What workers want Freeman, Richard B.

By:

Freeman, Richard B

Contributor(s):

Rogers, Joel

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Ithaca ILR Press 2006Edition: Updated editionDescription: xi, 238 pISBN:

9780801473258

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

331.20973 F7W4

Summary: How would a typical American workplace be structured if the employees could design it? According to Richard B. Freeman and Joel Rogers, it would be an organization run jointly by employees and their supervisors, one where disputes between labor and management would be resolved through independent arbitration. Their groundbreaking book provides a comprehensive account of employees' attitudes about participation, representation, and regulation on the job. For the updated edition, the authors have added an introduction showing how recent data have confirmed and strengthened their basic argument. A new concluding chapter lays out the model of "open source unionism" that they propose for rebuilding unionism in the United States, making this updated edition essential for anyone thinking about what labor should be doing to move forward. (http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100175890)

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Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Ask the people who live there

Chapter 2: Finding out what workers want

Chapter 3: What workers want and why they don't have it

Chapter 4: How workers judge unions

Chapter 5: How workers judge management

Chapter 6: How workers judge government regulations

Chapter 7: If workers could choose

Chapter 8: Towards a new labor relations system

How would a typical American workplace be structured if the employees could design it? According to Richard B. Freeman and Joel Rogers, it would be an organization run jointly by employees and their supervisors, one where disputes between labor and management would be resolved through independent arbitration. Their groundbreaking book provides a comprehensive account of employees' attitudes about participation, representation, and regulation on the job.

For the updated edition, the authors have added an introduction showing how recent data have confirmed and strengthened their basic argument. A new concluding chapter lays out the model of "open source unionism" that they propose for rebuilding unionism in the United States, making this updated edition essential for anyone thinking about what labor should be doing to move forward.

(http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100175890)

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