Negotiating the future: a labor perspective on American business
It is no secret that corporate America is in trouble - as are labor unions - and a principal reason is our archaic system of labor-management relations that excludes labor from participating in, and sharing responsibility for, the growth and profitability of the enterprises for which they work. In a...
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| Zusammenfassung: | It is no secret that corporate America is in trouble - as are labor unions - and a principal reason is our archaic system of labor-management relations that excludes labor from participating in, and sharing responsibility for, the growth and profitability of the enterprises for which they work. In a book sure to arouse controversy in both management and labor circles, the coauthor of the widely acclaimed The Deindustrialization of America and The Great U-Turn joins forces with his father, who has spent a lifetime as a union official, to propose a new Enterprise Compact under which labor becomes co-responsible with management for all strategic business decisions - pricing, investment, plant location, and more. The book describes innovative labor-management experiments, including the UAW-GM Saturn automobile project, to show that Enterprise Compacts are not impractical utopias, but promising means for making firms more efficient and profitable, improving employment security and the quality of working life, and restoring America's competitive edge. The authors argue that America will continue to lag behind its competitors as long as corporate decision making is blocked by an outworn, adversarial system of labor-management relations that no longer serves the interests of workers, stockholders, and the nation. |
| Beschreibung: | XV, 335 S. |
| ISBN: | 0465049176 |
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Preface xi
PART I
INTRODUCTION
1 A New Vision for American Enterprise 3
The End of the Glory Days 4
The Problem at Hand: Productivity, Quality, and Innovation 5
Corporate Attempts at Boosting Worker Productivity 8
The Embryonic State of Employee Involvement and Economic Democracy 10
The Track Record on Employee Involvement 14
Rebuilding Labor Unions for Economic Success 16
The Case for Expanding the Union Role in American Business 19
Toward a New Brand of Unionism in the United States:
The Three Track System 21
From the Workplace Contract to the Enterprise Compact 22
viii CONTENTS
PART II
FROM THE GLORY DAYS TO TROUBLED TIMES
2 The Glory Days and the Traditional Workplace Contract 33
All the Right Ingredients for Prosperity 35
America s New Role as Global Leader 38
The Oligopoly Advantage and Regulated Markets 39
Prosperity and Profits in an Adversarial Age 40
The Traditional Workplace Contract 43
Spreading the Union Gospel 55
An Ephemeral Triumph 57
3 Goodbye to the Glory Days 60
The Impact of the New World Order on Capital and Labor 64
The Disappearance of Monopoly Profits and Monopoly Rents 66
Managerial Strategies to Meet the Import Challenge 68
Undoing the Workplace Contract 71
Profits and the Paycheck 11
4 What Went Wrong? 80
Price and Productivity 81
A Late Start in the Quality Derby 89
Lagging Research, Development, and Innovation 90
Who s and What s to Blame? 92
Corporate Bulimia 94
Labor and the Problem of Price Competition 96
Labor and Work Rules 104
The Government s Role in the Economic Downturn 106
PART III
FROM THE ADVERSARIAL WORKPLACE TO
EMPLOYEE INVOLVEMENT
5 Management Rights and Union Demands 115
Management s Struggle to Control the Workplace 116
Labor s Struggle for Workers Rights 133
Fighting for Control of the Workplace 142
What Workers Have Won 143
CONTENTS ix
6 Employee Involvement in Action 145
Productivity Through People 146
Linking Employee Invobtment to American Competitiveness 152
Employee Involvement in the Nonunion Setting 153
Employee Involvement in the Union Setting: The Three Track System 155
7 Does Participation Work? 165
The Potential Benefits of Employee Participation 166
The Potential Costs of Employee Participation 166
Assessing Employee Involvement in Practice 169
The Meed for Cautious Optimism 179
The Role of the Union 184
PART IV
TOWARD AN ENTERPRISE COMPACT
8 From Co Managing the Workplace to Co Managing the
Enterprise 189
The Saturn Project: A Culture of Consensus 191
A Novel Attempt in a Btownfield Site: Harvard Industries 201
Joint Strategic Action in the Professional Ranks: The University of Hawaii 205
A Stake in the Enterprise: Sharing Ownership, Corporate Leadership,
and Profits 208
9 The Enterprise Compact 218
The Challenge to Management Prerogatives —Again 219
Rights and Responsibilities in the Enterprise 221
Three Functions of Management 223
The Essential Structure ej an Enterprise Compact 224
The Seven Point Enterprise Compact 226
Implementing the Enterprise Compact 241
Expanding the Enterprise Compact Throughout the Economy 244
The Future of the Enterprise Compact 245
10 Creating a Benign Climate for the New Labor Management
Accord 247
Union versus Management: Burying the Hatchet 248
Labor Law Reform 251
Enhancing the Role of the U.S. Department of Labor 254
x CONTENTS
Labor Management Councib 255
Organizing the Unorganized 257
Taking Up the Challenge 261
Notes 263
Index 319
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