Labor Studies Journal articles from June 1996

Labor Studies Journal archives from June 1996

Labor shall not be property: the horizon of workers' control in the United States.
June 22, 1996... When I mentioned to a friend that I was writing an essay on the history of workers' control in the United States, he responded with, "That ought to be short!" His reaction, while common, is unfounded. How workers can best secure control over...

Empirical research on employee involvement: a critical review for labor.
June 22, 1996... Over the past two tumultuous decades, trade unions and their members have confronted myriad challenges and threats. Ranging from massive deindustrialization and corporate centralization to growing privatization and outright union-busting, these...

National union supports for new work systems and technological change.
June 22, 1996... Background Over the last two decades, unions have faced a rising challenge in the organized workplace. Management has sought to change the way work is done, using new technologies, work methods and forms of work organization. Computerized...

A union strategy for saving jobs and enhancing workplace democracy.
June 22, 1996... Introduction American companies and labor have experimented with various forms of workplace democracy and employee involvement over the last decades, but it is debatable to what degree the expected transformation of work organizations and...

On the Line at Subaru-Isuzu: The Japanese Model and the American Worker.
June 22, 1996... In 1989 labor educator Laurie Graham took a job at the new Subaru-Isuzu plant in Indiana, to investigate first-hand whether the lean production system is good for workers. Hundreds of books and articles claim that it is. These academic and...

Lean Work: Empowerment and Exploitation in the Global Auto Industry.
June 22, 1996... The twenty-one chapters of this excellent book derive from a 1993 Labor Studies conference at Wayne State University. Many of the twenty-seven authors directly respond to the 1991 best-selling book, The Machine that Changed the World, by Womack,...

Work Design for the Competent Organization.
June 22, 1996... This is perhaps the only comprehensive book on work organization that sympathetically addresses the role of unions in this field and focuses on processes of designing the organization of work to foster skill formation and development of worker...

Labor and workplace democracy: past, present and future; introduction to the Special Issue (1).
June 22, 1996... William Green President--American Federation of Labor Bulletin of the Taylor Society (December 1925) Many readers of this Special Issue will no doubt view 1996 as the least likely time in recent history to focus on the status of workplace...