| Managerial Control of American Workers: Methods and Technology from the 1880s to Today Contributor(s): Van Elteren, Mel (Author) |
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ISBN: 1476664994 ISBN-13: 9781476664996 Publisher: McFarland & Company OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General - Business & Economics | Human Resources & Personnel Management |
| Dewey: 658.315 |
| LCCN: 2016059862 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" (1.00 lbs) 348 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Today, surveillance and regulation of employees are pervasive at all levels (except the highest) in a wide variety of American workplaces. Digital information systems have become important tools of managerial control. The constraints built into these systems by so-called business process reengineering are a continuation of scientific management principles developed during the late 19th century. Additional means of control have included employment-based welfare capitalism, and human relations and corporate culture approaches. This book provides fresh insight into various practices of managerial control from the 1880s to the present and their effects on work organization and quality, and worker skill requirements. The author highlights current developments--including those focused on highly skilled knowledge workers--accounting for enhanced automation, offshoring and related changes in the production and distribution of goods and services. |
Contributor Bio(s): Van Elteren, Mel: - Mel van Elteren is an emeritus associate professor of social sciences at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, and taught at Utrecht University and Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has published several books and numerous articles on topics involving sociology, social psychology, social history and cultural studies, with special interest in American society, politics, labor and culture in a global context. |