Workers divided (Fontana studies in sociology)

Nichols, Theo

Fontana

A cutting edge look at the experience of worker representation in the employment relations of workplace health and safety. Examining the extent to which existing arrangements deliver results, this book reflects on whether the effectiveness of worker representation is eroded or enhanced by current regulatory and organizational constructs.

Workplace Health and Safety: International Perspectives on Worker Representation

Business & Money

Walters, David

Business Culture

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Living with Capitalism: Class Relations and the Modern Factory

Book by Nichols, Theo, Beynon, Huw

Living with capitalism: Class relations and the modern factory

Routledge and Kegan Paul

This book is about ChemCo - a giant multinational chemical producer. It is about the workers, the foremen and the managers employed to work on one of the company' many sites in the United Kingdom. On this site - Riverside - some 300 of these men work with millions of pounds worth of capital equipment; day in day out, around the clock, right throughout the year. Chemicals is big business: in the pages of Living with Capitalism these men talk about their jobs and their lives, about the conflicts they experience in producing chemicals for ChemCo. In this it questions many established notions about modern technology and affluent workers. Set in the early 1970s, it examines the strategies of an extremely sophisticated group of managers, outlining the way in which they deal with the workers, the union and each other. Focusing on the new working arrangements established in the company in an attempt to increase profitability by involving people in their work, the author highlight the managerial strategy and point to the nature and depth of the worker apathy which gave rise to it. All this - modernness, sophistication, boredom - is examined as an enduring contradiction of advanced capitalism in its highly bureaucratised, impersonal and rationalized form. Theoretically and in human terms the book is deeply concerned with the underlying malaise of modern class society and as a document it offers an important pointer to future developments- bot in industry and society generally.

Safety or Profit?: International Studies in Governance, Change and the Work Environment (Work, Health and Environment Series)

As the title Safety or Profit? suggests, health and safety at work needs to be understood in the context of the wider political economy. This book brings together contributions informed by this view from internationally recognized scholars. It reviews the governance of health and safety at work, with special reference to Australia, Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Three main aspects are discussed. The restructuring of the labor market: this is considered with respect to precarious work and to gender issues and their implications for the health and safety of workers. The neoliberal agenda: this is examined with respect to the diminished power of organized labor, decriminalization, and new governance theory, including an examination of how well the health-and-safety-at-work regimes put in place in many industrial societies about forty years ago have fared and how distinctive the recent emphasis on self-regulation in several countries really is. The role of evidence: there is a dearth of evidence-based policy. The book examines how policy on health and safety at work is formulated at both company and state levels. Cases considered include the scant regard paid to evidence by an official inquiry into future strategy in Canada; the lack of evidence-based policy and the reluctance to observe the precautionary principle with respect to work-related cancer in the United Kingdom; and the failure to learn from past mistakes in the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Routledge

As the title Safety or Profit? suggests, health and safety at work needs to be understood in the context of the wider political economy. This book brings together contributions informed by this view from internationally recognized scholars. It reviews the governance of health and safety at work, with special reference to Australia, Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Three main aspects are discussed. The restructuring of the labor market: this is considered with respect to precarious work and to gender issues and their implications for the health and safety of workers. The neoliberal agenda: this is examined with respect to the diminished power of organized labor, decriminalization, and new governance theory, including an examination of how well the health-and-safety-at-work regimes put in place in many industrial societies about forty years ago have fared and how distinctive the recent emphasis on self-regulation in several countries really is. The role of evidence: there is a dearth of evidence-based policy. The book examines how policy on health and safety at work is formulated at both company and state levels. Cases considered include the scant regard paid to evidence by an official inquiry into future strategy in Canada; the lack of evidence-based policy and the reluctance to observe the precautionary principle with respect to work-related cancer in the United Kingdom; and the failure to learn from past mistakes in the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

Originally published in 1986, the 1970s and 80s saw the emergence of the 'the new working class' or 'new middle class'. This book is an authoritative study of the 'white collar workers' relationship with their unions and analysis of their newly designated class. The authors drew extensively on original fieldwork and verbatim accounts from technical workers and foremen in industry. White Collar Workers examines the particular circumstances of different groups of workers and their functions in relation to capital and labour. It analyses changes in the composition of union membership and the effect of these changes on the structure and policy of unions.

White Collar Workers (Routledge Library Editions: Trade Unions)

Smith, Chris

Carter, Bob

Armstrong, Peter

Reference

The British Worker Question (1986) examines the productivity of British workers, drawing upon a wide range of management, trade union and other sources, and spanning the traditional preserves of several other areas and disciplines - economic history, industrial administration, industrial relations and Marxism. It criticises much earlier research for its lack of a grounded sociological analysis of both workers and managements and for its lack of detailed attention to how goods and services are actually produced. The book accords a central place in its analysis of workers and productivity to the role of social organisation and management, matters which both the orthodox and Marxist traditions neglect.

The British Worker Question (Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Relations)

Economics

Ownership, Control and Ideology (Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Relations)

Part 1. Labour for Capital 1. ChemCo 2. The Labour of Labouring Men 3. The Labour of Superintendence: Managers 4. The Labour of Superintendence: Foremen 5. Capital's Division of Labour Part 2. Individuals in a Class Society 6. Lives in Process Part 3. The Politics of the Factory 7. The Management Strategy 8. The Worker's Struggle 9. The Politics of Representation 10. Trade Unionism, Corporate Capitalism and the Working Class Part 4. Living with Capitalism 11. The Politics of 'Trust' and the Lack of Trust in 'Politics' 12. 'Success' and 'Failure' 13. The Ideology of Sacrifice 14. Production, Consumption, Waste

Living with Capitalism (Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Relations)

Beynon, Huw

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Workers divided (Fontana studies in sociology)

Workplace Health and Safety: International Perspectives on Worker Representation

Living with capitalism: Class relations and the modern factory

Living with Capitalism: Class Relations and the Modern Factory

Safety or Profit?: International Studies in Governance, Change and the Work Environment (Work, Health and Environment Series)

Safety or Profit?: International Studies in Governance, Change and the Work Environment (Work, Health and Environment Series)

White Collar Workers (Routledge Library Editions: Trade Unions)

The British Worker Question (Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Relations)

Ownership, Control and Ideology (Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Relations)

Living with Capitalism (Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Relations)