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Title Managing the modern workplace : productivity, politics and workplace culture in postwar Britain / edited by Joseph Melling and Alan Booth
Published Aldershot : Ashgate, [2008]
©2008

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Description xiv, 169 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Studies in labour history
Studies in labour history (Ashgate (Firm))
Contents Studies in Labour History General Editor's Preface -- 1. Workplace Cultures and Business Performance: British Labour Relations and Industrial Output in Comparative Perspective / Alan Booth and Joseph Melling -- 2. Fordism and the Foreman: Labour Relations and Supervisory Trade Unionism in the American and British Automobile Industries, c. 1939-1970 / Joseph Melling -- 3. An Easy Life in a Railway Factory: Piecework and Shopfloor Bargaining at Swindon Locomotive Works, 1948-1963 / Michael Anson -- 4. The Economics and Politics of Technical Change under Public Ownership: The British Gas Industry in the 1950s and 1960s / Andrew Jenkins -- 5. Technological Change and Gender in the Labour Policies of British Retail Banks, 1945-1970 / Alan Booth -- 6. Waiting for Thatcher? Trade Unionism, Labour Politics and Shop Floor Bargaining in Postwar Britain / Joseph Melling and Alan Booth
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Industrial relations -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Mediation and conciliation, Industrial -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Corporations -- Great Britain -- Sociological aspects -- History -- 20th century.
SUBJECT United Kingdom -- Economic conditions -- 1945-1964. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98007542
United Kingdom -- Economic conditions -- 1964-1979. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98007086
Author Melling, Joseph.
Booth, Alan, 1949-
LC no. 2007017649
ISBN 9780754608745 (hbk.)
0754608743 (hbk.)