"Organized Labor versus "The Revolt Against Work
The Critical Contest
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11049486 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Zernan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 1974 |
| Issue | 21 |
| Pages | 194-206 |
| Publication date | 1974-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Telos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-6514 • E-ISSN: 1940-459X |
| Publisher | Telos Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3817/0974021194 |
| OpenAlex | W2330134676 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Serious commentators on the labor upheavals of the Depression years seem to agree that disturbances of all kinds, including the wave of sit-down strikes of 1936 and 1937, were caused by the ‘speed-up’ above all. Dissatisfaction among production workers with their new CIO unions set in early, however, mainly because the unions made no efforts to challenge management's right to establish whatever kind of work methods and working conditions they saw fit. The 1945 Trends in Collective Bargaining study noted that “by around 1940” the labor leader had joined the business leader as an object of “widespread cynicism” to the American employee
Collective bargaining · CONTEST · Cynicism · Depression (economics · Economics · Great Depression · Keynesian economics · Labor relations · Labour economics · Microeconomics · Object (grammar · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Production (economics · Work (physics · Computer Science · Engineering · Labor Movements and Unions · Law
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1975 - 2009 (35) |
| Highly cited | No |