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The article reviews the book, "Recast Dreams: Class and Gender Consciousness in Steeltown," edited by D.W. Livingstone and J. Marshall Mangan.
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This article reviews the book, "Workplace Democracy: An Inquiry into Employee Participation in Canadian Work Organizations," by Donald V. Nightingale.
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The article reviews the book, "Reshaping the US Left: Popular Struggles in the 1980s," edited by Mike David and Michael Sprinker.
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The article reviews the book, "The Canadian Auto Workers: The Birth and Transformation of a Union," by Sam Gindin.
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[E]xamines the institution of work from the perspective of alienated labour, a perspective that many conventional approaches to the subject have ignored or misrepresented. Completely updated to reflect current trends in the labour force and research in the field of labour studies, The Tyranny of Work begins with a thorough discussion of work as a social problem and the sources of alienation. The book then examines the development of industrial capitalism in Canada, the white-collar and blue-collar worlds, and, finally, solutions to the problem of alienated labour. All statistics and data have been updated to reflect the most current research. Information from the 2001 Census has been integrated throughout the text. The Tyranny of Work examines the institution of work from the perspective of alienated labour, a perspective that many conventional approaches to the subject have ignored or misrepresented. --Publisher's description
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The article reviews the book, "On the Line at Subaru Isuzu: The Japanese Model and the American Worker," by Laurie Graham.
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This article reviews the book, "Quality of Working Life: Contemporary Cases," edited by J. B. Cunningham and T. H. White.
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This article reviews the book, "Wartime Strikes: The Struggle Against the No-Strike Pledge in the UAW During World War II," by Martin Glaberman.
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The article reviews the book, "Worker Participation and the Politics of Reform," edited by Carmen Siriarmi.
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This article reviews the book, "American Jobs and the Changing Industrial Base," edited by Eileen Collins and Lucretia Dewey Tanner.
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The Tyranny of Work examines the institution of work from the perspective of alienated labour, a perspective that many conventional approaches to the subject have ignored or misrepresented. Completely updated to reflect current trends in the labour force and research in the field of labour studies, The Tyranny of Work begins with a thorough discussion of work as a social problem and the sources of alienation. The book then examines the development of industrial capitalism in Canada, the white-collar and blue-collar worlds, and, finally, solutions to the problem of alienated labour. All statistics and data have been updated to reflect the most current research. Information from the 2001 Census has been integrated throughout the text. The Tyranny of Work examines the institution of work from the perspective of alienated labour, a perspective that many conventional approaches to the subject have ignored or misrepresented. --Publisher's description, 5th edition (2005).Contents: 1. Work as a social problem -- 2. Alienation and its sources -- 3. Alienation and the development of industrial capitalism in Canada -- 4. Post-industrial society and white-collar worlds -- 5. Blue-collar crime -- 6. Restructuring organizations and work -- 7. Solutions to alienated labour. Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-245) and index;
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The article reviews two books: "Labor-Management Committees: Confrontation, Cooptation, or Cooperation?," by Charlotte Gold, and "Inside the Circle: A Union Guide to QWL" by Mike Parker
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CAMI, a unionized Suzuki-General Motors auto plant in Ontario, attempted to construct a workplace characterized by worker commitment and cooperative labor-management relations. These efforts failed. There was a 5-week strike in the Fall of 1992 at the plant. While CAMI was in the start-up mode, labor-management relations were relatively harmonious and the working environment relaxed. With the onset of full production all this changed, and the meaning of "lean" production became clearer. Workers regularly contested the dictates of lean production at CAMI. Interest and participation in quality circle and suggestion programs declined. Proponents of lean production are likely to define CAMI as an aberration by involving the partial implementation thesis or stressing the militancy of the union. In one respect only are they right. The strike does distinguish CAMI as exceptional, at least until there are similar manifestations of industrial conflict in other transplants. However, the conditions that produced the strike appear in unionized as well as non-unionized transplants.
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