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Managerial Control of American Workers

Mel van Elteren
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1880s - 2016
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artificial intelligence
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automation
blue-collar workers
bureaucratic employment
Business Process Reengineering (BPR)
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command-and-control systems
Computer Business Systems (CBSs)
COP=United States
corporate cultures
craftsmen
creative workers
decision-support systems
degradation of work (deskilling)
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design
digital information technology
digital panopticons
elations
emotional labor management
employment-based welfare capitalism
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expert systems
flexible specialization
Fordism
globalization
human relations
human resource management (HRM)
industrial and labor
industrial and labor relations
industrial rationalization
industrial workers
Japanese lean production (JLP)
just-in-time (JIT) practices
knowledge workers
labor
Language_English
managed care
management principles and practices
managerial control of workers and employees
NC
Nikefication
no-collar workers
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precariat
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professional workers
PS=Active
quality of work
robotization
service workers
Sloanism
social engineering
softlaunch
surveillance techniques
Taylorism
United States
white-collar workers
work organization
worker skill requirements.
workers
workplace control

Product details

  • ISBN 9781476664996
  • Weight: 454g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Mar 2017
  • Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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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.
About Mel van Elteren
Mel van Elteren is an emeritus associate professor of social sciences at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. He has published several books and articles in sociology, social psychology and cultural studies, with special interest in American society, politics and labor.

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