle to the Grave?, Norman Eiger; Chapter 5 Labor Relations and the Social Structure of Accumulation: The Case of U.S. Coal Mining, Michele I. Naples; Chapter 6 Shop Floor Relations: The Past, Present, and Future of Mass Production, David Fairris; Chapter 7 An Alternative Strategy: Lessons from the UAW Local 6 and the FE, 1946–52, Victor G. Devinatz; Chapter 8 Lean and Mean: Work, Locality, and Unions, Philip Garrahan, Paul Stewart; Chapter 9 The Future Is Already Here: Deskilling of Work in the “Office of the Future”, Vernon Mogensen; Chapter 10 Management Resistance to Change: A Case of Computer Information Systems, Elaine Bernard; Chapter 11 Legal Challenges Against Plant Closings: Eminent Domain, Labor, and Community Property Rights, David Schultz;

Editorial Reviews

Eleven essays addressing a concern for depressed and exploited labor in a global economy and seeking alternatives to the traditional capitalist models. The contributing economic and political scholars analyze global competition and the labor movement, deregulation, privatization, mass production, the office of the future, management resistance, legal challenges, community property rights, and case studies from Sweden and the US Coal industry. Paper edition (unseen) $24.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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