What workers want
Freeman, Richard B.
- Updated edition
- Ithaca ILR Press 2006
- xi, 238 p.
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.