Negotiating The Future
A Labor Perspective On American Business
Published on 21. March 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-465-04918-9 (ISBN)
Description
It is no secret that corporate America is in trouble,as are labour unions,and a principal reason is our archaic system of labour-management relations, which excludes labour from participating in, and sharing responsibility for, the growth and profitability of the enterprises for which it works. In a book sure to arouse controversy in both management and labour circles, Barry and Irving Bluestone propose a new Enterprise Compact under which labour becomes co-responsible with management for all strategic business decisions,pricing, investment, plant location, and more.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
424 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-465-04918-9 (9780465049189)
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Persons
Barry Bluestone is Frank L. Boyden Professor of Political Economy at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and Senior Fellow at the John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs. He is the co-author (with Bennett Harrison) of The Deindustrialization of America and The Great U-Turn.Irving Bluestone is University Professor of labour Studies at Wayne State University. He retired in 1980 as vice president of the United Auto Workers' Union (UAW) and as director of its General Motors Department.
Content
Introduction * A New Vision for American Enterprise From The Glory Days To Troubled Times * The Glory Days and the Traditional Workplace Contract * Goodbye to the Glory Days * What Went Wrong? From The Adversarial Workplace To Employee Involvement * Management Rights and Union Demands * Employee Involvement in Action * Does Participation Work? Toward An Enterprise Contract * From Co-Managing the Workplace to Co-Managing the Enterprise * The Enterprise Contract * Creating a Benign Climate for the New Labor-Management Accord