Assessing the reaction of trade unions to innovation, this revisionist study asserts that unions do not, in fact, obstruct change as often as is commonly assumed. In a detailed analysis of industrial innovations and labor relations, Willman examines three major industries that have experienced abnormal problems in both the U.S. and Great Britain: the port, newspaper, and automotive industries. The explanation for this pattern isolates the close relationship--in the U. S. and Great Britain--between technological and organized change.
- ISBN10 0198272626
- ISBN13 9780198272625
- Publish Date 1 November 1986
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 17 September 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 298
- Language English