Author: Gerald George Somers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780835767705
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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Author: Gerald George Somers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 303

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Author: Gerald George Somers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor economics
Languages : en
Pages : 303

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Author: Stephen Meyer III
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438412932
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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In 1903, Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company in a small Detroit workshop. Five years later, he introduced the Model T and met with extraordinary commercial success. Between 1910 and 1914, he developed mass production and made the conveyor a symbol of the auto-industrial age. Then, in 1914, Ford acquired an overnight reputation as humanitarian, philanthropist and social reformer; and simultaneously infuriated the business community and stunned social reformers with his announcement of the outrageous Five Dollar Day. More than simply high-wage policy, the Five Dollar Day attempted to solve attitudinal and behavioral problems with an effort to change the worker’s domestic environment. Half of the five dollars represented “wages” and the other half was called “profits”—which the worker received only when he met specific standards of efficiency and home life that accorded with the ideal of an American way of life which the company felt was the basis for industrial efficiency. The unique and short-lived Ford program did not succeed, yet its significance as an early managerial strategy goes beyond the boundaries of success or failure. The Ford Motor Company was uniquely situated in the historical evolution of labor management and industrial technology, and this readable study of that evolution, which highlights the Ford workers, is a chapter in the larger history of labor and work in America. Stephen Meyer III, Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, is one of the new historians who have begun to address the profound social impact of technology on the world of work.

Author: Gerald G. Somers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 303

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Author: Paul A. Kurzman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780415851817
Category : Labor policy
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This book provides a comprehensive presentation on the development, evolution and contributions of the labor movement in the delivery of workplace human service both in the United States as well as Canada, France, Israel, South Africa, India, Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health.

Author: Gerald George Somers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Collection of essays to commemorate the role of john r. Commons (1862-1945) in the formulation of social policy in the USA - includes writings on historical aspects of trade unionism, collective bargaining, labour administration, labour relations, social security, migrant workers, minimum wages, unemployment, etc. ILO mentioned and references. Festschrift commons j.r.

Author: Michael Ballot
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 9780471111856
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of labor management relations with a substantial portion devoted to economic issues and analysis in the labor field.

Author: United States. President's Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Policy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automation
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: Matthew Behrens
Publisher: Between the Lines(CA)
ISBN: 9781771131322
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Embrace worker rights and build a better democracy