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Autowork / edited by Robert Asher and Ronald Edsforth with the assistance of Stephen Merlino.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in American labor historyPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1995.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 307 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585045682
  • 9780585045689
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Autowork.DDC classification:
  • 331.7/6292/0973 20
LOC classification:
  • HD8039.A82 U6253 1995eb
Online resources:
Contents:
A half century of struggle : auto workers fighting for justice / Robert Asher and Ronald Edsforth -- Building for mass production : factory design and work process at the Ford Motor Company / Lindy Biggs -- The speedup : the focal point of workers' grievances, 1919-1941 / Ronald Edsforth and Robert Asher, with the assistance of Raymond Boryczka -- Auto workers at war : patriotism and protest in the American automobile industry, 1939-1945 / Kevin Boyle -- The 1949 Ford speedup strike and the post war social compact, 1946-1961 / Robert Asher -- Why automation didn't shorten the work week : the politics of work time in the automobile industry / Ronald Edsforth -- Auto workers, dissent, and the UAW : Detroit and Lordstown / Heather Ann Thompson -- Sabotage in an automobile assembly plant : worker voice on the shopfloor / Craig A. Zabala -- Restructuring the workplace : post-Fordism or return of the foreman? / Steve Babson.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-302) and index.

A half century of struggle : auto workers fighting for justice / Robert Asher and Ronald Edsforth -- Building for mass production : factory design and work process at the Ford Motor Company / Lindy Biggs -- The speedup : the focal point of workers' grievances, 1919-1941 / Ronald Edsforth and Robert Asher, with the assistance of Raymond Boryczka -- Auto workers at war : patriotism and protest in the American automobile industry, 1939-1945 / Kevin Boyle -- The 1949 Ford speedup strike and the post war social compact, 1946-1961 / Robert Asher -- Why automation didn't shorten the work week : the politics of work time in the automobile industry / Ronald Edsforth -- Auto workers, dissent, and the UAW : Detroit and Lordstown / Heather Ann Thompson -- Sabotage in an automobile assembly plant : worker voice on the shopfloor / Craig A. Zabala -- Restructuring the workplace : post-Fordism or return of the foreman? / Steve Babson.

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