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Competitive Advantage on the Shop Floor

Type
Link
Cost
Paid
Published
1990

Competitive Advantage on the Shop Floor explores how technological change has interacted with the organization of work, with major consequences for national competitiveness and industrial leadership. Looking at Britain, the United States, and Japan from the nineteenth century to the present, it explains changes in their status as industrial superpowers. Further, this book stresses the importance of the industrial leadership of cooperative relations between employers and shop-floor workers.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Organization, Technology, and Value Creation

Part I: Theory and History in the Nineteenth Century

Part II: Competitive Realities in the Twentieth Century

  • The Persistence of Craft Control

  • Managerial Capitalism and Economies of Speed

  • Perspectives on the Twenties

  • The Challenge of Flexible Mass Production

  • Organization and Technology in Capitalist Development

Appendix: The Basic Analytics of Shop-Floor Value Creation

Notes

Index