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Labor-Management Cooperation or Managerial Control?

Emerging Patterns of Labor Relations in the United States

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Workers, Managers, and Technological Change

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Throughout the twentieth century in the United States, managements have deployed new production technologies in order to maintain enterprise profitability, while workers have attempted to protect their job security. Technological change has not only raised these divergent issues for labor and management, but also compelled them to establish procedures for ensuring that technological change fulfills their interests. Technological change has been accompanied by a continuous struggle over controlling its implementation and outcomes.1

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Cornfield, D.B. (1987). Labor-Management Cooperation or Managerial Control?. In: Cornfield, D.B. (eds) Workers, Managers, and Technological Change. Plenum Studies in Work and Industry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1821-7_16

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