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Managing the Modern Workplace - Productivity, Politics and Workplace Culture in Postwar Britain (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Managing the Modern Workplace - Productivity, Politics and Workplace Culture in Postwar Britain (Hardcover, New Ed)
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A recurring theme in the history of modern Britain in the
twentieth-century has been the failure of its manufacturing
industry and the record of disorder and conflict in the industrial
workplace. This image was reinforced by the evidence of national
strikes from the 1960s until 1984. This emphasis on decline and
disorder in British manufacturing has distorted our understanding
of workplace relationships and cultures in the post-war years. This
volume provides a fresh assessment of the diverse and complex world
of the workplace and Britain's production cultures during the long
boom. Essays investigate the public and private sectors, and both
manufacturing and service industries. The volume begins with a
comparison of labour management in the post-war automobile
industry, exploring the role of the foreman in the management of
shop floor labour in Britain and the USA. The following two essays
are concerned with relations between management and workers in the
publicly-owned corporations. The first examines negotiations over
pay and effort at the Swindon locomotive works, including the
cultural values which informed the behaviour of the bargainers. The
second investigates managerial responses to technical change in the
British gas industry. We then move into the service sector, with an
essay on the management of clerical staff in banks, including a
discussion of the different roles available to male and female
workers, and the incorporation of automated technologies. The final
essay looks at the involvement of the unions in workplace
productivity and the extent to which Labour politics informed union
behaviour. The essays in this volume shed new light on the reasons
for Britain's economic performance and opens up earlier
interpretations of national decline and adversarial workplace
cultures for further debate.
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