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Author Foss, Murray F.

Title Shiftwork, capital hours, and productivity change / by Murray F. Foss
Published Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1997]
©1997

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Description xv, 399 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Two Views of Capital Hours -- Continuous Process, Data, and a Research Agenda -- The Utilization of Capital Equipment: Postwar Compared with Prewar -- Changes in the Plant Workweek from 1929 to 1976 and Their Relation to Key Ratios -- Reasons for Changes in Average Weekly Plant Hours from 1929 to 1976 -- Estimating Average Weekly Plant Hours in Manufacturing for the Period between 1929 and 1976 -- Evaluating the Manufacturing Results for Interim Years -- Nonmanufacturing Industries -- Office Equipment and Computers -- Operating Hours of U.S. Manufacturing Plants, 1976-1988, and Their Significance for Productivity Change
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject Capital productivity -- United States.
Hours of labor -- United States.
Industrial equipment -- Utilization -- United States.
Labor productivity -- United States.
Shift systems -- United States.
LC no. 97020551
ISBN 0792399552 (hardcover : acid-free paper)